December 14, 2007   As we have noted before, Chavez's allies: Morales of Bolivia, Ortega of Nicaragua, Castro of Cuba and Correa of Ecuador rose to power and retain full authoritarian powers based not only on lying during their rise to power but also their lives while in presidential power. Hugo Chavez, with his bent to reclaiming a sovereign bloc of nations, holds his tawdry team together by pressure tactics and monetary extortion which, were they persons of principle, would have no place in legitimate democracies....which of course they are not.
 
Witness la presidenta Kirchner today. She declares her allegiance to Chavez's unique form of non justice which is based on non facts and unaccountability instead of transparent and even handed justice. To cover up her sell out to Chavez's monies, Sra. Kirchner declares that U.S. justice is wretched and that she and Hugo Chavez know better. 
 
Today's MIAMI HERALD reports this, "Hacker filed suit Dec. 7 against American Express Bank International, alleging that the bank `misappropriated' $25 million deposited by Durán, Kauffmann and Klim Fund B.V. His clients managed to recover $18 million, but the remainder of the money `disappeared,' he said. The bank was closed and could not be reached for comment by the time El Nuevo Herald learned of the lawsuit Thursday. The suit alleges that on Sept. 21, the bank notified the plaintiffs that all of their accounts were being ''unilaterally closed.'' The suit also alleges, among other complaints, failure to comply with contracts and negligence. Hacker said that during the process of claiming the money, the bank told his clients that they were on a list of Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), a U.S. government designation for persons who need special scrutiny. `Just because my clients are PEPs doesn't give them the right to keep the $7 million,' he said.

Just three days after she succeeded her husband, Néstor Kirchner, Mrs. Kirchner suggested that the U.S. allegations were designed to poison Argentina's warm relations with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a leftist populist who regularly vilifies the Bush administration. `This president may be a woman, but she's not going to allow herself to be pressured,' Fernández said, vowing to  `continue affirming our relationship of friendship with all Latin American countries and also with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.' She did not comment on the allegation that the cash was meant for her campaign."
 
In other news reports about the arrested agents for Chavez, one brother said of his now behind bars brother that it was impossible that he could be a criminal....that he is " a good man."
 
Mimicking Hugo Chavez with an appalling lack of intelligence, Sra. Kirchner reveals her preference to remain undereducated by noting that "populists" care not one whit that normative justice must be separated from politics and that the successful nations of the globe, all of which coincidentally sustain rule of law and separation of powers, is to be condemned as non existent by Kirchner. In other words, she neither understands nor wants to understand independent criminal laws which are always separated from politics in common law nations, also called nations with rule of law which no longer exists in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina. Like Chavez, Kirchner, -read it here-  -and here- claims that the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are acting solely on political motivation and not based on open, transparent laws. This is really stupid on the part of Chavez and Kirchner who, like most Ecuadoreans and the entire Correa team,  reveal their own undereducated by choice and manipulative natures while insisting that they alone can manipulate international laws and norms simply because....they are "populists" and above the law because they alone are the new oligarchy and that...."they help the poor."
 
Although Bob Dylan was right to remind us that "to live outside the law, you must be honest," we find that there is nothing honest or honorable about the Chavez-Kirchner attacks on the U.S. system of justice. Indeed, no man is above the law in any normal setting however much Chavez and Kirchner enjoy some diplomatic immunity from prosecution as criminals in the USA in some settings. But because the entire Chavez-Morales-Correa-Ortega and now Kirchner bloc of bribed and extorted racketeering members are pretending that criminal laws applying to rackets, money laundering and extortion do not apply to them, we can only ask....what does apply? Thuggery? The law of the Russian mafias?
 
We are also aware that in the USA, counter to Venezuela and Ecuador today, no one is adjudged guilty until proven as such without a shadow of a doubt and remains innocent until absolutely proven guilty. Thus, we do not state that these agents of Chavez's rackets, extortion and murder for hire as funded and instructed by Chavez's DSIP, well staffed by former STASI and Cuban intelligence operatives, are guilty. Next week's bail hearings will open some additional facts. However, we do know that these Chavez money movers are represented by a Florida lawyer who , according to one of Soros's own supported blogs called the Huffington Post indicates that the lawyer for the Chavez gang of "populists"  has almost maxxed out on his federal limits in support of John Edwards and Hillary Clinton's campaigns. Both Edwards and Clinton are called democratic party candidates for the U.S. presidency and both are supported by the Clinton-Soros-DNC movement called "populism." It is almost too much to hope that  Clinton and Edwards would return racketeering Chavista lawyer, Mr. Hacker of Florida, all  monies out of a sense of propriety. New age "populists" it seems, stick together and neither truth nor money will separate their common goals.
 
Compounding this trail of illegal money, here is the beginning of Chavez business and family connections involved in this bribery and extortion ring, also called Chavez's DSIP standard operating system which depends on the Russian and Sicilian mobsters approach to kill any who do not comply, as is the case here, which Chavez and Kirchner call "attacks on populism" and which we call exposure of mafia tactics by Chavez's thugs. EL UNIVERSAL reports here that " The Venezuelan government described the criminal procedure filed in Miami as a maneuver against President Hugo Chávez and progressive governments in Latin America.`This is a hopeless effort by the United States Government, which is using sensitive mechanisms of the judiciary to wage a political, psychological and media war against the progressive governments in the continent,' said Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro, as quoted by Efe."

We quote  here from the above listed laundry list of Chavez's inner group- aka money movers, which notes new gossip: "Carlos Kaufman, Moises Maionica and Franklin Duran are in the same crowd (or family if you want to use mafia terms) of the one of Alex Del Nogal, detained in Italy for drug trafficking. Apparently, these guys are involved BIG TIME in money laundering. My source also puts Maionica, Duran and Kauffmann as the guys who charge commission for depositing money from the state government in the banks. People say that the governor of Anzoátegui is up to his eyeballs in this guiso, as well as Jhonny Yanez Rangel and "ojitos lindos" Diosdado Cabello." While we do not advise gossip, we do note that it is well known that several of these mafiosa traffic in weapons and so called armor for Chavistas. We also note that U.S. laws demand that all foreign actors register as foreign agents when they are foreign agents. That of course includes chanteuses such as Mark Weisbrot and Eva Gollinger who are always agents for Chavez. This also includes the non registration of Joe Stigletz as agent for Correa and Chavez, particularly notable for his "financial" planning work. We all know that Quito is crawling with obvious Chavez and Cuban agents. What few in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. IRS, the U.S. Treasury Department and the FBI pay attention to is the sheer numbers  of unregistered double agents and agents of Chavez littering Washington,. D.C., London and  Brussels today.  Hiding behind fear of political reprisals from any "populist" creates a huge problem and creates a rippling cascade of racketeering and extortion.
 
Here is what we do know: the politics of hatred feeds off of the politics of greed. The politics of hatred carries reprisals and anarchy. Greed is born of envy. Envy is taught us by birth from our undereducated by choice  mothers and fathers who fail to instruct that addictions to manipulative, dishonest living always fails us. Tragically, our leaders who are wise are shouted down by those who are lazy and greedy. Failing to act on principles is the national past time in Ecuador. This is shameful and has repulsed men and women of conscience. Perhaps that was the plan all along to further ring down the curtain on vibrant, functional quality of life. Certainly it has had that affect.

We also know today that Chavez's own boy toy Evo Morales just joined Putin's GAZPROM for billions. Have any seen even one of these Iranian, Russian and Chinese "deals" with Chavez, Morales and Correa? Unless and until legal and transparent terms of business and finance exist accountably in Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia....they do not exist. And nor for that matter does legitimate democracy in these crime nations now formed under Chavez's bloc of nations merging now by constituent assembly.



Do you know what your money laundering laws look like?  Do you know what unaccountable governments do in places like Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador?

To understand them is to understand the current crime wave and murder spree in your own back yard.
These mafia / mob like criminals are no teddy bears...and they come for you because there is no rule of law and no accountability in these new playgrounds for Iranian and Russian money movers.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis