Leftist oppressing the poor: The Ecuadoran government fled the capital after violent protests

The images from Quito showed protesters dropping gas bombs and stones, vandalizing public buildings and also crashing with police all night long.

“This is not a protest for social discontent, but it is the vandalism given that shows there are political motives behind it to destabilise the government,” President Moreno has said in a televised address Monday, translated Periscopi in Albanian.

Moreno, 66, who has moved from the politics of the left that applied to his predecessor and mentor Rafael Correa, by halting fuel-fuel subsidies for the poor and by applying auterity measures.

He accused political officers of orchestrating a stamp and accused close politicians of infiltrated the protests.

In a Twitter post, Correa said Moreno had come to an end and called for new elections. /Periscope