• A demonstrator clashes with riot police during a transport strike against the economic policies of the government of Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno regarding the agreement signed on March with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Quito on Thursday. The Ecuadorean government confirmed possible labor and tax reforms as established in the agreement, Economy Minister Richard Martinez stated a day after announcing the elimination of fuel subsidies. | AFP-JIJI
    A demonstrator clashes with riot police during a transport strike against the economic policies of the government of Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno regarding the agreement signed on March with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Quito on Thursday. The Ecuadorean government confirmed possible labor and tax reforms as established in the agreement, Economy Minister Richard Martinez stated a day after announcing the elimination of fuel subsidies. | AFP-JIJI

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QUITO – Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency on Thursday as protesters hurled stones and erected burning barricades after the end of decades-old fuel subsidies as part of a $2 billion government fiscal reform package.

Police responded with tear gas in the worst unrest for years in the oil-producing Andean nation.

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