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QUITO (Reuters) -At least 22 inmates died and several police were injured during riots at two of Ecuador’s largest penitentiaries, the Andean nation said on Thursday, marking the second major deadly wave of prison violence this year.
Special police units deployed to the jails in southern Guayas province and Cotopaxi province, south of Quito, the capitol, to quell the violence.
In February, at least 79 inmates died at three prisons - including the centers in Guayas and Cotopaxi - in clashes between rival gangs. Guayas is home to Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city.
“I want to say to the mafias that seek to threaten this country that they’re mistaken if they think this government will act with the same weakness as the previous ones,” President Guillermo Lasso said in a speech in the city of Latacunga.
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QUITO, June 25 (Reuters) - Ecuador’s state oil company Petroecuador said on Friday it had reached an agreement with an indigenous community to end a protest that had been blocking access to one of its largest oil fields in the Amazon region.
The indigenous Kichwa El Eden community began blocking access to the Block 12 Eden-Yuturi facilities on May 10 to demand a new contract over compensation to nearby residents after a previous deal inspired. Petroecuador on June 4 declared force majeure at the field, which normally produces around 28,500 barrels per day (bpd) of crude.
Petroecuador said in a statement that as part of the deal to lift the roadblock, it would within 60 days sign a five-year agreement with the community to provide social benefits for some 1,000 people living in the oil field’s so-called area of influence.
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People wait to be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the gymnasium of a school turned vaccination centre as Ecuador s government launched a plan to vaccinate nine million people in 100 days, in Quito, Ecuador June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Andres Yepez
QUITO, June 15 (Reuters) - Ecuador said on Tuesday it has approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by China s CanSino Biologics Inc (6185.HK), part of President Guillermo Lasso s effort to accelerate the Andean nation s vaccination plan.
Lasso, a former banker who took office on May 24, last week announced the purchase of six million doses of the CanSino shot. He hopes to vaccinate nine million people in the first 100 days of his government.