A police truck fired jets of water at the protesters who arrived at Plaza Santo Domingo, in the historic center of Quito.
The Ecuadorian National Police repressed hundreds of workers who rejected the neoliberal measures of the government of President Lenín Moreno and demanded the payment of back wages.
The demonstration, called by the Unitary Front of Workers (FUT) and other union and student organizations, began without a hitch in the vicinity of the Social Security Fund. The participants carried capes and umbrellas due to the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon.
Citizens protested against the economic measures taken by the Moreno government, the budget cut, the layoffs of workers in various sectors of the public and private sphere in the context of the pandemic.
“This popular claim is against an indolent government that is not moved by the needs of the people, to say enough,” said Ángel Sánchez, president of the Ecuadorian Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Ceols), an affiliate of the FUT.
“Mister Minister of Labor, do not allow thousands of Ecuadorians to continue being laid off in the public and private sectors, who today do not have a decent daily livelihood, that is why we say enough of corruption, enough of layoffs,” said the union leader.
In the march, students demanded a larger budget for public universities, while postgraduate doctors denounced the delay in the payment of salaries.
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