Amy Goodman
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Ecuador's Lenín Moreno leans on anti-Venezuelan sentiment in response to mass protests
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David Cordero Heredia, law professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, says Ecuadorian mainstream media coverage of the indigenous-led protests against newly imposed austerity measures is downplaying the popular nature of the demonstrations. By focusing only on brutality toward journalists, the press is taking the side of the government and "diminishing the response of the indigenous people and the students and the workers — the people who actually are in the streets," he says. Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno has also tried to say former leader Rafael Correa and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro interfered in the movement by sending protesters, according to Heredia. The accusations are part of a broader anti-Venezuelan sentiment that is "deeply impacting the Venezuela population living in Ecuador," Heredia says. "This discourse of Maduro sending Venezuelans to destabilize the government of Moreno is a lie." Rather, the ongoing protests are the result of people in Ecuador feeling "tired of being the ones to be impacted or to be asked to sacrifice in these moments of where we need to take new economic measures."
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