During the early hours of this Tuesday, the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso announced that the authorities began operations to capture the material and intellectual authors of the different violent acts that were recorded in the last hours under the national strike.
The most serious event was murder of a police patrolman who was burned inside his vehicle when, together with several colleagues, he attended a supposed call for help in the San Pedro de Yumate sector in Azuay, in the south of the country.
@PoliceEcuador rejects violent actions in #Azuay: police officers were attacked and a patrol car was incinerated when they went to help in San Pedro de Yumate.
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– Police Ecuador (@PoliciaEcuador) June 14, 2022
“The fire of the patrol car, the invasion of agricultural producers, the vandalization of a vehicles private and school, the attack on an oil pumping facility and the closure and serious damage to state roads are crimes for which those responsible will have to pay,” said the Ecuadorian president.
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Lasso also indicated that now the Prosecutor’s Office and the judiciary must act Because no one is above the law.
For its part, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador denounced that About 2:00 am, this Tuesday, when Police units arrested the leader Leonidas Isa Salazar without giving explanations and asked that their rights be respected.
About this fact, The Police confirmed the procedure and clarified the causes of the same.
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We inform that @PoliceEcuador apprehended Leonidas I., in Pastocalle #Cotopaxi, for presumption of commission of crimes. At the moment he is in the temporary insurance room, for a flagrancy qualification hearing.
News in development… pic.twitter.com/Wnmy0lqGE6
– Police Ecuador (@PoliciaEcuador) June 14, 2022
Said detention was described by the indigenous spokesmen as illegal. and they asked the international community to accompany this situation of protests in Ecuador, just like what happened with Leonidas Isa.
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Faced with the violent, arbitrary and illegal detention of @LeonidasIzaSal1president of the Conaie
We call for a GREAT INDIGENOUS AND POPULAR Uprising for the freedom of our maximum leader and the agenda of struggle.
Details ⤵️https://t.co/GBwrEdGxk2#InUnity— CONAIE (@CONAIE_Ecuador) June 14, 2022
Finally, the delegates assured that they will continue with the protests until the government listens to their requests and indicated that if they have to capture them all They are willing to go to the ultimate consequences.
