In a video uploaded to social networks, the vice president of Conaie, Zenalda Yasacama, stated that “after the arrest we do not know where Iza was transferred” and warned that “we will hold the government responsible for any act that threatens her life and her integrity. “.
The indigenous leader invited all the structures to “radicalize the protest in every corner of the country”and asked international organizations to pay attention to what is happening in Ecuador.
For his part, Marlon Vargas, president of Confenaie, the Amazonian arm of Conaie, confirmed the call for mobilization to the eleven nationalities that make up the organization, with a presence in six provinces.
Vargas, who rejected “the arbitrary, illegal and illegitimate detention” of Iza, demanded her “immediate release” and called for the “indigenous uprising.”
On Monday night, the president of Ecuador, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, announced that the intellectual and material authors of what he defined as acts of vandalism were arrested, reported the newspaper El Comercio.
The president blamed the indigenous people for various crimes, including “the burning of a patrol car, the invasion of agricultural producers, the breaking of windshields on private and school vehicles, the attack on an oil pumping facility.”
It should be remembered that Ecuador is under a state of exception as a consequence of a prison crisis that the government links to the actions of criminal gangs linked to drug trafficking. In addition, last week, the National Assembly (parliament) approved a law that guarantees the use of force by security forces.
La Conaie, the powerful Ecuadorian indigenous movement that participated in the overthrow of three governments and brought down the fuel increase project of Lenin Morenobegan a national strike for an indefinite period of time on Monday to demand a reduction in the price of gasoline.
After a day without incident, minor clashes between police and students took place in the afternoon in the capital, Quito.
Six students from a school in the capital were temporarily detained for participating in “acts of vandalism,” according to the authorities. A march of university students also led to an exchange of stones and tear gas, AFP found.
Last October, Lasso – a former right-wing banker who has been in power for a year – raised fuel prices before freezing them. The measure fueled the discontent of the native peoples, who make up at least one million of the 17.7 million Ecuadorians.
Conaie, which has held several unsuccessful dialogues with the government, demands that prices be reduced to 1.50 dollars for a gallon of 3.78 liters of diesel and 2.10 for 85-octane gasoline.
Between May 2020 and October 2021, fuel prices were reviewed monthly, so diesel almost doubled (from 1 to 1.90 dollars) and common gasoline rose 46% (from 1.75 to 2 .55).
The Conaie also protests the lack of employment and the delivery of mining concessions in native territories, as well as demands the control of prices of agricultural products, the renegotiation of debts of peasants with banks and a moratorium of at least one year to pay them. .
Source: Ambito
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