Indigenous protesters converge on Quito as Ecuador president moves out

Masked and stick-wielding protesters hurled stones and battled with security forces, who responded with tear gas

Associated Press in Quito
Tue 8 Oct 2019 18.06 EDT

Thousands of indigenous protesters have converged on Ecuador’s capital after anti-government demonstrations and clashes prompted the president to move his besieged administration out of Quito.

On Tuesday afternoon, one group of protesters burst through security lines and briefly surged into the country’s National Assembly, before they were forced out by police firing tear gas. The legislature was not sitting at the time.

Elsewhere, masked and stick-wielding protesters hurled stones and battled with security forces, who responded with tear gas.

The South American country of 17 million appeared to be at a dangerous impasse, paralyzed by a lack of public transport and blockaded roads that were taking a toll on an already vulnerable economy.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/08/protesters-swarm-ecuador-capital-as-president-moves-out