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Ecuador's government on Thursday acquiesced to a demand of indigenous demonstrators who have held 11 days of protests, giving them access to a cultural center, but violent confrontations at marches continued. FRANCE 24's Thomas Nicolon reports from Quito, Ecuador.

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