Weekly Report - 27 August 2015 (WR-15-34)

Ten days after arriving in Quito after an 11-day march from southern Ecuador a group of protesters from the indigenous organisation, Conaie, have decided to abandon the capital. Conaie’s president, Jorge Herrera, insisted that the ‘uprising’ against the government led by President Rafael Correa would continue in the provinces but this marks a big climb down as he had previously maintained that he would not leave Quito “empty-handed”. The Correa administration has not met any of Conaie’s demands, including a call to archive the constitutional reforms, currently before the national assembly which, among other things, would allow indefinite presidential re-election.

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