Marches and closure of roads that link towns are the main activities of the protesters, who carry out actions in at least 20 of the 24 provinces of the country.
According to the ECU 911 Integrated Security System, this day dawned with at least 69 roadblocks nationwide, due to debris and concentrations in Azuay, Bolívar, Cañar, Carchi, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los Ríos, Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Pichincha, Sucumbíos, Tungurahua and Zamora Chinchipe.
Over the weekend, from various provinces, social groups, especially indigenous peoples and nationalities, advanced towards the capital, where they hope to gather to demand responses from the executive to their demands.
One of the recent incidents was a confrontation between mobilized people trying to reach Quito from the province of Imbabura and police officers, who blocked the entrance.
As it transpired, the order forces used tear and smoke bombs to disperse the protesters.
Likewise, after an alleged anonymous call to denounce the possible storage of weapons and explosives, the National Police raided the Benjamín Carrión House of Culture, in this capital, to seize its facilities, without finding war material.
The fact was criticized by directors of the center and citizens in general, who together with artists and cultural managers went to the place, which is kept guarded by law enforcement officials.
For their part, in a summary of the first seven days of protest, Human Rights organizations that monitor the situation reported 39 acts of violations, 79 arrests, 55 people injured and two in critical condition until yesterday afternoon.
The national strike began on Monday June 13 at the call of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) and was joined by peasant, worker, women and student groups.
Conaie proposes an agenda of 10 sensitive issues for the population on which it expects a response from the government, after three meetings between the parties, in 2021, but without solutions.
High fuel prices, unemployment, budget cuts in education and health, the crisis of small producers, the high cost of living and high insecurity are some of the reasons for the protests.
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