In Ecuador protests targeting the country’s oil industry have ended after the government agreed to spend millions of dollars on social programs in the impoverished but oil-rich province of Napo. The protests began on Monday as Napo residents seized a major oil production site. On Tuesday demonstrators shut down two pipelines and briefly kidnapped 24 oil workers. To stop the protests the government sent in hundreds of troops and arrested two mayors and a legislator. The protesters have long complained that the federal government was profiting from the region’s oil but neglected to finance projects that benefited residents including roads, bridges and airports.