{"id":2031,"date":"2015-08-14T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:57:23","slug":"indigenous-communities-lead-anti-government-protests-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/indigenous-communities-lead-anti-government-protests-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous communities lead anti-government protests in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Ecuador to protest the President\u2019s moves to seek a fourth term.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous demonstrators blocked roads in six of 24 provinces, while others made the 800km trek to the capital Quito calling for a general strike alongside trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>Previous supporters of Rafael Correa, the indigenous peoples say he has failed to deliver on promises of social programmes and income inequality.<\/p>\n<p>They also criticised his proposed constitutional reforms which they believe would allow him to stand for reelection indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Government supporters surrounded the presidential offices to block what Correa said could become a coup attempt as protesters clashed with police in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Discontent has been rising as the oil-producing country experiences an economic slowdown, in part triggered by the fall in crude prices.<br \/>\neuronews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Ecuador to protest the President\u2019s moves to seek a fourth term. Indigenous demonstrators blocked roads in six of 24 provinces, while others made the 800km trek to the capital Quito calling for a general strike alongside trade unions. Previous supporters of Rafael Correa, the indigenous peoples say he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[290,640],"tags":[664,438,665,666],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-america","category-recent-news","tag-anti-government-protests","tag-communities","tag-ecuador","tag-indigenous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}