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Ecuador cuts gas prices as president faces impeachment motion
Indigenous women and students rally to show their support for the recent protests and national strike against the government of president Guillermo Lasso, outside the Central University, in Quito, Ecuador, June 25, 2022

BELEAGUERED Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso cut gas prices on Sunday evening, soon after the tabling of a motion calling for his impeachment. 

Mass protests have rocked the country for the past two weeks. 

The reduction sees the price fall by 10 cents per gallon, short of the demands made by Ecuador’s Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie).

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