ECUADOR LONGS TO CHANGE
Ecuador, a country of spectacular beauty, stunning geography unfolds on two hemispheres. Roughly the size of the State of Oregon, by extension, is the country with the greatest biodiversity on the planet. Leading exporter World banana and flowers, also led the table shrimp exporters of cocoa and is recognized as the best flavor and quality. Ethnologically wealth is even greater and many indigenous cultures and nationalities, languages \u200b\u200band maintaining ancient traditions, make Ecuador into a jewel of the planet. Several factors prodigiousness paid to this land and its cultural diversity. Among others, the ancient legacy of their ancestors, their location in the middle of the world, the Andes, natural wall crosses and divides the country into coastal, mountain and east, mainly affect the setting of this wonderful country.
In the art of politics we are not able to show achievements so rewarding. In the XXI century still suffer from certain flaws and injustices that we carry from the colony and in the Republican era have become chronic.
Having sworn in eight presidents since 1996, without the skirmish, after the installation of the government of Gustavo Noboa, the country has just made the change. A radical and profound change, to say the President, means the burial of the political parties and the advent of the XXI Century Socialism.
Ecuador, however, already ruled for change in advance. He did it in 1979 in the return to democracy, when the late Jaime Roldos Aguilera took office with the slogan "the power of change." A pendulum rhythm changed since then, the center-left government of Hurtado, who came to power on the death of Roland, the right of Leon Febres Cordero, occurred Borja center-left, succeeded in turn by right-wing Sixto Duran Ballen . Disappointed and tired of this sequence, the country was launched into the abyss and elected to Bucaram in 1996, ousted by Congress six months later, mental inability to govern, to unfold more serious political and institutional crisis of the past 50 years, which has since produced eight presidents, one elected by the Congress, its members, the 1998 Constituent Assembly and the Constitution number XIX, living their last days.
This is the political environment and the level of popular frustration and anger that hatched in a desire and a radical decision, even if it meant carrying the Presidency to a professor of economics, without much political or administrative experience , except for his brief period, for a few months as Minister of Economy of the President Palacio, who had also promised to "refound the country."
For the sake of the country, then it is calm and forth about which is truly the change he craves and Ecuador which has overwhelmingly expressed at the polls.
Without a doubt we are talking about changing the prevailing inequality of opportunities, injustice, neglect of vulnerable sectors, lack of investment in education and health, widespread corruption and state inefficiency, all resulting in impoverished majorities a standard of living and insecurity, inconsistent with the country's natural wealth.
The change has to mean which was first implemented an education system that not only guarantees access to it to the poor, but give the best education, which will level the playing field of opportunities and income. At the top level, education will focus on the country out of underdevelopment, inserting it into the globalized world through emphasis on science and technology, as have countries in the Far East and most recently India, China, Russia and so-called emerging countries. The computer must be within reach of everyone, from school level and this change must implement the program started at MIT to deliver a laptop for every child. The change should mean further legal certainty and tax incentives for foreign investors to file their business in the country and also attract retirees from developed countries, which added to legions of tourists, revitalize the local economy. The health system in a government of change, also deserve a total reengineering, in such a way that means early prevention and care for its citizens, regardless of their ability to pay.
talked to implement education, training and science as the foundation that will enable us to emerge from underdevelopment, create wealth, fight corruption and strengthen democratic governance.
Change, in graphic terms, means understanding that a young man in a remote village in India armed with a computer, technological knowledge and fluency in English, which is trying to sell their services to businesses in London, Berlin or New York, will definitely have more chances to succeed, a young man in Ecuador, without English, no technology, no computer, armed only from the doctrines of socialism in the XXI Century.
This is the change we need in Ecuador, action, results, a government that works quietly and tirelessly, teaching by example, giving the youth knowledge, science and technology and population, social security services, which underpin its way to progress and prosperity.
desired change can not be reduced to discourse
That is the difference between the statesman and the populist.
Marcel D. Feraud
Ex Consul General of Ecuador Miami
most voted candidate in Florida for the Constituent Assembly
