Speech Rafael Correa

SIX YEARS OF REVOLUTION CITIZEN

Guaranda, January 12, 2013




Long live the Citizen Revolution!

Long live Guaranda, Bolívar, this beautiful land, so long forgotten so long excluded by governments forever.

Long live this new country, this country of all and everyone.
Thank you very much for being here. I know that many have come from far off places. In any case, for those who did not know, how good you are in this beautiful land, discover the wonders of our country, and now with excellent roads, safe, signposted roads of the Citizen Revolution. (And that is also for candidates on these electoral conflicts, they can do safely campaign, traveling the roads of the Revolution).

A huge hug and greetings to you all, citizens of the republic, especially those sisters and brothers who had to migrate necessarily of the country and we are still online, by the media in different corners of the planet.

I want to salute in detail the four pillars on which rests the Citizen Revolution: first, the companions of the executive branch, members of the cabinet, this extraordinary team of patriotic men and women, often heroic, than letting all have dedicated themselves to the service of their fellow citizens, your country ...

For every traitor, per shame that has given us some dishonesty, some mischief of a wolf in sheep's clothing are hundreds, thousands of slaughtered actions
our heroic fellow Cabinet of the Citizen Revolution.

A hug to block members of Alianza PAIS, fellow lawmakers. Joining us this morning and afternoon companion, the friend President of the National Assembly, Fernando "Corcho" Cordero.

A hug to local authorities Alianza PAIS. Presidents of parish councils, mayors, prefects, who from their communities put not one, many grains of sand that are building this mountain of hope, future, joy, unity and dignity for everyone.

And, of course, most importantly, a militants embrace this revolution. His faith, his confidence, his optimism, his hope is the energy we need every day to continue and to overcome any obstacles that agents of the past, old country representatives present us, put us on the road.

A huge hug to Ecuador, the Ecuadorian lifting the heart with joy. A special greeting, as I mentioned, our migrant brothers. They are always in our hearts. Than
national tragedy that was the migration.
Spaces forget! And, notice the change
time, changing era, as the companion Fander Falconi, National Secretary of Planning said these migrants now dream of return and many are returning to their homeland. Always welcome. We could not solve all problems, but together we can overcome any obstacle.

This is the sixth anniversary of the Revolution of words and not of tenders, the Revolution embodiment, the construction of the country's future.

Six years ago ... I saw the video and how nostalgic gave us, against what powers had to fight and beat! But not to be trusted, those powers are weakened, but still lurking, as the September 30, 2010, still waiting for the right moment to give us the heartbreaking blow, to stop this revolution, to return to the past, sad past for the great majority but from which they profited, they usufruct, they benefited.

Do six years told the Ecuadorian people
ENOUGH! Governments of party; He said ENOUGH! bankers thieves; he said to him
ENOUGH! liars ever
They fulfilled its election promises; he said to him
BASTA the media business; he said to him
ENOUGH! those who mocked again and again of his goodness and patience.

We are the generation that is building
the new history of our country.

This is no longer the country of despair that we inherited, this is the new country that is under way, that it is possible, it's a reality, not as a promise, but not as tender as palpable reality, everyday.
We have Patria! And together we will achieve true freedom; not speaking bankers, the traitors, the media; true freedom, which is freedom for their business, which is not the freedom to exploit, that is not freedom for the capital
imposed on every corner, in all public policies; true freedom, which is only possible through justice, equity, overcoming poverty.

Six years ago, Alfaro Bolívar awoke to restore hope to our people.

Our people said ULTIMATE !, already had enough of appeasement, of indignity,
We again have Patria !, enough to privatize, enough to deliver our
resources, enough of infamous letters of intent, enough of that here send financiers bankers, creditors, IMF, international bureaucracies, hegemonic countries, the unworthy party is over, the Ecuador is no longer for sale.

We have now recovered the dignity, faith, trust in ourselves ... When asked in national and international interviews what is the main change in the country, could name many: roads, hospitals, schools millennium, hydroelectric , ports, airports, housing, the best renegotiation of the history of Latin America debt renegotiation of the best world oil contracts, the Manuela Espejo Mission; we could talk about many changes, but you know what the main change that always emphasize? For me the key, you will: the face of hope, those looks of optimism, have regained faith in ourselves, which allow us to steal everything but hope, and that, like a phoenix, the Ecuadorian people, the whole country rose from the ashes of neoliberalism and are building this new country, this beautiful country, this tender Patria, this loving country, this country of all and everyone. That is the first change, the main change, now is proud to have him
happens in the New Nation, where previously only gave us shame: bank holidays, forced migration, seven presidents in ten years, three governments who did not finish their mandates, fleeing presidents in helicopters, light aircraft, entreguismos, cowardice. Ecuadorian people forget spaces!

New Ecuador is here, in the streets, in the squares, in the heart of every single citizen who participates cheerful optimism of this revival.

Now we have HOMELAND OF HOPE, when we find the country of despair. Let us steal anything but that hope.

We have not solved all the problems, but with faith in ourselves, confidence in our abilities there is nothing we can not overcome, no obstacle we can not overcome.

In these six years:

We recover the homeland and its institutions, I Fander said, with a new constitution, the greener the planet, in the history of humanity, another reason to be proud of what is happening in the country.
Now there is no priority for external debts, that privileged creditors pocket and not books of our children, the health of our families, the country's roads.

Now oil resources remain in the country, serve the people, for essential public works throughout the country.

Guaranda, Bolívar are privileged witnesses of what we are saying: How were the roads of this beloved province, how much abandonment, postponement had been convicted unfairly, irrationally, illogically! Today the roads that cross this beloved province are first order.

They say we are obsessed by power ... Yes! We are obsessed by power serve our citizens, especially the poorest; we are obsessed to build more schools, more hospitals, more roads, more bridges ...

That is the best answer to all the nonsense spoken: now that the country is "disjoint" because the bigwigs, the bourgeoisie, the oligarchy, the powers no longer subject to the government, no longer subject to the Fatherland.
Our best answer: the thousands of kilometers of roads of the first order, the government has built more bridges in the country's history, uniting the country, our best response to all the lies of division.

Now they, those who never paid taxes offer eliminate the taxes; with this they will not benefit the poorest, but the richest. I do not know if you have noticed, gentlemen mayors that when a candidate says "we will eliminate 2,000 million tax" means that you are removing the municipalities $ 300 million, for 15 percent of revenues tax go to municipalities, local governments. Even 30 or 40 million lost Guayaquil,
What will the mayor of that city?

You know that the ISD [the Tax Remittance] who want to eliminate the tax is not a tax expert tax (to raise funds for the Treasury), but imposed a stabilizer to protect dollarization and has given extraordinary results; and that 91 percent of the tax not paid families, individuals do not pay, they pay companies, corporations, one of the top payers in terms of amount of that tax is the Chase Manhattan Bank. Then, there is
They can account for those people who are working.

Taxes are to invest in works for the forgotten, for the sectors to which light, water, hospitals, schools never reached them.

We invest taxes, not to pay external debt to advance, but to achieve a reduction of extreme poverty.

Income poverty 12 points between 2006 and 2012, another reason to be proud to tell what is happening in the new country for the first time in history income poverty, extreme poverty is less than two digits, it dropped is at 9 percent; of course, so he was in the top one percent is too much, but what changes to the country we received!

Of the three countries with less inequality in Latin America, one of them is Ecuador, according to the latest issue of the ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America). It is not just, of course, to reduce inequality, but also to generate wealth; But make no mistake, poverty in our America, our Ecuador, has not been primarily due to lack of resources, it has been basically
concentration of wealth and this is one of the fundamental objectives of our revolution, and that we are being extremely successful, so much so that, I urge you, Ecuador has gone from being the most unequal countries in the region to be one of the three countries with less inequality.

Do not say we as Fander Falconi said, what the Economic Commission for Latin America says, and as not just to distribute, but also to generate, we have the highest rates of growth of our America.

Come towards ending poverty, we are building the society of Good Living, which can not be conceived as long one in the New Nation poor, countrymen! We will not rest until equality, justice and well-being a reality in Ecuador.

The usual long for "the country had" abused the good heart of our people, of our fragile memory and would have us believe that we were before the country's unity, freedom, safety ...

Unit? What about the millions of migrants who risk their lives had to flee the country, shattered by the greed of the
Bankers in alliance with corrupt politicians?

Freedom? The freedom of our contract workers, who had to






Safety? Is the safety of our deposits seizure of the largest private equity robbery the country's history?

And yearn for "the country had"! ... Yes !, the country that had them filled with chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, political instability, abuse, misery.

We are overcoming the past. We are forever changing that Ecuador full of poverty in which the people were forced to migrate and oppressed by a model imposed capital, the profit on humans.

We are beating the old country, tired of the dying pensioners to claim decent pensions, the public buildings destroyed, the bullets against the people, the banking holiday, the biggest heist in the history of Ecuador.

For the first time they defend rights
Ecuadorians, here and migrants
where you want them explode, we'll be supporting our brothers migrants.

We are against the encroachments of capital, banking, for example in relation to the mortgage problem of evictions experienced by our brothers in Spain.

Perform like no other government investments in productive infrastructure: roads, hydropower, ports, airports, connectivity, and so on.

Modernize infrastructure services: Civil Registry, Fire, Judiciary, sport, ECU 911 emergency shelters.

And we will continue in this tireless fight against crime, which we are winning, compatriots. Are already seeing the results, it's time to harvest after so many months, years of hard seed. We continue to act with all the firmness, effectiveness and seriousness that requires a problem of this dimension.

Support for the National Police will be paramount, supporting the police, improving their living conditions ... And so, because we could not only support the Police
ensure security, while inefficient, venal, incompetent or corrupt judges openly freed us thousands, thousands of dangerous criminals, is that we had to call the referendum in May 2011.

Thank God the Ecuadorian people gave us their support and mandate to reform his order Justice; and dear Guaranda, dear Bolivar, beloved country, despite what they say liars always, there is the reality, we have met, there is a change in the Ecuadorian justice that is going around the world as an example of judicial reform, and that it has an effect on what most worries the Ecuadorian people, which is public safety.

Before we said, we did believe that good roads were for others, that as Ecuadorians could only aspire to paths third, fourth order, full of dangerous bumps, without signaling; the roads were good for the other countries: Colombia, Peru, Chile. Now Colombia, Peru, Chile, Latin America Ecuadorians want to have roads.

ROAD NETWORK We have the best in the history of Ecuador, modern and efficient road network we continue to improve. Class bridges are built around
the country's largest airports intervention; and we continue to build roads, freeways, craft harbors. We continue to develop roads, local roads, especially in rural areas.

This secondary road network, the roads, it is the responsibility of provincial governments, but we as Central to sign comprehensive agreements Government will launch a comprehensive plan for improving the rural road network, so that in a few years no one Canton, one parish, one of the country enclosure without paved country road, perfectly finished and signed.

You know what we say and deliver what we say.

We are changing the energy matrix, mega hydroelectric plants, but also with alternative energy sources such as wind project Villonaco another reason to be proud of what is happening in the new country, the first wind project in mainland Ecuador (actually our government was the first to make wind projects in the country, the first thing we did much smaller in Galapagos); but besides being the first mega-project wind in continental Ecuador in the province of
Loja, it is the world's tallest wind project. These things never before seen in the country and probably in the region and are changing the energy matrix and the productive matrix of the country.

Forget spaces! How before the Citizen Revolution that housing allowances was $ 500 for the rural sector and 1,500 for the urban sector, that was the contempt of the bourgeoisie toward our people, to our people. They make a home with
$ 500, there were not a closet, but the poor itself was enough bonus $ 500.

Today we have bonds of different values, but the lowest, the Bono of the lower housing is $ 6,000, compatriots, and have conducted more than 230,000 housing solutions, rather than in the entire history of Ecuador.

We have invested more than 1700 million in housing for our people, for the poor and continue to develop quality housing projects.

It will continue the brave struggle against land speculators, those who have done so much damage to our cities, our poor, to the entire society. No more exploitation! The Urban Revolution is one of
the cornerstones to build a new country, comrades.

In six years, these six years have been magical years, only a blind soul or an agent of the past can deny the transformation of the country. In these six years of the Revolution Ecuador it has advanced more than three decades.

Health has invested more than 3 times the previous 4 governments together.

We are achieving that public health is finally quality. Just here in Guaranda is being fully restored Hospital of the Ministry of Health, and will be much better than the best private clinic they can find in the country.

We have built dozens of hospitals and health centers, equipped with the latest technology. Before the Revolution there was not a single scanner, no one mammogram, although not even cost much, seventy, eighty thousand dollars. Now each province has a mammogram, each province has a scanner, there are dozens, dozens of these tools with the latest technology.

We finally worthy and efficient social security, free medicines, with extended hours and decent wages for our
doctors, staff of the health service and free education in all health services; because health is not a commodity, it is a human right.

But you know what ?, the best is yet to come. Many more hospitals, health centers and sub-centers, linked into a Universal Health System. And image analysis laboratories and ambulance service and attention always improving, with more technology and medical staff. And we will continue with that momentum to the new Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security, in their provision, especially health service.

We will not rest until each and everyone, without exception, can access their right to quality health and warmth.

EDUCATION ... And keep this in mind, comrades, there is no Revolution Education Citizen Revolution, nothing, no democracy. How could we call democracy to a society where only those who had money could access education somewhat salvageable? The basis of democracy is equality of opportunity, and within that equal opportunities, equal access to quality education, with warmth, with excellence.
In education, between 2006 and 2011 increase by more than 8 times the amount of investment by previous governments; and we have more young people studying in the history of the country, in basic education, in school, in universities and graduate programs:

We have delivered nearly 5,000 scholarships historical record.

Today, young Ecuadorians are studying at the best universities around the world, but it costs them, their families, paid by the Ecuadorian people, by the Citizen Revolution, to then return with better skills, with more knowledge to help build the New Nation.

We promote the development of science and technology. Fander already mentioned, with badges projects have again gone around the world as YACHAY, the City of Knowledge.

For the first time, in fields such as sports, it supports the sport as a whole and including High Performance Centres, so that our athletes have every facility to represent in the best way the country.
The country has become and remains forever. We will not let us past the clutches of Homeland steal again, fellas.

Recover sovereignty in handling international and regional policy.

Never again, Ecuador colony of anyone!

Never again, Ecuador backyard of hegemonic countries!

We are a small country, but decent and we will exercise our sovereignty international policy with dignity without having to ask anyone's permission to make the decisions the country requires.

We end, as I said, with the yoke of external debt, illegitimate. Historic! The only country from the State ordered an audit of the debt.

We mark the end of the labor outsourcing and semi slavery in which they were domestic workers. Finally, in the country and there is no labor exploitation, Wage was created so that if someone wants to declare profits, first each employee in your company has earned the living wage.
The basic salary is at $ 318, and for the first time with the family income, you may cover one hundred percent of the consumption basket.

We eliminate child begging and thus urge you, these achievements not only recognizes the country, recognized by the International Community; well we have done so to advance the Millennium Development Goals proposed by the United Nations
2015, for example, in terms of enrollment rate. Three years before we have complied with the elimination of child labor in garbage dumps and we have achieved,
as I said, the universal basic education.

We rescued the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute. Do you remember what was the IESS? Financing abroad, sending our savings to Florida, transferring resources Ecuadorians to more developed countries. That was almost evicted IESS, become a political spoils and is now fortified, these resources of workers, retirees IESS contributors to the IESS, have been returned to the country and today serve through the Bank of affiliate, the BIESS to finance unsecured loans, mortgage loans, for
finance strategic development projects for all and all Ecuadorians.

And we list the new Law on Social Security for all and for all, as mandated by our Constitution for those housewives who work ten, twelve hours a day, that the categories of the capitalist market economy classified as "inactive" They believe it or not. Housewives, as they perform hard work, but not for the market, are categorized as "economically inactive". Work for decades, probably because they their husbands may have paid work, that spouse at age 65 will retire, he will have a pension, and his wife, who worked as much or more and many more years will run out nothing. We can not allow these situations. It is ready the new Social Security Act for our housekeepers to our drivers for our informal traders, freelancers for our ...

We instituted the state's presence with investments in all territories, breaking with the obtuse bi-centralism between us.

Things compatriots, who are leading a regional and global level: we imposed the
gender equity and multicultural presence in all public functions. Look how many women Patria valuable part of the Expanded Cabinet, because we have gender equality in the Cabinet, we have nearly gender equality in the National Assembly and have the first World Court with strict gender equity. That is also the Citizen Revolution compatriots.

We recovered one of the victims of the long and sad neoliberal night, he does not understand that not all dimensions of life can be measured by profits and losses, how many dollars given, for how many dollars away, what is the value of this Red Square for Guaranda, what is the value of a monument ... Well, you value it had for the nation's railroad Alfaro, magnum opus Old wrestler joined Costa and Sierra, we joined as a country ... and let it destroy imagine, scrap, loot the long and sad neoliberal night.

The Revolution today proudly can announce to the country that the railroad again Alfaro crosses the rails linking the coast and the mountains with the most beautiful landscapes on the planet. And we will leave this country not only railways, but with the Quito Metro,
tram to Cuenca, with many improvements to the mobility of citizens.

We recover the operational capacity of the Armed Forces and National Police, also with better salaries, equipment and housing tax.

We draw from our sacred soil of foreign military base in Manta. No more foreign bases in the homeland! It is against the new constitution, and there are some who yearn for the old country, why is that?

The Yasuni ITT project is emblematic of conservation and love of nature in the world.

We created the National Secretariat for Risk Management. A country with many risks (seismic, volcanic, droughts, floods) had no authority to deal with prevention, response and repairing damage that can be caused by an event. The Secretariat already exists and advances on this topic have been really gigantic.

And of course, has already given us his wonderful message Comrade Vice President with the Manuela Espejo Mission, which has changed the lives of thousands of families, serving the forgotten of the forgotten, the poorest of the poor, our
disabled, serving them in a respectful, comprehensive, dignified manner. And they dignified us. As stated by Lenin, it is not that our disabled had lost their dignity; with this mistreatment, with the social invisibility, was society that had lost its dignity. Today that dignity has been restored with fair treatment, appropriate opportunities, which require attention our brothers and sisters with special needs.

It has strengthened the Public Bank to fulfill its social role, boosting productivity, loans for agriculture, construction, transportation, and so on.

We encourage the regional approach
Latin American ...

And forgive the opportunity at this time to send a solidarity greeting, humanly and politically, the commander Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan people: Ecuador is with you, is with the Commander, is with the Bolivarian Revolution.

... That Latin American integration, a process that we conduct with vigor and that has enabled us, brothers of the Patria Grande, regain beautiful dream forge unity and sovereignty Sucre and Bolivar, San Martin and many others.
We are dreamers, countrymen, we are revolutionaries with critical ability to secure this project of radical, profound and peaceful transformation.

Today, we begin the journey of hope to every corner of Ecuador to celebrate life, to meet with the country returning the smile of children, the disabled, in the face of the most jubilant -never explotados- workers, of the peasants, pensioners, housewives, young people.

We must defend what we have achieved, we have to sustain changes. This is your revolution and this revolution can not be reversed, compatriots.

This is a flurry of illusions and dreams.
This is the time and place to join hands to join forces, to radicalize, to consolidate the new dawn that Ecuador lives.

Mashi Kuna, Kuna Pani, Wawki Kuna

(Classmates, colleagues)

Sukta wata

(Six years)

Sukta watatami sinchi trabajashkanchik
(We work hard six years)

Sukta wata

Wata Sukta kipaka Llakta shikanmi

(After six years the country looks different)

Sukta wata

Wata Sukta kipaka, llaktaka karillami rikurin

(After six years the country is proud)

Uyaychik

(Listen)

Kay sukta watapimi

(In these six years we have made)

Ñankunata (Roads) Chakakunata (Bridges) Wasikunata (houses)
Hanpi wasikunata
(Hospitals)

Yachana wasikunata (Schools) Terminalkunata (Earth Terminal) Aeropuertokunata (Airports) Coliseokunata (arenas) Larkakunata
(Irrigation channels)

UPCkunata

(UPCs)

ECU 911kunata

(ECU 911)

Judicial wasikunatapash
RURASHKANCHIK (legal units) Mana chayllachu (Not only that)
Michata wayrawan, hatun yaku, Pakcha yakuwanmi RURAKUNCHIK

(We are making electricity from wind, water from rivers and waterfalls)

Uyaychik

(Listen)

Ecuadorpa shikan llaktakunapimi rurashkanchik kaykunataka.

(We've done this in different towns and cities of Ecuador)

Maypimi minishtin, chaypimi rurashkanchik, rurakunchik.

(Where needed, there we have done, we are doing)

Yachakunaka?

(Education?)





























































































