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>Subject: (en) [ecuador] resolutions of the peoples' national
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Resolutions of the People's National Parliament of Ecuador
1. To install the People's Parliament of Ecuador as a request for democracy and plurinational representation, legitimate and sovereign: the People's Parliament of Ecuador is a permanent organ of decision and resolution. It assumes the preparation of transition to the NEW GOVERNMENT.
2. This Parliament does not recognize the set of measures announced by Jamil Mahuad and calls for civil disobedience and the raising up of the people until succeeding in the revocation of the President and his Government, National Congress, Supreme Court of Justice and the Organisms of Control and the establishment of a government of the people.
3. The People's National Parliament of Ecuador assumes as a mandate the preparation of the Alternative Program of Government, for which they summon to strengthen the work of the provincial and district Parliaments.
4. The Parliamentarians of Ecuador's people, in representation of the 22 provinces of the country and of the discussed proposals at the district and provincial level, ratify the necessity of a total change of the neoliberal model for a fair, responsible, environmentally sustainable economy, that recognizes plurinationality and cultural diversity, productive and democratic, directed towards human development.
5. The people of Ecuador, represented in this National Parliament, resolve to practice and develop democracy, real, with true participation and directed towards a political model, under the principles of AMA KILLA, AMA LLULLA, AMA SHUA.
6. The People's Parliament at the provincial, district level, of the people and nationalities of Ecuador and the People's National Parliament of Ecuador, will function in a permanent manner in the whole country, and will be the organ of political-democratic representation and resolution of the MANDATE of the people.
7. The people of Ecuador call on the Armed Forces to respect and support the actions and decisions of the provincial indigenous-popular Parliaments and of the People's National Parliament of Ecuador, for being a legitimate expression and the Constitutional Sovereign Power of the People.
Given and signed in Quito, capital of the Republic of Ecuador, in the session of the People's National Parliament of Ecuador, January 11, 2000.
Mns. Alberto Luna Tobar. S. President
Antonio Vargas Vice President
Napoleon Saltos Secretary
Manuel Castro Pro-secretary ################
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>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:04:36 +0100
>Subject: [ecuador] Day of Uprising 17.1
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Information for Latin America via Internet _________________________________________________
Ecuador: In a day of indigenous uprising, popular leaders and unionists are oppressed by security forces. By Marlon Carrión C. _________________________________________________
QUITO, Ecuador. - In response to the uprising of the indigenous people of Ecuador, the government put into practice a National State of Emergency, which had been in fact declared several days ago.
In the early morning hours three union and popular leaders were arrested by masked policemen. The detentions were effected by members of public security who forcibly broke into the houses of Luis Villacís, Ciro Guzmán y José Chávez. Doors and windows were smashed. The detainees say and their families say that the arms-brandishing agents hit them and threatened them with death.
Since there is a State of Emergency, the detainees will be taken before a military tribunal instead of a civil court. They are being held on charges of endangering the internal security of the State.
For its part, the Conference of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador said that its vice-president, Ricardo Ulcuango, had to be removed to an unknown location after having escaped government agents who had captured him.
The same sort of situation is occuring with the leaders of the Coordinator of Social Movements, which in conjunction with the Conaie declared the popular and indigenous uprising for the overthrow of President Jamil Mahaud.
Monsignor Albertos Luna Tobar, President of the National Parliament of the People of Ecuador, protested and rejected the actions of the police and the military in detaining the union leaders. Other political leaders have made similar protests.
The Popular Parliament is a democratic forum composed of indigenous natives, farmers and city people, that rejects the economic politics of Mahaud. The Popular Parliament has called for civil disobedience.
Repression by state security forces against the demonstrators is taking shape. The mountainous region of Ecuador, with its high indigenous population, is totally militarized, and clashes between indigenous people and the military have taken place, but the Ecuadoran press has suppressed the information.
The Conaie and the other social movements asks that the international community maintains vigilance over the repression ordered by President Jamil Mahaud and carried out by the National Police and the military. ##############
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>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:02:19 +0100
>Subject: (en) [ecuador] beginnning of popular indigenous uprising 15.1
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National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador
Quito, January 15, 2000 PRESS BULLETIN
Mahuad must leave office in order to prevent a social convulsion BEGINING OF POPULAR-INDIGENOUS UPRISING
The popular-indigenous uprising called by the National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador against the "dollarization," coruption, privitization, and the empoverishing of the country started at 0 hour today with the closing of roads in several provinces and the mobilization of thousands of indigenous people on an encounter with the peoples of Ecuador in Quito; Antonio Vargas, Parliament Presiden, insisted thet the only maner in to avoid a social convulsion is if Mahuad and his government give way to the desires of the peoples of Ecuador.
While Mahuad reads his testament before a corrupt Parliament, of hunger, "dollarization," speculation and privitization, we the peoples of Ecuador have convened ourselves in this Parliament of solidarity, of many-nationalities, of a new Ecuador, democratic, economically productiveand with millenary ethical principles, that is the difference between our proposal and that of the the corrupt politicians, pointed out Vargas.
On his part, Napoleón Saltos, spokesperson for the Coordinator of Social Movements (Coordinadora de Movimientos Sociales), emphasized the democratic character of this proposal and states being sure that men and women will join this movement for a new Ecuador, and with more reason when the cost of food products has increased about 60% to 80% in price as consequence of the "dollarization," consequences which will be intolerable when the price of gas and food products become unfrozen. At the same time, he gave thanks to the Eclesiastical Community of the Religous (Comunidad Eclesiástica de Religiosos), whom in an unpublished event, manifested their total support with the peoples of Ecuador in this sovereign search for a just and democratic future.
On their part, the oil workers iniciated their actions of protest with the paralization of La Libertad Refinery (Refinería La Libertad) and anounced that by January 17th it will add the rest of the areas of the oil-industry, progresively, until reaching a total halt. The CONFENIAE ( Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana), the Confederacy for the Indigenous Nations of the Ecuadorian Amazons, the Amazon Defense Front and the oil workers declared that this decisions is undeclinable for no privitization of the oil and for the life of the Amazon.
As part of the general uprising, major and smalll markets will close their doors next Monday Januray 17th. The Farmworker Social Health Centers (Seguro Social Campesino) on its behalf has already initiated measures in Manabí, Carchi and other provinces. Neighborhoods, communities, health workers, public and industry works electritians, students, christian communities and universities are ready to initiate marches all over the country, under the proposal convoked by the National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador .
On Monday January 17th, in the presence of Monsigneur Alberto Luna Tobar, the amplified Parlament will be instated, while the Permanent Comission (Comisión Permanente) has remained in session without a rest since Tuesday January 11th, the day of its instalation. The aproved decrees refer to: state deragoutory for emergency; civil disobidience against the "dollarization"; judicial and civil indictments against Jamil Mahuad for treason; a total fight against corruption, who's power is delegated to the provincial parliaments and the National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador. ##############
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>Subject: [ecuador] (en) Police teargas Ecuador oil workers, students
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Police teargas Ecuador oil workers, students
By Carlos A. DeJuana
QUITO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean police teargassed about 700 oil workers and students on Monday who were protesting President Jamil Mahuad's economic reforms, including plans to use the U.S. dollar for all large transactions.
Police fired dozens of rounds of tear gas as the protesters marched toward the government palace, scattering the students and workers up side streets and into a nearby park.
Just a few blocks away, Mahuad met with international advisers to discuss his plan to adopt the U.S. dollar as the Andean country's currency. He is hoping the shock measure will lead Ecuador out of its worst economic crisis in decades.
The police are part of the 30,000 government forces who have been guarding Ecuador's highways, city streets and key government buildings since Friday for fear of protests by oil workers and indigenous groups demanding Mahuad's ouster.
Oil workers went on strike on Monday morning to press for Mahuad's resignation and for better terms for state-owned Petroecuador, the country's largest source of revenue. Unions allege his government has been using oil revenues to finance bad economic policies rather than reinvesting in the industry.
Highland Indian groups have vowed to block roads and eventually march on Quito to paralyse the capital by midweek unless Mahuad, Congress and the Supreme Court step down.
But life proceeded at an almost normal pace on Monday in this nation of 12.4 million, with almost all main roads open and only small incidents reported in Ecuador's provinces.
``Truck drivers tell us that some secondary roads are blocked in part, but the main highways are open,'' said Luis Tipon, a Quito fruit and vegetable wholesaler.
In the city of Cuenca, a small bomb was set off at about 3 a.m. (0800 GMT) on Monday at the door of the headquarters of Mahuad's Popular Democracy party, but damage was minimal and no injuries were reported, police said.
In Guayaquil, Ecuador's main business city, union workers and small businessmen marched against Mahuad's dollar proposal and threw tomatoes at onlookers who refused to join them.
But the protests failed to paralyse the country as the indigenous groups have promised. Indigenous groups, helped by transport workers, paralysed Quito for nearly two weeks last July after Mahuad proposed higher gasoline prices.
Analysts say Mahuad's ``dollarization'' plan announced on Jan. 9 may have gained him the upper hand. Under the move, the dollar would be used for all large transactions. The beleaguered sucre, which has fallen to 25,000 sucres to the dollar from 7,000 a year ago, would be used only for small purchases.
Mahuad, a Harvard-trained lawyer, says the move will slash inflation and boost investment for a country the size of Italy but whose economic output nearly equals its foreign debt load.
Mahuad has had a tough 17 months in office as Ecuador's economy sank into crisis because of bad weather, poor export prices, international financial turmoil and a banking crisis. The economy shrank 7.5 percent in 1999.
But although recent polls show Mahuad's popularity has rebounded from a low prior to his announcement, the 50-year-old leader must convince Ecuador's impoverished population that a dollar economy will improve their lives.
``We're all going to protest against Mahuad,'' said Maria Sepeda, an Indian woman working in Quito's market. ``I don't known when, but we're going to go out on the streets.''
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