Protesters Parade Police Hostages and Demand IMF Leave Ecuador
- Twenty-seven reporters detained by indigenous groups in Quito
- President Moreno moved government to Guayaquil this week
A demonstrator returns a tear gas canister during a protest in the El Ejido Park neighborhood of Quito on Oct. 9.
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A throng of indigenous Ecuadorian protesters grabbed six policemen off the streets in central Quito on Thursday to cries of “murderers, murderers,” hours before seizing more than two dozen reporters who came to cover the event.
The policemen had their motorcycles seized before being hustled to the stage of a theater to the delight of thousands of anti-government protesters resisting an International Monetary Fund-backed austerity drive by President Lenin Moreno. They were stripped of their vests and equipment as people jeered and chanted “Moreno out.”