The Ministry of Culture ordered the removal of the Executive Director of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INPC), Joaquín Moscoso, in the middle of a scrapping process of at least six wagons of the Ecuador Train.
“Today, with my conviction stronger than ever for the defense, protection and safeguarding of our cultural heritage, I am leaving office by decision of the Ministry, an action carried out through the Board of Directors of this Institution,” Moscoso denounced in a statement.
He points out that his last management as Director was to defend with the conservation of heritage assets and of historical and cultural interest of the Railway System of Ecuador, from a technical perspective, framed in the Constitution and the Law of Culture and Heritage.
“I have the deep conviction that, regardless of the consequences, my duty, mission and obligation was, and is, to defend and guarantee the conservation and preservation of the patrimonial assets and cultural interest of the Alfaro Train, symbol of national unity”, he pointed.
In May 2020, the National Government announced the elimination of Empresa Ferrocarriles del Ecuador, which entered into a process of extinction and liquidation of its assets. In recent weeks, it was known of the scrapping of at least six freight cars, which were taken to Cotopaxi. Then, they were transferred to Novacero by the winning company in the process and in two hours they were cast.
This action was carried out, despite the warning of the National Heritage Institute, who requested to abstain from continuing with this process because it could “violate or affect both the assets of the Ecuadorian cultural heritage or potential assets of interest, since it has not yet been exhausted the inventory process of the assets of Ferrocarriles del Ecuador ».
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