Protesters, summoned by social organizations against the “inability” of the Government to face the energy crisis
MADRID, 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, has accused “certain sectors” of the country of trying to “destabilize” the Government, after mobilizations took place this Thursday in at least twelve provinces of the country in protest against the energy crisis and the management governmental.
“Ecuadorians, let’s not be confused: your objective is not to protect those people who deceive, but to destabilize a Government that does not belong to the mafias of the past, who want to continue destroying the country,” he declared on the social network X.
In the statement, Noboa has accused his opponents, whom he has described as “old politics”, of attacking his Government, of which he has stuck out his chest by ensuring that “in one year, it has broken and continues to break ties with corruption that they left rooted for years.
“Where were their speeches and concerns today when narcopolitics reached the State? Today they are silent, while figures close to them are detained or involved in investigations for corruption,” he criticized.
These words come hours after protests took place this Thursday in up to twelve provinces throughout Ecuador, including its capital, Quito, due to the “incapacity” of the Executive in the face of the current crisis that the country is going through.
This is the second time in a month that protesters have taken to the streets to demand a response from Daniel Noboa’s government. Called by the Unitary Front of Workers (FUT), the National Union of Educators (UNE) and the Popular Front, the protesters have shown their rejection of the “untimely dismissals”, “union persecution” and the growing “insecurity”.
At the beginning of the week, President Noboa decreed a national emergency for 60 days due to the magnitude of the forest fires, the water deficit and the drought in which the Latin American country is immersed. He himself has acknowledged that the energy crisis has plunged the South American nation into “chaos.”
On the other hand, the president has suffered another blow this Thursday after the Constitutional Court has declared as unconstitutional three of the measures included in the state of emergency that he himself decreed at the beginning of last October in several provinces of the country in an attempt to contain the high crime rates and the internal armed conflict.
Since Noboa’s arrival to the Presidency of Ecuador, there have been several times that he has resorted to the state of exception to combat crime in a country that in 2023 became the first in the region with the highest number of homicides per person. capita, with a rate of 47.2 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.