The indigenous leader Ecuadorian Leonidas Iza is now free, but under precautionary measures. This is how his followers celebrated the moment of his liberation. His arrest had fueled the protests that have been going on since Monday Ecuador. A fight that is not over yet according to the president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador.
“We keep up the fight. It’s not -comrades- that we’re going to take away anyone’s right here,” says the indigenous leader.
Behind he is the promoter of the demonstrations against the government of the conservative president Guillermo Lasso in which the indigenous nationalities demand reductions in fuel prices and the renegotiation of the debts of the peasants with the banks.
“Nobody here has come out to defy the law, nobody, comrades. We have only come out because hunger and injustice have taken over each of our homes,” adds Iza.
Despite having been arrested, according to his lawyers, for paralyzing the transport service by blocking roads during the anti-government protests, the mobilizations they have continued another day paralyzing the roads with burned tires and trucks. The protests They have already left several police cars on fire, journalists attacked, policemen detained and oil wells paralyzed.