2024-04-09 07:44:45
After the athletes’ claim, Minister Andrés Guschmer reported that the first payment was made.
Following the claim of a group of high-performance athletes, who demanded payment of a significant debt from 2023, the Ministry of Sports took action on the matter: this Tuesday afternoon, the minister Andres Guschmer posted on social media that a disbursement was made more than six million dollars.
«Fulfilling our commitment from the first day, today, Tuesday the 26th, the Ministry of Sports has completed the payment corresponding to sports stimuli for the year 2023, for the benefit of high-performance athletes, which amounts to USD 6,017,893.25“Guschmer began in a statement he published on his X account.
“This figure comes from only a part of a million-dollar debt that was carried over from the previous government and that was assumed by this new administration, as an urgent and priority action, during the first 15 days of the year, when the disbursements began to be made.” , he detailed.
And he added: “Now, as I have told all athletes with whom I have spoken personally for weeks, we are intensifying our work with the Ministry of Finance to quickly manage the 2024 resources in favor of national sport.”
«Finally, a message to all our athletes and sports organizations: In New Ecuador we are willing to support you and attend to your needs and initiatives. I understand their helplessness due to the neglect they have suffered in the last decade, but solving deep issues and processes takes time.
Trust in this government, which in addition to having the will and conviction to do so, has demonstrated with actions that the most important thing is to give them what they deserve, supporting them so that they can develop comprehensively and sport can be a true tool for social transformation,” the minister concluded. .
The claim of athletes
«We are heading like you as athletes of the high performance plan that has been neglected in recent times. We trust that this call will be attended to with the serenity and urgency it deserves and that together we can find a satisfactory solution. We are waiting for a prompt response from the Ministry of Sports, Ministry of Finance and we call on the National Government,” the athletes had requested in a video published on the networks.
«Many of us are fathers and mothers of families, breadwinners of our home. “We are athletes who represent Ecuador and give our best in each event and that is why we deserve to be cared for,” added another athlete.
All of them belong to the Ecuadorian judo delegation and the order was placed at the facilities of the Ecuadorian Federation of that sport. In addition, several of them published the video on their respective social networks so that it reaches more people.
It must be remembered that the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will take place at the end of next July and that the athletes who are part of the High Performance Plan are those who have the possibility of reaching the ecumenical event. Therefore, several of those who appear in this video are in the fight to win a place for the Olympic Games.
Mr. president @DanielNoboaOk , @FinanzasEc y @DeporteEc We address you not only as committed athletes but also as part of a high-performance plan that has felt deeply neglected and devalued in recent times.
It’s worrying… pic.twitter.com/uthCx26Sxv
— Lenin Preciado OLY (@leninmundial93) March 26, 2024