After months of heavy rains, the government last week declared a two-month state of emergency in 13 of the country’s 24 provinces to redistribute economic resources to hard-hit areas.
President Guillermo Lasso has vowed to continue the rescue effort “as long as necessary,” but he was jeered by locals visiting the site on Monday night.
Heavy rains have already killed 22 people, destroyed 72 homes and damaged more than 6,900 homes in Sunday’s landslides in Ecuador since the beginning of the year, according to SNGR.
Meanwhile, about 2,000 indigenous protesters took to the streets of the capital Quito on Wednesday demanding that the constitutional court give the go-ahead for impeachment proceedings against Lasso.