(11 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quito, Ecuador – 11 July 2025
1. Members of the educational community marching through the streets of Quito with a banner (Spanish) ‘Education in Emergency!’ ‘Unconstitutionality of the public integration law!’
2. President of the National Union of Educators Andres Quishpe making a statement
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andres Quishpe, President of the National Union of Educators:
"Well, this march is directed to the Constitutional Court to tell the Constitutional Court to act within the law, the Constitution is clear, in a State of Law rights are not regressive and are not unwaivable."
4. Various of protest
5. President of the General Union of Workers of Ecuador Jose Villavicencio marching
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Villavicencio, National President of the General Union of Workers of Ecuador:
“The different organizations that make up the Unitary Front have resolved, obviously to be part of the different protests that have been called by the teachers, the youth and that later we workers will also do so in the face of a government that has been implementing urgent economic laws with a single objective to violate the right to work, the right to life, to violate the rights of the nature of the collectives and in the face of that, obviously we cannot stand idly by.”
6. Feet of marchers
7. Various of protesters
8. Various of police outside the Constitutional Court of Ecuador
9. Various of teachers protesting
STORYLINE:
Teachers in Ecuador protested Friday outside the country’s Constitutional Court in the capital Quinto against a new education law.
Members of the National Union of Educators and other social organizations have called for the march against a legislation recently approved in the national assembly.
The new law aims to eradicate corruption and violence in public offices. However critics say the law includes reforms to juvenile criminal justice which impact the rights of children.
Rising crime and violence in Ecuador has affected children who have suffered from being recruited into criminal gangs.
The marches come in the midst of the rejection of several laws approved in the national assembly in less than two months of his new term.
Protesters called on the government to declare an emergency in the education system and claimed laws recently approved by the national assembly were unconstitutional.
The demonstrators confirmed a second day of protests, scheduled for July 16, which would include more than 40 organizations from the public and private sectors which they plan to be held in several provinces.
AP Video shot by Cesar Olmos
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