CHE Lovers Unite with FARC Backers to Welcome to Washington their Favorite Porn Queen: Ecuador's Minister of Foreign Affairs Espinosa
The World Conservation Union, which recently paid Maria Fernanda Espinosa as regional director for Latin America, has received money- lots of money- from US AID, among others. Many so called U.S. funded and global activists of varying stripes have launched a hate filled campaign to shut down Fox news and demand government controls over free press, as long as it is not THEIR press. The FOX piece is a substantive window in to the cynical, adolescent and criminal mindset of Rafael Correa and his CHE love song crooning cabinet.
Our intention is not to decry conservationalism and environmentalism or development aid to "indigenous women" in Ecuador (whatever that means for the loan and grant takers....since we do not know how much of this goes to administrative overhead) but we do question this group for its definable activities in Ecuador, its funding stream and its leadership inside the Correa-conversion to socialism so called constitutional assembly. It is a simple question of due diligence which is mandatory to understand any legitimate group.
We do however suspect that this organization is part and parcel of the blatant lobbying and favoritism underway in Ecuador today. Rather than deliver an exact analysis, which we do not hold yet, we suggest use of the one last remaining tool of democracy's arsenal: free speech. So- ask. Look under the covers and follow their money trail and determine if foreign funds are misspent in lobbying for the Correa power grabbing constitutional conversion to full authoritarianism- his authoritarianism. We sense that Espinosa and her friends have handily delivered the so called environmentalist movement to aid and abet the Chavez take over of the Andes but we urge....due diligence.
And then ask yourself how far/ how long the KYOTO Accords would last in the diesel fume blasting Ecuador? While eschewing environmental degradation globally and the ills of globalization, not one penny is spent to rebuild sustainable quality of life in Ecuador....because these groups often neither care nor hold the wherewithal to so do, preferring instead to scream, protest, march on the Manta Base and provide political mischief.
It is incumbent upon all Ecuadoreans to insist on disclosure of Sra. Espinosa's "foreign policy" message because she is spending money- lots of money- to promote her world view. Incomprehensible as it is, this spokesperson for Rafael Correa's conversion to Bolivarianism ( whatever that means today) already wants to tell us all that Ecuador is active in the fight against narcoterrorists and that the Correa team will continue to fight against the FARC and narcotics spread. But wait! The Correa team is doing everything it can, including rolling out the welcome mat for the FARC, Hezbollah and the Chavez menu of actors of evil.
As a spokeswoman for the deceptive ploy that if Ecuador is granted free trade with no strings attached ( such as a legitimate government, a dysfunctional socialist state under the sole power grab of Rafael Correa a al Chavez), and that Correa is fabulous to destroy jobs, destroy trust and confidence in the governability of their government, removes all legal relationships with international bodies of law and organizational entities such as the World Bank, welcome the FARC, destroy what remains of Ecuador's private sector, and a total immersion of the formerly independant state of Ecuador into the Chavez satellite of nations in honor of Castro), Sra. Espinosa is a fitting spokesperson for the Correa regime.
Sra Espinosa is welcome ( by some so called Think Tank mouth organs who receive funds from the OAS and US AID) to Washington, D.C. not surprisingly this week to lie about her regime's true aims.She should not be welcomed in the USA by U.S. decision makers due to her career as a pornographic writer and flesh poser.She should not be welcomed in Washington, D.C. and not one penny of U.S. tax payer money should be used to support and/or even schedule her entree because she has no background in foreign policy, diplomacy or holds any acumen thereto.While there is nothing inherently wrong with a porn queen suffering a steep learning curve, what Ms. Espinosa really is....is a mouth organ for her activist NGO backers of the worst, destructive capabilities.
She represents not the people of Ecuador but the subset of NGO groupies who are crawling all over Ecuador these days in some peculiar paid undertaking to insure that Ecuador stand united to welcome the FARC, abandon functional law and order, remove structural democracy, steal from any international corporation of substance, and insist that it just cannot help itself.
Ecuador can help itself if the enablers of dysfunction would just get out of the way. Ecuador needs to grow up and play it clean to warrant U.S. support for the give-away called ATPDA extensions which it neither deserves nor should be granted for all the hedge fund style mismanagement of the murky Correa team of badly educated adolescents.
Ecuador is in fact moments away from completing the full FTA/TLC accords. It should finalize the deal and grow up. But instead, Ecuador pays heavily to lobby an extension of the give away with no strings attached, called the ATPDA extensions because of its glorious record in counternarcotics fighting which of course does not exist as Ecuador under Correa refuses to stem illicit drug transshipments, refuses to support the U.S. surveillance base at Manta and Correa himself is playing fast and loose with global arbiteurs who manipulate markets for fun and profit....no doubt including serious funds from Venezuelan, Lebanese, and Russian offshore players. Even as Correa has lied about his annual budgets and his role in manipulating the bond market, so too does Correa send forward his Minister of Foreign Affairs to aid and abet firther lies about his activities. There will be no truths coming from Ms. Espinoza this week in Washington.
In fact, any who aid and abet this porn queen are doing so to aid and abet the furtherance of the conversion of Ecuador in to a lawless zone run by Hugo Chavez's operatives and murky financial manipulators. Already we have seen that the military and police of Ecuador are now fully bribed by Correa. Already the politics of porn...and crime... are dysfunctionally welcome in Washington by some of the most craven supporters of the ruination of regional function, the removal of Uribe's principled stance against the FARC, and the installation of unending misery through the Bolivarian authoritarian regime plan.
Sra Espinosa needs to be cancelled immediately. Her darkly bizarre visit to Washington, D.C. as a mouth organ for Correa and Chavez will only be welcome by the gullible, the anti US actors and Bush haters (sometimes deceptively called pragmatic progressives), and those hoping that her so called State Visit will instead turn out to be a book signing party of her books which are chock full of hard porn....porn of her bodily parts and others.
Winking and nodding approval for pornography is one thing. The debasing of sincere diplomacy is more to the point and any who treat this porn queen seriously are themselves not only fools but are aiding and abetting a criminal regime of the darkest intentions. There may be some left lurking in the halls of Foggy Bottom who still claim that pragmatism to encourage populism is the politically correct turn of a phrase to hide what is really the affrontery of their own acts to serve as accessories to crime, but it is hoped that persons of principle will yet act before their own service as accessories to criminality is underway. Any who pay court to this porn queen as promoter of criminal, rogue regimes is an accessory to the awfulness of substandard operations.
Inside the USA, a group of Cindy Sheehan activists- already well connected to Sra Espinosa's backers of disingenuous disinformaton of a variety of anti-US activities, has launched a particular hate campaign against the FOX news channels. It is notable- and commendable- that Jonathan Hunt of FOX recently penned an article reporting first hand on Rafael Correa, revealing in clear words the deceptive ploys, tricks and debased lies of the Correa regime through its false claim to be installing true democracy for the dysfunctional when, the writer-journalist notes, only functional law and order under an operational democracy serves the best interests of any nation.
This is a point lost on Sra Espinosa who has spent her career, when she does at all with her clothes on, insisting that socialism is the better government for her happy world view. Her happy world view, as a porn queen promoter of socialism, is not honorable. Instead of a Book Signing party for her naked pictures at the U.S. Department of State, we can only hope that Sra Espinosa details her true relationship and support for Chavez, her intentions to aid and abet narcoterror and her ruinous plans to destroy confidence in Ecuador by calling supporters of the Bi Lateral Investment Treaty (BIT) as traitors ( which Correa does), by rejecting U.S. intellectual property rights, by insisting that the state of Ecuador ( Chavez and Correa's state) control all economic and financial holdings of both the public and private sectors.
For our part, we can only ponder if Nancy Pelosi will once again "loan" her U.S. Capitol hide away to the likes of Cong. Delahunt, not this time for private talks with Chavez's "ambassador" Alvarez but with porn queen Espinosa. What we do hope is that Sra Espinosa displays not her pornographic charms but instead performs for her friends inside Foggy Bottom a full rendition of her campfire singing capabilities in adoration of Che Guavara and Fidel Castro. That would be worth broadcasting on Fox news. And then Sra Espinosa needs to deliver the facts on why she and her employer, Rafael Correa hate Bush so much and why they tell us ad nauseum that the anti U.S. nations in Latin America are doing so well when.....they are not. Each and every single one has cascaded into zones of ruinous instability and denial of economic liberties, increasingly dependant on the Axis of Evil and the global criminal underbelly. Hardly anything to brag about but to Correa, lies and manipulation are his stock and trade. And now a pornogrpaher comes to sell his deceptions. And now we ask: how much are the U.S. taxpayers being duped in to paying ofr promoting thisunacceptable malfeasance or is the U.S. government (its employees, its well funded Beltway bandits and its so called well funded civil society actors) actually willing to eschew and help fund criminal racketeering?
- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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Breakfast With El Presidente |
FoxNews.com Friday, March 16
I had a boss once (not at FOX, I hasten to add) whom everyone knew as "the smiling assassin" — nicknamed for his ability to smile from ear to ear, as he ruthlessly fired people. Ecuador's new president, Rafael Correa, reminds me of that boss.
President Correa was nice enough to invite me, FOX News Producer Ron Ralston, and Cameraman Eric Barnes, to breakfast this week. And it was fascinating to watch the man in action. He is smart, charismatic, and smiles endlessly. It's little wonder that he wooed the population and won the election with relative ease. But all that charm hides a steely interior and a willingness to fight for what he believes is right. And what he believes is right, is usually left — as in left wing.
Over a breakfast of fruit, yogurt and eggs, he showed his disdain for President Bush and U.S. policies in Latin America. He reiterated his determination to kick American forces out of their strategically valuable base at Manta on Ecuador's coast, where U.S. pilots fight the war on drugs. He talked openly about restructuring contracts with American and other oil companies in Ecuador, arguing that the Ecuadorian people should get to keep a lot more of the money those companies make. It sounded a lot like listening to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. The word nationalization was never actually used, but that was the clear subtext.
During his election campaign, President Correa called President Bush a "dimwit." When I asked him what his opinion of Mr. Bush is now, he took a sip of his coffee, smiled, chided me for my inability to speak Spanish, and then said in perfect English, "What I think of Bush doesn't matter."
True, perhaps, but his failure to use the word "Mr." or "President" spoke volumes. He then went on to talk about President Bush's policies, crediting them with helping the rise of leftist, anti-American leaders in Latin America. "I think his foreign policy is terrible," said President Correa. "But we are very thankful for your Bush. Because thanks to his policies there are a lot of new governments, very successful in the region."
And as he nibbled on his bacon and eggs, Mr. Correa told us again that U.S. forces have no place in Ecuador, so they will be thrown off of the Manta airbase — the place where U.S. pilots fly critically important missions that intercept Ecuadorian and Colombian drug boats. He said the base was useless and if the U.S. wants a base in the region they should put it in Colombia, a nation Mr. Correa has described as a puppet of Washington.
So how will the U.S. deal with this man? It won't be easy. President Correa has huge backing among the people here and is unlikely to cave from any pressure from Washington. That, in fact, according to Ecuadorian political analyst Mario Villagomez would be exactly the wrong path for the U.S. to take. "If you're breathing down his throat, he's going to react and he loves the fight," said Mr. Villagomez. "He's one of those kinds of persons that he's not shy of that and won't shy away from any kind of problem."
And Washington is, for now, heeding those words, taking a soft approach. U.S. officials know all too well that it will not be easy to wipe that dangerous smile off the face of President Rafael Correa.
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FoxNews.com
Wednesday, March 14
Ecuador is a country in crisis. "So what?" you may well ask, "it's only a small South American nation."
Well here's the problem for the U.S.: At the center of the current crisis is a new leftist president who has already formed an alliance with the American-hating Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and is now threatening to kick all American military personnel out of Ecuador. And all this, just as Ecuador becomes increasingly critical in the U.S. war on drugs.
More and more Colombian cocaine is now being smuggled out of Colombia to the south, into Northern Ecuador, largely because of the aggressive and successful campaign waged by the U.S. and Colombian authorities against Colombia's cartels. But the drug lords won't give up easily, and they are now taking their illicit cargo across the porous Colombia/Ecuador border.
From there it is moved to the Ecuadorian coast and onto all manner of boats. Those boats then take the cocaine out into the Pacific in the region of the Galapagos Islands where it is transferred to so-called fast boats that speed up the coastline before dropping their cargo in northern Guatemala or Mexico, from where it is smuggled into the U.S. and on to the estimated six million cocaine users in the United States.
It's not easy stopping those shipments, but the anti-drug operations are helped immeasurably by a small contingent of U.S. personnel at Manta airbase on Ecuador's coast. From that base, U.S. pilots fly drug spotting and interdiction missions. Those missions played a role in more than 60 percent of drug seizures in the Eastern Pacific last year; that's 262 tons of illegal drugs, with a street value of more than five billion dollars.
And now, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa wants the Americans out, and says he will not allow them to stay after the U.S. lease at Manta runs out.
This is from a man who does not back down when he makes a threat. Right now he is facing off against members of his own Congress, as he tries to rewrite Ecuador's constitution and consolidate more and more power in his own hands, just as Chavez has done in Venezuela.
Correa is backing mass protests by his supporters who have tried, with the apparent help of riot police, to intimidate members of Congress and to prevent them entering their place of work. Many of those members of Congress have retreated to the hotel where I am writing, and we are now under a kind of siege —- protestors who support President Correa are lined up outside the hotel, threatening to beat the members of Congress when they emerge.
this country is a tinderbox that seems to the point of exploding into flames. If it does, the fire will undoubtedly destroy Ecuador's democracy, but it may also severely damage America's war on drugs.
... And that's why we all need to pay attention to tiny Ecuador.
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Jonathan Hunt has served as a New York-based correspondent for since 2004. He led the coverage of the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, covered the war in Iraq from Kuwait and Baghdad, and was the first FNC reporter to travel into Fallujah. You can read his bio here.
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FoxNews.com
A Letter To The President (Of Ecuador)
Monday , March 19, 2007
By Jonathan Hunt
Dear Mr. President
Last week, you were kind enough to invite me and my FOX News colleagues to breakfast, where we discussed your opinion of U.S. foreign policy, and your view of the anti-drug operations being carried out by U.S. personnel at Ecuador's Manta Airbase. You described the U.S. surveillance work carried out there as "useless."
Well, Mr. President, with all due respect, having now visited Manta and seen the U.S. operation (something you've never done, Sir) I beg to differ.
It's hard to argue with facts. And the fact is that U.S. planes based at Manta flew 850 surveillance missions over the Pacific last year, and those missions were critical to the seize of more than $5 billion of illegal narcotics, most of it destined for the streets of American cities.
You argue that it's a question of sovereignty: You don't want U.S. forces on Ecuadorian territory. But where's the sovereignty in allowing the northern areas of your country to be overrun by the Colombian cartels, who are bringing more and more cocaine across the border into Ecuador and shipping it out from there? Where's the sovereignty in allowing the cartels to set up cocaine labs in your country, with all the attendant environmental damage? And, Mr. President, where's the sovereignty in allowing more and more Ecuadorians, children and adults, to fall prey to the cartels, to be seduced into a cocaine habit that can only destroy their lives, and the lives of Ecuadorian families?
And, by the way, the U.S. personnel at Manta love your country and the Ecuadorian people. Lt. Colonel Javier Delucca of the U.S. Air Force runs the Manta operation. I have rarely met a man so dedicated — not just in the global fight against drugs, his day job — but to the other part of his work, which is making a difference to the lives of Ecuadorians who live near the base.
Everyone working at the U.S. operation in Manta takes part in raising money for local schools and health clinics. They organize soccer and baseball leagues for the local kids, they work with disabled children in Manta, and while I was there, they reached into their own pockets and raised $450 for a local children's choir that came to perform for them during lunch.
Mr. President, what I saw at Manta, was a group of people who, while proud to be American, are also proud to be a part of the Ecuadorian community, in which they live and work.
Perhaps, Sir, before you fulfill your threat to kick those U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard personnel out of your country, you should go and see for yourself exactly what they do.
And if you need any further incentive, I can tell you from experience that Col. Delucca throws a mean St. Patrick's Day party.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Hunt
Categories: Rule Of Law, United States, Terrorism, Ecuador
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