Earlier this week, the president of the country of Ecuador announced that government operations were being temporarily moved from the capital, Quito, to the southern port city of Guayaquil, in response to days of protests and rioting. Protests began last week over a move by President Lenín Moreno to end fuel subsidies, part of an unpopular package of austerity measures being taken to reduce the Ecuadorian national deficit. The government claims these subsidies cost over one billion US dollars to maintain per year, and they were lifted as part of…