Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno (C) addresses the media next to President of Ecuador's National Assembly Cesar Litardo (L) and the government's ombudsman Pablo Celi, in Guayaquil, Ecuador October 8, 2019. REUTERS/Santiago Arcos
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean security forces cracked down on protesters in a massive national strike on Wednesday as President Lenin Moreno stuck by austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade.
In Latin America's latest flare-up over unpopular structural economic reforms, protests cleared many streets of traffic, while schools closed and businesses shuttered from the highland capital Quito to coastal city Guayaquil.
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