With the curfew, the scampering between police and residents
begins. In the hours before, no one in Nigeria, an Afro-heritage settlement in
Guay
aquil, heart of the pandemic in Ecuador, recommended the recommendations
against the coronavirus.
The contagion appears as a lesser evil. Confinement, say its
inhabitants, deprived of food. They know hunger and fear it more than covid-19,
which has left more than 350 dead in the country.
“The authorities say to the families: stay inside the house,
but they don't see further. The need we had before this and saving is worse,
”Washington Angulo, 48, a community leader, whose family was one of the
founders of this settlement in the 1980s, told AFP.
Tensions break out daily around 2:00 p.m. local, when the
15-hour curfew imposed by the government to face the pandemic begins.
Then he also fixed the cat and mouse game.
"The policemen came with a whip to scamper people, beat
them up and 'get into the house', but how do you say to a poor man 'stay home'
if he doesn't have food", claimed Carlos Valencia, a 35-year-old teacher.
Reports of abuse multiplied on social networks. The public
force reduced the treatment towards the settlers. But Valencia acknowledges
that as soon as the uniforms leave, the neighbors go out on the street again.
And when the police return, they run back to their homes.
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