This is the latest party line from CONAIE. These special interest groups can not be underestimated and will reek havoc on the foreign investment markets relative to Ecuador if they start to get North American press. I expect we will not hear much from them until after the referendum is held.
Between now and then clarification of the governments intentions with respect to mining is vital. Something is a foot though, as Correa was quoted in reuters this week with respect to a review of mining.
Quito 14 of March of 2007
The social and indigenous movements, popular organizations will settle pre-constituent national assembly of plenary sessions powers, in Quito, with which they will plan the beginning to the national campaign by IF to Popular Consulta to viabilizar the Constituent Assembly of plenary sessions powers and to its exposition of the second problem to demand that all the DEPUTIES go away.
The act that will be place Thursday 15 of March, from the eight in the morning in the Andean University Simón Bolivars and who will tell on the presence of delegates national level, will analyze the structural axes and basic contents of the proposal of the New Constitution of the State, the electoral campaign will be desiñará by IF in Popular Consulta and the support to the own candidates for members of an assembly.
The National Front by the Component will promote in progressive form at national level the following actions to the consultation, within the framework to determine proposals of contendidos of the new Constitution of the exercise of the total economic, territorial sovereignty, and policy, that guarantees the nationalization of the natural and power resources, to orient them to the necessities of the development of the Ecuadorian people.
This national campaign by IF to the consultation will face the oligarchy and partidocracia Ecuadorian that they defend his interests, people in charge of the holdup to the goods and resources of the country, with which have become rich illicitly. Our main fight will be against the corruption and impunity of which made the right and its deputies Gallic; but also we demanded that the government of Rafael Strap fulfills his electoral commitments to construct a new mother country, that solves the work problems, production, health, house, education; to guarantee the collective rights of indigenous towns, the exit of Base de Manta and not to the Colombia Plan.
COMMISSION OF PRESS AND COMMUNICATION (CONAIE-Frente Nacional)
Magazine INDIGENOUS NATIONALITIES
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador CONAIE
Update 15-March 2007 |
