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Editorial - El Comercio Quito - Ecuador | 22 de mayo del 2008

The retirement, volunteer or no, of rear admiral Fernando Zurita by the results of the oil administration of Petroecuador demonstrate a bad perception of the Government with respect to our main productive wealth. Not yet it is clear if retirement deals with individual or advance payment of one corporative on the part of Navy National, that in these months of management will have included/understood the difference between the professional and specific tasks that correspond to him in the state order, and the administration of an organization that for a long time requires a deep reconstruction and, mainly, a modern system of integral audit. The entrance of the National Navy was based on a emergencia decree that has been renewed although it is in opposition to the constitutional ordering and to the democratic tradition of Ecuador, insofar as the members of the military institution in good condition active cannot participate in other activities other people's to their function of security national and much less corresponding to the administrative order of the State. Surely, the lack of experience and the bad national perception that exists on Petroecuador, as much with respect to its efficiency as management transparency, induced the Government to solve so controversial measurement. It was inhaled to enrumbar to an organization that had been perverted and distorted by many years; therefore, it was impossible that the statism model of or socialism could conciliate like that announces and identifies the Government. After this experience, on which the numbers of production will be due to audit exhaustive since when the National Navy received to Petroecuador and those that they exist when rear admiral Zurita retires, it will be necessary that the Government reconsiders his decision and allows that the National Navy returns to its specific functions. For Petroecuador, a civilian administration must conceive itself, professional, effective and auditable. Our institutional experience, by precarious that is, forces to that the duties of the State and the Government are carried out by those who the law and capacity allow the personal it.

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