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The tension, installed in Ecuador for eight days despite the declaration of state of siege and night curfews , was concentrated on Thursday in the building that protects the indigenous people in Quito and in five of the 24 governorates, which remain in hands of resistance groups, although the government wanted to convey tranquility, ensuring that 70% of the municipalities were at peace.

A peace disappeared inside and outside the Agora of the House of Culture of the capital , converted into the headquarters of the indigenous people and where 5,000 of its members from provinces throughout the country have become strong. A crowd that became angry over the hours, to force 31 journalists and 8 police officers .

"Journalists are not kidnapped, they are with the people to guarantee the right to information, since there is a media war of concealment and decontextualization of what is happening in the country," said the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) in an exercise euphemistic far from reality.

Much more clearly is the Ecuadorian National Broadcasting Association , which demanded the freedom of their peers before the "verbal, physical and moral" aggressions against journalists who "are held and veiled."

Freddy Paredes , a reporter for Teleamazonas, was hit hard in the head with a stone when he managed to evade the indigenous fence , whose members forced them to declare that they were held freely, something far from reality. A brutal aggression that forced his hospitalization. In a statement, the indigenous leadership said that the aggression occurred abroad and that its bases had nothing to do with it.

Regarding the police, Jaime Vargas , president of the Conaie, said they were going to fulfill a mission: "They are going to load the coffins of the dead and we are going to do some walks. Then they will go to their homes and we will deliver them as holy ".

The first part was fulfilled yesterday. A human street of honor extended to the outskirts of the Agora, as far as the coffin with the victim's bodies. "We have learned from our moms and taytas that the dead are honored by multiplying our struggle!" They emphasized from the leadership.

The peaceful mass march on Wednesday gave way to a new, more radical pulse, the scope of which is difficult to predict. The violent radicals of the previous day that besieged the presidential palace for hours and that the government places in the orbit of Correism, took a step to the side yesterday, leaving the natives the leadership of the fight against the government . However, on Wednesday night they tried to assault a military barracks, in the face of rumors that the president was there. Moreno stayed that day a few hours in Quito before returning to Guayaquil .

"The dialogue proposed by Lenin is a fantasy. That is why, comrades and partners, to radicalize the actions. No dialogue with a murderous government until the requirements are met," he ordered his militants. Requirements that are already only the repeal of economic measures. The leaders of the Conaie now also want the political head of María Paula Romo , Minister of Interior and key piece for Moreno, and Oswaldo Jarrín , head of Defense.

Both are accused of repression, which would have already taken a lifetime among its members, a death not recognized by the government, which insisted on its call for peace and the freedom of detainees.

The excesses committed by the police forces in the last days have enervated to the maximum the spirits of the rebels. The tear gas bombs launched against the Salesian and Catholic Universities , converted into shelters for migrants, were criticized even from within the government itself.

So blunt was the response of the rebels to the government, which had advanced a battery of "compensation for indigenous brothers to get out of poverty. Irrigation, machinery, equipment, supplies, credit renewal and the reopening of schools and medical centers (closed during the Rafael Correa stage), "said the current president.

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