IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT LUCIO GUTIERREZ { 136 images } Created 2 May 2022
On February 16, 2005, more than 70,000 people from Quito took to the streets of the Ecuadorian capital Quito, the date on which the revolts began to remove Lucio Gutierrez for his interference in the Justice and other political and economic issues. The Ecuadorians, especially from the CONAIE indigenous movement, the unions and the social groups, among them "Los Forajidos" considered the absence of the separation of democratic powers and the presence of the president's authoritarianism because he is a former military man who a coup in 2000 against former right-wing president Jamil Mahuad.