00:04Protesters took to the streets of Quito on Friday, voicing anger at President Daniel
00:09Noboa's administration over labor reforms, budget cuts and rising insecurity.
00:14The protest, led by the United Workers Front and National Educators Union, erupted over
00:19Ministerial Agreement MDT-2026-059, which unions say undermines job stability by allowing
00:2910-hour shifts within a 40-hour workweek.
00:32It's evident that in that framework, the discomfort of the Ecuadorian people is growing.
00:37This is the beginning of new actions to vote for the whole policy that today is affecting
00:44people who don't have medicine, people who don't have access to health, in front of the
00:50insecurity that the country lives, but above all, in front of the lack of employment that
00:54today we are living with the Ecuadorian people.
00:57The workers are mobilizing us.
00:58Today we say to Noboa, if their government doesn't change, we will change government.
01:03That's why what happens in the whole country, the outside Noboa, the outside vasallo of Trump,
01:09today we raise up here in Quito.
01:12Therefore, we are together with the Ecuadorian people that today says to Noboa, outside!
01:17Tear gas was used as police in riot gear tried to disperse protesters, who burned U.S. flags
01:24and marched with signs highlighting job insecurity.
01:28Opposition leaders criticized the government's policies on health care and unemployment and
01:34vowed to continue mobilizing in multiple cities unless economic reforms are reconsidered.
01:47So, thank you.
01:49You
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