Geo436 QUITO: Ecuador President Rafael Correa was back at work Friday under tight security after loyalist troops rescued him from a police mutiny in a day of gunfire and street clashes that left four dead.
“No-one can pass. That”s the order from the top,” said one soldier standing guard outside the presidential palace.
Even Correa”s supporters, thousands of whom had celebrated the president”s return late Thursday, were not allowed to approach the building.
The leftist president is “safe and well,” a somber police chief Freddy Martinez said, adding he was resigning after the uprising.
Interior Minister Gustavo Jalkh said the police forces had returned to work, saying Thursday had been “an unfortunate, critical, chaotic” day.
According to Deputy Interior Minister Edwin Jarrin, only 600 police officers, out of the force of some 40,000, took part in the uprising protesting cuts to bonus payments linked to seniority.
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