barricading roads: With the fuel subsidy cut taking effect on Thursday, taxi, bus and truck drivers blocked streets from early morning in the highland capital Quito and in Guayaquil on the Pacific coast, according to The Japan Times. Indigenous groups, students and unions joined the action, barricading roads with rocks and burning tires. Police responded with tear gas in the worst unrest for years in the oil-producing Andean nation. ; Down with the package! demonstrators shouted, referring to measures enacted this week as Moreno puts Ecuador on a centrist, market-friendly path after years of leftist rule. In Quito, masked youths faced off with riot police who drove them back with tear gas and deployed armored vehicles. We're paralyzing the nation, said bus transport leader Abel Gomez. It's an indefinite action until the government overturns the decree on subsidies.
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