September 28, 2007   The international media is doing a very good job this week pretending that Correa's "constituent assembly" election this Sunday holds any valid, democratic vote. In lock step, the paid contractors crawling over Ecuador this week have notably agreed in general with the European Union observers that Correa's electioneering- the run up to Sunday's vote- is plagued with unbelievable problems, but typically the chattering classes have all but rolled over and told us that it is inevitable that Correa's machinery will seize the day on Sunday.
 
For our part, we remind that through all of this remains the Big Lie, repeated by criminals for thousands of years: ` I just did it for the money.'

That same line is what we hear this week from Evo Morales: I just need the money [the excuse is to help the poor] and will marry with Ahmadinejad.

Hugo Chavez is fully aligned with Ahmadinejad and the remnants of the Cuban regime, which he alone feeds and warehouses with the full intention of future co-ownership like a lease-purchase agreement. But, Chavez tells us that he does all this - his wholesale theft of state assets- to "help the poor."

Rafael Correa also tells us that he performs his frontal assault on legitimate governance, removing all pesky constitutional bars and international norms [such as money laundering standards] because he too wants to "help the poor." Ahmadinejad also wants to "help the poor" by crafting an unacceptable global jihad to "free the poor" from this thing we call life and give the poor what they really need: slavery, bondage and total obedience to his particular cult.
 
We do not so cults and we do not do Ahmadinejad and we do not align with those who do.
But Hugo Chavez is and does and will be. And this Sunday, by caveat, Ecuador will align itself with Hugo Chavez and Ahmadinejad.

The winner, if any have any doubt and are still actually so craven as to believe those who tell you that Correa is a great ally for Western Civilization [ when he is not]  this Sunday is this:

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, right, sakes hands with Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace, in Caracas, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Iran's president opened his nation's wallet to Bolivia and then visited Venezuela, in a post-U.N. trip to boost ties with Latin American leftists who are increasingly embracing Iran as a counterweight to U.S. influence. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All right reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

 

Rafael Correa has stated that he will merge Ecuador with Chavez who has merged with Ahmadinejad, whose own armed forces are state sponsors of terror. That is, Ahmadinejad is a state sponsor of terror. Then again, Chavez is a state sponsor of a non state group called the FARC. So too is Rafael Correa who is fully aligned with Chavez along with another sponsor of deadbeat nationhood: Fidel Castro's Cuba, which today is on the block for any taker...because Cuba is a broken nation in every way.
 
The FINANCIAL TIMES once again has the matters in Ecuador all wrong. (You can read it here.)

The author wants to tell us that Correa faces a fight on Sunday. In this, the author is wrong. It will take a miracle to undo the prerigged electioneering, the presidential decrees, the abuse of the media, the mathematically skewed voting grid which shows an astonishing thousands of candidates for 130 slots, and the under cover of darkness carting away of Sunday's votes. Fabian Corral, with whom we disagree often, reveals that Correa's assembly plans ignores rule of law. Corral fails to grasp the concept that Ecuador has no rule of law under Correa and that Correa has not one care for same. To continue to pretend that Correa is concerned about rule of law is to enable the myth that Correa will actually stem corruption, turn around Ecuador's standing as the globe's murder capitol, cancel his commitment this week to welcome all money laundering to Ecuador, and his not so veiled support for the FARC. In short, Correa is committed to crime- not equal justice under the law. In fact, Correa will grab all levers of government and control all laws in Ecuador. Anyone who tells you differently is a liar or an enabler, sometimes one and the same.
 
The "Mr.Borreo" in this article who tells us that Correa's constitution is not so "radical" is also a liar. Correa's manifesto com constitutional overhaul to hand him all powers to legislate and govern is so perverse that Ecuador will be booted out of all democratic  entities and will  land Ecuador squarely in bed- where it has been  promiscuously for the last 9 months- with Zimbabwe, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iran and Cuba. These are not good folks to be in bed with.
 
-The Editors, ECRISIS