Ecuador president urges to discuss how to eliminate "all forms of poverty" in the country
Ecuador president urges to discuss how to eliminate "all forms of poverty" in the country
Friday, 19.06.2015 - 11:12:02 AM
Andes Agency / News
Quito, June 19 (Andes) .- President Rafael Correa called his countrymen friday to discuss how to eliminate all forms of poverty in the country, citing a report of Human Development of the United Nations (2005), in which Ecuador deals 132 place among 162 countries listed.
"Can we sleep peacefully?" He asked from the social network Twitter, where he also stated that Costa Rica occupies seat number 134, Panama 140, Chile 141, Paraguay 142, Colombia 145, Brazil 146, Puerto Rico 147, Guatemala 148, 149 Bolivia, Honduras and Haiti 152 153.
"The contient most unequal in the world but the most Christian". " This is the result of the exclusion, not the lack of resources, he said from his @MashiRafael account, which played a message from Pope Francisco in the same social network and who said that this "should exasperate the huge inequalities that exist among us."
"Just with a slight improvement in distribution of resources, you can eliminate all forms of poverty in the country. This is what we need to discuss? "He said.
He said that the UN report, based on the Gini coefficient, which measures inequality, is an "input" to the debate on the "intolerable" inequality in the Ecuadorian nation, where in the last 11 days protests were recorded as being for and against two bills for a progressive inheritance tax from 2.5 to 47% and another tax to eliminate capital gains windfalls in land speculation.
The president, who announced on Monday the temporary withdrawal of the two initiatives sent to the National Assembly for processing, also called for a dialogue on the content of these proposals, with a focus on the need to eradicate the scourge of poverty, not only in the country but regionally, in the most unequal continent on the planet.
He explained that in Ecuador a basic consumption basket is $665, which multiplied by 12 months totaling $ 7,980 annually.
While income per capita is $ 6,286. In the case of a family of five, the average annual income for a total of $ 31,430. "That is to say ... 3.9 times the basic food basket!," he said.
However, he noted that in Ecuador, for "certain bankers," the rich paying more for their inheritance is to threaten their families." The poor, then, do not want to care for their families?, he wondered, saying:" This is how they play with those things sacred for Ecuadorians!. WE WILL TRIUMPH! ".
On Thursday, the national government announced the beginning of a national debate about social justice and equity that will be headed by the ministries and by President Correa himself and intends to involve all of society, citizens, unions, banking and business sector, said the national secretary of Planning, Pabel Muñoz, in a press conference.
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