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Ecuador: Indigenous Organizations Meet With State Powers
Ecuador's indigenous organizations hold dialogue with government authorities. Jun. 27, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/@CONAIE_Ecuador
Published 27 June 2022 (11 hours 54 minutes ago)
Amid an indefinite national strike against Guillermo Lasso's policies, indigenous organizations led by CONAIE agreed to engage in a dialogue with all branches of government.
In Ecuador, the five branches of government are the Executive, the Legislative, the Judicial, the Electoral and the Transparency and Social Control branches.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) said via Twitter that the structures of CONAIE, FEINE and FENOCIN collectively decided to accept the invitation made for the meeting with the five branches of the State in which "we will push for results on the 10-point agenda," CONAIE said.
While the meeting is taking place at the Basilica of the Voto Nacional in Quito, without the presence of Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, indigenous peoples and social organizations remain on vigil awaiting the results of the 10 points on the agenda.
In addition to CONAIE, the Council of Evangelical Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Ecuador (FEINE), the National Confederation of Peasant, Indigenous and Black Organizations (Fenocin), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (Confeniae), the Confederation of Peoples of the Kichwa Nationality of Ecuador (Ecuarunari) are also present.
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with representatives of the 5 powers of the State is taking place in Quito. Representing the Executive is the Minister of Government, Francisco Jiménez.
CONAIE's ten demands include freezing fuel prices, adopting an agricultural subsidy and not signing free trade agreements that destroy national production.
Last June 26, Lasso announced a reduction of 10 cents of a dollar in the price of extra gasoline and EcoPaís gallon, as well as diesel, used for transportation.
CONAIE said that this reduction in fuel prices is "insensitive and insufficient", arguing that it is not commensurate with the situation of poverty faced by millions of families in the country.
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Ecuador’s Second Debate on Lasso’s Impeachment Was Inconclusive
The second debate of the Ecuadorian Parliament on Lasso's impeachment remained inconclusive on Sunday. Jun. 27, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/@LuisaGonzalezEc
Published 27 June 2022
Sunday's debate on the Ecuadorian President's impeachment was inconclusive.
On Sunday, the Ecuadorian Parliament held the second debate on President Guillermo Lasso's impeachment request in light of the over 15-day social demonstrations.
The over seven-hour session virtually remained inconclusive after the 71 legislators from all parties addressed the national situation on the 14th day of the strike in Ecuador.
According to reports, during the meeting, which began on Saturday, many of the MPs considered that President Lasso should take action to respond to the ten economic and social topics raised by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE).
The participants highlighted the people's right to carry out a peaceful demonstration when they voted for the welfare and peace of the country, as Ecuadorian police forces and the army responded with repression to the protests during the first 12 days.
Ecuador: the debate on the impeachment of Guillermo Lasso continues.
The opposition accuses the president of generating a "serious political crisis and internal commotion" in the country.
The vandalism resulting from the demonstration was also condemned, citing the protests and the shortage of food and other goods.
After the session finished, Virgilio Saquicela, President of Parliament, called on the MPs to continue the meeting Tuesday, despite Monday's address of the Ecuadorian Minister of Interior, Patricio Carrillo, and Minister of National Defense, Luis Lara, assessing the response by the police and the armed forces in the strike.
Based on article 51 of the Organic Act of the Legislative Function and article 130, numeral 2 of the Constitution, the impeachment of Ecuadorian President Lasso was processed by legislators of the alliance Unión por la Esperanza (Union for Hope, UNES).
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Unions in Peru protest in front of Congress in national strike
The Peruvian unions demand the closure of Congress and the convening of a Constituent Assembly. | Photo: @NuevoPeruMov
Published June 28, 2022
Among the demands of the mobilized unions is to stop the rise in fuel prices, which has risen by up to 80% in recent months.
Different unions and trade union organizations in Peru held a repudiation mobilization this Monday in front of the Congress of the Republic as part of the strike that they carry out in different parts of the country against the rise in fuel prices, food and the growing inflation that the country is experiencing. .
The demonstrators demanded the convening of a constituent assembly and demanded the closure of the Parliament, considering it neoliberal, destabilizing and coup-mongering; protest that in the context of the National Civic Strike found other expressions such as roadblocks, suspension of cargo and public transport, and other actions of the agrarian and peasant sector.
In this sense, vice president of the National Assembly of Peoples (ANP), Marino Flores, highlighted the national support for the mobilizations, with agrarian strikes, and intermittent roadblocks in practically all regions of the country.
For his part, Martín Ojeda, general manager of the Interprovincial Bus Transport Association, avoided that the stoppage will be indefinite, joining the protest of heavy cargo carriers. "This government has consolidated and promoted a high level of illegality (in transportation) that has harmed us," he said.
To which is added the fact that Ricardo Pareja, president of the Chamber of Urban Transport (CTU), remarked that, if the demands are not heard by the Government, they will be forced to raise the price of the ticket. “We, in recent months, have suffered an 80 percent increase in fuel, the main input to be able to operate is fuel, if fuel has risen, the logical thing, what would correspond is also to be able to raise the price of the ticket. .
Meanwhile, the efforts of the Executive to curb the strike and reach an agreement with the heavy cargo carriers have not borne fruit, despite offering them an exceptional two-month subsidy of around 40 percent for the payment of tolls.
For her part, Rosalía Clemente, president of the CNA, expressed her indignation considering that there has been no progress since the protests carried out last April, when the peasant union mobilized due to the rise in prices of agricultural inputs and the high cost of life.
The ANP, made up of the General Confederation of Workers (CGTP), the General Confederation of Workers (CGTP), the National Agrarian (CNA) and Peasant Confederations of Peru (CCP), the New Peru Movement (NP) and the Peruvian Communist Parties (PCP). ) and Comunista Patria Roja (PC-PR), among other social and political organizations, seek to unify criteria and draw the attention of the Government so that it curbs the existing difficult situation.
Meanwhile, the mobilized unions stated that this Tuesday they will continue their National Civic Strike.
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Cargo carriers begin indefinite strike in Peru
Despite the fact that the Association of Interprovincial Transport Companies reached an agreement with the Government, cargo carriers assure that the strike continues. | Photo: EFE
Published June 27, 2022
In addition to the drop in fuel prices, the union asks that freight transport be made public again.
Peru's cargo carriers will enter an indefinite strike this Monday to demand that the rise in fuel prices cease, after the failure of negotiations with the government of President Pedro Castillo this Sunday.
“We have not reached an agreement with the cargo transport unions, we regret the intention to continue with the stoppage announced for this 27th,” said the Minister of Economy and Finance, Oscar Graham, at a press conference.
In addition, in an interview for local media, he assured that in terms of the demands of the sector, the Government is proposing more focused measures such as those related to the Fuel Price Stabilization Fund (FEPC) and the refund of the Selective Consumption Tax ( ISC) to formal companies.
In addition to the reduction in fuel prices, the protesters demand the restitution of freight transport as a public service, the solution to the unfair competition that they consider to exist on the part of their Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts, and the regulation of tolls after the revision of contracts with concessionaires, among others.
"We call on cargo carriers who continue with the intention of implementing the force measure to continue the dialogue," said Graham, who was together with the Ministers of Transport and Health, in the three days of negotiations at the headquarters , the Council of Ministers.
Despite the decision of the cargo carriers, the Council of Ministers announced that the Executive reached agreements with interprovincial transport unions. Therefore, after signing the minutes by the leaders of the Association of Interprovincial Transport Companies, this sector of some 100,000 drivers will not join the strike.
"In any case, we are going to strike," declared, for his part, the leader of the Heavy Cargo Carriers and Drivers union, Marlon Milla, to a local television medium.
Milla, leader of a union sector of 400,000 truckers in 14 of the 25 Peruvian regions, asks that the elimination of a tax on fuel be extended, among other technical measures that would relax the disagreements of carriers.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Defense, José Luis Gavidia, indicated that he will declare the national road network an emergency starting at 12:00 a.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT) local time, this Monday, to send the armed forces to support the police to monitor the roads and prevent blockades.
In this sense, the Minister of the Interior, Dimitri Senmache, expressed that the unions have the right to protest, but "they have no right, no union is to keep the country in anxiety, to block the roads and much less to threaten to burn vehicles ", said.
This is the second strike by the heavy-duty drivers union that takes place within the framework of the Pedro Castillo government, less than a year in power.
Last April, the Union of Multimodal Transport Unions began violent protests and blocked routes. Likewise, the curfew of April 5 had to be suspended due to massive disobedience to the measure.
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Indigenous Ecuadorians will continue dialogue under National Strike
The vice president of Conaie, Zenaida Yasakama, stated that the dialogue "must be public and the public must know." | Photo: EFE
Published June 28, 2022
The Conaie indicated that the passage of health, emergency and food vehicles will be allowed in the humanitarian corridors.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) concluded this Monday without progress the first meeting with government representatives, with the commitment to resume the dialogue this Tuesday, although the National Strike continues.
The first dialogue between Conaie and delegates from the five Ecuadorian powers (Executive, Legislative, Electoral, Judicial and Citizen) ended at 10:00 p.m. local time (03:00 GMT on Tuesday) and will continue this Tuesday from 09:00 a.m. 00 local hours (14:00 GMT).
“At 22:00 the substantial issues are not resolved. We await the criteria so that we, as leaders, can reach an agreement," said Conaie president Leonidas Iza.
The indigenous leader explained that the National Strike, on its 16th day, continues. "De facto measures are maintained, yes (it will be allowed) the passage of health, emergency, food vehicles in humanitarian corridors," he said.
The president of the National Assembly, Virgilio Saquicela, confirmed that this Tuesday the parties will meet again starting at 09:00 local time.
The vice president of Conaie, Zenaida Yasakama, stated for her part that the dialogue “must be public and citizens must know. We don't want to do anything behind the back of our people."
Within the framework of the first day of talks, Iza requested the removal and change of the Minister of the Interior, Patricio Carrillo.
The Minister of Government, Francisco Jiménez, who came to the table on behalf of the Ecuadorian President, Guillermo Lasso, proposed some reforms, but said that they will not give in to extremes or pressure. “We are giving them results. This is not a dialogue in vain. The dialogue has not been inofficious. I wouldn't want us to get bogged down," he added.
The Conaie has already held two weeks of protests demanding a list of 10 points related to the reduction of the price of fuel, economic relief, employment, education, labor rights, protection of the territories against large mining and elimination of the privatization of companies state, among other collective needs.
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Ecuador: Popular Uprising Continues in the Streets of Quito as Parliament Discusses Lasso’s Removal
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JUNE 27, 2022
Resumen Latinoamericano
A massive and full Assembly was held at the CCE on the 13th day of the #paronacionalecuador2022, the bases were informed of the permanence of the 10-point national agenda and the call for the unity of more sectors of the country until results are achieved.
The situation in Ecuador at this moment is very fluid as the large militant protests remain in the streets erecting barricades and skirmishing with the police. Parliament has just re convened to continue the discussion on the impeachment of President Lasso. If this were to happen it would be another major blow against US foreign policy in the region. Here is the latest report coming from Resumen Latinoamericano’s bureau in Buenos Aires. – editor
Determined popular uprising against the repressive neo liberal government of President Guillermo Lasso continue in the streets with protestors constructing barricades to defend themselves against the army’s tanks. According to the Alianza de Organizaciones por los Derechos Humanos, since the general strike began on June 13 at least 6 demonstrators have been confirmed killed and over 300 injured in the wave of repression by the police and army in response to the mobilization. The police are not releasing figures on how many people have been arrested but it is well over 100.
Yesterday Lasso lifted the state of exception that was in force in six provinces of the country in the framework of the mobilizations called by indigenous organizations due to the lack of response of the Government to their social demands.
The state of exception had been decreed by the president since last Saturday, June 18, initially in the provinces of Imbabura, Pichincha and Cotopaxi and then extended on June 21 to the provinces of Tungurahua, Chimborazo and Pastaza. CONAIE accused Lasso of using the state of exception to quell the popular uprising.
The General Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency indicated that with the lifting of the measure, which had been a virtual lock down, the Government guarantees the generation of spaces for the majority of the population to resume their activities.
The repeal of the decree by which the state of emergency was declared was one of the requests of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) to open a new process of dialogue with the Lasso government. However, Conaie has indicated that no dialogue or rapprochement with government representatives has taken place, so the indigenous strike and mobilizations will continue in Ecuador.
Meanwhile, Ecuador’s National Assembly has returned to the debate and vote to impeach Lasso that was presented by a group of opposition assembly members. Once the debate is concluded, legislators will have 72 hours to vote on whether or not to proceed with the measure against President Guillermo Lasso.
For more than eight hours on Saturday, around 30 congressmen spoke in favor and against President Lasso in the first day of the debate on the impeachment request presented by the Union for Hope (UNES) bench, accusing the president of a serious political crisis and internal commotion that has shaken the country since the beginning of the mobilizations called by CONAIE.
The petition presented against President Lasso by UNES deputies had the support of the 47 signatures necessary to request the removal of Guillermo Lasso from power a little more than a year after being elected president. But to be approved it requires at least 92 of the 137 possible supports in Congress. If approved, power would be assumed by Vice-President Alfredo Borrero and presidential and legislative elections would be called for the remainder of the term.
In a new development the International Solidarity and Human Rights Mission has arrived in Ecuador to observe what is happening in the national strike. These special rapporteurs on the rights of indigenous peoples and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association of the United Nations Organization have expressed their concern about the situation in Ecuador including the irregular detentions in the context of social protests, of more than 80 people, including the president of CONAIE, Leonidas Iza and the excessive use of force and acts of violence by police and military forces.
The group has asked the State to inform how it is guaranteeing due process in the deprivations of liberty carried out in the context of the national strike that began on June 13, 2022. They have also asked to explain the legal basis that regulates the use of force by the Police and Armed Forces, and to justify its application in Indigenous Peoples’ territories.
María Elena Navarro, member of the International Mission of Solidarity and Human Rights, pointed out that among the serious facts they identified, is the one restricting the right to social protest. She also indicated that the Casa de la Cultura was used as a barracks.The International Mission confirmed the murder of five people, missing children and hundreds of detainees, “victims of State policy” which, instead of contributing to dialogue, is showing a repressive policy towards “defenseless citizens”.
The International Mission confirmed the murder of five people, missing children and hundreds of detainees, “victims of State policy” which, instead of contributing to dialogue, is showing a repressive policy towards “defenseless citizens”.
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Ecuador: “Stop the Massacre”
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JUNE 27, 2022
Carlos Crespo
“Stop the massacre” was the cry that ran through tears, pain and indignation on the twelfth day of the #ParoNacional2022.
“We have had a very difficult day”; “it has been a very strong day”. “We denounce to the world… the wounded, the dead, the imprisoned. Let them know about these inhuman actions. We call for peace, for harmony, we cannot generate civil war between brothers”. These were the words of the leaders of the #ParoNacional2022 around midnight, in their press conference to the country: Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), National Federation of Peasant, Indigenous and Black Organisations of Ecuador (FENOCIN) and Organisation of Evangelical Indigenous People in Ecuador (FEINE).
The events
From midday:
Numerous families and delegations of Peoples, Nationalities and social organisations joyfully and confidently fill the Ágora of the Casa de las Culturas, recovered, after the police occupation. They arrive in a “massive and powerful” way to participate in the Assembly of the Peoples, which is installed on the 12th day of #National strike Conaie Communication – Home | Facebook: “we recognize our FORCE, we recognize that we are going hungry, but we will not lose the horizon, justice, peace”, is heard in this large and symbolic space, after the opening ancestral spiritual ceremony. Indignant voices point to other possible models of democracy and participation, based on the sustainability of life.
“The peoples and nationalities and their organisations are waiting for responses to the social and environmental injustices generated by the neoliberal model established by multilateral organisations and applied as a formula by the governments in power in Ecuador, making life more expensive and precarious, the absence of fair prices for products grown in rural areas, the absence of state regulation of the high interest rates on loans from cooperatives and banks, leading to the abandonment of the countryside and massive migration out of the country”, (Statement by the Anthropology Network of Ecuador).
“The background is undoubtedly the desperation of the impoverished majorities of the country. This government, made up of businessmen and white-mestizo elites living in exclusive neighbourhoods and basically socialising among privileged groups, has not reacted to the popular frustration after two years of economic and social catastrophe caused by the pandemic” (Pablo Ospina. Latinoaméroca21, Published in Pressenza 24.06.22).
Mid-afternoon
On national radio and television, President Lasso takes the stage, abandoning the conciliatory gesture; he lashes out at the President of CONAIE, accusing him of “deceiving his base and of wanting to usurp the legally constituted government”, and declares that “The National Police and the Armed Forces will act with the necessary means to defend, through the progressive use of force, public order and democracy”. https://www.primicias.ec/noticias/polit ... a-ecuador/ .
The government has declared war, underpinned by a narrative of “them and us”, making it clear who it governs for; us “the citizens”, them the “vandals and criminals”. It has opted for a new step in its military strategy as the only way out: the use of force to “repress” the population, according to an immediate announcement by the Minister of Government.
The Government of the “Encuentro”, as its slogan says, has lost the capacity to listen and dialogue; CONAIE has been asking for dialogue for a year, since last June, “twice we have attended the dialogue…but you have not responded” (President of FENOCIN). The government lies with manipulative coldness when it says that the indigenous organisations have not wanted to dialogue.
The manipulation is carried out by the mainstream media, with their support they exploit “the most elementary needs and the most irrational fears to the point of creating misleading expectations within a system of no choice”[1]. The hidden violence explodes in the opinionators and journalists of the mainstream media, feeding racism, revanchism, patriotism and awakening the colonial-rooted psychosocial substratum, in the “citizens”, “trapped in information”, in the digital prison[2].
Immediately after the national broad
Police lash out with tear gas bombs against the people in assembly, women, children, babies, old men and women. The government set a trap for them. Community and alternative media report: “Repression around the Casa de la Cultura and El Arbolito park. Asphyxiated and injured by tear gas inside the Ágora”.
[1] Silo (1996). Dictionary of New Humanism.
[2] Byun-Chul Han (2022). Infocracy. La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia. Bogotá: Taurus.
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Ecuador's indigenous organizations hold dialogue with government authorities. Jun. 27, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/@CONAIE_Ecuador
Published 27 June 2022 (11 hours 54 minutes ago)
Amid an indefinite national strike against Guillermo Lasso's policies, indigenous organizations led by CONAIE agreed to engage in a dialogue with all branches of government.
In Ecuador, the five branches of government are the Executive, the Legislative, the Judicial, the Electoral and the Transparency and Social Control branches.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) said via Twitter that the structures of CONAIE, FEINE and FENOCIN collectively decided to accept the invitation made for the meeting with the five branches of the State in which "we will push for results on the 10-point agenda," CONAIE said.
While the meeting is taking place at the Basilica of the Voto Nacional in Quito, without the presence of Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, indigenous peoples and social organizations remain on vigil awaiting the results of the 10 points on the agenda.
In addition to CONAIE, the Council of Evangelical Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Ecuador (FEINE), the National Confederation of Peasant, Indigenous and Black Organizations (Fenocin), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (Confeniae), the Confederation of Peoples of the Kichwa Nationality of Ecuador (Ecuarunari) are also present.
At this time, the meeting of the @CONAIE_Ecuador, @confeniae1, @ecuachaskiecua, @FEINE_EC and @fenocinecuador
with representatives of the 5 powers of the State is taking place in Quito. Representing the Executive is the Minister of Government, Francisco Jiménez.
CONAIE's ten demands include freezing fuel prices, adopting an agricultural subsidy and not signing free trade agreements that destroy national production.
Last June 26, Lasso announced a reduction of 10 cents of a dollar in the price of extra gasoline and EcoPaís gallon, as well as diesel, used for transportation.
CONAIE said that this reduction in fuel prices is "insensitive and insufficient", arguing that it is not commensurate with the situation of poverty faced by millions of families in the country.
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Ecuador’s Second Debate on Lasso’s Impeachment Was Inconclusive
The second debate of the Ecuadorian Parliament on Lasso's impeachment remained inconclusive on Sunday. Jun. 27, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/@LuisaGonzalezEc
Published 27 June 2022
Sunday's debate on the Ecuadorian President's impeachment was inconclusive.
On Sunday, the Ecuadorian Parliament held the second debate on President Guillermo Lasso's impeachment request in light of the over 15-day social demonstrations.
The over seven-hour session virtually remained inconclusive after the 71 legislators from all parties addressed the national situation on the 14th day of the strike in Ecuador.
According to reports, during the meeting, which began on Saturday, many of the MPs considered that President Lasso should take action to respond to the ten economic and social topics raised by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE).
The participants highlighted the people's right to carry out a peaceful demonstration when they voted for the welfare and peace of the country, as Ecuadorian police forces and the army responded with repression to the protests during the first 12 days.
Ecuador: the debate on the impeachment of Guillermo Lasso continues.
The opposition accuses the president of generating a "serious political crisis and internal commotion" in the country.
The vandalism resulting from the demonstration was also condemned, citing the protests and the shortage of food and other goods.
After the session finished, Virgilio Saquicela, President of Parliament, called on the MPs to continue the meeting Tuesday, despite Monday's address of the Ecuadorian Minister of Interior, Patricio Carrillo, and Minister of National Defense, Luis Lara, assessing the response by the police and the armed forces in the strike.
Based on article 51 of the Organic Act of the Legislative Function and article 130, numeral 2 of the Constitution, the impeachment of Ecuadorian President Lasso was processed by legislators of the alliance Unión por la Esperanza (Union for Hope, UNES).
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Unions in Peru protest in front of Congress in national strike
The Peruvian unions demand the closure of Congress and the convening of a Constituent Assembly. | Photo: @NuevoPeruMov
Published June 28, 2022
Among the demands of the mobilized unions is to stop the rise in fuel prices, which has risen by up to 80% in recent months.
Different unions and trade union organizations in Peru held a repudiation mobilization this Monday in front of the Congress of the Republic as part of the strike that they carry out in different parts of the country against the rise in fuel prices, food and the growing inflation that the country is experiencing. .
The demonstrators demanded the convening of a constituent assembly and demanded the closure of the Parliament, considering it neoliberal, destabilizing and coup-mongering; protest that in the context of the National Civic Strike found other expressions such as roadblocks, suspension of cargo and public transport, and other actions of the agrarian and peasant sector.
In this sense, vice president of the National Assembly of Peoples (ANP), Marino Flores, highlighted the national support for the mobilizations, with agrarian strikes, and intermittent roadblocks in practically all regions of the country.
For his part, Martín Ojeda, general manager of the Interprovincial Bus Transport Association, avoided that the stoppage will be indefinite, joining the protest of heavy cargo carriers. "This government has consolidated and promoted a high level of illegality (in transportation) that has harmed us," he said.
To which is added the fact that Ricardo Pareja, president of the Chamber of Urban Transport (CTU), remarked that, if the demands are not heard by the Government, they will be forced to raise the price of the ticket. “We, in recent months, have suffered an 80 percent increase in fuel, the main input to be able to operate is fuel, if fuel has risen, the logical thing, what would correspond is also to be able to raise the price of the ticket. .
Meanwhile, the efforts of the Executive to curb the strike and reach an agreement with the heavy cargo carriers have not borne fruit, despite offering them an exceptional two-month subsidy of around 40 percent for the payment of tolls.
For her part, Rosalía Clemente, president of the CNA, expressed her indignation considering that there has been no progress since the protests carried out last April, when the peasant union mobilized due to the rise in prices of agricultural inputs and the high cost of life.
The ANP, made up of the General Confederation of Workers (CGTP), the General Confederation of Workers (CGTP), the National Agrarian (CNA) and Peasant Confederations of Peru (CCP), the New Peru Movement (NP) and the Peruvian Communist Parties (PCP). ) and Comunista Patria Roja (PC-PR), among other social and political organizations, seek to unify criteria and draw the attention of the Government so that it curbs the existing difficult situation.
Meanwhile, the mobilized unions stated that this Tuesday they will continue their National Civic Strike.
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Cargo carriers begin indefinite strike in Peru
Despite the fact that the Association of Interprovincial Transport Companies reached an agreement with the Government, cargo carriers assure that the strike continues. | Photo: EFE
Published June 27, 2022
In addition to the drop in fuel prices, the union asks that freight transport be made public again.
Peru's cargo carriers will enter an indefinite strike this Monday to demand that the rise in fuel prices cease, after the failure of negotiations with the government of President Pedro Castillo this Sunday.
“We have not reached an agreement with the cargo transport unions, we regret the intention to continue with the stoppage announced for this 27th,” said the Minister of Economy and Finance, Oscar Graham, at a press conference.
In addition, in an interview for local media, he assured that in terms of the demands of the sector, the Government is proposing more focused measures such as those related to the Fuel Price Stabilization Fund (FEPC) and the refund of the Selective Consumption Tax ( ISC) to formal companies.
In addition to the reduction in fuel prices, the protesters demand the restitution of freight transport as a public service, the solution to the unfair competition that they consider to exist on the part of their Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts, and the regulation of tolls after the revision of contracts with concessionaires, among others.
"We call on cargo carriers who continue with the intention of implementing the force measure to continue the dialogue," said Graham, who was together with the Ministers of Transport and Health, in the three days of negotiations at the headquarters , the Council of Ministers.
Despite the decision of the cargo carriers, the Council of Ministers announced that the Executive reached agreements with interprovincial transport unions. Therefore, after signing the minutes by the leaders of the Association of Interprovincial Transport Companies, this sector of some 100,000 drivers will not join the strike.
"In any case, we are going to strike," declared, for his part, the leader of the Heavy Cargo Carriers and Drivers union, Marlon Milla, to a local television medium.
Milla, leader of a union sector of 400,000 truckers in 14 of the 25 Peruvian regions, asks that the elimination of a tax on fuel be extended, among other technical measures that would relax the disagreements of carriers.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Defense, José Luis Gavidia, indicated that he will declare the national road network an emergency starting at 12:00 a.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT) local time, this Monday, to send the armed forces to support the police to monitor the roads and prevent blockades.
In this sense, the Minister of the Interior, Dimitri Senmache, expressed that the unions have the right to protest, but "they have no right, no union is to keep the country in anxiety, to block the roads and much less to threaten to burn vehicles ", said.
This is the second strike by the heavy-duty drivers union that takes place within the framework of the Pedro Castillo government, less than a year in power.
Last April, the Union of Multimodal Transport Unions began violent protests and blocked routes. Likewise, the curfew of April 5 had to be suspended due to massive disobedience to the measure.
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Indigenous Ecuadorians will continue dialogue under National Strike
The vice president of Conaie, Zenaida Yasakama, stated that the dialogue "must be public and the public must know." | Photo: EFE
Published June 28, 2022
The Conaie indicated that the passage of health, emergency and food vehicles will be allowed in the humanitarian corridors.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) concluded this Monday without progress the first meeting with government representatives, with the commitment to resume the dialogue this Tuesday, although the National Strike continues.
The first dialogue between Conaie and delegates from the five Ecuadorian powers (Executive, Legislative, Electoral, Judicial and Citizen) ended at 10:00 p.m. local time (03:00 GMT on Tuesday) and will continue this Tuesday from 09:00 a.m. 00 local hours (14:00 GMT).
“At 22:00 the substantial issues are not resolved. We await the criteria so that we, as leaders, can reach an agreement," said Conaie president Leonidas Iza.
The indigenous leader explained that the National Strike, on its 16th day, continues. "De facto measures are maintained, yes (it will be allowed) the passage of health, emergency, food vehicles in humanitarian corridors," he said.
The president of the National Assembly, Virgilio Saquicela, confirmed that this Tuesday the parties will meet again starting at 09:00 local time.
The vice president of Conaie, Zenaida Yasakama, stated for her part that the dialogue “must be public and citizens must know. We don't want to do anything behind the back of our people."
Within the framework of the first day of talks, Iza requested the removal and change of the Minister of the Interior, Patricio Carrillo.
The Minister of Government, Francisco Jiménez, who came to the table on behalf of the Ecuadorian President, Guillermo Lasso, proposed some reforms, but said that they will not give in to extremes or pressure. “We are giving them results. This is not a dialogue in vain. The dialogue has not been inofficious. I wouldn't want us to get bogged down," he added.
The Conaie has already held two weeks of protests demanding a list of 10 points related to the reduction of the price of fuel, economic relief, employment, education, labor rights, protection of the territories against large mining and elimination of the privatization of companies state, among other collective needs.
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Ecuador: Popular Uprising Continues in the Streets of Quito as Parliament Discusses Lasso’s Removal
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JUNE 27, 2022
Resumen Latinoamericano
A massive and full Assembly was held at the CCE on the 13th day of the #paronacionalecuador2022, the bases were informed of the permanence of the 10-point national agenda and the call for the unity of more sectors of the country until results are achieved.
The situation in Ecuador at this moment is very fluid as the large militant protests remain in the streets erecting barricades and skirmishing with the police. Parliament has just re convened to continue the discussion on the impeachment of President Lasso. If this were to happen it would be another major blow against US foreign policy in the region. Here is the latest report coming from Resumen Latinoamericano’s bureau in Buenos Aires. – editor
Determined popular uprising against the repressive neo liberal government of President Guillermo Lasso continue in the streets with protestors constructing barricades to defend themselves against the army’s tanks. According to the Alianza de Organizaciones por los Derechos Humanos, since the general strike began on June 13 at least 6 demonstrators have been confirmed killed and over 300 injured in the wave of repression by the police and army in response to the mobilization. The police are not releasing figures on how many people have been arrested but it is well over 100.
Yesterday Lasso lifted the state of exception that was in force in six provinces of the country in the framework of the mobilizations called by indigenous organizations due to the lack of response of the Government to their social demands.
The state of exception had been decreed by the president since last Saturday, June 18, initially in the provinces of Imbabura, Pichincha and Cotopaxi and then extended on June 21 to the provinces of Tungurahua, Chimborazo and Pastaza. CONAIE accused Lasso of using the state of exception to quell the popular uprising.
The General Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency indicated that with the lifting of the measure, which had been a virtual lock down, the Government guarantees the generation of spaces for the majority of the population to resume their activities.
The repeal of the decree by which the state of emergency was declared was one of the requests of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) to open a new process of dialogue with the Lasso government. However, Conaie has indicated that no dialogue or rapprochement with government representatives has taken place, so the indigenous strike and mobilizations will continue in Ecuador.
Meanwhile, Ecuador’s National Assembly has returned to the debate and vote to impeach Lasso that was presented by a group of opposition assembly members. Once the debate is concluded, legislators will have 72 hours to vote on whether or not to proceed with the measure against President Guillermo Lasso.
For more than eight hours on Saturday, around 30 congressmen spoke in favor and against President Lasso in the first day of the debate on the impeachment request presented by the Union for Hope (UNES) bench, accusing the president of a serious political crisis and internal commotion that has shaken the country since the beginning of the mobilizations called by CONAIE.
The petition presented against President Lasso by UNES deputies had the support of the 47 signatures necessary to request the removal of Guillermo Lasso from power a little more than a year after being elected president. But to be approved it requires at least 92 of the 137 possible supports in Congress. If approved, power would be assumed by Vice-President Alfredo Borrero and presidential and legislative elections would be called for the remainder of the term.
In a new development the International Solidarity and Human Rights Mission has arrived in Ecuador to observe what is happening in the national strike. These special rapporteurs on the rights of indigenous peoples and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association of the United Nations Organization have expressed their concern about the situation in Ecuador including the irregular detentions in the context of social protests, of more than 80 people, including the president of CONAIE, Leonidas Iza and the excessive use of force and acts of violence by police and military forces.
The group has asked the State to inform how it is guaranteeing due process in the deprivations of liberty carried out in the context of the national strike that began on June 13, 2022. They have also asked to explain the legal basis that regulates the use of force by the Police and Armed Forces, and to justify its application in Indigenous Peoples’ territories.
María Elena Navarro, member of the International Mission of Solidarity and Human Rights, pointed out that among the serious facts they identified, is the one restricting the right to social protest. She also indicated that the Casa de la Cultura was used as a barracks.The International Mission confirmed the murder of five people, missing children and hundreds of detainees, “victims of State policy” which, instead of contributing to dialogue, is showing a repressive policy towards “defenseless citizens”.
The International Mission confirmed the murder of five people, missing children and hundreds of detainees, “victims of State policy” which, instead of contributing to dialogue, is showing a repressive policy towards “defenseless citizens”.
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Ecuador: “Stop the Massacre”
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JUNE 27, 2022
Carlos Crespo
“Stop the massacre” was the cry that ran through tears, pain and indignation on the twelfth day of the #ParoNacional2022.
“We have had a very difficult day”; “it has been a very strong day”. “We denounce to the world… the wounded, the dead, the imprisoned. Let them know about these inhuman actions. We call for peace, for harmony, we cannot generate civil war between brothers”. These were the words of the leaders of the #ParoNacional2022 around midnight, in their press conference to the country: Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), National Federation of Peasant, Indigenous and Black Organisations of Ecuador (FENOCIN) and Organisation of Evangelical Indigenous People in Ecuador (FEINE).
The events
From midday:
Numerous families and delegations of Peoples, Nationalities and social organisations joyfully and confidently fill the Ágora of the Casa de las Culturas, recovered, after the police occupation. They arrive in a “massive and powerful” way to participate in the Assembly of the Peoples, which is installed on the 12th day of #National strike Conaie Communication – Home | Facebook: “we recognize our FORCE, we recognize that we are going hungry, but we will not lose the horizon, justice, peace”, is heard in this large and symbolic space, after the opening ancestral spiritual ceremony. Indignant voices point to other possible models of democracy and participation, based on the sustainability of life.
“The peoples and nationalities and their organisations are waiting for responses to the social and environmental injustices generated by the neoliberal model established by multilateral organisations and applied as a formula by the governments in power in Ecuador, making life more expensive and precarious, the absence of fair prices for products grown in rural areas, the absence of state regulation of the high interest rates on loans from cooperatives and banks, leading to the abandonment of the countryside and massive migration out of the country”, (Statement by the Anthropology Network of Ecuador).
“The background is undoubtedly the desperation of the impoverished majorities of the country. This government, made up of businessmen and white-mestizo elites living in exclusive neighbourhoods and basically socialising among privileged groups, has not reacted to the popular frustration after two years of economic and social catastrophe caused by the pandemic” (Pablo Ospina. Latinoaméroca21, Published in Pressenza 24.06.22).
Mid-afternoon
On national radio and television, President Lasso takes the stage, abandoning the conciliatory gesture; he lashes out at the President of CONAIE, accusing him of “deceiving his base and of wanting to usurp the legally constituted government”, and declares that “The National Police and the Armed Forces will act with the necessary means to defend, through the progressive use of force, public order and democracy”. https://www.primicias.ec/noticias/polit ... a-ecuador/ .
The government has declared war, underpinned by a narrative of “them and us”, making it clear who it governs for; us “the citizens”, them the “vandals and criminals”. It has opted for a new step in its military strategy as the only way out: the use of force to “repress” the population, according to an immediate announcement by the Minister of Government.
The Government of the “Encuentro”, as its slogan says, has lost the capacity to listen and dialogue; CONAIE has been asking for dialogue for a year, since last June, “twice we have attended the dialogue…but you have not responded” (President of FENOCIN). The government lies with manipulative coldness when it says that the indigenous organisations have not wanted to dialogue.
The manipulation is carried out by the mainstream media, with their support they exploit “the most elementary needs and the most irrational fears to the point of creating misleading expectations within a system of no choice”[1]. The hidden violence explodes in the opinionators and journalists of the mainstream media, feeding racism, revanchism, patriotism and awakening the colonial-rooted psychosocial substratum, in the “citizens”, “trapped in information”, in the digital prison[2].
Immediately after the national broad
Police lash out with tear gas bombs against the people in assembly, women, children, babies, old men and women. The government set a trap for them. Community and alternative media report: “Repression around the Casa de la Cultura and El Arbolito park. Asphyxiated and injured by tear gas inside the Ágora”.
[1] Silo (1996). Dictionary of New Humanism.
[2] Byun-Chul Han (2022). Infocracy. La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia. Bogotá: Taurus.
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