NEW YORK .- Community activist Walther Sinche, supported by a broad coalition of organizations, was nominated as a candidate for the National Assembly of Ecuador on behalf of the Ecuadorian immigrant community in the United States and Canada.
The announcement of the candidacy was made last Sunday in Queens, an enclave of the Ecuadorian community in New York. Sinche is the main candidate for Assemblyman by Ecuadorians abroad for the period 2021 – 2025, for the movement Together We Can – List 33, headed by Paúl Carrasco, as presidential candidate.
“For the support received from the community during 25 years of activism in New York, I have the conviction to be the best option to represent my migrant brothers from the United States and Canada, community activism that I have seen in the other candidates, only in campaign time, ”said Walther Sinche, who was accompanied by the candidates for Assemblymen Néstor Sanango, first alternate; Gloria Rodríguez, second main; and Valeria Rojas, second alternate.
Her community leadership
As a defender and promoter of Andean cultural identity in New York, Sinche has generated various events such as the Andean Fashion Show, the Carrera and Walk “El Chasqui” and La Noche Cuencana, to highlight and maintain not only the Ecuadorian but also Latin American culture.
Sinche also has a long history as a defender in notorious cases of racial hatred and brutality police against Ecuadorian immigrants and Hispanics in general.
“Thanks to the approval of the Hispanic media in the Big Apple such as Univision-Canal 41, El Diario La Prensa and other important institutions, for which I am the benchmark for community activism in this city, my Ecuadorian community has yes always valued and highlighted, ”added Sinche, who not only enjoys the support of the Ecuadorian immigrant community, but also of Latin Americans in New York.
Proposals in favor of migrants
The action plan by Walter Sinche together with the presidential team made up of Paúl Carrasco and Frank Vargas Anda, from Juntos Podemos — Lista 33, includes strengthening democracy and social participation. Ensure compliance with the rights and freedoms of citizens, strengthen security, justice and unrestricted respect for human rights, and particularly of migrants in the United States and Canada.
Sinche announced that it will promote the elimination by legal means of the decree of remittances creating control mechanisms to avoid abuses, combat corruption and strengthen the control through citizen oversight of Ecuadorian consulates, consular agencies and government entities that provide public services in this country .
The candidate raises the revision of the Organic Law of Human Mobility, particularly in the articles that concern migrants and returnees. Similarly, it proposes the reopening of the Legislative House in New York, so that citizens are in continuous communication with the assembly members and receive their concerns and projects.
Finally, Sinche maintained that it has been committed to continue with the social struggle in favor of migrants, the less privileged and unprotected of our society in this great nation that welcomes them.
‘Together we can achieve the change ‘
Walther Sinche, president and founder of Alianza Ecuatoriana Internacional and the Andean Community Center, together with his “chasquis soldiers” as he calls his volunteers, in this time of pandemic , has provided more 300. 000 lunches to the unprotected of the Corona sector, Queen s, thanks to organizations that support and recognize their altruism and work.
“Together we can generate change. We have a program for a diverse, plural and multifaceted society, but united by love for the Homeland and its well-being, that is what the action plan of the Carrasco-Vargas presidential binomial summarizes ”, Sinche stressed.
The general elections in Ecuador, in which the Executive Power, president and vice president, will be renewed to the Legislative Power, that is, the members of the National Assembly, are scheduled for Sunday, February 7, in which it will have the first round took place and, if necessary, voters would return to the polls on Sunday 11 April, to elect the country’s president and vice president in the second round.