{"id":3400,"date":"2012-10-11T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2012-11-05T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:29:56","slug":"correa-hasnt-clarified-why-the-sri-is-collecting-from-dole-and-chiquita-two-thousand-times-less-than-bananera-noboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/news\/correa-hasnt-clarified-why-the-sri-is-collecting-from-dole-and-chiquita-two-thousand-times-less-than-bananera-noboa\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] Correa Hasn&#8217;t Clarified Why The SRI is Collecting, From Dole and Chiquita, Two Thousand Times Less Than Bananera Noboa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3388 alignleft\" title=\"Alvaro Noboa y Ver\u00f3nica Landetta Canal UNO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Alvaro-Noboa-y-Ver\u00f3nica-Landetta-Canal-UNO--300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Alvaro-Noboa-y-Ver\u00f3nica-Landetta-Canal-UNO--300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Alvaro-Noboa-y-Ver\u00f3nica-Landetta-Canal-UNO-.png 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>CORREA HASN&#8217;T CLARIFIED WHY THE SRI IS COLLECTING, FROM DOLE AND CHIQUITA, TWO THOUSAND TIMES LESS THAN BANANERA NOBOA<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In an interview carried out by Veronica\u00a0Landetta\u00a0form Canal 1, Alvaro Noboa informed, that the owner of Dole corporation had a meeting with President Correa and the Yasuni Ambassador, Ivonne Baki.<\/p>\n<p>Dole is one of the biggest banana exporter companies in the world and in Ecuador. &#8220;I ask Correa and Carlos Marx, why they are protecting Dole and haven&#8217;t submitted it to an audit like they did to\u00a0Bananera Noboa? and why that company is only paying $ 700.000 of income tax, when the export amount was larger than Bananera Noboa&#8217;s, which is being charged with 98 million dollars?<\/p>\n<p>If this number was real, which is not, Dole should have paid 120 million dollars of income tax for the year of 2005, said Noboa. What kind of arrangement this government has with Dole and Chiquita, which was charged, only, with $ 38.000? These questions, pointed out Noboa, the media should be asking to Correa and Carlos Marx.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bananera Noboa has paid all its taxes, until this year, and it doesn&#8217;t owe anything to the Treasury, I&#8217;m proud for paying all my taxes and that Bananera Noboa is part of the Noboa Corporation, which is among the 10 companies that pay more taxes in the country.&#8221; In this way, Noboa confirmed that he is the ecuadorian who pays most taxes, which contribute to health care, road construction and education; all in benefit of the poorest people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Noboa said that Carlos Marx, director of the SRI, has become a \u00a0small neighborhood leader who is trying to incentive people to get their support, like when he met with former employess of my companies to convince them to lie and denounce the non payment of their profit shares. &#8220;That is shameful, this things don&#8217;t happen in any other country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He expressed, once more, that there is no justice in Ecuador, all the powers of the State are controlled by Correa; if a judge doesn&#8217;t proceed as he see fits, he throw them in jail, like he did with Judge Posligua, for granting a precautionary measure to Bananera Noboa, which is a right established by the Constitution. &#8220;The SRI has lost competence, and with the exception lawsuit that Bananera Noboa has filed, the company will be able to defend itself and all the abuse and illegalities carried out by Carlos Marx, who acts on Correa&#8217;s orders to persecute me, will be known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EngQNCxZJzU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an interview carried out by Veronica Landetta form Canal 1,<strong> Alvaro Noboa informed, that the owner of Dole corporation had a meeting with President Correa and the Yasuni Ambassador, Ivonne Baki.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dole is one of the biggest banana exporter companies in the world and in Ecuador. <strong>&#8220;I ask Correa and Carlos Marx, why they are protecting Dole and haven&#8217;t submitted it to an audit like they did to\u00a0Bananera Noboa? and why that company is only paying $ 700.000 of income tax, when the export amount was larger than Bananera Noboa&#8217;s, which is being charged with 98 million dollars?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If this number was real, which is not, Dole should have paid 120 million dollars of income tax for the year of 2005, said Noboa. What kind of arrangement this government has with Dole and Chiquita, which was charged, only, with $ 38.000? These questions, pointed out Noboa, the media should be asking to Correa and Carlos Marx.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Bananera Noboa has paid all its taxes, until this year, and it doesn&#8217;t owe anything to the Treasury, I&#8217;m proud for paying all my taxes and that Bananera Noboa is part of the Noboa Corporation, which is among the 10 companies that pay more taxes in the country.&#8221;<\/strong> In this way, Noboa confirmed that he is the ecuadorian who pays most taxes, which contribute to health care, road construction and education; all in benefit of the poorest people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Noboa said that Carlos Marx, director of the SRI, has become a \u00a0small neighborhood leader who is trying to incentive people to get their support, like when he met with former employess of my companies to convince them to lie and denounce the non payment of their profit shares.<strong> &#8220;That is shameful, this things don&#8217;t happen in any other country.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He expressed, once more, that there is no justice in Ecuador, all the powers of the State are controlled by Correa; if a judge doesn&#8217;t proceed as he see fits, he throw them in jail, like he did with Judge Posligua, for granting a precautionary measure to Bananera Noboa, which is a right established by the Constitution. <strong>&#8220;The SRI has lost competence, and with the exception lawsuit that Bananera Noboa has filed, the company will be able to defend itself and all the abuse and illegalities carried out by Carlos Marx, who acts on Correa&#8217;s orders to persecute me, will be known.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>TRANSCRIPCI\u00d3N TEXTUAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:<\/strong> Hello, welcome, we are with attorney \u00c1lvaro Noboa Pont\u00f3n with whom we are going to discuss the conflict regarding the payment of taxes between <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em> and the Internal Revenue Service going on for the last two and a half years. Counselor, how are you? It\u2019s a pleasure to welcome you, how are you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019m very well, very optimistic. With regard to my electoral campaign, the PRIAN, with the greatest number of affiliates in the country, has been rated number one, together with <em>Alianza Pa\u00eds<\/em>, and they are the two institutions with the largest number of members in the country. Which makes me Economist Correa\u2019s number one challenger, who, according to the polls has a favorable rating of 36%, \u00c1lvaro Noboa has 21%, Guillermo Lasso, 3%, Lucio Guti\u00e9rrez, 2% and Alberto Acosta, 2%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>In a minute we\u2019ll talk about that issue which is very important, especially for those who are watching the elections 2013 very closely.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s move to the topic of the company, <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em>. The question that everybody asks.\u00a0 Why speak about the place in which you find yourself now and of not having confronted the Internal Revenue Service in Ecuador, when on past September 29, as we can see in the news in the press,\u00a0 charges for payment in the value of $98 million dollars were submitted to the agricultural companies related to the <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em>, and which ended in the seizing of vehicles and a boat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>There\u2019s been no confiscation of any good; there has been a seizure, which is a precautionary measure, or that is to say, here, we are going to have this until some point when a judge declares who is right, either <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em> or the IRS,\u00a0 and I have asked Economist Correa openly \u2013 because it is well known that Economist Correa has a huge influence over the courts \u2013 that he allow us to litigate. I don\u2019t understand why they have not only taken this measure, but also, in contrary to the Constitution, number 14, Article 66, that states, quite literally, \u201cA prohibition against leaving the country can only be ordered by a competent judge.\u201d Economist Carlos Marx Carrasco ordered a prohibition against my leaving the country, but I am going to return to the country; I have to return to the country; I have to register myself for the elections.<\/p>\n<p>I travel every few months and the only reason that I am here at this moment is because of international interviews with the press. I just had one a little while ago with CNN, I am in contact with the international media, and I am also speaking to Presidents from around the world, denouncing the political persecution before my inscription to see if they can scare me away from registering, or they will try to invent something via the National Electoral Council, some kind of prohibition, and with PRIAN the most important party apart from <em>Alianza Pa\u00eds<\/em>, then Economist Correa will not have to face a major contender, or what would be the fulfillment of his dream to run against himself, Correa against Correa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Counselor Noboa, where were you on the day that that took place with the Internal Revenue Services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I was in the United States, but if you were to look at my passport, you will see that I am traveling all the time to Europe, to the United States, to Brazil, to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>My work as a businessman obliges me to travel to all parts of the world, every few months you will find I have left the country, and so at that moment it coincided with my being out of the country. But I have to return and I am going to return in the next few weeks for the issue of the election and will continue with the issue of the elections. Today, with the communications media having become revolutionaries the world over, I conduct radio interviews via Skype, I conduct interviews with Teleamazonas via the internet, with Twitter, with Facebook, and I maintain my electoral campaign as if I were in my office in Guayaquil, I\u2019ve not changed at all in this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Fine, your lawyers, or more precisely, the lawyers from the <em>Grupo Noboa<\/em>, on last October 3, lodged an appeal for an exception, and with that the IRS is deemed out of its realm of competence and the <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>case moves to a court, or a judge, for it to be decided there. The question is:\u00a0 What is the intention behind that appeal for an exception, is it to draw out the issue?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>The intention is to suspend the order of payment, but we have also presented other appeals, in not only the national courts, but also in the constitutional court in order for Economist Correa to finally authorize our right to litigate, because we have not been able to litigate. The IRS has still not brought a case against <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em>, it\u2019s not been brought and what\u2019s worse, is that, he presumes it finished. Economist Carlos Marx and Economist Correa are very badly advised in not having initiated the suit against us. We want to go before a judge to explain that <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>has paid its taxes every year. In the case of \u00c1lvaro Noboa, I am the largest personal taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>How much do you pay?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I declare something like $600,000 of personal income, and the <em>Noboa <\/em>group of companies is among the ten tax payers in the whole country. They pay millions of dollars and we pay it punctually, because we immediately have the government against us, they come and get involved, the people from the Business Superintendence com.\u00a0 Or one could say, we pay everything we are obliged to by law and from that they make schools throughout the country, they build hospitals throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>I feel very proud of that because it is my obligation to pay those taxes and because, as an Ecuadorian, I want a greater number of hospitals every day, a greater number of streets, a greater number of works, thanks to those taxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Therefore, \u00c1lvaro Noboa and <em>Grupo Noboa <\/em>pay their taxes on time to the treasury.\u00a0 What happened with <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>In 2005, <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>paid its taxes; in 2005, <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>paid its taxes; in 2007, <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>paid its taxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>And so where did what the Internal Revenue Service says come from?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>They didn\u2019t accept our tax payment. On the other hand, they accepted a $600,000 tax payment from Dole, a $39,000 tax payment from Chiquita, and I have to say that Dole is a bigger exporter than <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em>, but we are an Ecuadorian company, which has raised the flag of Ecuador, thanks to my father\u2019s efforts, and to my own efforts, because I am an employee, at that time I was an employee of the business, and today I am an employee of many business.<\/p>\n<p>After <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>paid its taxes they came and said it should pay two thousand times more than Chiquita:\u00a0 $49,206,00\u00a0 in taxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Economist Correa or Economist Carlos Marx Carrasco?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s one and the same, Economist Correa or Economist Carlos Marx Carrasco. He says that we already owe $98,000,000. It\u2019s Carlos Marx Carrasco\u2019s work, but the order, as far as I see it, comes from Rafael Correa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Three months ago you owed $98,000,000 and now there\u2019s a report stating $133,000,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019ve heard Economist Correa speaking about $300,000,000 but without any kind of liquidation. That\u2019s called prevaricating, and it\u2019s something for the lawyer, and the lawyers therefore defend the company. I am not the legal representative of <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em>, neither am I a stockholder in <em>Bananera Noboa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I began my political work, I gave up being a legal representative of <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>and of all the companies belonging to <em>Grupo Noboa<\/em>, and since a very long time, since the time of my father, the stocks of all those companies are not in the hands of individuals. I am not the owner of those companies, they are in foundations, and in trusteeships of countries where the law prohibits the giving of information, without a judge coming from those countries, and so I am not a stockholder of <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em>, I\u2019m not a general stock holder, I was not part of the procedures, I wasn\u2019t included.<\/p>\n<p>And so, in some magical way, they annulled the earlier order of payment, they didn\u2019t put any kind of legal representative and out of mere supposition, Economist Carlos Marx Carrasco said that \u00c1lvaro Noboa was a stock holder, just like he could have said that you, Ver\u00f3nica, were a stockholder, because he had no document, he stated it out of a presumption and this should go, quite happily, to the Court and the Court will say that that presumption is wrong and that \u00c1lvaro Noboa is not a stockholder and that neither am I part of anything, and the only thing is that he has presumed that \u00c1lvaro Noboa is a stockholder and we are prohibiting him from leaving the country. That is what has happened, but I am going to return to the country, I am going to participate in the elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>And you are not going to be able to leave, there is a prohibition against you leaving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I adore my country, and so I will stay in the country until a judge, in accord with what I told you earlier, has to go to the court and state, in accordance with Number 14, Article 66 of the Constitution, that only a judge is able to order a prohibition against departure, and so it will be a judge who decides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Counselor, and this about going to the courts, isn\u2019t that double prejudice, to hope that they say this is what is happening, this is what <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>owes? I say a double prejudice because until a judge figures all this out, what\u2019s going to happen with the debt and with what the Internal Revenue Service is charging?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I am being sincere. I, as \u00c1lvaro Noboa, don\u2019t have goods with that kind of value. I wouldn\u2019t be able to pay a debt of that amount. So, I\u2019ve got no other option than to go before a judge because, sincerely, it\u2019s not like I have a checkbook on the side with a hundred and some million. Before giving them the pleasure of such a great injustice as that which I have been victim of, it forms part of political persecution, but the political persecution doesn\u2019t stop there. Look at Judge Posligua. He\u2019s in prison for administrating support in favor of <em>Exportadora Bananera Noboa<\/em>, and what is the message from Economist Correa to all Ecuadorians and judges?\u00a0 It\u2019s that I will take prisoner anyone who is in disagreement with me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Now, what\u2019s going to happen with the debt and with the demand by the Internal Revenue Service?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, there are judges, like Judge Posligua who, seeing that <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>is in the right \u2013\u00a0 beyond the fear is everything he has learned in his life, an beyond the fear is his professional ethics.\u00a0 So that in those moments, he behaved in accordance with the law as judges say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Is there a middle ground between <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em> and the Internal Revenue Service?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>That instead of my check being ninety-nine million it\u2019s forty-something million dollars? I don\u2019t have that check. I don\u2019t have that kind of money. Here is my wallet if you would like to see, so that you can see here that I don\u2019t have any check for forty-something million dollars.\u00a0 <em>Exportadora Bananera Nobao<\/em> has to assume that payment, and it doesn\u2019t have those kinds of sums either.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know why such discrimination is happening. What does Economist Carlos Marx have with Chiquita. I am asking a very clear question. What does Economist Carlos Marx have with Chiquita?\u00a0 I would like him to answer Ecuador why he is only charging them $39,000 dollars?<\/p>\n<p>What does Economist Marx have with Dole? Why is he only charging them $600,000 dollars? Why hasn\u2019t he submitted demands against those companies that are similar to our own? Because Economist Carlos Marx says that, \u201cOh, yes, yes, we are auditing them.\u201d And what are the values of those demands? Are they $49,000,000? Dole exports more quantities than we export and it is public information that the owner of Dole visited Economist Correa two weeks ago in Quito. What does Economist Correa have to do with the president and owner of Dole that he allows him to pay $700,000 dollars?<\/p>\n<p>But, what does he have against me that I have to pay $49,000,000? It\u2019s important for Economist Correa to respond to the country about that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Now, I\u2019ve read that you, the <em>Grupo Noboa<\/em>, are referring to international instances to stop the taxes being charged. To what instances and with what goal in mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>Look, in light of the courts in Ecuador being completely intimidated by Economist Rafael Correa, then, they are only appealing to international courts in order to reveal the injustice. Dole would have to go there, Chiquita would also have to go to explain why they pay $39,000 while they want to charge <em>Noboa <\/em>$98,000,000.\u00a0 And Mr. Murdock would have to go and explain as well his friendship with Ivonne Baki and with Economist Correa, that allows him to pay only $600,000, and what friendship exists between the heads of Chiquita and Economist Correa that lets them pay only $39,000.\u00a0 This is an international scandal and it\u2019s going to be very bad for those companies and for Economist Correa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Why do you say President Correa, if the one who is managing the issue of the treasury is Carlos Marx Carrasco?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I think you are sufficiently mature to recognize that Economist Correa has influence over the courts of Ecuador, so much so that Judge Posligua is in prison. That he has influence over the press in Ecuador, that there are journalists on the run with political asylum in other parts, and where today he is the owner of half the press of the Ecuadorian state. And it is known that Economist Correa is progressively controlling the Assembly, for good or for bad, and well, they say that the bribery runs riot in the Assembly and that in all the parties, the PRIAN, the Social Christian party, in <em>Sociedad Patri\u00f3tica<\/em>, in all the parties there have been uniform changes with many of them in favor of <em>Alianza Pa\u00eds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How does Economist Correa dare to speak of partidocracy and the old corrupt forms of government? How dare he with all that we are experiencing today in the country?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>We\u2019ve touched upon the political issue, the issue of the parties. What will happen with the PRIAN?\u00a0 What will happen with your candidacy?\u00a0 You tell me that you are going to return to Ecuador next week. You\u2019ll return to the issue of the campaign?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>My campaign hasn\u2019t stopped for even one second. We are at this moment holding interviews with Ecuadorian young people, with those young people 18 years and older who would like to be Assembly Members.\u00a0 Because if half of the population is young, then half of the Assembly Members should be young. So we are finally giving way to the young so that they will become future leaders of the country and that they be part of this next Assembly to be elected in February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>We are in radio campaigns and on the television, and every day we talk about our national proposal, which is the most important thing.\u00a0 Economist Correa is trying to get the communication media to talk about <em>Bananera Noboa<\/em> and so I can\u2019t have time to talk about my proposal.<\/p>\n<p>My proposal is a very good one and it\u2019s that all those Ecuadorians who earn $1 or $2 dollars a day in the country, or are getting the voucher, or are in absolute poverty, or have a part time job, and the majority of them vote for me, it\u2019s for all those Ecuadorians to become middle class, just like you are, Ver\u00f3nica, thanks to having completed university studies, thanks to your having been trained in your area, thanks to your having been hired in businesses where you have worked and that your salary is higher than $1,000, or $3,000, or more.<\/p>\n<p>What does the middle class need to live and to get a loan from a bank in order to by modern cement houses \u2013 and you are an example of an honorable and well-deserving person of the middle class who has all those chances, and I want all those chances for the Ecuadorian poor, and that they don\u2019t allow the twenty companies in Ecuador of significant stature to do, like <em>Cemento Nacional<\/em>, the <em>Cervecer\u00eda<\/em>, the <em>Comisariatos<\/em>, <em>Nobis, Eluri, Grupo Banco del Pichincha<\/em>, there\u2019s not even twenty.<\/p>\n<p>A thousand companies from overseas need to come and those companies, the first thing they need to do is training. And the cellular company comes, just to name one, <em>Blackberry<\/em>, here I have a <em>Blackberry<\/em> that today \u2013 I heard it from the President of Mexico \u2013 that half of the phone is manufactured in Mexico, and to invite <em>Blackberry<\/em> to let us manufacture telephones in Ecuador as well, to invite <em>Samsung<\/em> to let us manufacture electronic equipment in Ecuador. And what is goin got happen? Those people come and that many who is on the voucher gets training and he\u2019s got his first\u00a0 break and he\u2019s become a specialized worker. Being a specialized worker he\u2019s already started to earn between $800 and $1,000 dollars and he starts immediately with night school and at a university. The state promotes \u2013 not like now where it\u2019s being selective and leaves thousands of students out, no \u2013 but rather it opens its doors to everyone, poor, rich or middle class young people, so that they study in those technical schools, in the universities and they prepare in order to rise economically, given that once they have a university degree, they\u2019re going to <em>Samsung, Blackberry Ecuador, Apple Ecuador<\/em>, or whatever company comes to Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully it won\u2019t just be my friends, hopefully it won\u2019t just be my friends who come. I know a lot of businessmen all over the world. That I would give them the conditions to come to Ecuador and so they would come and it will attract those people who are going to come with their university degree in hand and they\u2019ll be able to say:\u00a0 \u201cThanks for having given me a promotion as a trained worker and paid $800 or $1,000 dollars! I would like you to consider my degree and I will get more preparation and will become\u00a0 a midlevel manager in this company, and become one of the middle class.\u201d There he\u2019s going to earn $3,000, or $2,000 dollars and via the <em>Ecuadorian Social Security Institute<\/em>, or via private banks, they will give him a loan for a house, they will give him a loan for cars, and at that moment, they\u2019ve transformed themselves into the middle class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Let\u2019s talk again about all that to do with the $2 dollar voucher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>At the moment they are earning $3,000 dollars, the voucher is no longer required. The voucher is for those who are unemployed. Look, no one who is employed earning $800, $1,000, $2,000 today qualifies for the voucher. It\u2019s the unemployed and I will have to keep giving the voucher to the unemployed. But as they begin to work, they jump from $1 a day to $3,000 a month \u2013 I will keep giving it as long as he continues to be unemployed \u2013 but in the moment that he manages to place himself in that big company which is going to train him, which is going to push him, which\u00a0 first is going to pay him $400, and later is going to pay him $800 because they\u2019ve trained him, and later they are going to pay him $3,000 because he\u2019s become middle management, he\u2019s not going to be interested in the voucher because he\u2019s become a middle manager and will no longer qualify for the voucher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Then there will be other people who don\u2019t have an income.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>No, my dream is that there will be no poor people in Ecuador and that there will be no one in that situation, just like there is no one in that situation in Chile, just like there is no on in that situation in South Korea, just like there is no on in that situation in Norway and everyone will be happy.\u00a0 Thank you, Counselor Noboa for having helped me with the $2 dollar daily voucher and $60 dollars a month!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much for having allowed me to earn $3,000 dollars, for having allowed me to become part of the middle class. Now I have a modern cement house, I have a car, I have a good job and I also have the capacity to educate my children as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Have you made contact with those foreign companies? There\u2019s a file\u00a0 already?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, whenever I come across them they say, when you are President of Ecuador I\u2019ll come to Ecuador. It\u2019s not out of personal liking, because in business, it\u2019s not about liking or personal interests, but about opportunities, it\u2019s that they come to Ecuador because you know that you can transform Ecuador into a country like Chile, like South Korea, like the United States today, like Europe where the majority, where 95% of the countries, and 100% of the others are already middle class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>That is your central proposal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>That is my central proposal.\u00a0 Of course, the people are going to have to decide in February of next year. Let\u2019s see, Ecuadorian people, do you want to transform yourselves into the middle class, to educate yourself, to get training, to have a job, to earn $2,000, $3,000 dollars a month, to have healthcare, education and safety for your children. To control, as well, inflation affecting prices through production, offer and demand.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a large amount of rice production, a large amount of tomato production, the demand is maintained, and if it is maintained, yes, the man is earning a thousand times more and is living very well, because it\u2019s not good if it goes too far down as that hurts the farmer.<\/p>\n<p>The farmer. What are we going to do? We are going to offer great modernization programs for his agricultural plan, and we are going to give him credit, and we are going to give him good seeds and we are going to give him a watering system and we are going to give him fertilization systems.<\/p>\n<p>I know how to do this because I have been able to do it in the companies where I work and therefore that is what makes production shoot upwards in all the agricultural areas. Today, the farmer is Correa\u2019s worst enemy. Economist Correa doesn\u2019t lack for enemies. Together with public employees, together with the police, together with the military, together with journalists, because they feel affected, together with all those people who he\u2019s been laying off, together with the thousands of university students who have been left out and who can\u2019t continue studying because they\u2019ve made it so hard for them to get into university, together with the poor of Ecuador who he has failed completely, because he has kept them on a dollar a day instead of transforming them into a middle class.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2013, Economist Correa is going to propose, \u201cEcuadorians, my proposal is that Ecuador becomes like Cuba, a country even poorer than Ecuador and that you will all be equally poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Counselor \u00c1lvaro Noboa is going the other way, and I am going to propose:\u00a0 middle class Ecuadorians with cement houses, with university or technical college degrees, with training, with jobs, with housing, and most importantly, with personal security. Ecuador has become a country with a high crime rate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly, we\u2019re all with you on that one. At the beginning of the interview, you told me that your party has plenty of supporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>We\u2019re in the fight.\u00a0 It took Mandela nearly fifty years. He started in his twenties and became President at nearly 80, with a lot of those years spent in prison. Ghandi spent nearly half his life in prison and struggled for the independence of India. In the case of Mandela, he became President of South Africa, which is now a country in which the blacks have the same rights as the whites.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion it\u2019s not bad that I can run all the times I can in order to achieve my objective, which is to eliminate poverty in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Your dream is to eliminate poverty, is that it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>My dream is to eliminate poverty, yes. If you do it for me, I assure you, you\u2019ll save me a huge task.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>So you were saying there were how many supporters now who belong to the PRIAN?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, I haven\u2019t counted, 900,000 people signed up their support, but in order to save the National Electoral Council the work checking them, if the ID was poorly written, if some detail was badly written, and we nullified it, and so we sent the National Council 600,000 affiliations already sorted by us, they approved 200,000 of the 600,000.<\/p>\n<p>We are, together with Alianza Pais, the political institution with the largest number of affiliates.\u00a0 Besides that I wanted to give you the good news that through the New Humanity Crusade, under the direction of Anabella Azin, we are delivering free medical service, together with free medicine, to the poorest neighborhoods of Ecuador, we provide work via the micro-businesses, computers to schools, assistance for the handicapped.<\/p>\n<p>Besides all that, we are continually presenting my message to the country via radio programs, television programs, from wherever I am. If I\u2019m in Ecuador, I give them from Ecuador. If I\u2019m abroad, then via Skype, or the telephone or via interviews in person, and that is my electoral campaign. Therefore, it continues, it hasn\u2019t been interrupted, not for even a single day, because it\u2019s a campaign for supporters. At this time, it\u2019s not an electoral campaign, because no candidate has been registered yet. It\u2019s a campaign for supporters that has allowed me get my proposal out to supporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>You\u2019re devoted to your work?\u00a0 What\u2019s happens to \u00c1lvaro Noboa?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa can be a candidate because the only two impediments to being a candidate are:\u00a0 first, being bankrupt, which, of course, I\u2019m not; and second, having some kind of verdict executed against you, and I am not even part of the court case \u2013 I am telling you \u2013 the only thing that they did on the side and by sidestepping the Constitution, is that they\u2019ve invoked a prohibition against me leaving the country. According to the Constitution, it\u2019s only in a judge\u2019s power to invoke such a prohibition, and so these are just other means of frightening me away, and the National Council says that they are going to change the regulations so that Correa runs against Correa.<\/p>\n<p>In which case, they should already just say so to the Ecuadorians so that we know how things are going to be and I would imagine that he himself will put on the Presidential band and he himself will declare himself President, because no one else will run against him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>In any case, you haven\u2019t stopped campaigning and adding people and making contact with the people from the PRIAN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>We have directives in the 24 provinces throughout the country, for which reason the result is that we come out well in the polls. I can also give you the good news that since the year 1998, we\u2019ve never had a PRIAN National Assembly like we had last week in Guayaquil.\u00a0 12,000 people attended. That, for me, was one of the greatest achievements. As a leader I felt completely realized, and \u2013 more importantly \u2013 I felt that, yes, the people of Ecuador \u00a0want change.<\/p>\n<p>In most of the elections I won, just like the whole world knows that I won the elections in \u201998, or if I lost them, then I lost them with 45% of the vote, because the people believe in my proposals, because there are millions of Ecuadorians who live like the middle classes in the United States, in Spain, in Italy and who say to their families, come on over here all of you if you want to have that kind of life, the middle wealthy class is a different kind of life. That\u2019s what I want for all Ecuadorians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Then perhaps all those Ecuadorians living all over the world will return, but not like before where, for example, with the crisis in Spain, they have begun to require all Ecuadorians to return to Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>And I will receive them with open arms, together with the thousand businessmen who will come and who will provide work for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>In any case, what are you going to do in these days?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>These days, I will carry on my electoral campaign from wherever I am and as soon as I return to the country next week, I will continue. I will register as a candidate and from then, on with the fight that, as I told you, I have no shame in admitting it, I ask God to allow me to live for 150 years and I tell you that at this very moment, I feel like 30, I\u2019m in good shape, I have an 11 year old son, I have four children in total, my wife Anabella is a spectacular woman in her own right, she\u2019s been elected to the Assembly three times. Then there\u2019s Daniel Noboa, who is already a businessman and is already 24 years old. There\u2019s Carla Noboa who has already graduated, at 21, from the University of Portland in New York and who is in Paris improving her French so that she will speak three languages \u2013 Spanish, English and French. There\u2019s Juan Sebastian, who, since I have a lot of agricultural businesses, is learning agricultural business management. He\u2019s at the spectacular university of UC Davis, in Sacramento, the capital of California. We all think Los Angeles is the capital of California; it\u2019s Sacramento. And my son, Santiago, of the four who have all been great students, but Santiago hasn\u2019t graduated yet. They have graduated with the best grades and Daniel was the best student in his graduating year, in his class, and they speak three languages.<\/p>\n<p>I have been blessed with my family. I have been blessed with my health. I have been blessed in the economic realm and with the love for Ecuadorians, how better to give God a return on those blessings than by transforming the poor of Ecuador into middle classes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Aside from all the emotional aspect with your family, is everything all right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>Everything\u2019s fine and the emotional aspect with Ecuador is all right, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Landetta:\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, we thank Counselor \u00c1lvaro Noboa Pont\u00f3n for having received us, for having held this dialogue, for having these endless number of topics apart from the Internal Revenue Services, like the topic of the party\u2019s politics and your expectations. Thank you for having received us. I hope it goes well for you and we hope to see you next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s right. Thank you very much, thank you to all the television viewers and God bless Ecuador. Forward, Ecuador, Forward! I know how to do it! We are going to win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORREA HASN&#8217;T CLARIFIED WHY THE SRI IS COLLECTING, FROM DOLE AND CHIQUITA, TWO THOUSAND TIMES LESS THAN BANANERA NOBOA In an interview carried out by Veronica\u00a0Landetta\u00a0form Canal 1, Alvaro Noboa informed, that the owner of Dole corporation had a meeting with President Correa and the Yasuni Ambassador, Ivonne Baki. Dole is one of the biggest banana exporter companies in the world and in Ecuador. &#8220;I ask Correa and Carlos Marx, why they are protecting Dole and haven&#8217;t submitted it to an audit like they did to\u00a0Bananera Noboa? and why that company is only paying $ 700.000 of income tax, when the export amount was larger than Bananera Noboa&#8217;s, which is being charged with 98 million dollars? 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