RE: News article21 Sep 2025 10:12
The protest seemed to primarily be about the mine though. 100k people in a city of 600k seems a lot of protesters to me :-)
Noboa is brave increasing the price of diesel so much, but its still relatively cheap (its now broadly the same as Colombia, but still a lot cheaper than Peru, Chile etc.) I wonder how much diesel was smuggled across the borders. Last time they tried to remove the subsidies they failed, lets see if they manage to hold out this time