Ecuador president orders curfew as protests force government to relocate

By Alexandra Valencia and Carlos Garcia Rawlins QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno on Tuesday ordered a curfew around government buildings after six days of anti-austerity protests that have pushed his administration out of the capital Quito and brought hundreds of arrests amid violent protests. Following tactics that have toppled past governments, thousands of indigenous demonstrators have flooded the highland capital. Some burst through security cordons to briefly enter the National Assembly on Tuesday afternoon, waving flags, pumping their fists and chanting: "We are the people!" Elsewhere in Quito and other flashpoints, masked and stick-wielding protesters hurled stones and battled with security forces, who responded with tear gas.

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