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| Riots return to streets of Ecuador’s capital despite previously imposed curfew (WATCH LIVE) | Riots return to streets of Ecuador’s capital despite previously imposed curfew (WATCH LIVE) |
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| Anti-austerity protesters are burning fires and building barricades in the city of Quito, despite Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno imposing, and then delaying a curfew, while sending the military to deal with the unrest. | Anti-austerity protesters are burning fires and building barricades in the city of Quito, despite Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno imposing, and then delaying a curfew, while sending the military to deal with the unrest. |
| Live footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly shows groups of protesters gather opposite police lines, many of them clutching improvised shields. Some even organized tortoise formations, using boards to try and deflect tear gas grenades and rubber bullets. Shots and explosions could be heard ringing in the air, as thick smoke clouded the scene. | |
| El Arbolito Park, which is not far from the National Assembly previously stormed by protesters, has become the epicenter of the protest, with people from different towns and villages streaming there to set up a protest camp. | |
| The protesters are demanding that President Moreno roll back his sweeping austerity policies, introduced as part of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan package. | |
| Responding to the influx of angry protesters into the capital, many of whom wreaked havoc on government buildings and clashed with police during nearly two weeks of unrest, Moreno on Saturday imposed a curfew, put Quito under military control and announced a 24-hour restriction on all movement in the country. | |
| The president, whose government has already evacuated the capital for the safety of the city of Guayaquil, also told Quito's mayor he’ll “reconsider” the cancellation of fuel subsidies, a measure which proved to be especially harmful to the population. | |
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