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ECUADOR HISTORICAL MEMORY. 2022-04-15. Quito, Ecuador 2005-04-20. 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.
During the following months there were several social mobilizations and in April the last days of Gutierrez began. On April 18, a series of street protests began around Congress to annul the appointments of the new Supreme Court judges, with the slogan "Everyone Out." As of that date, people stayed in the streets until April 20, when they took the Plaza de la Independencia and the Carondelet Palace, through which President Lucio Gutierrez fled in a helicopter of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces and ended up as a refugee at the Brazilian embassy. Patricio Realpe/ChakanaNews
During the following months there were several social mobilizations and in April the last days of Gutierrez began. On April 18, a series of street protests began around Congress to annul the appointments of the new Supreme Court judges, with the slogan "Everyone Out." As of that date, people stayed in the streets until April 20, when they took the Plaza de la Independencia and the Carondelet Palace, through which President Lucio Gutierrez fled in a helicopter of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces and ended up as a refugee at the Brazilian embassy. Patricio Realpe/ChakanaNews
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