ECUADOR: Indigenous protests rages against Correa.
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Indians hardened their opposition to the Ecuadorian government on Wednesday, calling for nationwide protests against a draft law on the management water, after the siege on the eve of Congress in Quito, with enfrentamientosque left several wounded and arrested. `` The three major confederations of motion [Aboriginal] have called for a national mobilization,''said Wednesday the leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Marlon Santi, and warned that `` it will not tolerate laws are made behind the backs of people.''
`` We will radicalize the movement,''he said in turn President of the Ecuarunari (which brings together indigenous Andean highlands), dolphin Tenesaca.
Native protests intensified on Tuesday near the Legislative - Dominated by the ruling - and preventing the exit of the congressmen who sought second and final debate on the initiative of the socialist Rafael Correa.
The head of the Assembly, Fernando Cordero, up in the night session, sparking a clash between thousands of demonstrators - many of them armed with sticks - and the police, who managed to evict them using tear gas.
Several people were injured, according to both parties, who blamed each other for the start of the attacks.
Lamb announced that the session will continue on Thursday, at which the Indians went on `` waking up to the critical problems are resolved,'' according Tenesaca. The vice president of the Ecuarunari, Luis Contento, insisted that the communities will remain in Quito `` to the end''and that if there is a shift in the law `` is going to radicalize''measures nationwide.
`` If it has to lead to further [protests], we can not do anything,''he warned.
CONAIE President confirmed that the protests also left five men in the Andean province of Azuay (south) and noted that the claim is `` for all Ecuadoreans.''
Aborigines, who are considered 35 percent of the population of 14.2 million, requiring the creation of a collegial authority to regulate water use, a minimum living `` free''and a fund to preserve the wilderness.
Source: By Agence France Presse - The Brownsville Herald.
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