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Article: ECUADOR: MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST, OAS SUMMIT DRAW PROTESTS TO QUITO.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- June 11, 2004
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The 2004 Miss Universe beauty pageant and Organization of American States (OAS) Summit turned Quito, along with other parts of Ecuador, into a center for protest for more than a week in late May and early June. Indigenous organizations clashed with police as they demonstrated against the presidency of Lucio Gutierrez, striking fishers blocked tour boats that were trying to reach the Galapagos Islands, opponents of Plan Colombia sprayed herbicide outside the Colombian embassy, and pamphlet bombs exploded in three cities.
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