QuitoEcuador’s statistics institute counts 40% of the jobless aged 15-24.
Thousands of students marched in Quito on 10 October against President Daniel Noboa’s youth-employment plan.
Marchers cited medicine shortages in hospitals, education budget cuts, rising insecurity and forced disappearances by state agents.
Students keep staging marches and sit-ins across the city, demanding medicines, security and an education budget.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices
- frames the Quito student marches as a break from CONAIE and union leadership, tying them to demands for medicines, security and education budget against Noboa's Jóvenes en Acción jobs program
Sources: Global Voices