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It was a riot of floral patterns, soft carpets, and comfortable furniture strewn with pillows, nothing like the formal, antique-filled rooms upstairs.

“No electrical power, no clean water, no telecommunications. Food, gas, and retail shortages. The stock market will crash. No one will have jobs. There will be riots.”

"So we shall see, and I think everyone in the world would riot if there wasn't."

The annual demonstration traditionally passes in front of the US embassy to protest Washington's support for the dictatorship, and is frequently marred by clashes between youths and riot police.

Many Los Lobos members are in jail and the gang is thought to have instigated some of Ecuador's bloodiest prison riots.