Tens of students of the last semesters of the medicine career of the Guayaquil University took over Delta Avenue on Monday as a protest against the lack of teachers and to demand higher budget for the educational center.
However, the demonstration that, in principle seemed peaceful, turned violent. Videos posted on social networks show the moment in which students and members of the National Police have a fight outside the educational center.
In the images you see uniformed using batons and tear gas to dissuade students who complained about the dismissal from around 500 university professors.
The students were looking enter your university to contact the rector of the institution and obtain solutions, but your entry was prevented by the National Police.
As a result of the confrontation student was arrested. In a video you can see the young man when he is pushed around up to the patrol while he try to let go. Other students yell at the uniformed men to let him go.
For its part, the National Police posted a video on its Twitter account in which how one of the students physically assaults to a gendarme
“The National Police regrets the incident with a college student, during a march in Guayaquil. In the image you can clearly see what happened. However, at this time, the case is before a misdemeanor judge,” the institution said.
Around 19:00, the University of Guayaquil not yet has issued no official pronouncement about this fact that has caused rejection in social networks.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE) took the opportunity to qualify as “outrageous” the action of the National Police. “In Ecuador the response to legitimate claim of youth for a decent and quality education is the baton, gas and violence of the Police. Our solidarity with the students of the University of Guayaquil who were attacked for asking worthy education“said the organization on its Twitter account.