December 5, 2007  No one- not even the overly paid Rafael Correa lobbyists and propagandists, and certainly not the U.S. Embassy's high official who waltzed out of her highly paid post for the U.S. government  with U.S. diplomatic credentials and a U.S. paid retirement plan [all of which we hope will be revoked and a full IG review underway as requisite], and crossed the street, so to speak, and was sworn in as Rafael Correa's cabinet rank official to sell Ecuador to the USA- can deny that the WALL STREET JOURNAL is correct that Hugo Chavez has already destabilized Ecuador under Correa as his satellite spot.

We hold every one of the Correa propagandists responsible and look for their hasty efforts to rebut the facts as seen here.  
 
We agree with the JOURNAL today that regarding the Sunday vote in Caracas, “...The fact that the Chavez program went down in flames is due in no small part to the courage of the country's university students, who persisted with few resources against the Chavez machine. For months they have braved tear gas and riot police in cities across the country and responded only with cries for liberty and the open palms that became the symbol of their movement. "
 
This is how some see Sunday's events as unraveled by 11 PM or so:  
     


We find that after nine years of internationally sanctioned election fraud, the death of democracy and the illegitimate theft by Chavez of all Venezuelan resources, that the JOURNAL is correct to say that, "...There were reports from Caracas as early as 8:30 p.m. Sunday night that the "No" vote against the Chavez proposals was victorious. Intriguingly, it took the Chavez-controlled National Electoral Council until 1:15 a.m. to announce the results. Apparently, Mr. Chavez was reluctant to accept the final count, but the military knew that the opposition students held the tally sheets from all the polling stations. When it became clear that there was no way to fudge the results, Mr. Chavez conceded defeat, though the margin of his loss is still being debated. The Chavez opposition was celebrating its first electoral triumph in nine years yesterday and it must have tasted good...So yes, the joy this defeat has produced is warranted. But all democrats in the region should be forewarned that Mr. Chavez isn't likely to stop his efforts at revolution inside or outside the country. The president still has control of all the country's political institutions. Indeed in the early hours Monday morning he warned the nation that his defeat is only "for now." He pledged that he will get his reforms accomplished without changing a single word of what he put before them on Sunday.

Mr. Chavez remains a threat to region. He is in a race against time to impose his will before his star fades, as it already has in Peru, Brazil and Mexico. His expansionist agenda has the potential to undermine Colombia's democracy, and has already destabilized Bolivia and Ecuador. This brings us to the U.S. role. The Chávezes of the world rise below our border when people there see little hope. The U.S. Senate today is scheduled to vote to ratify a free-trade agreement with Peru. A similar pact to open the economy of Colombia, however, is bogged down in the pettiest politics of Democratic Presidential campaigning and in the House. Such a crabbed view of the Americas has bad consequences.

There is nothing better the U.S. could do to reward Venezuelans for their bravery than to kick-start that region's economy by enacting these agreements. After Sunday's performance, Venezuelans have rightly earned the U.S.'s attention and its support."

We also commend the terrific analysis from INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY; read it in full here. The IBD correctly states, “The constitutional "reforms" that Chavez wanted would have extended his presidency indefinitely, letting him handpick local overlords, exact revenge on media critics and confiscate private property at his whim.

Even the dimmest of Chavista voters could see that a successful referendum would likely mean the last time they would ever vote. Shantytown dwellers who form Chavez's political base had repeatedly expressed fear that their hovels could be taken away...Too many people knew the truth, and unlike other suspect Venezuelan elections, any lie couldn't be hidden...Already they could see ample evidence of tyranny. Last May, Chavez shut down their favorite TV station, RCTV, depriving them of the only entertainment they could afford and triggering the student protests that have covered the streets all year."

As for Ecuador, its alliance for ruination and not progress with Chavez is formally secured, bought and paid for. There will be no refunds for Rafael Correa's Faustian bargain with Chavez and Iran. In fact, Chavez's own special powers Sr. Viciano Pastor is coordinating the entire Bolivarian fascist cum communist bloc now, well hidden under the three nation pact of illicit constituent assemblies whose powers are not derived from the consent of the governed, are not democratic and have the composite Kangaroo counsel legitimacy of zero and a composite IQ of around 14. To say other wise is foolishly incompetent. All  who express the propaganda that these so called constituent assemblies are democracies in action are liars and present criminal complicity for which they must be held accountable.
 
Yesterday, Congressman Connie Mack alone uttered a summary of Sunday's vote in Caracas, noting presciently, "Despite these results, we must not forget that Hugo Chavez’s presidential term does not expire until 2012. Five years is a long window for him to continue to make mischief in Venezuela and around the world. We must do all we can to make sure Hugo Chavez does not succeed in further disrupting the security and stability of the Western Hemisphere before he leaves office." Read the statement here. 

Comes now U.S. Senator Charles Grassley to tell us that Correa of Ecuador has fooled the U.S. Democrats in the USG once but will not happen a second time without shame. Contrary to popular myth, the U.S. refuses to sustain fact based reporting on Ecuador, preferring instead to scandalously enable Chavez and Correa by refusing fulsome due diligence. Ignorance may be bliss for Chavez boosters and Soros funded Pat Leahy, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd and his family friend Linda Jewell, but it fails the requisite motto that democracy depends not on overly paid NGO propagandists but instead on boring, old fashioned truth telling. Grassley reminds us that the USA cannot and must not fund lies and is not in the business of funding Correa's lies. It is past time for Dodd, Leahy et al to cease funding liars and ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces.

Grassley's warnings that he will not be fooled twice by liars and ninnyhammers is here and here.
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It is impossibly surreal that a seasoned U.S. Senator has to warn his own overly paid Americans to cease assisting in the perpetuation of pap in lieu of facts but this is the state of the end results of fifteen years of the Clinton era in the USA which is to sell political positions while ignoring the facts.

A second piece in the JOURNAL today is also revelatory: tyranny has its charms. Read this here. Lazy, undereducated by choice, happily manipulated because they practice the high art of manipulation, chunks of irresponsibility across the Andes...and now the globe- want us to think that all lives are bettered by manipulative living. This is a real death to freedom lovers and assists in global suicide of the soul. We cannot say this enough. Suicide by the manipulative has its charms but those charms are always a cold bed, never warmed by the heart of true affection.

Tyranny whether domestic or global is a cold bed. Tyranny controls and manipulates respect and honesty to a meaningless emptiness. Far too many succumb to these false charms and the cold bed of tyranny, vainly hopping in to expanded tyranny with Iran and Castro's communist state of tyranny called Cuba.

We suggest a better plan: consolidate honor and congeal the plan to further self evident truths.

The JOURNAL is right: Chavez is a threat to the region. Rafael Correa is totally and formally part of his formal bloc of deceivers and liars.

The JOURNAL is right about whose efforts gained the day on Sunday in Caracas: t'was grace that led them home, the courage of the church and the students and brave Venezuelans who refused to be duped any more. The heavily scripted, now newly erudite former Chavista, General Baduel was not their sole champion, however much he is right that Chavez has pulled off a self coup, which factually commenced in 2002. This was not defeated on Sunday.
 
The brilliant Michael Ramirez from IBD shows this phony claim to democracy by Hugo Chavez:



-Pedro Camargo for Ecrisis