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Merchants of Esmeraldas and Manabí make requests to the government. There are 11 inmates.

Editorial ESMERALDAS

"We spent two years going out together, we are tired of so many lies, minutes of commitment signed and respect nothing, for several occasions we sought the dialogue of the best way, but not they have listened to us. "

This is the voice of the indignation of the manabita Jessenia Peralta, who arrived yesterday from her company located in Pedernales (Manabí) in Esmeraldas to ask the central government economic revival announced April 16. of 2016.

This was not the only one that closed since 5:00 the access road to the refinery of Esmeraldas. Among the elderly, women and young people added about 600. On the other side, a hundred policemen were looking to resume the car traffic and, after five hours of waiting, they fired tear gas and arrested 11 people

same, disappointment after deception. They receive us (officials) for nothing, at the end of the month there is nothing for us, "said Rosa Tarco, representative of the merchants of the parishes of Súa and Tonchigüe, in Atacames, south of Paris. Esmeraldas.

What are you asking?
Juan Castillo, representing affected people in both provinces, after a stop of the protest and calming their anger, explains that they have three specific demands.

The first, that the president, Lenin Moreno, sign a decree that pays them overdue balances, penalties and judicial delays with financial entities.

EL DATO
Merchants do not exclude a new mobilization if their 11 comrades arrested yesterday are not released. Moreover, they ask for access to loans from the People's Bank for 25 years, as the law of solidarity says, with two years of grace , without a request for credit and without guarantor They have as reference loans granted to Guayaquil at 5% and 10 years.

The third order is in favor of the canton of Muisne, the most affected by the earthquake in Esmeraldas. They are calling for resolution 073 of the 2016 National Risk Management Secretariat to be repealed, which declares this island a very high risk. This limits access to credit, housing and other government benefits, says Castillo.

Disagree
"No agreement could be found The compañeros do not want dialogue, we propose a meeting but they do not want to," lamented Cristina Rivero, who declared to represent the Vice Presidency of the Republic, the highest authority of the Reconstruction Committee created to serve the victims.

After two years of creation and management of $ 2,954 million, according to the latest quarterly management report (June 7) tabled in the National Assembly, merchants call for economic reactivation; Of the millionaire incomes, 51% come from the law of solidarity created after the earthquake and which imposes on the persons and the men of business several taxes and requirements, one of them paying a Additional VAT of 2% and updating a day of salary to officials of hierarchical positions.

Until July 3, the SRI reported a collection of 1,633 million euros for the "solidarity contribution". But that is not all, because donations, debt conversions, bonds and international contributions, account for 49% of the revenue administered by the Committee, where Esmeraldas has only one representative among 13 members. (LHE)