{"id":3458,"date":"2012-10-11T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2012-10-12T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T23:23:16","slug":"agricultural-workers-protest-against-the-irs-and-in-support-of-alvaro-noboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/news\/agricultural-workers-protest-against-the-irs-and-in-support-of-alvaro-noboa\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Workers Protest Against The IRS And In Support Of Alvaro Noboa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a demonstration taking place this morning outside the IRS offices, <strong>workers from the agricultural company belonging to Noboa Corporation demanded the IRS allow them to work in peace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wmYxyzNx-s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Noboa Group worker<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Mina joined the demand of the workers, <strong>defending their work and blaming President Rafael Correa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrA_t_7Etwg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Alexandra Mina worker from Clementina Hacienda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are from the hacienda. We live here; we don\u2019t pay rent. Mr. Noboa gives the workers free housing. We have a reliable source of work. The contract we have is stable, and it\u2019s not like the Government, which gives us a contract for six months, a year, and then you end up unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>At Noboa, we have stable contracts, we are workers with 20, 30 years of service. That\u2019s what the Government has to see, the Government which is going to leave more than 7,000 families unemployed because they are going to get rid of the sources of employment. You tell me reporters, you tell me, reporters, which company has the Government taken and made productive? None. Every company which the Government has taken it has destroyed. It\u2019s not interested in the people. He\u2019s interested in populism. He\u2019s interested in the vote because when there\u2019s a campaign, he\u2019s up against Noboa, and he didn\u2019t do it before, but now, yes, now that Noboa wants to challenge him, he\u2019s not letting him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a strong police presence, <strong>the workers denounced the political persecution carried out against Alvaro Noboa<\/strong>.\u00a0 Carrying signs with phrases like, \u201c<strong>Noboa means sources of work for the poor<\/strong>\u201d, the workers came from Babahoyo, el Triunfo, and other regions, denouncing the Traffic Commission for having prevented the passage of vehicles carrying them to the IRS. This was confirmed by the head of Clementina Hacienda, Bernardo Manzano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9tbTMKLfndY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nBernardo Manzao Manager of Clementina Hacienda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Teleamazonas Reporter<\/strong>: You didn\u2019t have the necessary means to get here, nevertheless, in the end you did it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernardo Manzano:\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s right. We did it. We came on foot, in taxi, by bus, by any means, because they stopped us at the entrance to Guayaquil and made us take a detour, and we had to change buses in order to create a demonstration here in front of the IRS and to say to Carlos Marx Carrasco that he\u2019s wrong, that what he is doing is illegal, that it\u2019s not fair, that what we want is to work in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, what the State and the Government want to show is that this is a purely political issue because the calculation that they have made are completely wrong. And we want to show, through the courts, that those calculation have been made incorrectly. We have initiated an petition for exception precisely in order to litigate and defend ourselves. That is what we want to show, that it\u2019s bad, that it makes no kind of sense, and that what we want, here, is to do our work quietly and in peace. We are not politicians. What we are is workers and employees of this company, here for more than 20, 30 years, with more than 500 retirees who depend on this company, more than 7,000 workers who depend directly on the Noboa Company, more than 7,000 families who are asking \u2013 we haven\u2019t all come because work has to go on \u2013 but we are a very representative group of more than a thousand people who are claiming their rights and supporting attorney Noboa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The IRS is listening to sold-out ex-workers, so why not us<\/strong>? That was the question that Felix Carpio put to Carlos Marx.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hti4FUqaPvs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uO1MXsGLzPU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFelix Carpio\u00a0worker from Clementina Hacienda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are citizens, here, and we had to come on foot, by bus, sir, and if something would happen to us, he\u2019s going to answer to us, no? right?<\/p>\n<p>No, Mr. Correa, he doesn\u2019t like being told the truth, whenever someone tells him the truth he\u2019s a thug or a terrorist. But not here, no, we are workers, we\u2019re heads of families, I\u2019ve been working for 37 years for the company, and it isn\u2019t right that I lose all my seniority on some man\u2019s whim. I am a worker with a lot more years with my company and I will defend it, like Mr. Carrasco said yesterday:\u00a0 that\u2019s the way it will be with my life, and I am going to defend it.<\/p>\n<p>Because yesterday they came, and they are a bunch of sell-outs, and they attended Mr. Carrasco, he even embraced them. They are a bunch of bitter people. Why?\u00a0 Because the company threw them out as a bad lot, just like the Government threw out a few teachers, a few doctors. In the same way, the company threw them out. And now they come crying and yes, that\u2019s just what the government likes. They come here to lodge complaints about Mr. Noboa. So why don\u2019t they give us the same reception, since we\u2019re people too, and we are also workers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a demonstration taking place this morning outside the IRS offices, workers from the agricultural company belonging to Noboa Corporation demanded the IRS allow them to work in peace. Noboa Group worker Alexandra Mina joined the demand of the workers, defending their work and blaming President Rafael Correa. Alexandra Mina worker from Clementina Hacienda. We are from the hacienda. We live here; we don\u2019t pay rent. Mr. Noboa gives the workers free housing. We have a reliable source of work. The contract we have is stable, and it\u2019s not like the Government, which gives us a contract for six months, a year, and then you end up unemployed. At Noboa, we have stable contracts, we are workers with 20, 30 years of service. That\u2019s what the Government has to see, the Government which is going to leave more than 7,000&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/news\/agricultural-workers-protest-against-the-irs-and-in-support-of-alvaro-noboa\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}