Indigenous accept dialogue with Moreno amid clashes

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They seek to negotiate an exit to the crisis that unleashed the economic adjustments agreed with the IMF.

The indigenous movement protesting in Ecuador announced this Saturday that it will sustain the "direct dialogue" proposed by President Lenin Moreno, to negotiate a way out of the crisis that unleashed the economic adjustments agreed with the IMF.

"After a consultation process with the communities, organizations, peoples, nationalities and social organizations, we have decided to participate in the direct dialogue" with Moreno, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) said in a statement.

Meanwhile, thousands of indigenous women began to march this Saturday in Quito in the framework of new protests and outbreaks of violence.

With the cry of "No more deaths", a massive caravan supported by other women's groups set out from a concentration point of the natives who arrived a week ago in Quito, according to journalists at the scene.

The march is heading north on Amazonas Avenue, in the tourist area of the capital, in the context of strong protests that erupted 11 days ago in
Ecuador and that have left five civilians dead and some 2,000 injured and detained, according to the Ombudsman's Office.

"The town is power when the streets are taken," said a woman who, shortly before the game, threw a harangue at the protesters. "This unit of warmis (woman in Quichua) is a plural unit, where the countryside and the city are, expressing a 'no' to the pack, in rejection of violence," the protester added.
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At another point in the city, around the headquarters of the National Assembly, indigenous people starred in new clashes with the police.

The government of Lenín Moreno faces its biggest crisis due to the economic adjustments that it imposed in exchange for loans of 4,200 million dollars that it contracted with the IMF to alleviate the heavy fiscal deficit that blames the waste, indebtedness and corruption of the government of its predecessor and exalted Rafael Correa.
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The indigenous rejected on Friday an offer from the president to open a direct dialogue.

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) considered that the official proposal "lacks credibility" and reiterated that it will only sit down to talk "when repealing" the decree that eliminated subsidies and increased fuel prices by up to 123%.