Veintimilla and Juan León Mera streets became on an improvised stage so that dozens of dancers from the Ecuadorian Chamber Balleta private non-profit entity, could express, with their art, your concern about the lack of budget. That demonstration of December 14 will be repeated this Thursday.
It is that the lack of resources would be forcing them in a short time to a forced closure of activities. This “would represent not only damage to the country’s culture, but also a serious impact on 101 families that would be left without work”. In addition, a potential closure would generate an abrupt suspension of the educational activities of more than 200 students currently in training. This was stated by the Ballet in a statement about its current situation.
Although the Ballet is a private non-profit entity, created through Ministerial Agreement 3425 of May 10, 1983, and with statutes amended by Ministerial Agreement No. 037-2010 of March 17, 2010, It had been receiving a state budget that was delivered through the House of Ecuadorian Culture. However, the problem arose when the House of Ecuadorian Culture decided not to renew the agreement that had been signed in 2017 and that was valid for four years, so it expired in December 2021.
The aforementioned agreement states in its background: “In the general budget of the State, the Ministry of Finance includes a fiscal allocation in the budget of the House of Ecuadorian Culture (CCE) destined to cover the activities in compliance with the purposes at the national level of the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet”.
In accordance with the Ballet, in the general budget of the State of 2022, budget item 580204 was considered in the budget of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, destined for the non-financial private sector, in order to continue supporting the management of the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet. Nevertheless, the House of Ecuadorian Culture did not give way to the renovation.
Faced with this situation, the Ballet managed the signing of a new agreement with a public entity through which the budget that has historically been granted and which was also assigned in 2022 could be made viable. In January 2022, a inter-institutional cooperation agreement Come in the Técnica del Norte University and the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet that talks about the general state budget for the year 2022 in budget item 580204. It is indicated that the “transfer comes from the State to the non-financial private sector (…)”.
But, the Ministry of Finance has not given way, so the subject went to the Attorney General’s Office to try mediation, on which no agreement has been found.
Thus, the BEC presented on December 9 before the Judicial Unit for Family, Women, Children and Adolescents, located at Veintimilla and Juan León Mera streets.a protective action. He also presented a amicus curiae before the Ombudsman of Ecuador This Monday, December 12. These measures are taken —said the Ballet— due to what they call “the inaction of the Ministry of Finance by not making the disbursement of the budget item viable.”
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The source of financing The state authority for the Ballet dates back to 1990, when the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Provincial Council of Pichincha signed a cultural cooperation agreement in which said ministry undertook to request a budget item from Congress and the Ministry of Finance.
In October 1994, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the House of Culture and the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet signed a tripartite agreement by which the Casa de la Cultura undertook to allocate the constant budget allocation in the general state budget as a contribution to the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet. This one had several renovations.
A) Yes, On July 5, 2017, the House of Ecuadorian Culture and the Ecuadorian Chamber Ballet signed a new cultural cooperation agreement which was valid for four years (until 2021).
The Ballet planned to continue its mobilizations this December 15.
This Journal consulted the Ministry of Finance about his position on the matter, but received no response. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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