LatinNews Daily - 23 June 2020

* Workers from Ecuador’s flag carrier airline, Transportes Aéreos Militares Ecuatorianos (Tame), have held a protest outside the ministry of transport & public works in Quito, after the government announced in May that the state-owned airline would be liquidated as part of a comprehensive programme of public spending cuts. Workers complained that they should not be held responsible for the company’s losses (which reportedly totalled more than US$400m in the last five years), and highlighted that they had not been paid in four months, since the start of the pandemic, despite Economy & Finance Minister Richard Martínez’s promise that arrears would be paid on 10 June. This protest was the latest in a series of demonstrations by workers and social movements against the government’s unpopular austerity agenda.

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