It is estimated that more than 1,000,000 people could be displaced nationwide, although there would be some uncertainty in families due to the protests.
At the gates of a holiday and in the middle of protests of social movements, the Government estimates that they would be mobilized by road axes and terminals more than 1,000,000 people during the five days off.
This will start Saturday October 30 and will run until Wednesday, November 3.
The regime considers it a high intensity holiday for the number of days and for the provision of free mobility throughout the national territory. For this reason, he criticized the decision to block routes.
At a press conference, government authorities announced the interinstitutional operation which would include eventual roadblocks due to the mobilizations of social sectors.
In view of possible road closures that could be produced by protests, Marcelo Cabrera, Minister of Transport and Public Works, noted that they will be, as far as possible, reopened with the support of the National Police and the Armed Forces, as well as other entities that will make available cranes and trucks, equipment and machinery.
“We are going to make every effort to try to give the Ecuadorian citizen the necessary conditions for your displacement in the different provinces of the country ”, he said.
In the event of a emergency due to the effect of rain or any other adverse event, alternate roads will be enabled as a provisional means of circulation, added Cabrera.
He added that they intensify maintenance works, cleaning of gutters, sewers, before slopes.
For Juan Zapata, director of the ECU-911 and president of the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE), is a irresponsible attitude cutting off that possibility for many families to reactivate on the holiday.
“This can generate uncertainty in many families who already need to plan a trip and that maybe seeing closed roads today they can give up that planning. And they are hurting the orderly and safe reactivation that Ecuador needs, and that epidemiological data today allow us to do so, ”said Zapata.
Social pressure to lower gasoline and diesel prices will continue with territorial protests
For Ana García, Vice Minister of Tourism, it is too early to talk about the effects on the productive sector due to the protests.
Security operative
The operation of police security It will begin on Friday, October 29 from 12:00 and will end on Thursday, November 4 at 06:00, said Lieutenant Colonel Santiago Zapata, head of the Department of Operational Planning of the National Police. There will be 48,297 police officers in the country. There will be control, especially in the exteriors of shopping centers, banks, beaches, spas, squares and especially in cemeteries.
As recommendations, the Police suggested check the condition of the vehicles, carry documents, maintain speed limits, among others.
The ECU-911 will display 6,500 video surveillance cameras, and of them, 210 around cemeteries and cemeteries, 163 in the coastal profile.
Zapata stated that the transport of the tourism modality will have a capacity of 100% complying with biosafety regulations, as well as the increase in capacity at airports.
He recalled that the health crisis by the coronavirus pandemic continues. There is also the provision to verify the capacity of interprovincial, intraprovincial and tourism transport.
Garcia said the tourism sector has been hit hard and is on the mend. Stated that there are a multitude of activities ranging from sports to cultural.
El Oro has its six tourist routes ready to attract visitors on holiday days
Asked maintain biosecurity measures, such as meeting the gauges and wearing a mask.
Day to recover
Patricio donoso, Minister of Labor, noted that President Guillermo Lasso has decided to reactivate the tourism sector by establishing as holiday the working day Wednesday, November 3.
The compensation of those eight hours for the public sector it will be one daily extra work hour during the following eight working days, while for the private sector the modality will be agreed between workers and employers. (I)
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