Students and workers in Ecuador have announced that they will mobilize in the coming days against President Guillermo Lasso, to express their rejection of neoliberal policies, including an eventual cut to education.

Quito, September 8 (RHC)-- Students and workers in Ecuador have announced that they will mobilize in the coming days against President Guillermo Lasso, to express their rejection of neoliberal policies, including an eventual cut to education.

The Federation of University Students of Ecuador, from its Twitter account, reported that Thursday, the 9th, will be a day of mobilization to demand respect for the university budget and a democratic Organic Law of Higher Education (LOES).

Likewise, they demand to Lasso's government "enough of neoliberal policies". The student collective presented a proposal that defends university autonomy and quality budget in the face of the Ecuadorian Government's parameters: elimination of free education, budget reduction and education seen as a business.
 
"The underlying problem of Ecuadorian higher education remains untouched, the confrontation of two opposing models: on the one hand, a growing neoliberalism that focuses the problems of this sector on the bureaucracy of the governing bodies of the Higher Education System and the lack of political control of public universities," stated the student union.

The FEUE also demands free entrance to the University and a true democracy.  The General Union of Workers of Ecuador, for its part, from its Facebook account announced a mobilization for next September 15.

"Faced with the lack of political will" of Lasso's government, union, social and peasant organizations, in the XIV Convention of the United Workers Front (FUT), agreed to call for a Great National Mobilization on September 15.