October 25, 2007  The ghost of Fidel Castro and the specter of communism rising from the grave is not a trick for Halloween. It is real and it is now and it deserves no hand outs/no support or encouragement at all. In fact, it deserves to be stopped- now. Cuba and Venezuela are formally linked irrevocably in all meaningful senses. No longer content to call Cuba a pet charity- a $40 billion pet charity, Chavez now cashes in his investment and fully controls the feckless, renter island called Cuba. Like almost all militaries in Latin America, the Cuban military has been bribed and brow beaten long enough by the one man who has been feeding them the last few years: Chavez- until there are none left to stand against Chavez in Cuba. Or elsewhere much at all.
 
But the Chavez controlled and owned media, such as seen in this report and attendant photo, has also agreed with Chavez that non reporting and "freedom of expression" must be ended and controlled by the state- the repressive state, aligned with Muslim extremists that is. Chavez co owns extremist Muslim media companies who tell us that freedom of expression must die, along with freedom of religion:

Chavez's extraterritorial fascist ambitions are today a reality. His criminal Bolivarianism, whatever that is, build up of weapons, oil-gas and communications, including media and telecoms, is almost complete now to encompass 5 previously independent and former state allies of the USA.

Read the UK's GUARDIAN piece here. Unless you have not been paying attention- or pretending that the global issues matter not or worse, pretending that the lies you hear are truisms, we remind that this is a red axis of evil that shuts down normative freedoms and makes a mockery of diplomacy, integrity and common sense.
 
Ecuador has surrendered to the Chavez-Iranian fascism. With no meaningful protests- not even the highly respected student protests in Caracas, Ecuador reveals its own state of irresponsible incompetence, abandoning its future in the pathetic hope that Ecuadoreans can manipulate their way out of Chavez's fascism under Correa. There will be no way out for these clowns. It starts with freedom of speech. No one in Ecuador today does not assume that Correa is not listening, applying his newly minted KGB style Cuban-Chavez spy stations.
 
We recall the words of America's 3rd president Thomas Jefferson: "our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. Where the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe... Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers [sic., free and open speech and media] or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."                         
 
Jefferson would never understand a news media company that did not act to defend liberty's cherished gift of free speech and stand to defend this right. Jefferson also tells us that without free and open speech and free media, there is no democracy. Jefferson was right: manipulating reporting is disgusting.
                   
Venezuela's EL UNIVERSO reports here what has been available for analysis by all for some time now.

Chavez intends to consolidate his axis in Latin America this December, 2007. Claiming the disaster zone called Castro's Cuba as the most democratic nation on earth. Chavez will formally unite the Chavez-aligned zones soon.

"Precisely, one of the changes Chávez proposed to the Venezuelan Constitution refers to Article 153. Under the changes, Venezuela will have the capacity to empower supranational organizations to take the necessary steps to undertake integration processes, "by means of the creation of gran-national companies or the foundation of republics that help consolidate the projects to structure the region."

This is a militaristic power grab and is a declaration of war for supranational powers to integrate land, sea and assets therein.

Hugo Chavez must not be ceded such powers. Ecuador, Iran and Cuba are helping this process.
 
Do you know yet where Correa is getting the money to buy his new surveillance drones? Do you know yet where Chavez will base his Russian nuclear subs?

Do you know that Correa's constitution mimics Chavez's and will enjoin Ecuador, like the serf nation called Cuba to Venezuela? If you care, get the facts and act.
 
-Pedro Camargo for Ecrisis