The banana magnate, Alvaro Noboa, appeared for the first time in the referendum campaign to ask citizens to vote No.
Ecuadorians:
A little over two years ago, in the Presidential Elections of 2006, we Ecuadorians dreamed of a change that would bring us economic wellbeing and happiness. We dreamed that our children would grow up in comfortable and modern cement-construction housing.
Exportadora Bananera Noboa clarifies the false and unjustified accusation brought against it be the Latin American Human Rights Association.
I vote NO because this fully-empowered Constitutional Assembly has not created the Republic's Constitution. Rather, it has been drafted by foreign consultants, together with the government's political bureau, which was not elected by the people and who, unfortunately, have been subjected to the pro-government majority of the Alianza País and its allies.
Industrial Molinerafacilities reopened its doors after remaining more than 20 days closed by the Internal Revenue Service(IRS). The IRS removed the closure seals once theindustry representatives presented bank accountdetails.
We, the employees of Industrial Molinera C.A., address you to explain all that the country has lost with the closure of Industrial Molinera.
The authorities want to strip us Industrial Molinera workers of our business and leave us unemployed. We request the re-opening of IMCA.
I'm Angela Proaño. I've been an employee of Industrial Molinera for 25 years and I need to work, just like my fellow workers who are all part of our beloved company, Industrial Molinera C.A. We have families to attend to, and if this illegal closure of Industrial Molinera continues, we will be unable to cover our basic needs.
We, the Industrial Molinera C.A. workers, attended to work on Thursday July 3rd at midnight. We waited for theInternal Revenue Serviceauthorities to come and break the closingseals after havingserved 10 days of the illegal closure of our company. Authoritiesof the Internal Revenue Service never came.
A group of Industrial Molinera workers accompanied several company executives to deliver documents at the Internal Revenue Service regional directional offices by which they hope the closure seals will be opened.
Yesterday, instead of making a presumptive determination the way the law indicates it should be done; Industrial Molinera was closed for ten days.
This past March 21, in the Luis Noboa Naranjo Museum, the members of the qualifying jury of the first Guayaquil Biennial of Painting met with Pablo Martinez, Director of the Museum to select the winning works of art.
Industrial Molinera C. A. is inmersed in determinative processes ordered by the internal revenue service for 2004 and 2005. In an arbitrary and illegal manner the internal revenue service foreclosed our premises based on the seventh general disposition of the law #99-24.
The PRIAN presented an appeal before the contentious and administrative tribunal against the coactive demand pursued by the supreme electoral tribunal against Alvaro Noboa and Vicente Taiano.
On January 24 Guayaquil added a brilliant page to its history when over 300.000 Guayaquil natives and Ecuadorians.
The PRIAN governing boards of all 24 provinces in ecuador support Alvaro Noboa and denounce the political persecution to which he is subjected at the hands of Rafael Correa.
Members of the Press: I wish to tell you that it is with sorrow and preoccupation that I view the path upon which our country has embarked and I express solidarity with my husband, Alvaro Noboa, against his unjust expulsion from the National Constitutional Assembly and against the political persecution with which he has been victimised, through fines, legal claims, and now this expulsion from the National Assembly.
So gentlemen, regarding the aforementioned destitution of our leader counselor Alvaro Noboa as assemblyman, we who make-up the PRIAN political party wish to express to the people of Ecuador
The 117th world interparliamentary union assembly convened in geneva on oct. 8th of 2007 whose members are composed of 146 parlamentarians from around the world spoke out, unanimously, as to the unconstitutionality of the destitution, affecting the 57 representatives aligned in opposition, promulgated by the supreme electoral tribunal.