October 30, 2007 Hugo Chavez, as this site alone has reported, is building a five nation military and political blockade around Latin America: barring accountability, the truth- free speech, along with free trade and even an average education along with health care services, all which have a very very hard time getting in or getting out now. This will become even worse after the New Year. Collateral damage to this central and growing regional dictatorship of greed is the clear and present danger to liberty and religious freedoms, which is also seen in the denouncement of all normally accepted human freedoms. As such, Hugo Chavez, Rafael Correa and Evo Morales seek an end to free speech and religious education plus en masse insist that this be replaced with Cuban style religion of the state cult and statist academics which fail even the most basic respects for intellectual preparation and instead preach a cult-like statism of deception which not only kills the soul but serves only the Chavez-Cuban-Iranian politburo of greedy Russian money men. No nation should be run as a Godless Chavez-Correa- Soros derivatives fund- off the books, unaccountable and fully committed to a one globe, goofy system of unaccountability and removal of rule of law while heavily commandeered by KGB style intelligence managers to monitor human life. But Correa will have you believe that this is urgently in demand.

The Pope sees it differently.
 
The Catholic News Agency reports that Pope Benedict XVI - speaking directly to Correa and the people of Ecuador as seen also in his own Encyclical "Deus caritas est," stated, "` we do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need. There can, indeed, be no other aspiration for a democratic government committed to fomenting a culture of respect and equality before the law, and to the exemplary exercise of an authority which aims to serve all its people. Hence, the government of Ecuador has expressed its firm will to make a priority of tending to the most needy, drawing inspiration from the Church's social doctrine.'" Read the article here. 
 
Further, "The Pope emphasized that `the Church's freedom of action, apart from being an alienable right, is a primordial condition for her to carry out her mission among people, sometimes in difficult circumstances.' "
 
We are hard pressed to recall the last time the Vatican issued such a strong statement regarding the sweeping Marxist dictatorship overcoming the Andean region today as funded by Hugo Chavez and spread by his paid propagandists and paid political leaders. Then again, we are hard pressed to recall over the last twenty years when the Andean region was hit so hard by a tidal wave- a new disease-called irresponsible criminality enshrined by the highest decision makers in each of the Andean nations. Peru and Colombia stand yet but are under massive  internal shocks, thanks to the Chavez minions at play today, such as notably seen in the election of the new Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia: Chavez and Soros's own "alternative democracy" leader and defender of the FARC.
 
But this Pope knows something that most Ecuadoreans and their paid agents of misinformation and sometimes KGB style disinformation refuses to grasp: Like the AIDS epidemic  which killed millions in Africa over the last twenty years and left millions of abandoned, homeless children, the Chavez plan for Latin American criminality is also an epidemic which first rots the brain and then the soul and then the body. 
 
We currently hear from scores and scores of Latin decision makers, anonymous writers, friends and families that they are today, thanks to Correa, Castro, Ortega, Morales and Chavez, extremely worried, nervous, agitated and scared. While we too experience the mind-numbing shock of the removal of all that we stand for, including integrity and honor, we do sympathize with the fright, the agitation, the unease and the cases of nerves. We also used to be frightened in the face of the death of all that we hold dear. Such an approach does not help anything but only continues self serving ennui and despair, which in and of itself in the Andean nations becomes an addiction and a manipulation/an excuse to do and say nothing. Failure to respond in kind in the face of the death of all one holds dear is the partner in crime to the very thing- the disease- that sweeps now. Not any more can Ecuadoreans run and hide from what is real nor can any effort succeed to manipulate the current dis-ease any more. Once a fact based analysis or diagnosis of the dis-ease/the disease is made clear, it is incumbent on responsible parties to stop the dis-ease/the disease and fight for the very life that is dear. There is help for this. You are not alone however much the lazy and selfish pretend that there is no help and no community of like minded persons of high value.
 
We know what we have to do and we know what the tools of common sense include, which are available to us all. Scared is looking at a diagnosis of death. Not being scared is doing ALL that one can to turn it around and fight for principled positions with honor.
 
We are not scared any more by Chavez and Correa. They can take away our democratic governments, as they have already done, but we will stand, organized and united, to defend exactly the position that the Church correctly holds that liberty in law and  respect for human life is mandatory. We simply do not care any more that the OAS is today a political arm of the Hugo Chavez political party, guaranteeing that Insulza will achieve his goal of serving as the next president of Chile. The politically self serving Insulza is discredited and functionally useless in today's epic struggle. Insulza will never comment honestly on the destruction of Latin comity and the end of functional democracy. Insulza has no role in the struggle and no principles for guiding the way.
 
This is not some small daffy theological dust up between the Pope and Chavez-Correa. This is not a political food fight between the forces of unprincipled communism a la Chavez-Correa and the Church writ small and large, representing in this instance all that Western civilization has evolved into as a set of core principles. This is the real deal: the struggle that is far more personal and requires that each one, each family, each disconnected manipulative person decide right now to continue pretending that the criminal end of one's personal liberties, the termination of all social contracts and the denouement of law and order does not mean much. It is the epic struggle of our age. We can chose to stop hiding inside a faceless shopping mall and pretending that life's meaning is found on a cruise ship or worse- escaping to Brickell Avenue for a sanctity which will never come or we can stand for functioning liberties for all our communities. Who will you stand with? The defenders of freedom for the human soul and person or.....with Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez who do take your freedoms away because you let them while you hastily try to convince yourself while shopping or continuously ignoring living life with principles that you can co manage by manipulation the end of your time?
 
Today we hear more reports of increased violence, murder and crime, including profound crime of armies and police profiteering in narcotics transport in Ecuador and Venezuela to assist Chavez and Correa's friends across the drug cartels and the FARC. Ecuador continues murdering its own at the highest rate in the world today. This is due to the obvious criminality engendered by failed states. Venezuela continues to force its own in to so called citizen militias or state brown shirt goon squads. Weapons purchases in the near term by Chavez will probably top twenty billion all told for the enhanced synthesized, weaponized erection he holds in his hand which builds a wall of dishonesty and power by purchase around South America's criminal empire.
 
Rafael Correa, in order to lie some more to the U.S. government, has once again brought forward Fenton Communications and the same lobbyist he has been using, among many others, in the person of Paul Reichler. The U.S. Embassy in Quito seems to confuse the public by apparently supporting this inner circle of pro Chavez operatives. We simply do not understand their acquiescence to these agents of misinformation and sometimes frank disinformation, also called lying which is also called illegal before the USG. Read the story here about Reichler. 

Reichler, like Chavez and Correa will tell us de facto that this Pope is wrong and that Chavez is right and that Ecuador is an honest place where schools, homes, businesses, religion and all freedoms are free and protected.
Fenton Communications and Reichler would be lying to so say. We know what they have been hired to do. We know why the U.S. Embassy in Quito does what it does. But did you know that you have the right to disagree and the right to stand on principles and share the facts?
 
And so we say to our friends: we know what we have to do. We are not frightened any more. Being nervous and deceiving is a selfish and manipulative response in the face of disaster. To survive in a vibrant life, we know the plan and  have the tools: the way is clear.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis