protestation in Ecuador are still on-going , but talks between president Guillermo Lasso and the indigenous association CONAIEhave lead off on Saturday .
Demonstrations started on June 13thled by CONAIE because of the rise costs of living , press president Lasso to cut fuel and food price , above all .
Five people have at least died in the demonstrations so far , and twelve police officers are reported wound . Protesters have been block highways and roads , badly halting the country ’s economy . On top of that , oil wells , blossom farms , and other businesses have been either assaulted or instantaneously occupied to further clog the Ecuadorian thriftiness .
Sonia Guamangate , an autochthonal fair sex from Samanga in the volcanic Cotopaxi area , left two children at home to bring together tens of thousands of protesters who marched to the capital from the countryside , the Guardian report . “ The damage have climb in the urban center but what we get paid for our agrarian products remain the same , ” she complained . “ Sometimes they are pay as piffling as $ 5 or $ 6 for a quintal [ 100 kg ] of potatoes . That ’s a class ’s work for some of us , ” she say .
Ecuadorian flower association Expoflores have been always share on theirTwitterthe damages that protest and protesters have been doing to the sector as a whole and to farms . Because of the supply chain disruptions , PrimeraPlanaECUclaimed that the most moved sectors are the fowl , the dairy with loss of some USD 13 million , the agriculture and farm animal sphere with losses of more than USD 90 million , and the flower manufacture with loss of more than USD 30 million .
Last Saturday , the first talk of the town between the party at last commence , and Lasso has started giving some concessions . For instance , heannounceda 10 penny contract to fuel prices , which will now be $ 2.45 for gasoline spare , and $ 1.80 for diesel – both still higher than CONAIE had requested . On top of that , the government has announce subsidized plant food , debt forgiveness , and budget gain for health and education . As a response , CONAIE accepted to partly spread out roads to provide food into the capital , but they would stay in Quito until their requirement are sufficiently met . “ We are not travel to leave the spilled blood of our brothers here . We make out with a role , ” Leonidas Iza , leader of CONAIE .
In the meantime , Expoflores has kept partake videos of protesters blocking highways , violate farm , and call on raiser to join the protest , oftentimes with a threatening feeling . Iza said that while the business elite had received government bailouts after the pandemic , “ for the poorest there is utterly nothing ” . “ The crisis should be borne by all Ecuadorians , not only by the poor,”he said .
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