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An indigenous woman wears a mattress when she leaves the Casa de la Cultura in Quito on October 14, 2019, after the agreement reached between the President of Ecuador and the indigenous leaders to put an end to the violent demonstrations. Luis ROBAYO / AFP

Since the beginning of the indigenous uprising that ended on Sunday, October 13, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and his ministers have always said that supporters of former head of state Rafael Correa tried to take advantage of the ambient chaos to try to topple him. Since yesterday, arrests have increased.

With our correspondent in Quito , Eric Samson

Elected on the list of the movement Citizen Revolution of the former President Rafael Correa, Paola Pabon was arrested at home on Monday morning 14 October at dawn by men of the mobile anti-narcotics special group and the unit of Anti-delinquency Intelligence. One of his associates was also arrested. She is suspected of having helped organize the barricades that blocked many avenues of Quito and chaotised the traffic.

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This Monday, the former mayor of the city of Durán, at the gates of Guayaquil, was sentenced to preventive detention. Alexandra Arce was arrested Sunday morning for an alleged offense of rebellion and unlawful association aimed at the paralyzing of public services. The prosecution is currently examining its mobile phones and computers. Alexandra Arce was accused by President Lenin Moreno of having made contact with members of the urban gang known as the Latin Kings to incite them to cause disorder in the cities of Quito and Guayaquil. Her assistant was also arrested and sentenced to pre-trial detention while the investigation continues.

The police finally raided this morning the home of another member of the Movement of the Citizen Revolution, Virgilio Hernández, who has not stopped demanding the declaration of the state of concussion and early elections. One of his assistants was arrested.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Gabriela Rivadeneira she did not wait to be arrested. Claiming to be a victim of political persecution, she fled to the Mexican embassy, ​​which granted her political asylum.