December 18, 2007       The Editors of ECrisis reprint the entire piece on the narcostates, also called narcodemocracies- also called alternative or sovereign democracies of the Bolivian, Ecuadorean, Argentinean and Venezuelan bloc of nations operating today under the Cuban-Iranian- Russian intelligence plan.
None of these nations is legitimate and none are "democracies" in any legitimate sense. 

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The Wall Street Journal    

December 17, 2007   

THE AMERICAS 
Stung in Miami
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
December 17, 2007; Page A20

Argentina isn't conscientious about paying its debts, but maybe that's about to change under freshly inaugurated President Cristina Kirchner. Two news items that broke last week suggest that her government may be running a hefty tab with President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and is earnestly trying to repay him.

The U.S. Justice Department alleged on Wednesday that Mrs. Kirchner's recent election campaign was the destination for $800,000 in cash shipped south in a suitcase from Mr. Chávez in August. If true, it would confirm what many Argentines have long suspected: that Argentina, under former President Nestor Kirchner and now his wife, has been leased out to the Venezuelan strongman in much the same way that Bolivia and Nicaragua have come under Mr. Chavez's influence.

This is grim not only for Argentine democracy. If members of the Organization of American States are indeed on Mr. Chávez's payroll, it would explain why the Washington-based multilateral organization, charged with defending democracy, has been so timid with the anti-democratic Venezuelan president.

It also raises questions about whether Mrs. Kirchner was acting in good faith last week when she met with Mr. Chávez's sworn enemy in South America, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, to discuss the plight of French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt and 44 others held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Mrs. Kirchner went on the offensive last week, charging that the U.S. sting operation was "garbage." But the feds may have the goods. Recall that the bagman carrying the $800,000 returned to his home in Florida after being released by the Argentine authorities. The U.S. attorney in Miami says that three Venezuelans and an Uruguayan acted as foreign agents when they traveled to the U.S. to try to silence him "in an effort to keep the lid on a burgeoning international scandal."

Given the nonchalance with which the smuggler approached his task, it is not hard to fathom that the transaction was considered routine by Venezuela and that he was only an unlucky one who got caught. The Argentine daily La Nación revealed last summer that Venezuelan aircraft and personnel regularly land and bypass customs inspections at Jorge Newberry Airport in Buenos Aires.

Mrs. Kirchner would owe Mr. Chávez a lot if he did indeed underwrite her campaign. So perhaps that explains the pro-Chávez attitude she took last Tuesday toward Colombia's hostage issue when she met with President Uribe in Buenos Aires. Rather than endorse the 1949 Geneva Convention and, as Chilean President Michelle Bachelet did recently, call for the FARC to immediately release its victims without conditions, Mrs. Kirchner pressured the Colombian head of state to be more forthcoming. In other words, she took the same line as Mr. Chávez and the FARC, insisting that Mr. Uribe is the barrier to progress.

Mrs. Kirchner may have domestic political reasons for avoiding the subject of the Geneva Convention. Her government -- and her husband's before her -- relies on allies, advisers and cabinet members who are former members of Argentine terror groups that made a living from kidnapping in the 1970s. If the FARC is guilty of violating the convention, so too are many kirchneristas.

If she has a debt with Mr. Chávez, she now has an additional motivation for trying to place blame on Mr. Uribe rather than the terrorists. Mr. Chávez makes no secret of his support for the FARC or his enmity for Mr. Uribe. The FARC leadership hangs out in Caracas and runs its drugs through Mr. Chávez's backyard. If he wanted to free the hostages for purely humanitarian reasons, he could have already done so. The guerrillas need passage through Venezuelan territory and could be brought to heel anytime Mr. Chávez wants.

Mr. Uribe may have made a big mistake by even considering a hostage negotiation with the FARC. The rebels have never suggested that they are interested in peace. They want to trade their "political" captives -- police, soldiers, politicians and three American contractors -- for a strategic gain that will enhance the efficiency of their narcotics and kidnapping businesses. In light of this reality, Mr. Uribe would have been better off sticking to a policy of no talks with terrorists.

But the Colombian government is under intense pressure from French President Nicolas Sarkozy and hostage family members, so he gambled on opening a dialogue. He took an even bigger risk by agreeing to allow Mr. Chávez to act as a negotiator. The Venezuelan president almost immediately violated the ground rules by attempting to talk directly with the military. His goal was to secure the guerrillas' No. 1 demand, a new rebel territory guaranteed free of Colombian forces. Mr. Uribe promptly and wisely fired the Venezuelan "negotiator," but now he finds himself under renewed pressure from Mrs. Kirchner to do more to satisfy the demands of the narcotraffickers.

According to local news reports, in her meeting with Mr. Uribe, Mrs. Kirchner showed no appreciation of Colombia's latest concession to the FARC, to allow an internationally observed, demilitarized zone of 150 square kilometers for 30 days in order to exchange 500 FARC insurgents that the government holds for the hostages. The FARC has also ignored the offer.

Nor does the Argentine president seem interested in getting to the bottom of the "suitcase affair." Instead, an enraged Mrs. Kirchner went before television cameras last week and played the gender card. "This president may be a woman but she is not going to allow herself to be pressured," she said in reference to U.S. antipathy toward her friend, Mr. Chávez.

Her attitude can't be too comforting to Colombians, men or women, who live with the FARC terror that Mr. Chávez and now Mrs. Kirchner want to appease.

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Here is what you will never read in the NEW YORK TIMES or for that matter, the thousands of anti Plan Colombia misinformation blogs and disinformation sites papering the Americas with so called "policy and positions pieces." Some of this is funded by and through Soros. Some is funded by and through Chavez. Sometimes both.
 
 In this piece, O'Grady tackles the current positions which are growing today - to promote the drug running narcostates called Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia with its newest member Argentina even as Peru and Columbia remarkably and quite admirably grow and sustain counterdrug positions. Colombia and Peru today are enjoying sustained growth and security domestically as employment grows, crime is reduced, and citizen serenity increases.
 
Nothing in South America is ever assured and what we do know is that this new bloc of 4  bribed and commandeered nations will stand today to  either retreat visibly from its untenable attacks on U.S. justice systems which forbid the Chavez-Castro DISIP agents to extort and plot murder- in the USA- or these 4 nations - co opted as they are under Cuban so called intelligence masters- and will back off...for a while or once again they will expose their incredulous commitment to unaccountability, bribery, corruption and anti-rule of law fake democracies under which they do labor.
 
And when we note Ecuador, Bolivia and now Argentina as narcostates under the Venezuelan bloc, we say this acknowledging that not once - ever- have these governments [ so to speak] actually done anything more than window dressing and time wasting so called "negotiating" to eschew the unending non conclusion of narcoterror designations under which they do operate. In other words, this bloc does nothing meaningful to stop drug running and profiteering from same.
 
We will be watching after Christmas for hopeful news that a judge in Florida does not pull an Alcee Hastings style justice and release these criminals to the happy hands of Argentina's Kirchner-Chavez non justice. The US FBI has acted admirably to bring in these agents of mafia style crime in the USA.

We warn that there are hundreds- thousands more...many are paid infiltrators or double agents behind them on a scale we have not seen for decades.
 
As for this story, what we do know is that the US Department of Justice correctly refused to notify the U.S. Department of State until the last moment about the arrest of these Venezuelan-Argentinean criminals so as to prevent what so many fear: the U.S. Department of State aiding and abetting criminals before trial, leaving far too many to conclude that State Department not only leaks like an untrustworthy sieve but also runs its internal operations counter to US laws and policies. The question is raised again: why would anyone trying to make a case based on facts against foreign operators inside the USA, intentionally breaking US laws, want to ruin the entire case by handing it over to the huge phalanxes of the Soros so called intelligence operatives and anti USA actors inside State Department?

From our perspective there are true examples of this. While there are indeed wonderful men and women who serve the U.S. government in all capacities, the U.S. diplomatic corps in general today in Latin America shows many that it represents little more than the paid contractors from the Soros groups who claim to be the face of the USG and....are not. And still no one complains or acts to redress this foolishness. But this occurs because we let it occur. Every time that the State Department tells us that they alone represent the total faith and warrants of the U.S. government, you need to know that this is not entirely correct. We do remind that unless and until charged, these Venezuelan-Argentinean perps are deemed innocent. 
 
Today we are aghast as  Ms. Sanchez reveals her bias in Friday's WASHINGTON POST citing her own sources from within the U.S. Congress- incompetent and uninformed Congressional hack staffers- who have repeatedly told her that Chile's  Insulza of the OAS is a `tough, principled' man of action. Clearly taking their cues from some nascent Soros-backed propaganda, there remains nothing on record that Insulza is a tough principled man of action. In fact, he is a lazy and utterly discredited symbol of functionaries run amuck with no principles and no efforts on record as doing anything but passing through massive contracts of money to fund his cronies and fuel his Soros-backed campaign to lead Chile toward the Chavez bloc of nations gone wilding. Insulza remains a 4th rate functionary of his past boss in Chile, Lagos and his current boss - George Soros.
 
While Insulza may seriously believe that he is a clever fellow to tell snarky anti Bush and anti USA jokes to visiting formal officials and members of foreign governments inside his badly decorated inner sanctum offices of the OAS, we remind Insulza just who pays his salary... and it is in fact on the full faith and warranty of the U.S. tax payers in main and not the deadbeats who stiff the OAS routinely for whom he praises as democracy dies.
 
Insulza is in fact a man of no honor and even less credibility. His only allies are far left NGOs and deadbeat nations hiding under the thin veneer of democracy while in fact pursuing full democracy ending ruinous plans for what the OAS is supposed to stand for. Because Insulza stands for even less, he has no capacity to lead anything with dignity. He needs to resign and go away and take his Soros minions with him....to Caracas and enjoy a long and fruitful life in exile.
 
In fact, we hope he takes all oil for political gamesmanship officials from the USA with him for their money making schemes with Chavez.

ECrisis ran this photo a year ago and we re run it again today because....the flag of Venezuela still flies over the head of these U.S. democrats from the U.S. Congress: Serrano, Markey, Dodd, Delahunt and former member Kennedy. Not once- not once ever have we heard Barack Obama distance himself from his donors called the Chavez oil for political bribery club. Then again, we find it astonishing that the then-governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney did nothing to expose the fraud of this Chavez ploy or defend legitimate charities in Massachusetts which actually insure that no family freezes in the harsh "globally warmed" winters and blizzards currently underway in the Northeast USA. We remind that for most all of recorded history, Canada and the upper USA most always suffer harsh winters while the lands circling the Meridian most always suffer hot summers...with or without "climate change."

Look again at this photo: does no one think to denounce the Chavez flag waving uber ales? And what we wonder was Mitt Romney not doing about this Massachusetts cabal of Chavistas on the Massachusetts money take? With all the credibility of a post Chappaquiddick neck brace, these scam artists are back again this winter and still need serious auditing. Seriously. We just do not know what Mitt Romney will say about his role when governor there nor what Giuliani will say regarding his role as mayor. It is possible that Rudy will pass this off on to the Bronx and Brooklyn's local governments. But we have no answers on Rudy and Congressman Serrano interplay. We do know that today the Kennedy, read it here in a piece called JOE KENNEDY PIMPS FOR HUGO CHAVEZ,  seems to divide its time in the USA pimping for Chavez or either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, following the Soros plan to heavily support both in order to insure success either way. What must be asked is exactly what this means for the future leadership of the USA and these illicit regimes under Correa, Chavez and Ahmadinejad- all of which pin their hopes- like Soros and the Kennedy clan, on either Obama or the Clintons embracing these illicit regimes.
 
Today, the Chavez bloc of nations joins the Kirchner effort in calling the U.S. FBI and the U.S. justice system as basura/trash. We of course pose the question again....who is the trash? And who stands with law and order/rule of law and who does not? Did we hear one whimper from Rafael Correa to defend his mother's home town as a fair and free place to live? One word of gratitude from Correa for U.S. taxpayer generosity which helped leverage his Chavez campaign monies in to a win- win for Chavez and Correa's bloc building nation sweepstakes? Did Correa ever thank the USA for its generous use of the U.S. dollar which saved Ecuadoreans trillions on run away inflation? Did Correa ever once thank OCCIDENTAL for building a co-money making environmentally sound petroleum money maker for Ecuador which did not exist at all before Occidental contracted to work with Ecuador? No- he did not.

Instead Correa steals from American businesses under false pretenses and lies about the USA incessantly. Rafael Correa did extend his gratitude to the U.S. Embassy for helping him get elected. Correa however did forget to give back all the illicit monies he has taken from Hugo Chavez, among many things he has forgotten to do.

What we do know is that there are many actors and many efforts underway to ruin what little is left in Latin America. There are even a variety of ways to be a king or disguise naked dictatorships. Some fail and some succeed.



Chavez may not technically be King for a Day or for Life but there is no indication that he is not performing as such, consistently abusing all powers in Venezuela.

More stunning is the ease with which the Russian mobs and Iranian mullahs abuse privilege and enshrine their own so called foreign policies -aka money movements and weapons flows across their so called embassies which are not embassies at all but weapons and information command and control centers. An excellent oeuvre on Iran's incursions to Latin America, noticeably Nicaragua, is here with the map of Iran's alliances noted below. It is more noteworthy that this report states that Ecuador is an anti US regime. Although the lady ambassador from the USA to Ecuador does not tell this truth when she says that the USA loves Ecuador as it loves the murderous Iranian regime, we care nothing at all any more for the mistresses of misinformation radiating from that lady ambassador of discredit. Instead, we know what we know and what we know is that Ecuador has formally allied with Iran and Venezuela in a regional bloc now. Unless and until Rafael Correa denounces the illicit regime in Caracas and Tehran, Ecuador aids and abets Iran and its terrorist regime. We suggest that the U.S. lady ambassador either state three facts to prove that Ecuador is functioning as a friend to the USA which also means acts under rule of law and moves democratically and transparently [which it does not] or else cease and desist her foolish claims that Rafael Correa is not aligned formally with Iran, Chavez, Bolivia and the forces of darkness.

To be sure, "ambassador" Jewell can write to this newspaper and defend her formal position which runs counter to what North Americans know and what Ecuadoreans know which is that Correa is no friend to the USA and the USA does not support Correa's allegiance with Iran and Chavez-Castro. Of course, Ms. Jewell, as ambassador, may simply be mimicking her mentor in chief, Chris Dodd and Harry-Reid Nancy Pelosi, whose own counsel still works for Soros, read it here. We remind that Ms. Pelosi has spent more time with Soros activists and members of the FARC leadership in the last year than she has with actual freedom lovers. This is no doubt due to her co opted anti-Plan Colombia Soros counsel. Like many in the Democratic majority of the U.S. Congress, Fenton Communications- never one to be shy about misleading the U.S. Congress about their clients such as Ecuador- many of whom are also backed by Soros- promoted Sra. Espinosa whom we have noted correctly as a porn writer. This is heavily detailed even with a simple GOOGLE search if one cannot purchase her now sold out porn writings and naked portraits. Espinosa, porn poseur and poetess of porn, is now supposedly representing Correa's concerns for the children of the globe through the UN's UNICEF. To be sure, this does indicate Correa's true concerns for the globe's children: sending a pornographer to help them out. It is not known if she will "help the poor" with sex tourism industry promotions also.

Ecuador is a sponsor of Venezuela and Iran and is not better or worse than Venezuela in this....Ecuador simply has slightly less oil than Venezuela for whom it serves as a proxy for Castro's Cuba, Iran and Venezuela...all due to Rafael Correa's ruinous activities. Correa is no friend to the USA. In fact, we suggest that his own mother, widowed by her drug running now dead by suicide spouse, relocate to either Iran or Havana. We are certain that Hugo's mother would welcome her to her gaudy, massively overdone palatial hacienda of bad taste....in the FARC zone of Venezuela. 

Here is today's map of Latin American alliance with state sponsors of terror:                        



Today in Uruguay, the newspaper EL UNIVERSAL reports that Venezuela's Foreign Minister Maduro lashed out at the USA regarding Chavez's agents who are criminals in the USA. He said, `No maneuver in this judiciary and media war, in the filthy things the decadent government of the United States does, will ever stop the new leadership building South America. We are witnessing the ratification that the peoples and the new leaders have taken a path and that such a way cannot be tarnished or blocked by the decadent administration of the White House,' he claimed."
 
It is time to cancel Venezuela's entree to the USA and any sane locale. It is also time to do the same for the FARC welcoming, over run Chavez bloc nation member regime of Ecuador.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis