QUITO – Ecuadorean authorities arrested shopkeepers for raising food prices as indigenous groups clashed with security forces on Sunday in a fourth day of protests against President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures.
One man died in central Azuay province when roadblocks hindered an ambulance from reaching him after he was hit by a car, authorities said.
Ecuadoreans complain consumer prices have risen sharply as an effect of Moreno’s abolition of fuel subsidies, which triggered a two-day strike by transport unions and the nation’s worst unrest in over a decade.
The 66-year-old Moreno won the 2017 election and has set the oil-producing nation on a centrist track after years of socialist rule under predecessor Rafael Correa.(Reuters)
