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Ecuador's Hugo Chavez?
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A. At this moment, Ecuador doesn't have external financing. We have enough national and public savings in order to make loans to start the growth process and employment creation.
Q. Why wouldn't it be smarter to attract foreign capital instead of using up public savings?
A. We are not refusing foreign investment. If foreign investment wants to come, it is welcome, but we have our own savings.
Q. So you are not going to get outside companies to come in and finance refineries? Are they welcome to own them?
A. They are welcome, but we are counting on our own savings in the first instance.
Q. What's the law? Are they welcome to own them or are you going to nationalize them?
A. We prefer that the kind of business related to non-renewable resources to be owned by the state or by public enterprises.
Q. Why do you support the seizing of the Occidental oil fields?
A. Because they broke 52 times the contract, our Ecuadorian law -- they believe we are still a colony.
Q. What is your priority?
A. Constitutional reforms in order to have a true democracy.
Q. Didn't you crack down on the press and arrest an editor last May?
