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epa10013526 A military truck crosses barricades installed by indigenous people who protested against the Government of Guillermo Lasso, in the Mejia canton south of Quito, Ecuador, 14 June 2022. The tension in Ecuador, initiated amid the protests of the indigenous movement against the rise in prices and the policies of the Government of Guillermo Lasso, grew with the arrest of Iza, the main promoter of the mobilization. EPA/Jose Jacome