Correa's Government Exposed as Corrupt; Insulza Pretends this Doesn't Matter and that his NGO groups can Repair it all through new Assembly
August 3, 2007 Ecuador has tragically seen its international reputation decrease toward the bottom of the global corruption index, as we have reported. Petroleumworld has an update on the corruption epidemic in Ecuador here in a new article by Gustavo Coronel.The article compares Ecuador's corruption and current governmental activities to those of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and notes, " It might not be a simple coincidence that both countries have authoritarian, socialist oriented political regimes, a faltering oil industry and presidents who speak in strident and arrogant tones against citizens who oppose their governments. The political choreography being followed by President Rafael Correa in Ecuador (presidential language, attitudes against the press, Constituent Assembly, among other components) is a carbon copy of the one used by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to convert what was a democratic system into a dictatorial one, characterized by military controlled institutions, extreme abuse of power and increasing levels of government corruption.
A recent bidding process for the provision and storage of LPG, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, for PetroEcuador illustrates the numerous ethical cracks that exist today within the Ecuadorian government and oil industry and how similar these cracks are to those currently getting wider within the Venezuelan Hydrocarbons industry. It would seem that lack of transparency and disdain for good management of public funds are obligatory ingredients of authoritarian, socialist regimes."
A recent bidding process for the provision and storage of LPG, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, for PetroEcuador illustrates the numerous ethical cracks that exist today within the Ecuadorian government and oil industry and how similar these cracks are to those currently getting wider within the Venezuelan Hydrocarbons industry. It would seem that lack of transparency and disdain for good management of public funds are obligatory ingredients of authoritarian, socialist regimes."
Coronel also unravels some of the tangled web of murky Chavez and Correa- linked preferred cronies such as Trafigura.
With no legitimate Congress and no legitimate justice system left in Ecuador [or Venezuela for that matter] to provide any oversight or law enforcement, the only tool left for Ecuadoreans is free speech and even this is suffering a melt down under Rafael Correa's strong arm tactics to muzzle the media and free speech.
Unfortunately, just because there remains no legitimate, transparent government left in Ecuador under Correa, Sr. Insulza of the OAS refuses to note the end of democracy's functioning in Ecuador simply because Correa was ostensibly elected legitimately. To Insulza, this gives Correa a free pass to say and do anything he wants and seize full dictatorial powers as he has done while ruining what few chances Ecuador retained for progress. In fact, Ecuador cannot afford Correa and his ruinous policies.
But Insulza this past week seemed happily willing to bless the whole mess and confer his preferred NGO, IDEA to supposedly keep a watchful eye on the entire constituent assembly process, as if this legitimized what is crudely illegitimate. With no fact based reporting, data or analysis regarding Ecuador's disastrous end to democracy, Insulza seems to believe that his preferred NGO, IDEA- which apparently helped organize his key visits in Quito, will provide fact based and corrective steps for the corrupt Cuban and Chavez style governmental installation process underway in Ecuador.
While IDEA is no mere Band Aid group of activists, in no way does this organization hold the chutzpah - however "nice" many of their backers appear to be- and it does not have the cajones or the capacity to stand for much more than now standard passive aggressive Carter Center or UN style enabling of more mischief in Ecuador. In fact, a quick glance at their past and present board of directors from IDEA indicates precisely this...and still we ask: who paid for this and why? What possible value to the Ecuadoreans comes from paid smallish Band Aids on a victim which is clearly bleeding from every direction and is today on life support, barely breathing.
We pray that these points are found to be untrue and that functional law and order as well as principled behavior returns to Ecuador. Miracles can and do occur and governments can and do at times ironically face reformists with good measure. This is not happening in Ecuador and the odds of this happening have just been decreased dramatically. Corruption is a disease that kills the body and soul of nations. There is no excuse for this new epidemic destroying Ecuador which the country can neither afford nor long suffer, however long suffering Ecuadoreans are in their unending refrain that they are "too busy/ just trying to survive" to do anything about anything regarding their own persons and their well being. In the end, Ecuadoreans will get what they asked for by doing nothing andf standing for even less: they will have an empty, hollow shrine to Correa's state kleptocracy in Montecristi and still their lives with hold nothing meaningful.
But Insulza this past week seemed happily willing to bless the whole mess and confer his preferred NGO, IDEA to supposedly keep a watchful eye on the entire constituent assembly process, as if this legitimized what is crudely illegitimate. With no fact based reporting, data or analysis regarding Ecuador's disastrous end to democracy, Insulza seems to believe that his preferred NGO, IDEA- which apparently helped organize his key visits in Quito, will provide fact based and corrective steps for the corrupt Cuban and Chavez style governmental installation process underway in Ecuador.
While IDEA is no mere Band Aid group of activists, in no way does this organization hold the chutzpah - however "nice" many of their backers appear to be- and it does not have the cajones or the capacity to stand for much more than now standard passive aggressive Carter Center or UN style enabling of more mischief in Ecuador. In fact, a quick glance at their past and present board of directors from IDEA indicates precisely this...and still we ask: who paid for this and why? What possible value to the Ecuadoreans comes from paid smallish Band Aids on a victim which is clearly bleeding from every direction and is today on life support, barely breathing.
We pray that these points are found to be untrue and that functional law and order as well as principled behavior returns to Ecuador. Miracles can and do occur and governments can and do at times ironically face reformists with good measure. This is not happening in Ecuador and the odds of this happening have just been decreased dramatically. Corruption is a disease that kills the body and soul of nations. There is no excuse for this new epidemic destroying Ecuador which the country can neither afford nor long suffer, however long suffering Ecuadoreans are in their unending refrain that they are "too busy/ just trying to survive" to do anything about anything regarding their own persons and their well being. In the end, Ecuadoreans will get what they asked for by doing nothing andf standing for even less: they will have an empty, hollow shrine to Correa's state kleptocracy in Montecristi and still their lives with hold nothing meaningful.
Ecuador in its self inflicted suicide is heading to a global corruption rating on par with the worst hell holes on Earth: Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran. President Correa thinks this is a good idea and Insulza sends in an NGO whose own board has been populated by Soros-backed actors from the numerous Soros-backed dysfunctional family of organizations such as the Crisis Group, Transparency International, etc. whose own offices in Ecuador are not at all what one would assume.There is no transparency any more in Ecuador anjd still this group fails to report anything at all. To this roster we find scores of other past and present U.N. and Soros-backed actors and activities such as the one world global governance effort and justice system which some call the beginnings of global socialism. Clearly Insulza- and the IDEA group, itself bereft of any functional governance ideas, offer no life line to Ecuador's epidemic. It is almost as if Insulza has just agreed to look the other way while Correa utterly ruins Ecuador for the foreseeable future while retaining every illegal Chavez- backed trick in the book and wasting more effort on paid political propaganda to disseminate more untruths. Why do we pay for this as if not paid before? There are better ways to serve mankind and help a corrupt and dying victim. It starts by knowing the difference between simply being elected and actually standing for something such as functional democracy and integrity.
Pay attention to the real story here....which is the end of security and even handed law and order as well as honest government.
To be "too busy" to stand for even the basics dooms each of us to a Cuban style hell on earth of our own making. They will come for you next, no matter how much you pretend that simply by shopping or worse yet...doing nothing...you will make more money and enjoy a rewarding life, and the misery index will just keep rising. The World Bank's corruption index about Ecuador is just one of many more indexes about a thoroughly corrupt system which Insulza just inexplicably and dishonestly legitimized. With free speech and Ecuador's once vibrant media loosing its bearings by Presidential mandate, who stands for Ecuador? More importantly, who among us will stop making excuses and stand to defend the blessings of liberty?
Insulza is wrong to diagnose democracy as healthy today in Ecuador as he just did, also calling this a "buen momento." This is not a good moment for Ecuador and matters are clearly not healthy. That is unless you believe also that Fidel Castro looks healthy also even while he looks like a cadaver Such a comparison, contrasting two dying entities, is precisely what Insulza inexplicably handed Ecuadoreans. Neither Correa's fake democracy as government nor Fidel Castro are healthy at all. Both are dying. In fact, this is more like a socialists' suicide pact..
-Pedro Camargo for ECRISIS
Posted by The Editors of Ecrisis at 8/3/2007 10:09 PM 
Categories: Rule Of Law, Venezuela, OIL, Comunismo, Ecuador
Categories: Rule Of Law, Venezuela, OIL, Comunismo, Ecuador
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