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Ecuador: Unions Announce Demonstrations Against Diesel Price Hike - teleSUR English
Ecuador’s United Workers’ Front (FUT) announced a series of nationwide demonstrations against the recent increase in diesel prices. The measure, which eliminated a key subsidy, drove the cost of fuel from $1.80 to $2.80 per gallon, an increase that unions describe as a blow to the popular economy. At a press conference, Edwin Bedoya, leader of the FUT, expressed his support for the transport workers who have already started roadblocks in protest…
QUITO (AP) — Freight transporters blocked roads in six Ecuadorian provinces on Monday to protest the Daniel Noboa administration's decision to eliminate diesel subsidies, which has increased fuel prices and fuel prices.
The Government withdrew the subsidy for that fuel. Conaie called the unit against what it considers an adjustment imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Ecuadorean transporters blocked several roads in the north of the Latin American country on Monday, in rejection of the increase in the price of diesel, following the measure of President Daniel Noboa to withdraw the subsidy to this fuel. Interior Minister John Reimberg confirmed that in the early morning there were incidents in the province of Carchi that led to the arrest of two people who promoted the demonstrations. In this sense, the govern…
The protest closed accesses to Calderón and Carapungo. The measure responds to the elimination of the subsidy to diesel, which raised the tank from USD 120 to USD 200. The post Chaos vehicular in Quito: transporters close accesses to Calderón and Carapungo for the price of diesel appeared first on El Diario.
The minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Roberto Luque, announced the advances in the register of carriers that will access the compensation after the elimination of the subsidy to diesel, whose price has gone up to 2.80. A first group of 1,500 carriers will receive the compensation from the government on the morning of this Monday, September 15th, then
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