Sorry - forgot to add this comment. You say this: "Starting 2020, over a span of 17 months, the price of Gasoline was gradually adapted to the world market price, ending with a decree by Noboa himself in 2024 ending the subsidy complete with another 10% bump in price. That worked."

This does not jive with my memory of my living here from August 2021 to present. There was a Paro of about 15 or 16 days I think in 2022 where the primary dispute was the price of gasoline. As part of the settlement the agreement was to raise it by either 10 cents or 15 cents (I cannot seem to find information I trust on this). That Paro was more nationwide than the one we just had - and cost the Ecuador economy can only be estimated.