January 7, 2007.   Across his entire short career of numerous failures, Rafael Correa has acted to support a full retreat from sustainable development and functional democracy by flawed, deceptive applications of long-discredited Marxist and communist political rhetoric. Even as Correa's highly acclaimed "PhD" degree is lied about publicly, we see the entire career of Correa based on deceptions, fraud, and flawed political rhetoric.

Correa's extremely thin/hollow "academic" thesis is available for public review. Correa's economic theorems are about to be installed in Ecuador following the Marxist game plan as noted below. 

Correa's PhD thesis itself in content is replete with typos and what clearly appears to even the untrained eye to be pre-scripted add-ins [sometimes called edits] from Correa's thesis mentors, exhibiting English language applications unknown to Correa.

Correa publicly lies about his credentials, recently mocking the "Chicago School."  Standing side by side in Caracas with Hugo Chavez on his recent journey immediately following his “formal” win by electoral pronouncement, Correa blatantly lied by claiming to be a `Chicago School economist- for the Left.'

This is not true and as a public official, Correa has broken the cardinal rule of never lying about one's academic bona fides. Rafael Correa never studied at the University of Chicago nor appreciably studied functional economics. Instead, Correa gained what academicians in the U.S. call, ` a shopping mall degree' in under two years from the University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana’s paid education factory, itself a hotbed of silly support for the long-defunct and discredited Brazilian style socialism of the 1960s.

Rafael Correa gained academic standing in the shortest venue and with the barest of intelligence. Correa's own "PhD" thesis, itself a reprint of three previous disjointed Masters-level style (at best) papers, is less than 80 pages in total content.

By applying earlier economic examinations prepared by the Inter American Development Bank, Correa's "research" was a cut and paste of the IDB's seminal work on sustainable development. Correa obviously took their years of early 1990s research and flipped their work in a vain attempt to politically justify a reverence for Marxist-communist financial plans by caveat, implausibly claiming that free trade destroys nations, that NAFTA has failed Mexico and Canada economically, and that only a return to state sovereignty [also called neo socialism or state communism- aka statist kleptocracy] by ignoring the facts will suffice.

Correa's so called justification data as to "why" NAFTA failed the masses is deceptively sourced on Mexican trade data gathered well before NAFTA was up and running. 

Correa’s academic bona fides grossly fail to review the facts that the more exquisite applications of the "Chicago School" in sustained economic development, rule of law, functional development [ in short his much hated so called Washington Consensus] has statistically and heroically grown Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and now Colombia where confidence and standard of living indicators are soaring while any nation that actually practices Correa’s political cum economic plans, such as Correa’s much loved and idolized Castro’s Cuba, always fail.

Rafael Correa has no legitimate justification at all for his totalitarian putsch planned for Ecuador except his stubborn insistence on personal and geo-political  politics of progress-ending  hatred. Correa has no academic of economic justification for what he is setting about to do.

Rafael Correa is a committed acolyte of Hugo Chavez and Chavez’s  avowed hate-filled agenda, however much Correa lied publicly about this as well. Noticeable in the Correa dribble and the Marxist scribblings (below) is an avowed hatred of the "oligarchy" which does not exist today. Ignoring the fact that following the economic meltdown of the President Mahuad and Bill Clinton years under Mahuad's sole, multimillion dollar paid advisor, Jeffery Sachs, there is no oligarchy in any real sense in Ecuador any more.

There are only a handful of stragglers left while most have either vacated to Brickell Avenue in Miami or have been replaced by the self serving newly rich whose tenuous commitments to Ecuador's patrimony are basically non existent. There are of course many cross-overs in this group.

Today, Rafael Correa has set about to cause not just financial injury to the people of Ecuador not just by bleeding its state revenue stream, the astonishingly corrupt PetroEcuador, dry but to engineer the cessation of all remaining liberty in that intellectually and morally weakened, cynical nation. Rafael Correa has engineered, with his scores of political minders gathered from the underbelly of global speculators, democracy and law and order averse "NGOs," and Hugo Chavez's paid minders, a full agenda to convert Ecuador to a corrupted narcoterrorist state.

To formally accomplish his goals of a "sovereign" or "alternative" democracy, Correa will have to shutter the remaining pesky separation of powers act which permits Ecuador's Congress correctly to provide a semblance of legislative capacity. Mimicking the new Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Vladimir Putin of Russia's `constitutional' language, Correa has ensconced pan-national propaganda screed and daily attacks on Ecuador's Congress through well paid public displays of hatred against democracy's structural tools.

With no tools and no public outreach or education regarding the perils of totalitarian take-overs, the newly elected neophytes in Ecuador's unicameral Congress of 100 persons are ill-equipped to defend democracy. They are outflanked, outmaneuvered and overly suffering from a vast KGB-style, well-paid disinformation campaign about the perils of functional democracy well underway in Ecuador for the past three years.

The Marxists, the communists, active Hezbollah money launderers, the Fora de Sao Paulo, the anti- President Uribe drug legalizers, the hate Bush campaigners, and all their multi-headed hydra of "NGO" and governmental operative variants, themselves will be on hand to applaud and approve Correa's plan of action. As reported in the Marxist’s November analysis on Correa, the step by step democracy-ending Correa agenda is outlined below in chilling detail. The Marxists even commend Correa's cabaret cabinet of adoring CHE! crooners already noted at this site. There is no doubt whatsoever that this previously hidden agenda is perceptively underway today, now reaching avalanche proportions by dint of the current policies of refusal to suspend enabling this avalanche or even call it for what it is, as if by ignoring the avalanche....it would magically go away.

Rafael Correa has rewarded his Marxist party comrades by implausibly installing their Marxist party “president”- a bottle blonde bimbo- as Ecuador’s new Minister of Defense. This is akin to a Hillary Clinton presidentially installing Cindy Sheehan as Secretary of Defense in the U.S. No magical thinking and no amount of on-going informational brown outs will suspend the Correa avalanche of his totalitarian take over in Ecuador.

To support and enable and encourage Rafael Correa is a suspension of applied diplomacy, functional democracy, structural rule of law and an end to all state transparency, separation of powers, development and democracy. To applaud Rafael Correa is to applaud state kleptocracy and to turn away from allies for progress as the struggle for Western civilization loses another ally.

We do find a small portion of Marxist analysis of Rafael Correa partially correct. The Marxists however are utterly wrong to say that Washington is against Rafael Correa's neo communist plans underway to complete the Chavez plan of regional totalitarianism by any means possible. As this site has already printed, the "new Democratic" leadership of the U.S. Congress under Harry Reid, Salazar and Durbin have traitorously encouraged anti-US solidarity before a gushing media over cocktails with Correa and Chavez's totalitarian sweep. To commend Rafael Correa is to turn away from every tenant of American and Ecuadorean principles of democracy.

There is nothing to applaud in Rafael Correa. His paid anti-democracy, anti- US performers [sometimes incorrectly called civil society protesters] this past week, who are in fact  well funded to perform daily for the foreseeable future. These paid performers are  foot soldiers for the Russo-Iranian-Venezuelan sweep of thugs and state kleptocrats who are determined to remove democracy from Ecuador and install the bizarre paradise they envision. They are well placed to succeed as Correa's cabinet of badly educated leftist sycophants will perform perfunctorily for their paid Chavez and KGB-style minders, already in position across Quito. While many applaud the promised applause for Rafael Correa symbolically envisioned by the pending arrival of the very pro free trade, pro-functional democracy and pro rule of law Commerce Secretary Gutierrez, there is nothing to applaud or commend in Quito these days except the end of another democracy and the beginning of state kleptocracy so deceptive that a far more appropriate "guest" at Correa's Inaugural would be the head of Interpol and the Director of the FBI, Mueller. At least their presence would be honest and would not serve as a symbol that the USA no longer stands for free trade and democracy, in full retreat to these criminal thugs. The Interpol and FBI portfolio on the "new" Ecuador, if performed correctly, will soon outstrip even Hugo Chavez's vast criminal networks.

The only question about Correa's inaugural left open for answer is if and when Correa's corrupted Chavez-managed cabaret Cabinet of crooning Che! love songs will perform. Theirs are not songs that should be sung.

 -Pedro Camargo

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This is what Marxists say about Correa’s election:

“Ecuador: Neither the millions of dollars, nor the corrupt brown envelopes could defeat the dignity of the people                         

 

With a resounding victory over his rival, Rafael Correa was elected president of the Republic of Ecuador in the elections on November 26, 2006.

According to the official data of the High Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Correa received 58% of the votes, against 41% received by his rival and the country's wealthiest man, Álvaro Noboa. In some provinces the result was 3 to 1 in favour of Rafael Correa. In Azuay, 75% of the population voted for Correa. In Pichincha the results are similar. Correa got the majority of the votes in 19 out of the country's 22 provinces.

The figures given by the TSE confirm the results of exit polls carried out by polling companies Cedatos- Gallup, Market and B&B, which were published by the major TV channels on Sunday, November 26 at 5 pm.

For its part the Organisation of American States has also confirmed the victory of Rafael Correa. Despite all this, Alvaro Noboa has refused so far to recognise the victory of his opponent.

In the days prior to the election, Noboa declared that he would win with a wide margin against the candidate of the Movement of Alliance Country, Correa. However, in his last speeches Noboa begged the people to vote for him to the extent that in the closing rally of his campaign, in an historic gesture, he kneeled down and with tears in his eyes asked the Ecuadorians to vote for him. The polls, which initially favoured him in the second round, progressively showed how his candidacy was losing support, while Correa's was rapidly gaining grown, which explains the behaviour of the banana magnate in the last days of the campaign.

The pro-oligarchy and pro-imperialist project represented by Noboa has suffered a clear defeat. "Neither the millions of dollars, nor the corrupt brown envelopes could buy the dignity of the people" said Rafael Correa, clearly moved, in front of thousands of followers who gathered in the Shyris Avenue, in the capital city of Quito.

Correa reaffirmed his commitment to carry out a popular referendum in order to call a Constituent Assembly. He also said he would not sign the Free Trade Agreement with the US and that he would not renew the agreement for the US military base of Manta. The president elect declared the end of the "neo-liberal night". Correa thanked the youth for their support and appealed to those present to build a country both proud and sovereign. Together with all those present, Correa sang, visibly moved, "Hasta siempre comandante", the song dedicated to Che Guevara, displaying an identification with the principles and values the revolutionary fighter stood for.

The Ecuadorian people have obtained an important victory over the groups which hold economic and political power. However this is just a first step.

The oligarchy will try to use Congress, an institution where right-wing and populist forces have a majority, and where the Movement of Alliance Country has no representatives, to try to boycott any action taken by the new government. The ruling class, clearly irritated by their electoral defeat, will use all means at their disposal to protect their interests.

In the same way US imperialism will attack Correa if he does not satisfy its mandates. Washington does not like the Bolivarian stance of the newly elected president of Ecuador, who has publicly expressed his friendship with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

The masses must be ready against any attempts of the counter-revolution.

If Correa is prepared to carry out the revolutionary transformation of Ecuadorian society, he will have to rely on the support of the masses, which, in the very process of the struggle, will demand the profound and radical change the country needs. The workers, peasants, housewives, students and pensioners will support the new government as long as it fulfils its campaign pledges.

The masses will also have to fight against careerists, bureaucrats and reformists which will try to stop the revolutionary process in its tracks.

The victory of the progressive project led by Rafael Correa will play an important role in lifting up the spirit of struggle of the masses. However, it is necessary to get organised. And at the same time the revolutionary organisations must give themselves a programme which makes clear the urgent need of building a socialist society, since within the limits of capitalism it will not be possible to do anything about the misery and hunger of the people, which they endure as a result of the Ecuadorian oligarchy.

As Che himself pointed out: "Socialist revolution or caricature of revolution".”