"The video is shocking. The footage is low quality, shot from above and behind the scene: A group of people run from state security forces up an empty highway at full speed. Four people are carrying a limp body. But under the fire of gunshots, tear gas and police sirens, three of the people drop the body and flee. The other man, in a blue jacket, kneels beside the body, and holds onto him."
"Two armored vehicles arrive, lights flashing. Two men in green fatigues, helmets and body gear jump out. They point their weapons, and begin to kick and beat the two men on the ground - one alive, though he would end up unconscious and hospitalized, one already dead. The latter's name was Efraín Fuerez. He was a 46-year-old Indigenous Kichwa community member from Cotacachi, Ecuador, and the father of two children."
""Justice is what I want for my husband's life," Fuerez's wife told a local media outlet. "He wasn't a terrorist or someone bad. He was a hard worker. All I ask for is justice, for my husband and all of the people who are detained.""
Ecuadorian security forces engaged CONAIE-led protesters after a week of demonstrations against President Daniel Noboa's austerity measures. Video shows people running from security forces along an empty highway while carrying a limp body amid gunshots, tear gas and police sirens. Armored vehicles arrived and two uniformed men dismounted, pointed weapons and kicked two men on the ground; one later died and another was hospitalized unconscious. The deceased was 46-year-old Indigenous Kichwa community member Efraín Fuerez from Cotacachi, father of two, who was shot three times with live ammunition on the Pan-American Highway near Ilumán. His wife demanded justice for him and detained protesters.
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