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 QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Protests by Ecuador's powerful Indian movement against a U.S. free-trade plan appeared to lose force Friday, with demonstrators concentrated in only one central highland province and sporadic blockades of secondary roads elsewhere.
Major road tie-ups were reported only in Chimborazo province, south of the capital of Quito, and there were minor roadblocks to the southeast in the provinces of Zamora Chinchipe and Canar, police said.
Meanwhile, in Quito about 1,000 employees of Ecuador's cut flower, textile and agro industries marched to the Foreign Ministry in a show of support for the free trade agreement.
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