We dreamed that we would live in liberty, loving God, ourselves, and our families, serving our fellow citizens and enjoying equal opportunities to develop economically, professionally, and in all areas of life.

We dreamed of a modern democracy that would leave all partidocracy behind along with all the power structures that prevented me from assuming Presidency of the Republic and that I would govern in order to lead you out of poverty. The Ecuadorian people and I always suspected that electoral fraud had been perpetrated against us.

A fight against our dream was brought about by a partidocracy of extreme leftwing parties, a group of the Press who preferred to nurse their own resentments rather than serve the country, and powerful national and international groups.

The byword was everyone against Álvaro Noboa in the second electoral round, given that the Ecuadorian people and I were victorious in the first round.

In that way, many Ecuadorians were deceived who now repent their actions: those Ecuadorians who were deceived in the 2006 Presidential Elections instead of uniting themselves to our cause in favor of economic development; those who, instead of choosing the side of housing, of health, of employment, of modern education, instead of siding with liberty, bartered away the dream of the majority of Ecuadorians for a better life, with a class hatred and a sense of revenge that keeps Ecuador full of anger and violence.

Instead of using that passion to hate, that passion should be used to till our fields, to make our factories operate three shifts daily, to exploit our mines, to develop our fisheries and tourism, to open doors to investment and development thereby allowing poverty to be eradicated from our country; so that in our country there should be no lack of decent, solidly-constructed housing; so that there should be no more disease; and that we should not have to tolerate the delinquency that we are experiencing now.

Under the present government, the cost of living has skyrocketed; because of a lack of production, factories have closed in these two years; unemployment has risen because of a lack of investment, there is uncertainty and one feels a lack of freedom.

I, more than anyone, want to leave behind the partidocracy that has never been able to make our dreams a reality. Likewise, I want to leave 21st century socialism behind, which is no more than a communism in disguise that has failed in Cuba, in the Soviet Union, and in its day, and that today, in Ecuador, has not been able to eradicate poverty, nor unemployment, nor to control the price of foodstuffs because of a lack of production. 21st century socialism has not been able to resolve those problems despite the petroleum boom that Ecuador is experiencing.

In the modern world, only work, together with education and investment, can generate wealth for all, especially for the poor who are in such need of it.

We Ecuadorians dreamed that Quito would become a great international center of services. That it would become a focus of development where computers and cell phones would be assembled, where all those professionals located in our capital would develop large health centers, banks, factories, etc. Quito, like Cuenca, Loja, Guayaquil, Manta, Portoviejo, Quevedo, Machala, Ambato, Riobamba, Latacunga, Ibarra, Tulcán and other cities have had great educational centers, they have had great universities that day after day form great professionals, but they need, those professionals need the opportunity to develop what they have learned. For that reason, Ecuador should keep its doors open to investment and to modern production and by those means the educated poor should become, as is their due, a strong middle class here in Ecuador, instead of emigrating. That is the way, and I wanted to embark on it in 2006.

It is time for us Ecuadorians to unite and to stop making mistakes. We have been mistaken in elections for dozens of years and poverty continues to be pronounced in Ecuador. We will not allow a socialist constitution of the 21st century – a proven failure in Cuba and in Russia – to hinder our development. Vote NO to the constitution given that it will not bring anything new. For years, it has already had a history of failure in Cuba and in old communist Russia. Vote no to proven failure.

Ecuador has everything: natural resources, sun, water, ocean, rivers, countryside, mountains, islands, the eastern regions, a sierra, a coast, and a marvelous insular region, but Ecuador has the bad habit of getting it wrong in elections; it has the bad habit of allowing itself to be deceived. By the demagoguery. For this reason, Ecuadorian, don’t allow yourself to make another mistake: your future and your dreams are at stake. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived by gifts, vouchers, subsidies. Only modern labor, together with education, with liberty and with the union between worker and businessman can get you out of the hole in which you find yourself. That’s how the people of Chile, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and the United States got ahead. They chose the path of progress and that way is also open to Ecuadorians.

May God bless you all, Ecuadorians, may He enlighten you, and remember that to be like Bolivar and like Alfaro, to make our dream a reality, you have to become patriots, to be bravehearted, and you need to work and work and work, developing new ideas, new methods, educating yourself better all the time and inviting capital to come and invest and together we will move the country forward.

The nation is not a gift; the nation is something that you make, you think, you love and you work every day of your life. Ecuadorian, vote NO to the proposed Constitution of 21st century socialism that has failed to bring us out of poverty over these years and that will never do so because it is a system proven to fail.