The constituent and Water in Ecuador to face a challenge: to solve the access and democratize the management

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June 28, 2008 | By: Jaime Ruiz |

Therefore concerned mining as a strategy "to emerge from underdevelopment." We know that for mining water is crucial, without water this industry does not exist. Hence the need to ensure water for human consumption and productive farmer priority. Then the question arises whether the development proposed by the mining development model, as it suggested the tanker, actually mean the chance to escape poverty. Based on past experience, the answer is no. The country becoming a miner, not signify in any way that emerge from poverty and less than capitalism, which is what in fact the country needs.

But the state needs resources to make development (to pay teachers, hospitals, bridges, etc.), if we mining, and we can obtain resources from the following sources: the first in the country there is a 60% tax evasion, the second, 500 million are annually in corruption. The problem is that to obtain resources from these two sources, it requires strong policies of the central state, for example to charge and punish evaders, which no government has wanted to do. Alvarito and others still at large.

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Jaime Ruiz, was president of the Federation of Secondary Students of Pichincha Fes and militant leftist revolutionary movement MIR. He supported the sport from the chair and vice chair of Concentration Sports Pichincha CDP ..