Social groups march in Cuenca against Ibero-American Summit

Representatives of various social organizations in Ecuador marched in the city of Cuenca on Thursday in rejection of the 29th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government.

The mobilization is part of the actions of the Counter Summit of the Peoples in Resistance, an alternative forum to the official event that takes place with the absence of the majority of the leaders of the region.

After an ancestral ceremony, the organizations started the march shouting “Out with the Summit” and “Out with Noboa,” even one of the signs said “Kings and millionaires do not represent us.”

The leader of the Popular Front, Nelson Erazo, said that the objective is to protest against the measures taken by the Ibero-American governments against workers and peoples that imply more poverty and accelerated steps towards privatization.

Among the groups represented are unions, student associations, indigenous associations, and anti-mining groups that repudiated the policies of the Daniel Noboa Government in favor of extractivism.

One of the spokespersons for the Counter Summit, Luis Corral, pointed out that the alternative event has rejected the ongoing neoliberal capitalist project that they intended to consolidate at the high-level meeting, which was not well received.

The march finished at an intersection near one of the buildings that hosts the official Ibero-American meeting until Friday.