They held Nelson Castro and his team at an aboriginal convention

The journalist Nelson Castro and his team are in Ecuador to cover the social repercussions of the economic adjustment ordered by the government of Lenin Moreno, who, under an agreement with the IMF, has removed a grant to fuel, which had an impact on Price of the most consumed gasoline in the country.

Castro and his team were at Casa de la Cultura, in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, covering an assembly of indigenous organizations. Before the eventual arrival of the police, a leader had ordered the press not to leave the premises. The journalists were detained for two hours against their will.

"Nobody leaves here before showing what indigenous people have to say," said one of the leaders in front of a crowd. During the meeting, protesters exposed weapons and motorcycles of the security forces and showed the 8 policemen that they had kidnapped. They said that they will apply "indigenous justice". "They are held hostage in response to the deaths in the crackdown on Wednesday's demonstrations," Nelson Castro said.

The TN team had to explain to the protesters that they could not show what was going on in the area because of technical transmission problems and that I could not leave this place until after two o'clock. Since then, they have been closely followed by two Aboriginal peoples who are watching them in the hotel where they are staying. "They are behind us constantly because they do not want us to leave the region," said producer Maximiliano Heiderscheid.

Other media that covered the assembly also had to live in the same situation. "At present, Ecuadorian citizens are kidnapped at the House of Culture: six policemen were arrested and 27 journalists from different media were not allowed to leave the premises." this afternoon the Secretary General of the Presidency, José Augusto Briones, on the national radio and television channels.

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