In the southern part of the country, two key points continue to impede the routes that lead from Azuay to Loja and El Oro.
Roadblocks persist especially on highways in the Ecuadorian mountains on this second day of mobilizations by social groups.
In Guayas, El Oro, Manabí, Esmeraldas, Los Ríos and Santa Elena the roads are kept clear with normal circulation.
In the southern part of the country, two key points remain obstructed on the routes that lead from Azuay to Loja and El Oro.
In the Amazon, the Macas-Puyo road continues to be blocked by demonstrations. Meanwhile, in the central and northern Sierra, most of the groups that request attention from the Government are concentrated, especially in the revision of fuel rates.
Until the afternoon of this Wednesday 27, the provinces of Imbabura and Carchi remain cut off from the interior of the country. This has led to the suspension of the operation at the Tulcán land terminal and the passage of products on the Rumichaca binational viaduct. Meanwhile, in Ibarra there is suspicion about the possible shortage of fuel in case of continuing roadblocks.
Today, military and police with the support of heavy machinery have tried to open vehicular circulation on the Panamericana Norte, one of the accesses to Quito.
Information from the ECU911 on the state of the roads by mobilizations, with cut-off at 16:30
Azuay
Cumbe-La Jarata-Oña (closing in Nabón).
Cuenca-Girón-Pasaje-Machala.
Bolivar
Guaranda-Riobamba.
Carchi
Bolívar-Piquiucho (border between Carchi and Imbabura)
Cotopaxi
Latacunga-La Maná.
Chimborazo
Riobamba-Colta-Pallatanga-Cumandá-El Triunfo.
Riobamba- Colta-Guamote-Alausí-Chunchi.
Imbabura
Otavalo-Atuntaqui.
Otavalo-Selva Alegre.
Morona Santiago
Macas-Puyo.
Pichincha
Cayambe-Quito.
Panamericana Norte (San Miguel del Común).
Cajas-Cayambe-Otón-Santa Rosa de Cusubamba.
Tungurahua
Ambato-Guaranda.
Pelileo-Tungurahua / Chimborazo provincial limit.
Incidents in Ambato
Around noon on Wednesday 27, hundreds of community members from different indigenous sectors staged a march to the government of Tungurahua, in Ambato.
Security fences and police personnel were placed in the vicinity of the government building to prevent excesses.
Before arriving at that site, the protesters from different Ambateño communities. They went through different streets in the center of the city. As he passed, the managers of the commercial premises closed the doors. Incidents occurred when several people demanded protesters to keep their work activities.
“We have been forced to close businesses and the situation should not be like that, because we know that the country is in an extremely difficult situation, but we get absolutely nothing by doing these stoppages. We are all affected, but we must become aware that Ecuador does not advance with these attitudes and that is what we have demanded of the leader, ”said Rodrigo Ramírez.
For his part, Julio Medina, leader of the protesters, said that around 3,000 people from 50 communities arrived and assured that they will continue in the mobilizations with the closure of the roads until the President of the Republic listens to their requests.
He explained that the roads will be opened in order to allow the passage of agricultural products in order to supply the markets.
Meanwhile, Alberto Ainaguano, leader of the Confederation of Peoples of the Kichwa Nationality of Ecuador (Ecuarunari), assured that the Chibuleo people decided to maintain the closure of the Ambato-Guaranda highway. (I)
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