October 1, 2007   Since Ahmadinejad has formally teamed with Chavez and Correa to co-host Ecuador. We invite our readers to send in a caption for this untouched photo. It appears that the photo is the only thing untouched here.
 
Because Chavez and Correa and Ahmadinejad share the same....errr....fun filled ideas for ruining all functional liberties, serve themselves up as psychopaths in general, and seem to enjoy moments of great fun, as pictured here, we are sure that our readers will come up with some good captions. Fire away!
 
We will post any captions worthy of review. Then again, under Chavez, Correa and Ahmadinejad....there is no free speech and no freedom to worship any longer. We understand if our gentle readers are afraid to speak up against tyranny, deception and repression.
 
Here is a general background interview with his sovereign leader Correa who, it is clear to see, needs no prodding to reveal some of his true intentions which contains a simple message that deception at all costs is his hallmark. Our readers know that Lally Wemouth is the daughter of the former head of the WASHINGTON POST. Correa even intentionally lies about his contact with Bush officials. He has, for example, met with John Negroponte and we promise that he is a man who is "high level." In fact, he is not a "nobody" and is no one to be trifled with, however much Negroponte foolishly approved the silliness of wasting US tax dollars for the Crisis Group reports to encourage the demise of Colombia and bolster Correa's ridiculous Plan Ecuador, which is dead on arrival for its sheer stupidity. La Ministra met with Secretary Rice and last we looked, Rice is a formidable woman, however much Correa wants to tell us that she is not high level.

Once again, Correa exhibits the shallowness of his short stay in the USA for his shallow education in the boon docks and his utter manipulations of the historic realities of the USA. Correa only lies and manipulates the facts, as he did precisely in his so called "PhD" thesis which was unbearably unacceptable. Ecuadoreans should be aware that there is a growing and substantial revulsion of all things Correa for his constant abuse of honesty and leadership. All politics may be local but Ecuadoreans fool themselves that they must stand alone in the dark and fear Correa. As with all of mankind's historic struggles, no man is an island, no matter what the enabling chattering class in Ecuador may insist.
 
No man stands alone for long, much as they are instructed to so behave. This is foolish and misleading for all Ecuadoreans to pretend that there is no one else in the world that has never suffered a similar self inflicted national suicide. Just look at Zimbabwe, Burma and Iran. Those nations are practically dead now as are tens of millions of their own people. Those nations also "forget" to stay well informed, forgot to remain vigilant and forgot what happens when families, nations and each of us preach the glories of selling out and manipulating democracy. Democracy cannot be manipulated. So go ahead- enjoy realizing that there a whole world waiting for Ecuadoreans to at last team up with honest liberty lovers around the globe.

In fact, there are so few in Ecuador these days that the few remaining would do well to coalesce for safety in numbers. No longer do Ecuadoreans need to subsist under the shadow of constant manipulative deceivers. All it takes is one small step and a genuine linkage from truth tellers and defenders of democracy. There- that was not so hard was it? Enjoy Lally's expose of what should have long been exposed. And for the record...Correa lies about the Manta Base. He rejects that the locals want to keep it. He forgets, while busy lying, that Ecuador is a major drug transshipment nation which is part of the FARC's success story. Ecuador was never a drug producing nation and that has nothing to do with Correa's government. Besides, the real money is in the shipping and Correa wants to expand this. Rumor holds that Correa has vowed that Chavez may use Manta for his nuclear attack subs... just under a dozen now. Correa lies about Ecuadorean journalists also. Most have a proud tradition as professionals in their own right and to denounce these good professionals is shameful.

Correa does not even blush at sending journalists to prison with no habeas corpus at all. The media owners need to also stand up and defend one of democracy's key lights: freedom of expression which Correa, as co owner of Ahmadinejad's media propaganda and TELESUR will close down all free speech.
 
Soon, as in Venezuela, you will see pictures like the one above of Morales and Ahmadinejad littering the highways and the media in happy- albeit unholy- union with dictatorships united to lose.  And then ask yourself what is going on here. No one is permitted to review openly the Ahmadinejad and Chavez monies and des in Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Have we surrendered our affection for manipulation and lies so deeply that we no longer even ....ask? Defend transparency? Defend our futures? And then ask yourself if you are not repulsed by the half truths, full lies and deceptions by Correa handed to Lally by President Correa. And then ask yourself....do you know where these hands are moving??? 
 
The Editors, ECrisis

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Ecuador's Hugo Chavez?
Monday, October 1, 2007; A19   WASHINGTON POST 

Ecuador's new left-leaning president, Rafael Correa, studied economics in the United States, but the U.S. way of governing does not seem to have rubbed off on him. He appears set on following the example set by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. Last week Correa sat down with Newsweek-Washington Post's Lally Weymouth. Excerpts:

Q. People want to know if you are as anti-U.S. as your rhetoric would indicate.

A. I lived here and have two academic diplomas from the University of Illinois. Historically we have had very good relations with this country, so we are not anti-American at all. We would like to improve our commercial cooperation with the U.S.

Q . Then why do you oppose the U.S.-Ecuador trade pact?

A. Because it will destroy our agricultural sector.

Q. What is wrong with the free-trade agreement?

A. When you are trading with a country with huge subsidies for the agricultural sector like the U.S. -- the impact of this free-trade agreement would be dangerous for our farmers.

Q. But surely overall, the impact would be positive?

A. You are wrong. Even for Mexico, you can see a lot of problems [from NAFTA]. The impact on small farmers is very dangerous.

Q. How close are you to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez?

A. He is a very good friend of mine.

Q. Do you admire Chavez and think he has done a good job?

A. Yes, I think he's a very honest person -- a clear leader, a very democratic president.

Q. You are now calling for a new constituent assembly as Chavez did. Why?

A. We don't have a true representative democracy because our representatives don't care about us. So we don't have means to push them to do what people want to do.

Q. It's said that the constituent assembly will make the executive branch stronger.

A. In our country, the executive power is very weak. . . . The executive needs more power in order to lead the country.

Q. Why have you said that you would not renew the U.S. lease on the base at Manta in '09?

A. You are asking me why not. I am asking you why "yes."

Q. Because it is used for anti-drug surveillance flights.

A. Ecuador is not a drug producer, and we have been very successful in our fight against drugs. So why put a foreign military base in our country?

Q. You have spoken about either not paying or restructuring Ecuador's foreign debt. What is your plan?

A. We are going to pay the foreign debt as long as the situation in the country allows us to pay it. If we don't have enough money to pay the social claims in Ecuador, salaries, etc., and at the same time to pay the foreign debt, our ethical and technical priorities are very clear. First, to attempt to face the national needs, later, the foreign debt.

Q. In order to create jobs, don't you have to attract foreign direct investment?

A. At this moment, Ecuador doesn't have external financing. We have enough national and public savings in order to make loans to start the growth process and employment creation.

Q. Why wouldn't it be smarter to attract foreign capital instead of using up public savings?

A. We are not refusing foreign investment. If foreign investment wants to come, it is welcome, but we have our own savings.

Q. So you are not going to get outside companies to come in and finance refineries? Are they welcome to own them?

A. They are welcome, but we are counting on our own savings in the first instance.

Q. What's the law? Are they welcome to own them or are you going to nationalize them?

A. We prefer that the kind of business related to non-renewable resources to be owned by the state or by public enterprises.

Q. Why do you support the seizing of the Occidental oil fields?

A. Because they broke 52 times the contract, our Ecuadorian law -- they believe we are still a colony.

Q. What is your priority?

A. Constitutional reforms in order to have a true democracy.

Q. Didn't you crack down on the press and arrest an editor last May?

A. You have very uneducated journalists in our country.

Q. What is your idea of an uneducated journalist?

A. They believe that in order to have an interview, they have to aggress the other person. They must learn to respect people, especially the president of their republic.

Q. Our politicians probably don't like being attacked, but they respect the free media.

A. I respect the media, but I also respect the rights of the other person. You don't have the kind of journalists we do. Secondly, not all things are good in this country. In our country, if someone calls you a killer, a thief, a dishonest man, he must prove it; otherwise he goes to jail. I know that here in the United States you can say a lot of things without proof.

Q. What do you think about President Bush and your relationship with the United States?

A. We have not had any high-level contact with this administration.

Q. Is there anything you would like the American people to know about you?

A. Perhaps they can be convinced that we are honest people who are doing what anyone would do in our country with huge inequalities.