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Weekly Report - 25 September 2014 (WR-14-38)
ECUADOR: Correa faces down protests
Protest marches took place across Ecuador on 17 September against a proposed reform of the labour code by the government of President Rafael Correa. The largest protests took place in Quito with up to 5,000 demonstrators drawn from the Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT), the largest trade union in Ecuador, which organised the march, and augmented by members of the umbrella indigenous organisation Conaie, environmentalists and students. Correa organised an art festival in front of the Carondelet presidential palace where he addressed a similar sized group of supporters.
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