Moreno Stands Behind Actions in October Protests Lawmakers Spend a Day Experiencing How Unfriendly Ecuador Is to the Disabled
Volume 4 • ISSUE 19 December 9th , 2019 • www.thecuencadispatch.com Moreno stands behind actions in October protests cuador President Lenin Moreno does not regret his response to the Eprotests that shook his country last October and believes he did the right thing by trying to eliminate a “perverse” subsidy to fuels that, in his opinion, benefits the “wealthiest,” narcos and traffickers.” In a meeting with a small group of media in Madrid last week, where he participated in the climate summit (COP25), Moreno said that in a “hard confrontation” like the one lived in those protests, in which a dozen people died and more than 1,300 were injured, it is “difficult to avoid excesses.” “With 5,000 or 10,000 police on the street, with 20,000 or 30,000 protesters on the street too, it is very difficult that there are no excesses, 13th, after Moreno announced economic adjustments that included the but we are investigating them,” said Moreno, who added that “the use of withdrawal of the fuel subsidy. progressive force”was applied correctly during the almost two weeks of Pressured by the protests, which led the indigenous movement, the riots, looting and roadblocks. Moreno government repealed the decree that eliminated this subsidy and The UN Office for Human Rights, which sent a team of experts to with which it intended to raise about $1.4 billion a year. Ecuador from October 21st to November 8th, received complaints about “There is always the possibility of doing things better ... But the purpose at least nine dead, 1,507 injured (including 435 members of the security was the best,” said the president in reference to his decree to end “a forces) and 1,382 people detained.
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