Indigenous Ecuadorians too strong to be ignored after deal to end protests

After days of unrest, president agrees to stop austerity package - showing the political force of Ecuador's indigenous groups

Within hours of a deal which ended Ecuador's worst political unrest in recent memory, thousands of indigenous people - along with student volunteers and local residents - took to the streets of Quito to clean up the city.

Teams worked their way through El Arbolito park, which was still littered with burning tires and paving slabs that had been used as barricades.