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Security & Strategic Review - March 2006
Wave of strikes and protest actions takes Ecuador once more to the brink
Ecuador has been in the grip of successive strikes and protest actions throughout late February and most of March. Different groups with diverse, sometimes overlapping demands have created situations which twice led the government to declare certain provinces in a state of emergency. Moving the protesters is the lack of transparency with which the government has been negotiating a free-trade agreement with the US, the perception that a leading oil company is being allowed to breach its contract, and a string of unfulfilled government promises.
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