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Protests Heighten against Free Trade Agreement in Ecuador

QUITO.—The beginning of a new round of negotiations over a Free Trade Agreement with the United States brought widespread protests in Ecuador as students and indigenous and social movements expressed their opposition.

Thousands of young people marched from the central University to the city center where they battled riot police that hurled hundreds of tear gas canisters.

Santiago Angulo, president of the Federation of University Students of Quito, told Prensa Latina that students took to the streets to reject the trade agreement and demand the US corporation Occidental Petroleum be kicked out from Ecuador.

Angulo noted that partial victories have so far been achieved since government’s plans were to have the agreement signed by last December.

 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   

 


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