November 2, 2007  Today we bring you The ECONOMIST regarding Chavez's Venezuela, read it here. While entirely too soft on the facts, this is a dire report indeed. We urge you to get busy on your own- preparing a factual side by side of this very article and the very same/identical steps underway by Rafael Correa's so called constituent assembly which is neither transparent nor representative of anything but the fake face of Chavez's bloc in installation now. We are past the stage of formation and have moved in to installation of this totalitarian self enrichment scheme, also called economic fascism, of the Chavez financiers while applying rank communism for the rest of the denizens of the Andes.
 
The formation is over now and the installation is underway with no capacity- and no seeming desire by any in the Andes except Uribe and a scant few- to turn back the Chavez juggernaut.
 
We continue to read shallow, vain, goofy, irresponsibly uneducated analyses that Chavez will go bankrupt before his squalor is dictatorially mandated. We read that Chavez's massive weapons build up- probably in excess of $40 billion now- is no problem whatsoever because Russian military equipment from the 1980s and 1990s is a joke.

This too is a lie because Putin's own oil monies have rebuilt Soviet weaponry which in no way resembles the Soviet rust buckets sold in contradiction to weapons bars through Cuba to Peru through Cuba during its border war with Ecuador. We remind that even Soviet-style rocket launched missiles can create havoc and mayhem. Putin's ten nuclear subs on order will run silent and run deep- crafting a verifiable Naval Blockade around all of Latin America to assist Chavez's full transportation monopoly- aiding his pet Trafigura and Russian-style money men. This is in installation now. No military in Latin America can stand against this juggernaut even as it is utterly foolish to claim that the U.S. military can swiftly take down/take out any Russian/Soviet style militarization efforts by Chavez and company. It remains foolish to hear additional blowhards tell us that Correa and Chavez's end is just a matter of time and that soon enough, the pendulum will swing and all will be self regulating. Again- this is a lie. There is no normal equilibrium that will be achieved by what Chavez does. Equilibrium is a pipe dream now. Chavez has played funder in chief for too long to feed and warehouse his Cuban directorate. He is now their primary landlord and is not about to release Cuba for some free transition. In fact, because of Chavez and the failure to diagnose his role in Cuba, there will be no transition- no transition at all- to democracy for Cubans. There will only be more misery under this transfer of misery which is completed now. The same is so for Ecuador under Rafael Correa. Their transition has been completed and the installation of the Cuban-Venezuelan military-espionage services is fully active now. Rafael Correa and numerous US so called NGOs think that this is worth celebrating as they did last week in Quito.

We think that this is not a celebration but a death knell for freedom lovers and law and order. We do not know which of these USA based NGOs papering Quit o last week in solidarity with Cuba, Castro and Correa as well as their pro drugs work against Uribe- about whom they continue to lie and claim increased violence when there is not- and so called think tanks were warmly embraced along with Rafael Correa by the lady ambassador from the USA in Quito. We can only hope and pray that not one penny of US monies met these anarchists at the airport, assisted these Soros backed groups of liars, and that no one, no one at all abused US monies to fete and abet these anti freedom rallyers. As we say- we are hopeful but with no verification, we can only assume that like the Soros and Chavez preferred Fenton Communications with Paul Reichler reeling in the bucks too which assists the far Left of the U.S. Democractic Party, the lady ambassador and her Senator Dodd-Soros crony team are apparently very happy to promote and assist these mavens of dishonesty, also called anti Uribe, former Sandinista communist activists rallying in support of Chavez and Castro last week. We reported on this yesterday. Their support is no longer in formation now: their installation of pro Chavez, anti USA and anti liberty propaganda is underway.
 
Over seventy young persons were hauled off to jail by Cuban police for simply wearing white wrist bracelets calling for CHANGE/cambio.

Our readers know that we constantly cajole them to stay well informed and be flexible. Read the tale here.  We are not afraid of positive change: it is part of a vibrant democracy. But change for the sake of change alone is silly and change from communism to democracy is vitally important. But there will be no change- no change at all under Chavez for Cuba, Nicaragua, Argentina, Bolivia and certainly not for the murder capitol of the world: Ecuador under Correa. You see, Correa and Chavez are liars, manipulators, dictators and state kleptocrats who steal state oil monies and never once account for it. Their formation is complete now and there is no transition- no transition at all for freedom lovers who have simply abandoned the field/ have vacated while vacationing- quitting the field in any meaningful sense in order to form a more perfect union with the manipulative ninnyhammers, liars, dimwits and dunces, sometimes called the kangaroo courts and legislators of the Correa-Chavez-Morales triangle. This is a political marriage of disastrous significance.
 
FRONT PAGE runs a story today to remind us that Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa are not really all that popular and that their excuse for self enrichment- called their anti poverty plans- are nonfunctional at best. Read it here.

The author goes on to tell us that crime is soaring in Venezuela while ..."Under the banner of socialism and anti-Americanism, he[Chavez]  has repackaged bad ideas from Venezuela’s past – statism, authoritarianism, and populism – and taken them to new extremes. Blessed with record-high oil prices, he has created a new class of elites. The poor majority, meanwhile, gets bread-and-circus populism." DIPLODEMOCRAIA takes it further, "Thanks to Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Socialist vision of the world, Venezuela slipped to number 98 in this year's report. Venezuela ought to be profiting from record-high oil prices, yet Chávez's administration has instead run up worrying budget deficits. Fiscal ineptitude has driven inflation so high that the country now ranks 128th overall in that category. Government seizures of private property, institutional inefficiency, and interference in the economy have earned Venezuela dead-last rankings in all three categories. Even Chávez's efforts to aid the poor are backfiring: in spite of increases in health and education spending, Venezuela's rankings in both areas have fallen in the past year." Read it here. 

Even the Canadians are -even through their own Quebecois leftism and soft reporting are raising flags of disgust over Hugo, read it here. The Canadian piece says, "Hugo Chávez's ultimate defense against losing power may rest with military force, rather than the intimidation of the media and political opponents. The military is already a major political actor in Venezuela, and its integration in the Bolivarian Revolution is deepening." We remind: the integration is complete now. Even Marxist Petkoff states that Venezuela is crawling toward totalitarianism. We remind that the crawling stage is over: Chavez and his goons are up and running.
 
Do you know who pays for your local goon squads? Ask. Exercise what little freedom you have. Ask. Stay informed, alert and flexible.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECRISIS