July 14, 2007  We commend the Wall Street Journal for its superb coverage of the growing scandal that the U.S. foreign policy teams have been infiltrated by anti-U.S. activists who care nothing about building sustainable economies of any scale globally and prefer instead to rely on the ages' old trickery of seizing smallish agendas to dominate confused thinkers in their unending pursuit of accomplishing some bizarre global vision of their own where unsustainable law and order and confusion dominates.
 
By this we refer to the current craze across the U.S. Congressional leadership to act just like Ecuadoreans and make deals and break deals. This reflects a terrible beginning of a downward spiral by U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and her inner group to agree to expanding U.S. trade growth in May, 2007 and then, with the ink on the deal barely dry, breaking the agreements and surrendering to pressure from anti Peru and anti Colombia activists who are actually pro drugs actors determined to return the Andes to their preferred vision of a narcozone as experienced in the first Clinton administration. Nancy Pelosi relies on her George Soros-implanted counsel. So too do the vast numbers of media outlets and U.S. Embassy officials in all Andean nations who meet and greet the dizzying numbers of these varying degrees of varying named activists who are part and parcel of the same agenda to enshrine centralist governments globally under some mythical United Nations overarching structure, install drug legalizations, protect and defend terrorist actors in main if and only if they, like Hezbollah and Hamas aid and abet the downward demise of Western civilization as we know it.
 
As is well known to any who read international media, the leadership of some of the USA's labor unions have teamed up with the United Nation's silliest portions of the International Labor Union [ILO] to deliver a global schemata to enhance what is essentially the same agenda of the old, and slightly more in hiding, FORA de SAO PAULO neo socialists or whatever name one can apply to these snarky anti-development activists. The scant millions spent by these groups to actually buy influence in Latin America is of course leveraged in poor nations to a massive juggernaut of activists who themselves operate in growing, well funded numbers.....because the ridiculously and illegally USA helps fund them with tax dollars and huge tax breaks while the United Nations and the Organization of American States [OAS] joins in the fun, too.
 
The JOURNAL article - read it here or below-does not spare U.S. Secretary of State Rice either, nor should it. She has the ongoing obligation to terminate the foolishness that so permeates this current silly season at State Department that hiring anti U.S. actors will enable the anti U.S. actors to grow up. Diplomacy is in need of mentors and training but last we looked, such high salaries require that "executive" diplomats are supposed to perform, with ratings indicators, adult behaviors and not require such massive on the job training as we give our young people. But as State Department's Charles Shapiro, former Assistant Secretary Roger Noriega, and former Carterite John Maisto - for years- told us and acted thereto.... the foreign policy of the United States of America toward Latin America must be a team effort with the rising, albeit confused and by now known for what they are- the criminally aberrant national leadership of several key nations whose own bizarre administrations are infiltrated by criminal actors and the growing hordes of their personal propagandists sometimes called NGOs.
 
To be sure, many NGO groups are admirably delivering sound non governmental corporeal acts of charity. And to be sure, there are wise and superb persons of all stripes and high personal performances across all the Americas. But the reverence and actual funding by the pro Hezbollah, pro HAMAS, pro Iranian groups, pro euthanasia, pro narcoterrorists, pro restrictions on trade and development  is hallmarked by these actors' very conglomeration to encourage the lie that shuttering free speech is necessary to expand the communist agenda of Hugo Chavez, that a military blockade around Latin America is needed to keep prying eyes from gathering the facts and that Latin Americans themselves are so stupid and corrupt that they deserve this.
 
What we have here are two cross roads of history. There are two roads diverging and only one will win out, although mankind historically prefers a middle road but where these two polar opposite roads have emerged, there is only a black and white road map to select. And select we must.
 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is under tremendous pressure from the master manipulators who have infiltrated the Democratic Party of the USA and are echoing their tactics in Washington precisely as they have performed in Caracas, Quito and La Paz. The U.S. has never seen anything like this before and pity must be extended to Pelosi because she is in no way prepared to deal with the rising tide of these actors of propaganda. But Pelosi deserves no respect whatsoever for her failure as a leader to perform her obligation to lead as Speaker based on facts and not propaganda/non facts as she has been doing to date. While Nancy Pelosi will remain a short cipher in history, what is the relevance here is that a cascade of behaviors can shutter growth and development for the entire region across the Americas or it can act swiftly to grow and sustain liberty's benefits for the entire region. Pelosi is mired in her own stew of social activists and pro Chavez propagandists, sometimes called NGOs and sometimes called NGOs backed by the OAS, US AID and their partner in Latin America correctly named as the godfather of the Democratic Party of the USA and supporter of the do drugs groups, namely George Soros right now and it is not a position of eminence. But the head of the OAS, among many job-removing behaviors, claims that Hugo Chavez is just all right with the OAS because he can hide his crimes behind some mythical claim to democracy and that his close intimate, George Soros acts with diplomacy's highest behaviors as a statesman. We remind that Insulza in this, and many things, lies. George Soros is neither a diplomat nor a statesman.  Make no mistake about it: the Soros groups have impacted the U.S. government- about half of it. This includes the free wheeling play book, as an open welcome mat to key actors such as U.S. Senators Dodd, Leahy and Reid as well as House members Pelosi, Delahunt, and hundreds more.
 
The USA has suffered political or criminal infiltrations before but never on such a scale as this before. The USA never deals with infiltrators very well and is more like a child with few defenses against a new epidemic. The current epidemic is corruption and propaganda.The Russian KGB made serious efforts for over forty years and mostly succeeded in Europe, aligning many times with restrictive labor unions to debase Europe's potential, with successful infiltrations. Today, the same tactics are well engineered across the whole of the Americas. One can only ponder how many former KGB disinformation technicians are currently engaged in the Castro-Chavez-Correa-Morales public relations teams, sometimes called the Venezuelan Information Office [VIO] and sometimes called U.S. NGO activists who freely  about the U.S. outposts at the American's positions called its Embassy in Venezuela, the U.S. Embassy in Ecuador and the Embassies of Iran and/or Cuba [where they exist]. The cross over behaviors of these same actors is quite apparent in many of the Soros groups and the pro Chavez groups. And because the U.S. Democrats and the their kissing cousins and co funders, the anti -U.S. actors in Latin America ,share common cause, they do now share common funding and have swelled the ranks of their policies of hatred to a dizzying zone.
 
This esoteric ranting here matters little and could be dismissed as simply a right wing versus a left wing political screed. That would be false and misses the point. When death, freedom and failure of nations to provide common cause and sustainable quality of life is on the line, politics is a poor hand maiden and , contrary to the current belief, is in no way a replacement for principled leadership. Politics will never ever magically transform lives or provide enough give aways to justify the bribes. Never. Quality if life grows solely by common sense steps well known to honest actors and never by political hacks.
 
This tragic tale of Latin and American political hacks who have not got the common sense of a dog, has created a smokescreen of propagandists. When the dust settles, behind the screen- moving the Oz-like gears- will always be a small subset of clever but unhelpful actors. Unhelpful means not helping the common good.
Helpful actors are roundly dismissed in today's bruising world of propaganda as political art but their message, while dismissed, stands to remind us all where we need to be going and it is not down the well of despair crafted by the duplicitous leadership populating the inner groups of Nancy Pelosi, Hugo Chavez, Ahmadinejad of Iran and Rafael Correa of Ecuador, although some obtain funding support from identical feeding troughs. This makes a difference. And begins to explain why Nancy Pelosi breaks deals and why the pro Chavez actors think that this is a great thing.
 
To our way of thinking, this is no longer a political food fight of the Democrats who appease or actually support either George Soros or Hugo Chavez or Iran's propaganda arm sometimes called Hezbollah. Indeed, it is a fight for the facts and a fact for freedom- not democracy. Democracy gives us the right to legitimately elect. Freedom holds out highest affections while our aspirations may grow.
 
Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro sell no dreams, no hopes, no aspirations. Rafael Correa tells us that his government will follow the Chavez and Castro plans.
The U.S. Congress has rewarded Rafael Correa. The U.S. Congress under Nancy  Pelosi has chosen not to reward freedom loving governments such as Panama, Peru and Columbia, not to mention South Korea. We predict that soon enough Pelosi herself will either be removed from office for acts of duplicity or she will miraculously land back on her feet and remand the management of the U.S. Congress for the good of all the Americas.
 
The JOURNAL article informs us that Bush Cabinet official John Walters correctly shares the fact that there is truly a well paid lobbying/propaganda effort across the Americas to disinform all outlets about the facts. The article cites WOLA which is of course against Alvaro Uribe in  many ways and of course is but one or the many headed hydra of propagandists. To cause harm to Uribe, the pro drugs efforts have teamed up with the anti trade restrictionists.
 
What all these anti trade and pro narcotics growth actors have forgotten to do is to ask the people themselves,. Instead of relying on jiggered so called opinion polls, what is long forgotten is what each and every one of us knows and seeks: a common sense agenda where our lives and our children are safer with some normal chance for some health care, a chance for a job and a chance for education. Castro and Chavez spend a lot of money to tell us that their plans to deliver same are fabulous. We know better and know too that this is fraudulent. There is no worker's paradise. There is mankind struggling to better himself and his family.
 
John Walters knows first hand what it takes to raise a family in our world, as most of our readers do. Common sense approaches are badly needed at all tables, particularly across Western hemisphere's governmental decision making bodies which for too long toyed with the facts, appeased criminality and accepted the deleterious stupidities of non state actors who engineer yet nonsensical plans. Clearly breaking some of the shackles of his own silly staffers and team players, Walters does what he apparently does best....lays out the facts. It is a breath of fresh air and we can only wonder why it took him so long to break free of his own nay-sayers,sometimes called highly paid staff and sometimes called anti-U.S. infiltrators. Clearly Walters has not been the only U.S. leader to suffer such gaffes and slow downs from the enablers and passive aggressives who have populated bureaucracies for ages. In today's world, there is no excuse for these mistaken misapplications of freedom's lights. Not any more. The fruits of these acts have given us a bitter harvest of rampant criminals, left too long enabled or....what was last season's favorite descriptor, "worrisome." Worrisome. Lady liberty must surely be repulsed by the enablers of criminality as too many put a gun to her head and  all she gets from our leaders is that we are "worried." Worried is not a good response when death if freedom is on the line, no matter how politically correct it sounds and how much we misapply the phrase "diplomatic solution" to the assassins.  We say- stop enabling the rape of freedom.
 
The government of Rafael Correa and its chain of enablers is today seen for what it is: a criminal regime whose very tenants are repulsive for their abuse of privilege, their disavowal of liberty's best features and its dependence on criminal cartels and their propagandists. Unless and until Ecuadoreans demand an end to these masters of manipulation, there will be no trade and no aid and no future at all for Ecuador. Just ask departing U.S. ambassador Linda Jewell. She will no doubt state frankly, if fairly asked, that Correa's Ecuador is today a dead zone with no vibrancy, no allies outside of Iran, Bolivia {whatever good that will do], George Soros, Marc Rich's development team, itself aligned with Russian groups, and Hugo Chavez. Ecuador certainly no future under current plans and has gone out of business. There will be no magical transformation to functional freedom under their plan for Ecuador. Jewell, if she is honest, will frankly detail that the upcoming Constituent Assembly is a fraud and will in no way reform anything nor render one single positive step forward for Ecuador. The Chavez-Soros-Marc Rich teams in Correa's Ecuador want rewards for their investments. And like all good mafias, they will go to the mattresses and have their pay back. Problem is...without the facts, without sound analysis, without speaking truth to power, Ecuadoreans pretend that Rafael Correa will save them....from themselves and their own laziness, their selfishness, their ennui, their current craze to self delude and refuse to act on principles. It is not a national anthem worth singing. Far better we think would be consistent support and actors to build a sustainable, functional democracy in Ecuador and not the phony, shallow regime of criminals, pornographers and ninnyhammers. What remains to be answered is why we have all enabled the anti liberty groups to team up with some of the gobe's smelliest souls and call this "diplomacy"?
 
- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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July 14, 2007 
 
REVIEW & OUTLOOK 
 
The Wall Street Journal 
Trade Double-Cross Update
July 14, 2007; Page A6
When we last checked the Congressional trade debate, Democrats were reneging on their May deal to pass trade expansion pacts with Latin America. Someone is finally fighting back -- even in the too supine Bush Administration.

Most notably, Peruvian President Álan Garcia has snapped back at Congressional Democrats who are insisting that they babysit his country's political process on trade. The former socialist who has become an important free-trade advocate and U.S. ally in Latin America doesn't seem pleased.

House Democratic leaders recently did a reversal and declared that Peru would have to change its laws before Congress voted to approve the U.S.-Peru trade pact that only a month earlier they'd promised to support. And in a unilateral display of mistrust, Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel was tapped to visit Lima in August to make sure the unreliable foreigners follow Congressional orders. Democrats assured everyone that this was no big deal and that Peruvian officials were delighted.

Apparently not. "It is now time for the United States Congress to act in the name of our countries' friendship and common goals," Mr. Garcia recently wrote in separate letters to Mr. Rangel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Peru has done its share and it is now time for the U.S. Congress to start acting for a prompt passage" of the trade pact. Mr. Garcia specifically asked Mr. Rangel to initiate an approval hearing in Ways and Means in July, before his August trip to Lima.

Mr. Garcia has every right to be angry. Peru's Congress has already endorsed the trade deal, which means it has promised to change its laws to accommodate it. Peru didn't wait to see if House Democrats would have second thoughts, which has turned out to be the real protectionist problem.

Meanwhile, Democrats look prepared to kill the U.S.-Colombia trade deal altogether, on the pretext that Bogota hasn't done enough to protect labor leaders from violence. This would be a major strategic blunder, considering Colombia's help in the war on drugs and key location next to Hugo Chávez's Venezuela. Given those stakes, we keep wondering when someone in the Bush Administration other than U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab is going to join the fray.

So we're glad to say that on a visit to our New York offices this week, U.S. drug czar John Walters pulled no punches. "The opposition of Democrats to free trade and military resources for Colombia at this time is reprehensible," Mr. Walters said. By "resources" he means money for helicopter lift and other things that Senator Pat Leahy and House Democrat Nita Lowey are threatening to withhold from annual U.S. aid for Colombia.

"[Álvaro] Uribe is the Nelson Mandela of Colombia," Mr. Walters said about the popular two-term president, whose anti-terror policies have helped reduce violence in nearly every part of his country's life. "I would challenge anyone to show me a country that has done more for human rights than Colombia," the drug czar said, adding that Democrats who claim otherwise are merely "mimicking left-wing non-profits" whose allegations "are lies." He specifically mentioned the hard-left Washington Office on Latin America.

Bravo to Messrs. Garcia and Walters. They're doing the job that senior Bush officials ought to be doing to raise the political stakes in the trade debate. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson have both been missing in action on Peru and Colombia -- and they certainly aren't risking any of their personal political capital by criticizing Democrats for their protectionist excuses.

Yet if they won't speak up, Democrats will take the easiest path and bend to pressure from the AFL-CIO. Concerning Mr. Paulson in particular, what did he come to Washington to accomplish anyway? His hopes for entitlement reform are dead. Trade expansion is still possible, but not if the Administration lets Democrats get away with trashing our closest Latin American allies.

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