> > > Wed, 19 Jan 2000 > > Quito, Ecuador - Thousands of police y military forces posted > at all the entrances to the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador. > They are confused at the arrival of 10.000 protesting indigenas > to the City. > > �The indigenas came down from the mountains and took Quito by > surprise�, said a chief in uniform surveying the city and asked > to remain unidentified. > > > >Date: 13:24:25 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Bob Everton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: (en) [ecuador] indigenas with surprising strength and tactic > > >>Reply-To: "PGA Action at WTO Seattle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>From: "el desaparecido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:51:16 +0100 >>Subject: (en) [ecuador] indigenas with surprising strength and tactic >> >>PGA Action at WTO Seattle - http://members.aol.com/pgacaravan >> >>see spanish version at >>www.amarc.org/pulsar >> >>19.1.2000 >>Ecuador: Indigenas and farmers with surpring strength and tactic >>by Marlon Carrion C. > > Agencia Informativa Pulsar > Informaci�n para America Latina via Internet >_______________________________________________________ > >Quito, Ecuador - Thousands of police y military forces posted at all the >entrances to the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador. They are confused at >the arrival of 10.000 protesting indigenas to the City. > >�The indigenas came down from the mountains and took Quito by surprise�, >said a chief in uniform surveying the city and asked to remain >unidentified. > >What happened is that part of the indigenas provided a distraction of the >military while most of their fellows were passing through mountain paths >to make it to Quito which is at 2810 m above sea level. > >The indigena leaders y farmers said they were not in a hurry to make it >to Quito and reaffirmed that another 40.000 are going to make it. They >said that this effort of the poorest in the country won�t be stopped and >will not allow another deceit by the government. They will only leave >Quito once president Jamil Mahuad resigns and the congress and court of >justice is dissolved. > >In July 1999 thousands of indigenas had also marched down on Quito >demanding Mahuad to change his economical policies and demanding more >resources for the indigenas. The president compromised to implement >changes which he never did, instead he worsened the economical crisis. > >The Coordination of Social Movements informed that the Confederaci�n >Unica Nacional de Afiliados al Seguro Social Campesino, Coordinadora >Nacional Campesina (both farmers unions), students and universities have >joined the uprising. > >It also said that that the provinces in the South, the Centre and the >North of the country are nearly paralysed, same for the coast region and >the ecuadorian Amazonas which are progressively paralysed by the oil >industry on strike. > >�We have defeated the repression of Mahuad y will soon announce his >resignation and the whole of his corrupt government� said the indigenas. >They called upon the progressive military, the small business and the >people in general to join the protest. > >Silverio Cocha, president of the indigena movement in Chimborazo, central >Ecuador said that the military won�t be able to stop people that had >enough of suffering hunger, deceit, repression. Silverio Cocha was being >searched to be imprisoned in his province, he is now in the streets of >Quito. In order to make it he had to walk around to Iliniza mountain >which about 5260 m high. > >In the meantime hundreds of demonstrators in Ecuadors large cities have >been arrested and beaten up by the police. In Guayaquil, economical >capital of the country, thousands of unemployed and ambulant sellers took >to the streets in support of the indigenas uprising. In Cuenca and Loja >the repression was dramatic in violence. > >In Portoviejo, home of the UPOCAM, one the countries largest farmers >union, the unionists joined the urban population protesting and fought >the police back who left abundant quantities of tear gas behind. The >military came in and the clashes went on until late into the night of >Tuesday. > >The request of some business leaders to exterminate the indigena uprising >was not executed. This in part thanks to the international support for >this not to happen. The Peoples Parliament of Ecuador asked human rights >organisations and peoples organisations world wide to stay in alert because >the protests will not end. (Ec/QR/Po-Pi/Cs-Pp/mc) > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ............................................. > Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ............................................. > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
