ECUADOR HISTORICAL MEMORY 2022-04-15. QUITO. PICHINCHA. 1993. In 1993, groups of indigenous, Montubio and Afro-Ecuadorian peasants from the Peasant Social Security mobilized against the government of Sixto Durán Ballén, who, with the support of social movements and public system unions, decided to stop the proposals to privatize Social Security or IESS. and the sale of public companies. The mobilization was against the policies of the Ecuadorian ultra-right, which in the end was linked to the mafias of drug traffickers and bankers. Patricio Realpe/ChakanaNews