250,000 Join Protest Against President
About 250,000 people took to the streets of Ecuador’s biggest city, Guayaquil, to protest what they called President Lucio Gutierrez’s financial abandonment of the country’s commercial hub.
Jaime Nebot, mayor of the port city of 2 million people, accused Gutierrez of neglecting to invest in the development and security measures needed to shore up business and fight crime. Some protesters shouted for Gutierrez to resign, but Nebot said that was not the purpose of the march. About 10,000 Gutierrez supporters staged a march on parallel streets.
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