Ecuadorian Teachers on Hunger Strike
Published 20 July 2021
Fifty-six members of the National Union of Educators (UNE) are staging a hunger strike to demand that Ecuador's Constitutional Court (CC) ratify the Intercultural Education Law (LOEI).
Supported by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the teachers' protest is currently taking place in the cities of Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Portoviejo, Latacunga, Ibarra, and Santo Domingo.
UNE Vice President Rosana Palacios said the hunger strike will not be lifted until Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso and the Constitutional Court ratify the LOEI, a law that would improve the quality of education for Indigenous youth.
Parents and students are also backing the teachers' protest in the Cotopaxi and Imbabura provinces, according to UNE president Isabel Vargas Torres.
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