QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A violent clash Sunday in Ecuador between law enforcement authorities and Indigenous people protesting the end of a fuel subsidy left one civilian dead and 12 soldiers injured.

The military and the national Indigenous organization behind the demonstrations traded blame for the violence that developed in the Andean community north of the capital, Quito. Ecuador’s ministries of Defense and Interior did not immediately acknowledge the protester’s death.

The Regional Foundation for Human Rights Advice in a statement said the male protester “died after being shot.” The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, the largest Indigenous organization in the country, in a separate statement said the 46-year-old man was killed as the result of government “repression

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