We, the employees of Industrial Molinera C.A., address you to explain all that the country has lost with the closure of Industrial Molinera.

1. Industrial Molinera C.A. pays its taxes in an orderly and punctual manner. Closed and unable to work, we can not generate neither income tax nor IVA, nor source taxes nor any others. Therefore the State has to do without them.

2. We, the Industrial Molinera workers, together with other workers such as those in the sack factory, the distributors, the transporters, the bakers and others are unable to work, produce or market flour on behalf of the country as Industrial Molinera is the largest flour-producing industry in Ecuador.

3. A shortage of flour is being generated because we are not delivering the flour needed by our bakers. This is a market that we have developed for over 47 years.

4. We are not consuming electricity, water, telephone services and other amenities supplied by the State.

5. In the same way, our suppliers have stopped generating employment, taxes and using the different amenities supplied by the State.

Industrial Molinera has already paid – punctually – its 2007 Income Tax. Therefore, we are up-to-date. If the Internal Revenue Service remains dissatisfied, despite the fact that we are in compliance with the payment of our taxes, it is up to the Internal Revenue Service to determine the tribute owed, with the information we have supplied, and immediately end the closure of one of the country’s most important sources of production.

CONCLUSION:
In view of the fact that nobody gains from the closure of Industrial Molinera, and that we, the workers, are those who stand to lose the most, we demand of you, Rafael Correa, that you reopen Industrial Molinera C.A.

Janina Rizzo Alvear
REPRESENTING INDUSTRIAL MOLINERA C.A. WORKERS