Quito, March 24 1999

Press Release

Indigenous Nationalities on Alert

Delegates representing different Provincial Federations, Indian Pueblos, and Nacionalidades met yesterday at CONAIE's National Assembly in order to evaluate the Levantamiento (uprising), the agreement with the Government, and the current political situation. It resolved the following:

· REGARDING THE BANKING CRISIS

That the problems created by the crisis of private banks should be resolved by the bankers themselves, given that the crisis is exclusively the product of their own deficiencies and/or administrative irresponsibility. In an effort to protect their own interests, they have put at risk thousands of depositors. It is the obligation of the State to be vigilant and assure the financial sector responds to its clients in a quick and flexible manner.

At the same time, we reject the idea that the People's money--from taxes, revenues or the monetary reserves--be used to save the private financial sector. Let the private business sector prove its efficiency with its own resources, not with barriers on deposits that erode confidence, paralyzes production and commerce, and seriously depresses the nation's economy.

We reject the attitude of the bankers, the Social Christian Party, and certain Guayaquil businessmen. In calling on the State to rescue them from their own entrepreneurial irresponsibility, they have promoted dishonest, dangerous, and regionalist discourses that envelops the banking crisis in the situation of hunger and neglect which is the product of the politics of the persistent co-governance of Febres Cordero and Nebot with Durán Ballén, Abdalá, Alarcón and Mahuad.

We insist that a criminal punishment be used against speculators on the dollar and also call for a legal proceeding against the Superintendent of Banks as one the responsible parties for the crisis.

· ON THE AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT, WE

  • Maintain the activity of the Canton-level and Provincial Parliaments and Assemblies with the purpose of ensuring the fulfillment of local and national accords.
  • Call upon the indigenous communities and popular sectors NOT TO PAY electricity bill so long as the subsidy, the tax base, and the rates are not re-defined.
  • Urge that the government immediately address the demands of the teachers and the health sectors.
  • Demand the freezing of the price of gas for domestic use and that of gasoline, measures which would neutralize the regulations which index prices to the dollar.
  • Reject the intention to increase the cost of public transportation.
  • Demand the meeting of the National Accord Forum (Mesa de Acuerdo Nacional) as the vital space from which to pull the nation out of the present crisis.
  • Will hold a National Assembly on April 23 with the purpose of evaluating the results achieved by the government in terms of the signed accords. If the accords have not been respected, immediate actions will be defined. Accordingly, the state of alert will be maintained in each of our communities and nationalities.

Antonio Vargas
PRESIDENT


 

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