24 Selected episodes of food, energy& cost of living protests Ecuador Overview of the episode Nationwide fuel protests engulfed Ecuador in June 2022. Over 18 days, there were more than 1,000 protests across the country, with roughly 10 per cent of the protests and riots occurring in the Pichincha Province where the capital city of Quito is located(ACLED). For the second time in three years, following a similar episode in 2019(Kimberley Brown 2019), citizen discontent with the cost of fuel turned violent; the June 2022 protests and riots resulted in six deaths, hundreds of arrests, and an estimated USD 1 billion in lost revenue(AFP 2022). While the total number of participants is difficult to discern, reports indicate that thousands of people came out to denounce the government’s economic management amid inflation and increasing costs of living. Figure 7 Ecuador events Protestors and grievances Protestors principally denounced high fuel costs, inequality and the disproportionate social and economic hardships faced by indigenous and rural populations(Kimberly Brown and Schmidt 2022). The powerful political group Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador( Integrantes de la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador , CONAIE) listed ten demands for conservative president Guillermo Lasso’s administration