New day of mobilization in Ecuador
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Demonstration in Quito, October 26, 2021. AP - Carlos Noriega
By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
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We will continue for the second day the mobilization and resistance at the national level
," said Tuesday evening (October 26, 2021) Leonidas Isa, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities, after a day of demonstrations, the most important since Conservative President Guillermo Lasso came to power five months ago.
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The day of October 26, 2021 was marked by roadblocks in several provinces and the parade in Quito of a few thousand people - trade unionists, natives and students - despite the state of emergency declared on October 18, to fight against insecurity and drug trafficking.
Clashes opposed, at the end of the day, near the presidency in Quito, a few dozen demonstrators who threw stones at police officers, deployed in large numbers, who responded with tear gas.
Police also used tear gas to disperse demonstrators blocking roads on the outskirts.
Assassination of Jovenel Moïse: "it will have to move", estimates his son
He expects the investigation to be long, but Joverlin Moïse is determined to lead this battle. The son of the assassinated Haitian president has just lodged a complaint to put pressure on the judicial institution of his country, in the hope of relaunching the stalled investigations.
In July 2021, Joverlin Moïse was in Haiti, fifteen minutes from the residence where his father was assassinated.
Today, this man, who has lived in Quebec for 9 years, says he has no political ambition, but is looking for the truth to mourn.
The complaint that the son of the late Head of State has just lodged with the Port-au-Prince Court of First Instance also aims to relaunch the investigation.
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To shake up the judicial system,
" explains Joverlin Moise, "things
will have to move,
" he insists, without excluding the possibility of turning to international justice.
Haiti still paralyzed
According to the publications on Twitter this morning (October 27, 2021), the streets in Port-au-Prince and the main provincial towns remain deserted.
Armed gangs are blocking access to oil terminals, recalls the Alterpresse agency.
The generators that produce the bulk of the country's electricity are dry.
Hospitals must reduce their services, shops and schools are closed, the media forced to limit their distribution and the main mobile telephone company, Digicel, is also affected: of these 1,500 relay points, more than 400 are no longer operational .
Shortages that also disrupt the broadcasting of RFI in the country, forcing us to cut our transmitter in Port-au-Prince, much of the night.
Otoniel, arrest or surrender?
In Colombia, the arrest of the leader of Clan del Golfo, the most powerful criminal group in the country, is a boon for the government of President Ivan Duque, which is losing ground in the polls.
This blow to Dairo Antonio Usuga alias Otoniel, whose Clan del Golfo, which is made up of former paramilitaries, controls a large part of the drug trade and a third of the country's municipalities, restores the image of the right in power, to a few months before the elections in May 2022. However, several questions arise about the arrest of Otoniel and his extradition demanded by the United States.
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