In Quito, members of the National Union of Educators (UNE), the United Workers Front (FUT), the Popular Front and the Federation of University Students of Ecuador blocked the streets and burned tires, while chanting “Gasoline goes up, everything goes up.”

On Tuesday, a group of Ecuadorians blocked a stretch of the Panamericana Sur highway, in the province of Cotopaxi, in rejection of the increase in gasoline prices.

Local media reported that the demonstrators stopped traffic by burning tires, whole bearing banners and chanting slogans against the measure, imposed since the elimination of fuel subsidies on June 28.

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