August 17th, 2011 | El Comercio Newspaper<\/p>\n
Guayaquil Newsroom<\/p>\n
15:01\u00a0Tuesday afternoon at the Luis Noboa Naranjo Museum in downtown Guayaquil seemed like the launch of an electoral candidate. Businessman and politician Alvaro Noboa invited the media to a press conference.\u00a0 Also invited were special guests, friends, politicians and businessmen.<\/p>\n
Are you launching your presidential bid?\u00a0<\/strong> It\u2019s been a long time since your last public appearance, what is your intention?\u00a0<\/strong> Do you believe that Ecuadorians are not living by the creed you propose?\u00a0<\/strong> Are freedoms in Ecuador at risk?\u00a0<\/strong> Will you be presidential candidate or not?\u00a0<\/strong> But you have already lost twice to Correa; will you run a third election against him?\u00a0<\/strong> But he won the second round.<\/strong> But it was proclaimed President of Ecuador by the electoral body.\u00a0<\/strong> Do you think there is no separation among the government branches?\u00a0<\/strong> You still have tax cases pending with the IRS.\u00a0 When will these be resolved?<\/strong> But the processes against the banana company remain pending.\u00a0<\/strong> August 17th, 2011 | El Comercio Newspaper Guayaquil Newsroom 15:01\u00a0Tuesday afternoon at the Luis Noboa Naranjo Museum in downtown Guayaquil seemed like the launch of an electoral candidate. Businessman and politician Alvaro Noboa invited the media to a press conference.\u00a0 Also invited were special guests, friends, politicians and businessmen. Are you launching your presidential bid?\u00a0 I am offering to Ecuador and the world the important foundations that have served as the pillars of my training and which should be the pillars of civilization. It\u2019s been a long time since your last public appearance, what is your intention?\u00a0 Raise our civilization to the highest levels and raise Ecuador to where there are no attacks against freedom, human rights, nature; to where there is no class struggle; to where there is a single bond between the Government, production and labor; to help Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[89,92,134,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI am offering to Ecuador and the world the important foundations that have served as the pillars of my training and which should be the pillars of civilization.<\/p>\n
\nRaise our civilization to the highest levels and raise Ecuador to where there are no attacks against freedom, human rights, nature; to where there is no class struggle; to where there is a single bond between the Government, production and labor; to help the country move forward, a country that unfortunately has had more than 100 years of bad politicians and management.<\/p>\n
\nIn Ecuador there has been a deterioration of values.\u00a0 There is corruption, delinquency, a total breakdown of civil liberties; there is no separation of powers. We are in political, economic and social crisis.<\/p>\n
\nFor many years now, freedoms have been at risk, and today the situation is even more acute.<\/p>\n
\nI never know.\u00a0 In many, many ways, the people have supported me with more than 50% of the vote. In 1998, I won the election and they took it from me; I won the first round in 2005, unfortunately at that time the press was a little blind and thought that others could change Ecuador.<\/p>\n
\nI beat Rafael in the first round.<\/p>\n
\nSo they say, no? You counted the votes? Hahaha<\/p>\n
\nIndeed, he is the head of state and I know what he is, therefore he should be the first Ecuadorian to consider how best to help Ecuador become like Alvaro Noboa\u2019s creed.<\/p>\n
\nIt is clear that the Presidency belongs to Alianza Pais; the National Assembly has an Alianza Pais majority; there is a lot of fear in the courts for what we are experiencing; and that is the Ecuadorian perception.<\/p>\n
\nThey are not against Alvaro Noboa, I am one of the largest taxpayers, I\u2019m in the white list. \u00a0The rest you can call it however you want.<\/p>\n
\nWe have explained to the country that it is not possible that the five largest exporters of the country have an estimated value of $1 million and that the state believes Bananera Noboa has earned more than 200 million dollars. You draw your own conclusion, I don\u2019t want to come to any conclusion because then I get slapped with another suit, like they\u2019ve done to your colleague. (Noboa is referring to the trial against former\u00a0El Universo<\/em>\u00a0editor, Emilio Palacio.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"