Ecuadoreans stood in long lines Tuesday to buy tickets for the first day of commercial services by Quito s new underground railway system, it was reported. The Quito Metro had been performing free-of-charge test rides for the past four months.
Ecuadorian authorities Wednesday celebrated the opening of Quito s first subway line, which will for now not be operational. In other words, trains will not be running until a later date, but the stations are open for people to get used to the new system. Static induction, they call it.
QUITO - An Indigenous protester died Tuesday in clashes with law enforcement during a ninth day of demonstrations against the Ecuadorian government that the military has described as a "grave threat."
An indigenous protester died in clashes with law enforcement on Tuesday, the ninth day of demonstrations against the Ecuadoran government, which the military described as a “grave threat.”
The man, a member of the Quichua indigenous group, was participating in a road block in the Amazon town of Puyo, when there was “a confrontation and this person was hit in the face, apparently with a tear gas bomb,” said Lina Maria Espinosa, a lawyer with the Alliance for Human Rights.
Since Monday last week, multiple roads have been barricaded nationwide at a cost of hundreds of millions of US dollars to the