{"id":6536,"date":"2013-02-01T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/?p=6536"},"modified":"2013-02-01T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:35:44","slug":"alvaro-noboa-one-day-with-the-candidateecuavisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/news\/alvaro-noboa-one-day-with-the-candidateecuavisa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1lvaro Noboa: \u201cOne Day With The Candidate\u201dEcuavisa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Teresa Arboleda:<\/strong> Today belongs to \u00c1lvaro Noboa. Carolina Mella accompanied the PRIAN leader in a tour of Yaguachi. Noboa says that he is not tired, and that he hopes to live many more years to achieve his objective of reaching the Presidency.<\/p>\n

Carolina Mella: <\/strong>\u00a0Without waiting for anyone else to do so, the candidate set the stage to give his statements.<\/p>\n

As he has said before, Presidential candidate, \u00c1lvaro Noboa does not want to waste money on posters or advertising, but that, rather, the money goes to setting up micro-enterprises.<\/p>\n

It was Mrs. Eva\u2019s turn, a farmer who lives in Yaguachi. She explained to the candidate what she would do with the supplies that he delivered to her. He was even encouraged to try them out. Happy with what she had received, she took him to the land that she is preparing for planting.<\/p>\n

Carolina Mella: <\/strong>\u00a0Giving all that, will it also be transformed into votes?<\/p>\n

\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>No, no the issue at that moment isn\u2019t about getting votes, it\u2019s about helping the unemployed.<\/p>\n

Carolina Mella: <\/strong>\u00a0This is a campaign?<\/p>\n

\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>Look, I\u2019ve been doing this for 31 years.<\/p>\n

Carolina Mella: <\/strong>31 years, of which the last 15 you have\u00a0 tried five times to reach the Presidency.\u00a0 You\u2019re not tired of this campaign, watching you walk, to be in the countryside\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I have asked God to give me 150 years.<\/p>\n

Carolina Mella: <\/strong>\u00a0You want to live that long.<\/p>\n

\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0 <\/strong>I want to live that long in order to serve the poor and to give thanks to God. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carolina Mella: <\/strong>Live to achieve his grand goal: to be President. In the center of Yaguachi, a parade awaited him. He greeted them and handed out t-shirts. The people welcome him; they know him. A sticker distracts him for one moment. It\u2019s a photo of his former companion in the movement and ex-chief of the PRIAN bloc, Vicente Taiano, who now forms part of another list.<\/p>\n

He smiles little, and although he is conscious of the press having full coverage, he speaks very little on camera. The humid climate impels him to stop at a \u201cfried suckling pig vendor\u201d who rush to prepare more meat for the candidate and his followers.<\/p>\n

His activities as a businessman don\u2019t stop, not even while he is on campaign. He does everything by telephone, the parade continues, but this time the truck via truck, a route that he knows already, but that doesn\u2019t matter to him: he will continue traveling on it until achieving his objective.<\/p>\n

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