Peace Meditation for Ecuador daily at 1 AM UTC
Ecuador is presently under a national State of Emergency due to nationwide strikes that began on Thursday, October 3rd. https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/oct/04/ecuador-declares-state-of-emergency-over-fuel-price-protests-video Protests in rejection of the harsh economic measures the government announced last week have been widespread and massive throughout the country.
Hours after the strike began, the government declared a state of emergency, enabling it extra-constitutional rights to make arrests, among other provisions such as early tax collection, move its headquarters to any place and arrange for information censorship. The state of emergency is declared for 60 days. Major media have already been censoring information but thanks to social media people are communicating and staying informed. In March, Ecuador signed an agreement to borrow $4.2 billion from the IMF over three years, provided that the government would adhere to a certain economic progr...