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Ecuador is playing its future on different boards at the same time, in the middle of the state of exception, with a night curfew and thousands and thousands of indigenous people on the streets and on the roads, ready for the Government to reverse its measures economic. The general strike raised today by the leaders of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) was unevenly followed , which does not tarnish their demonstration of strength as they spread across the capital once more.

They did it protected in their ancestral rituals, with the same determination demonstrated for centuries and determined to demonstrate their strength in a peaceful way, or of "active nonviolence" , as their leaders have baptized it.

This is what is seen with the naked eye in the streets of Quito, half-empty, with a good part of the shops closed and irregular transport. But behind the scenes also highlights the offensive of former President Rafael Correa to regain power, with the support of his revolutionary allies and against the clock, pressured by the judicial proceedings that continue against him.

All this in a country economically beaten and with a government hitherto weak, unable to reverse, as in Argentina, the economic drift of its predecessors. "We are always poor," as one of the Cotopaxi community members told El MUNDO. Without bitterness or hate, as if that were his destiny.

The objective of today is the capture of the presidential Palace of Carondelet , the maximum symbol of power in Ecuador despite the fact that President Lenin Moreno skillfully moved the headquarters of his Government to Guayaquil, the third time it has happened in the country's history. Peaceful march of some and riots of others, which encountered a huge deployment of military and police, willing to repeat the partial takeover of the Assembly and the Comptroller, which have both scandalized the country.

The first to strike were young and trade unionists, in small groups, rejected with tear gas in the Theater Square, where the violence suffered by the country since last week was staged again. "They are correistas and Venezuelan sectors , " denounced indigenous leaders. The vuvuzelas have thundered for hours in the monumental Historic Center of Quito, now wounded by the ferocity of the protesters, who did not hesitate to destroy the sidewalks in search of "projectiles" against government forces.

Instead, thousands of indigenous people walked in peace through parallel streets, shouting their demands around Carondelet, without joining the violent but making their strength very clear.

Old battles

One country and two pulses. The first between the Conaie and the Government recalls old battles between the central power and some indigenous, endowed with a resistance that comes from nature itself. His strength has brought down governments and ended many political careers. Today they returned to focus on the Arbolito Park, where they were forcibly evicted on Tuesday night in application of the curfew. They did it from different points of the mountains, a slow and uncontrollable march determined that Moreno repeal his controversial decree .

Luis Oswaldo Cuzo is the president of the comuneros in Zumbahua, of the province of Cotopaxi. There are 88 and have reached Quito after walking a hundred kilometers from the mountains. With hats and bowlers, some carry sticks. Cuzo claims the iron unit and rejects the violence of Monday and Tuesday, he does not want more acts of vandalism . The main leaders of the Conaie threaten to apply indigenous justice against infiltrators in their movement.

"There is no employment and poverty is very strong. The rise in gasoline is terrible, 100% and not only affects transport, but also food. We are tired of all this, also of the corruption of these 10 years (stage Rafael Correa.) That they return everything stolen from the town, "Cuzo summed up for THE WORLD before the attentive gaze of the other community members.

Jaime Vargas, president of the Conaie, denied negotiations progress with the United Nations . "We have only asked them to be guarantors of human rights," said Vargas, who demanded that the armed forces be evicted. "If we have to die, we will shed our blood," he said.

The Church also seeks to bring positions. Monsignor Eugenio Arellano, president of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference (EEC), acknowledged the "economic hardships" and the "ruin" of the Government, which "if it has not broken is thanks to the help of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)", stigmatized in change for indigenous, correístas and other social movements.

The second pulse for power in Ecuador is delivered by Moreno and former President Correa. And it's a dog's face. The Government has not hesitated to point out the leader of the Citizen Revolution as the main instigator of a coup d'etat, for which he would count on the help of his ally Nicolás Maduro. A correísta assemblyman is arrested for leading the takeover of an oil plant, while the vice president said there are also Venezuelans among the more than 600 detainees.

Other than the turbulence, the sorceress Ariana de la Fe has displayed her publicity around the conflict zone. He says he is able to force "moorings for love or revenge" thanks to his spells. Even the resolution of "impossible loves" as difficult as the political loves lost between Moreno and Correa, a tandem whose divorce since 2017 marks today the political reality of the Andean country.

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