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Weekly Report - 26 March 2015 (WR-15-12)
ECUADOR: Correa faces down large-scale protests
Not far short of 10,000 protesters took to the streets in 14 cities across Ecuador on 19 March to demonstrate against a range of laws and reforms planned by the government led by President Rafael Correa. The protests were organised by the trade union, Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT), and the main indigenous organisation (Conaie). Correa downplayed the protests as divided and weak while simultaneously, and somewhat paradoxically, insisting that they were an attempt to destabilise his government.
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