June 30, 2007   We commend Carlos Alberto Montaner's vision of hope for Castro's penal colony called Cuba. Read his June 27, 2007 comments before Spain's NEW ECONOMY FORUM here and en Español here.

 

We remind however that Hugo Chavez has a different vision for Cuba and its drones. It is called the Leninist-Stalinist communist bloc currently co-managed by Russo-Iranian mafias and murky global manipulators.Chavez just agreed to sell the family jewels, as it were, the last remaining oil block in Venezuela in perpetuity to the KGB-backed oil mafias of Putin's incredibly corrupt "modern" Russia. That would be almost one trillion barrels of oil. Russia today is awash in oil monies, held by the few while hard poverty is worse than Bolivia, with about 80% of all Russians, as with Iranians, well ensconced in lives of grinding poverty. Chavez, who is in deep financial trouble, has seen his hand squeezed by the old fashioned black hand of the market manipulators he has played with to the point where he is bereft of choices and does now come to this place where his options are few and legitimate acts even less. With death on the line in his over leveraged mindset, Chavez needs money and full controls to prevent any from actually looking inside his criminal hedge fund-style empires, most  often distracted by the Chavez circus antics. Chavez also wants to protect his so called "offshore" assets by buying almost a dozen world class attack submarines from Russia, surface to air missiles and a global satellite system he claims is for telecommuting with Castro but we know it to be for weapons control. Chavez runs his realm like an offshore hedge fund for criminals, thugs and Russian mafias. Venezuela is not a nation any longer but simply a cipher, bound by propaganda, greed of the politburo, and cynical disavowal of normative integrities.

 

In summary, Castro's penal colony sometimes called Cuba has just seen its prison sentance extended. There are no freedoms in Cuba. Worse yet, Cuba has surrendered itself to the Russian-Venezuelan-Iranian bloc, which now intends a blockade as it drains the life and soul of free peoples...across all the Americas.

Chavez's nativist plans for ensconcing his world view of crime and corruption is only enabled because we, the free peoples of the world, let him. We let Chavez convert Venezuela in to one giant KGB-style hedge fund for economic machinations, oil-backed gamesmanship of extortion both political and financial, and the new blockade of all that matters in Latin America even as the Iranian-Russian hand rocks their cradle.Chavez has already crafted a free speech and functional democracy black out, while the OAS basically applauded, standing nowhere even near any principles. The RC TV theft, like so many in Latin America, is all part of the statist blockade. All freedom lovers in the Americas must move quickly to prevent this spread of true evil. The common sense tools for restoring functional democracy are well known, however dusty they have become from non-use for the last two years and must now be reapplied to cancel this blockade of truth. Do not assume that the Congress of the U.S. will review the continent wide reversal of the Monroe Doctrine. The Pelosi and Reid duo of Soros-backed brain implants is incapable of even standing on principle with Colombia's Uribe in their unending efforts to aid and abet Chavez's squeeze play for the Western Hemisphere, removing any pesky freedom lover such as Uribe who stands in the way of the cascading end to Latin freedoms, never mind defenders of the Monroe Doctrine which is of course verboten to Sorosites..

 

For itself, Ecuador must decide if Correa's plans to remain dysfunctionally intermarried with Russo-Iranian mafias and Hugo Chavez, seeing this as a bed best walked away from. We doubt that Foreign Affairs Minister Espinosa serves best to advise on functional marriages given her predilections for pornography and propaganda.to install these errant convenience marriages with the Russo-Iranian-Venezuelan troika, as is well known. Indeed, that may be the problem... finding someone/anyone in Ecuador to simply state NO MAS to the juggernaut encircling and squeezing all Latin America called totalitarianism. The dysfunction of master manipulators has gone on too long and the overt squeeze play is now obvious. If there is anyway out of this Chavez chess game of evil, checkmate is not an option for healthy living for our children. Brave Argentineans wowed us all this past week by their non-approval of Chavez's soccer gambit cup. The fans do not approve Chavez's cloak of silence against RC TV. We today, by our own acts which fail ourselves and our colleagues, doom our children to lives ahead as blockade runners at all costs- that is, if they have the temerity, today needed as courage, to try to undo what we do here now by our timid acquiescence to misalliances of dysfunctional governance and true evil.

 

The blockade of Chavez's criminality will soon enough close its tentacles around us all...if we let them. Who, pray tell, will run the gauntlet today and remove the self imposed noose from all our necks as it tightens? Chavez tells us today that  he wants to protect his offshore jewels... his on-shore jewels have just been sold to Putin's politburo of Russian mafias. Chavez tells us that this is not an offensive communist shield he erects. Indeed, it is not. Chavez acts to encircle Latin America and lock it in while Chavez's minions drain all assets and bar any from getting in for a peek at his miserable gulags. Chavez's minions sell you out next just as Marc Rich has just bought a huge chunk of Ecuador's oil patch. Blockade runners for freedom are dearly needed today and become the most esteemed of actors.

 

-Pedro Camargo for the Editors of ECrisis