The complaint for ecocide by the La Iguana Foundation, which blames a company owned by the first lady, Lavinia Valbonesi, opened the doors to requesting the interpellation of the Minister of the Environment, Sade Fritschi Naranjo, for the granting of environmental permits.
The figures of Republic President, Daniel Noboa, and the first lady, Lavinia Valbonesiare located in the center of the complaints of environmental organizations and activists for the development of a Real estate project in Olon.
Complaints from environmental foundations such as La Iguana qualify as a “ecocide al mangrove ecosystem” the jobs and the felling of 21 carob trees in the project area.
While in the social networks y media The documents with the names of ministers, relatives and leaders of National Democratic Action (DNA), which would be related to this initiative.
According to details known to this newspaper, ‘Echo Olón’ is an “urban and architectural” project conceived as a set of four buildings with four floors each and 24 housing units. Additionally, it will have social areasgreen areas, visitor parking, access roads, beach access y pier to the beach.
President Noboa’s family is the owner of the land Located in the Oloncito mat, in the adjacencies of Bosque Protectorand would have received the environmental permits for development on December 5, 2023, just a week after Noboa took over the Government.
With this permission, the Empresa VinAzin could intervene from 225 meters from estero“filling it in, cutting down native speciesbetween them mangrovesdirectly affecting the biodiversity of the area and putting the life and property of the community in the sector at risk,” according to the complaint. La Iguana Foundation.
First lady and ministers within the project
When reviewing the documentation of the company and contractors linked to the execution of the worknot only the first lady is related, there are also names of important officials of the Government as the Minister of Transportation and Public Works, Roberto Luque; the interior minister, Monica Palencia; the National President of ADN, María Beatriz Moreno; and the Minister of the Environment, Sade Fritschiin whose management the permits were approved.
The VinAzin company would be owned by the first lady, Lavinia Valbonesi, who is listed as the partner and main shareholder next to Daniel Patricio Correia. The company consists of Superintendence of Companies with a capital of $10,000, distributed $9,999 from Valbonesi and $1 from Correia, who according to his LinkedIn profile is identified as administrative manager from Shipping and Logistics Division from Noboa Corporation.
The general management of the company, according to the Superintendence of Companies, It is occupied by the current National President of ADN, María Beatriz Moreno, who runs the company from September 22, 2022.
He project was developed by the Geoseismic companybelonging to the Minister of Transportation and Public Works and in charge of Ministry of Energy and Mines, Roberto Luque. Within the presentations of the project, this would have as its preparation date the September 2023.
The project would be in first phase of developmentrunning: the land recoverythe tree planting/reforestation and the Earth movementswhile the construction of the buildings would begin in the eighth month of the work, of the 34 months stipulated in the programming.
For its part, the name of the interior minister, Monica Palencia, In 2022, according to his own words, he appeared as legal representative. Through social networks he warned that he would not allow it to be “put in fabric of doubt my name or that of my daughter.”
He explained that, in 2020, “we received authorizations to carry out specific corporate actsonly, and in favor of a company with legal activity and in our functions as lawyers”, stated Palencia.
DETAILS. This is how the buildings that will make up the ‘Echo Olón’ project are planned.
Minister Fritschi before the Assembly
During the day of May 7, 2024, the events evidenced by the environmental organizations and the complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office for “crimes against wild flora and fauna”, led to the Build Movement bench to request a modification to the agenda of the Parliament session.
The objective of the modification is to include the appearance of the Minister of the EnvironmentSade Fritschi, so that it can be strengthened during this May 8. The bench indicated on its social networks that there is “a lot to explain”.
They pointed out that it is important to review the reasons why “current ministers and the family circle of the President are linked with the real estate project”, denounced through social networks.
This newspaper made contacts with the Communication Secretariat of the Presidency to ask if any response would be given to the complaint, it was learned that, “the issuance of no statement”. (ILS)
President of Olón assures that there is “ecocide”
He president of the Commune of Olón, John Reyes Reyesacknowledged to LA HORA that the project has produced a ecocide to nature and indicated that the community demands the socialization of the scope of the workconsequences and benefits that could generate for citizens.
Reyes highlighted that, although the company representatives made a presentation of the project to the authorities of the community“we have always asked company representatives to come to socialize the project with the entire community that is always interested.”
“We make a wake up call because it is harming the ecosystemto the environment, They cut down 21 carob trees”Reyes pointed out.
The president of the commune reiterated his request to the company representatives, “we simply want them, as part of the project, come to the communityit is the most viable than before any construction the community has to know What is the project about”.
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