Wednesday, we protested again near the Coliseo Jefferson
Perez and found out more bad news. The
liquidator SEPS is saying his mandate was to pay off the small investors 100%
then leave the decimated scraps to the large investors.
I won’t get into all the illegal actions they have taken,
but they were having 4 separate Assemblies to divide and conquer, 2 with
Creditors on Wednesday, and 2 with Depositors on Thursday. Each Assembly was to elect a delegate to help
oversee the finalization of the liquidation so SEPS can wash their hands of the
corrupt mess. In the beginning, the
head honcho of SEPS was going to only provide screen presentations and not be
around for the inevitable flak he was going to receive. We did our best to get our message to the
Creditors that we must refuse to participate in this action or we will just
inherit the blame, the lawsuits, the closure of the stores and restaurants, and
be the scapegoats for the firing of the present employees. Mr Aguilar will soon find out that acting like
Pontius Pilate will not absolve him of his wrondoings. Out of over 800 creditors, approximately 55
actually went in and participated in the sessions. Presumably 2 delegates have been elected.
I spent the whole day there, helping block the 2 assemblies
in a peaceful fashion. The afternoon
session was moved to a more secure location for the police to protect the SEPS
employees behind a wire fence. I cannot
blame them because emotions ran very high during the mornings’
confrontations. That was why I asked
Bella not to join us because I feared things could easily escalate to
violence. The police were bolstering
their forces all morning. The head SEPS
honcho showed his face for the afternoon session, behind the wall of police.
After 4pm I gave up and caught a bus to Millenium Mall. On the way there we saw a pedestrian that
may have been hit by a bus, lying in an intersection with a huge pool of blood
below his skull. It was truly a grisly
scene.
At the Sports Planet Cafe we enjoyed a lovely supper with
Bella, Jim and Cindy. Bella was coming
from her usual Bridge Club. We then
cabbed over to the cavernous apartment that Jim and Cindy are renting near mall
Del Rio . That place could house a small army.
By the time we arrived home I could barely move and I went
straight to bed as soon as I could.
That is why there was no blog last night.
Thursday morning I just slept in but then struggled to the
bathroom to get some pain-killers for my aching back. Bella
sent me a translation from The SEPS website where they are attempting to
whitewash their actions. I sent text
messages to my fellow Depositors that I would not be in any shape to join them
today unfortunately. The plan is to
ignore any calls for Delegates from our group.
We have an open court action into the illegality of the SEPS actions and
they are being called on the carpet on Monday, hallelujah!! We just have to delay any more crooked BS
from these people until we can challenge them in court. Finally we are hopeful of some success.
We have the Twitter accounts of the Ecuadorian President,
Vice-President, and Justice Minister so I sent several Tweets to all of them
begging for their intervention. The
extortion and discrimination exhibited by SEPS is apparent to any sane person
so we need to keep up the pressure.
That was today’s excitement.
Cheers, Al
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