Night counter-march in Quito: "Iza, terrorist! Correa, financier!"

Thousands of Quito citizens took to the streets, on foot or in caravans, to demand that President

put an end to the National Strike, which ended its eleventh day with a third fatality.

It is about the young

, hit by pellets in the chest and stomach when he was confronting the Police in the park of El Arbolito, converted into indigenous "territory" in the capital.

Police and military forces prevented the attempted takeover of the

, which again suffered damage to the facade and windows, precisely when a few months ago it was rehabilitated after suffering several fires during the 2019 protests.

The "other" protesters, opposed to the indigenous mobilizations, called themselves through social networks to "defend democracy. The world must be aware of what is happening in Ecuador, where an outdated left is in a frontal attack against the democracy. The state is defending an attacked society and the country takes to the streets," activist Gustavo Rivera stressed for EL MUNDO, at the head of one of the mini-

that after walking a couple of kilometers joined the great caravan nocturnal

Everywhere the same slogans were repeated, such as

and

.

But one, above all the others, was the most emphatically chanted: "Iza, terrorist! Correa, financier!"

Leonardo Iza, maximum leader of the

(Conaie), the main organizer of the National Strike, and former president

, a fugitive sentenced to eight years in prison for corruption and a refugee in Belgium, are the main protagonists, along with President Guillermo Lasso, of a political duel with an uncertain ending.

"The situation in

today is terrible, with Quito a victim of violence. Many people cannot work, I am telecommuting, but in my company the losses are multiplying, some of our vehicles have even been attacked," said

, who He joins the march with his partner, both armed with Ecuadorian flags, which together with the white ones are the great stars of the protest.

Santiago

, the mayor of the capital, once again summoned the citizens to bang their saucepans, which were heard in some parts of the city.

"I recognize that there are social demands that must be heard. But violence, vandalism cannot be part of the right to protest,"

insisted .

Banner in hand,

tried to summarize the feelings of the thousands who were demonstrating through the streets of southern

.

"We want peace, no more excesses, no more destruction of the country. Iza has vandalized the country in the name of social justice. What they want is to get Lasso out and he seems to have no plan," protested the young woman, who works at the front of a personal undertaking.

Oblivious to the comings and goings of the people, and in the middle of the rain,

(14 years old, but he looks several years younger) was selling Ecuadorian flags for a dollar each.

"Look, there is the

of your country," he told the reporter, before asking him the big question, which on this occasion does not intend to resolve the football sympathies of both: "I want to be Spanish, how can I do it?", questioned without reservations.

"Why? Because here, in my country, there is no money," he shot without anesthesia.

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