{"id":13288,"date":"2019-10-15T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=13288"},"modified":"2019-10-15T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:25:07","slug":"ecuadorian-uprising-defeats-austerity-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/ecuadorian-uprising-defeats-austerity-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuadorian Uprising Defeats Austerity Package"},"content":{"rendered":"

The uprising started on October 3, 2019 after president Lenin Moreno announced IMF-backed decree 833.<\/em><\/p>\n

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By CSP-Conlutas Media Workgroup<\/p>\n

That decree had five major attacks against people\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

First: it doubles diesel prices and increases gasoline from US$ 1.85 to US$ 2.40 \/ gallon;<\/p>\n

Second: it eliminates taxation on imports threating national economy and jobs;<\/p>\n

Third: it reforms taxation on the benefit of major corporations;<\/p>\n

Fourth: it cuts 20% of the wages of public employees together with reducing their holidays to half;<\/p>\n

Fifth: it carries out a labor reform based on eliminating labor rights.<\/p>\n

The uprising started when transit workers and truck drivers went on strike obliging Lenin-Moreno administration to increase fares and provide loans.<\/p>\n

Then Native-Ecuadorians together with the urban youth took major cities including Quito, the capital of the country.<\/p>\n

President Lenin-Moreno had to leave the city and to change the capital to Guayaquil, a more conservative center.<\/p>\n

Furthermore he put the country under State of Siege and both the police and armed forces carried out strong repression, killing at least 7 protestors and hurting thousands.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the decree 833 had its coup de grace when protestors took control of oil fields in the Amazon area and the oil-pipeline between these oil fields and coastal refineries and ports.<\/p>\n

On October 13, 2019 President Lenin-Moreno announced the withdrawal of decree 833 after a meeting with the Native-Ecuadorian main organization, CONAIE.<\/p>\n

In spite of the strength of the Uprising, CONAIE leaders refused to demand president Lenin-Moreno to resign.<\/p>\n

The permanence of president Lenin-Moreno in power is a permanent threat against the working peoples as he works for big business and the IMF.<\/p>\n

CSP-Conlutas congratulates the Ecuadorian workers, youth and Native peoples for their revolutionary upsurge which will be fulfilled only through workers\u2019 power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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