Overview

• Leaders from Unorcac and Fici reached an accord in Otavalo with Interior Minister John Reimberg to lift roadblocks, withdraw to their territories and start working groups next week, with detainees transferred to Imbabura.
• Conaie did not participate in the talks, and demonstrations continue in other regions despite the localized de-escalation.
• The government has expanded a state of exception to ten provinces, suspended the right of assembly for 60 days and deployed thousands of troops to dismantle roadblocks.
• Indigenous organizations report three civilian deaths, including Efraín Fuérez, while authorities deny military responsibility for his killing and rights groups cite dozens of injuries and attacks on journalists.
• Separately, a car-bomb outside a Guayaquil shopping center killed one person and injured 26, with officials naming Los Lobos as the main suspect after additional explosions damaged bridges in two provinces.