Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency on Thursday ...
QUITO - Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency on Thursday as nationwide protests broke out over the end of decades-old fuel subsidies in a government fiscal reform package worth more than $2 billion a year.
As the fuel measure came into effect on Thursday, taxi, bus and truck drivers blocked streets in the highland capital Quito and the second city Guayaquil on the Pacific coast, while bus stations were closed. Indigenous groups, students and unions joined the protest, blocking roads with rocks and burning tires.
Moreno, who won election in 2017 to replace Rafael Correa, told reporters the “perverse” fuel subsidy, in place for 40 years, had distorted the economy and protests would not be allowed to paralyze Ecuador. On Tuesday, Ecuador announced it was leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to pump more oil and raise revenues.The government wants to reduce the fiscal deficit from an estimated $3.6 billion this year to under $1 billion in 2020.
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