Tensions in Ecuador: Nelson Castro was in the middle of the fighting and continued to transmit

"I'm going to go a little further to see what it looks like, there is a car with water." This was Nelson Castro's last statement before the chaos will be unleashed in the narrow streets of Quito. Security forces had launched tear gas pumps disperse protesters gathered in the historic center of the Ecuadorian capital to fight against the suspension of fuel subsidies. Between the tracks and the tracks, The correspondent He did not stop saying what was happening.

In the middle of the return of President Lenin Moreno in the capital and a thick cloud of tear gas, Nelson began to describe the tension felt within walking near the militarized palace of the presidency. From one moment to the next, the team of TN He had to escape from the place because the national police had started suppressing the protesters.

"We are living in a situation of enormous risk, we are withdrawing.The army truck in the historic center of Quito is a source of tension," the journalist said. by being pushed by a tide of people escaping gas. The story was cut off abruptly without knowing the reason.

Then Nelson is back on the air and says that he has managed to take refuge with his team at the epicenter of the protest and that he is fine. "The repression was brutal. We dropped a tear gas pump and we had to flee the place. This coincided with the presence of Lenín Moreno in Quito, who decided to continue in the middle of a very difficult negotiation, "he said, in dialogue with TN Central.

Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno faces a general strike and mobilization organized by indigenous communities in Quito, one day after being forced to move the government to Guayaquil due to escalating demonstrations against the suspension fuel subsidies. measured in an adjustment plan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At the same time, the main unions in the country called for a national strike and joined the protests.

With some routes cut, without urban transport and with the capital virtually taken and full of barricades, the government could not resume classes in all schools and higher education centers, as promised, which reinforced the feeling of paralysis in much of the country. In this difficult context, the president tried to regain control of the capital and returned to Quito Wednesday, although his government did not indicate where he was exactly for security reasons.

"The Embassy of Argentina in Ecuador under the command of Rubén Darío Giustozzi that we coordinate to help Argentine citizens can be affected by these mobilizations," said the Argentinian Consul in Ecuador, Francisco Boulin. "There are about five thousand Argentines living here in Quito and Guayaquil, and we recommend avoiding the historic center, which is a place for demonstrations, and always contacting our guards," he added.