2020 Ecuadorian protests
The 2020 demonstrations in Ecuador were a series of national mobilizations carried out beginning on May 1, 2020, after the announcement of economic measures by the government of Lenín Moreno and the approval in the second debate of the Organic Law of Humanitarian Support by the National Assembly, adopted due to the serious health and economic crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. == Background == === October 2019 demonstrations === At the beginning of October of the previous year, the organizations of the Unitary Front of Workers (FUT), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE), and the Popular Front (FP) called for a national strike that led to the abandonment of the measures to eliminate the gasoline subsidy.