January 12, 2008      Abandoning functional governance and legitimizing the illegitimate is what Correa and Chavez and Evo Morales are all about. Unrelentingly, these sub prime manipulators have delivered economic fascism and denounced basic freedoms in their unrelenting march toward legalizing the illegal.

Investors Business Daily here has a superb piece on the recent hostage release which was engineered to maximize international propaganda to legitimize the FARC and their global crime spree. Hugo Chavez lied when he called them a legitimate army because they are not and never have been.
 
While we are happy for any hostage release, we note that the recently released two is a much smaller number than the 117 which Uribe saw released in 2007, and more importantly, under Uribe's watch when tens of thousands have had protection to stop more murders, more kidnappings, rape, torture, bombings and terror from the FARC. The Colombians give life-restoring medical help and care to the released- and all Colombians- while the FARC leaves their serfs in sub human, deprived conditions with little to eat, little protection from privations, chains around their necks, no medical care and forced rape.
 
Yesterday Hugo Chavez, ostensible leader of his 5 nation bloc, declared these narcoterrorists to be legitimate- a real entity- an army which he states would thus carry the same rights and privileges of state. This is simply untrue. The FARC are illicit narcoterrorists whose acts and goals must be stopped, however much they are now combined politically with the regional bloc politics called Bolivarianism, which is not democratic, is not new and is quite illicit. Hugo Chavez also stated publicly that Venezuela is now a drug transshipment nation in partnership with the FARC. Correa thinks this is a great thing and Evo Morales sends Chavez cocoa chews to further erode his dwindling brain cells even as he is hyperactively medicated constantly.
 
Inexplicably, Rafael Correa welcomed two of Venezuela's most notorious mafia dons of the Chavez banking elite, Victor Vargas and Victor Gil, lately of Banco Occidental and Banco Fondo Comun to Ecuador, supposedly as a fake face to a fake bank sale of Banco Pacifico, now operating in Ecuador, Panama, and Miami, Florida for upcoming money laundering ease and bank fraud assuredness.
 
Banco Pacifico has been owned in receivership since the time of the Jamil Mahaud-Jeffrey Sachs economic collapse of Ecuador, for which Ecuadoreans paid an estimated $20 million for the Sachs-Soros "economic shock therapy" to collapse the economy. The Bank, under an IMF agreement, reopened under a public-bid-for-services contract which has just lapsed even as the two Spanish bank managers revived the dead bank and rebuilt its standing, one of the best for service.

Ecuadoreans have been paying for the economic collapse of the so called hated "oligarchy"- also called a justification for just about anything untoward- since 1999. Even so, this bank was revived. Leave it to Correa to fly in two of the most notoriously dirty Venezuelan bankers on the planet. Both men are known in the media for their assistance in selling the jiggered Ecuadorean bonds at a high price to line the Correa-Chavez wallets last spring and defraud bond holders. Others rumor that this duo resold the Chavez-invested Argentinean bonds. Correa called the two Victors as a "welcome" competition, never mind that nothing Correa does is competitive or transparent or legitimate. In fact, even the Central Bank used to oversee the contract for Banco Pacifico. With the ousting or resignations [in disgust] of the Central Bank of Ecuador over Correa's phony and abusive fiscal machinations, the only so called Central Bankers are his paid mouth organs who will never utter one word about dirty banking transactions. For his part, Correa now has seized Banco Pacifico for his own purposes, with no oversight, no audits and his own management team. Who needs the two Victors when you have Rafael Correa? We can only hope that the U.S. bank board and Florida attorney general shuts down their Miami branch banking for cartels.
 
The spikes in criminal activities in Ecuador should come as no surprise. History shows us over and over that societies do not resort to aggressive violence, mafia activities, rape, murder and torture when functional- not this new phony alternative- democracy is applied with even handed justice. In a recent report from the HERITAGE Foundation on the on going problems from faked or rigged elections, notably Kenya, here. We note that the flip side of crimes against nations by their own governments can be combated and ended.
 
The report notes, "...evidence... indicates that economic freedom, good governance, and the rule of law are key components in improving economic growth and development. In addition to benefiting the economy, sound institutions and a reliable, fair rule of law help to avoid violent clashes... People do not feel compelled to resolve disputes through violence when they are confident that the rules are obeyed or, if violations occur, they have access to a fair and impartial court system to mediate disputes. The U.S. should continue to encourage developing countries to improve governance and the rule of law for both the economic and political benefits.  A good example of this is the endorsement by the Carter Center (an NGO run by former President Jimmy Carter) of a controversial 2004 referendum in Venezuela. In that case, the Carter Center endorsed results favoring Hugo Chávez despite the presence of widespread fraud and the government having reneged on an agreement to audit the results. See J. Michael Waller, What to Do About Venezuela, The Center for Security Policy, May 2005."
 
In other words, in nations where the murder rate is the largest on earth, rule of law is the lowest on earth in a society that simply does not care that its own are murdered, raped and sold in to bondage at an alarming rate. That nation is Ecuador where its own societal members simply care nothing that its own land is a moral wasteland, its citizens murdered freely with no law and order, and its government steals from anyone they want to with no reprisals. The U.S. ambassador to Ecuador calls this government ` wonderful.' We call it illegal, debauched and in need of removal for its central crime spree as an elected cartel- not a legal government.
 
President Correa of Ecuador is legalizing the illegal each day. Ecuador's president, age 44, has said over and over that he wants the USA out of Ecuador, particularly stating that he will not renew the Manta Base leasehold with the USA to counter drug running from Ecuador. This is a pathetic response from Rafael Correa, who has not once altered his position nor has any actually tried to guide his decision making in any positive way. Correa, exhibiting the common sense of a dead dog, has no interest and no capacity to work with Ecuadorean military and law enforcement to stop Ecuador's massive drugs transshipment business, its murder rate and its crime rate. Correa's approach to citizen safety is to invite every subhuman creep to be a "tourist" in Ecuador....touring for dirty banks, dirty business deals and dirty politics. We say this openly because Correa has not and will not do one thing meaningfully to stop the overwhelming crime in Ecuador and has done nothing to combat his own state kleptocracy and self enrichment schemes called his alliance with Bolivarianism. Simply put -Correa has converted Ecuador in to a criminal racket backed by the globe's worst cartels. For more proof, ask Correa for copies of all his deals with Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as Trafigura and so called Venezuelan bankers as well as the FARC. 
 
For that matter, we still do not know who does Correa's look. It is a well known fact that all dictators start wearing goofy outfits and Correa is surely one of them. Real leaders never wear goofy outfits. Real men do not need to dress up in costumes. In his semi-Evo Morales outfits, our cult leader Correa still looks like the neo Marxist, badly educated, brain-vacated proxy for Hugo Chavez who is himself a proxy for Castro's communism and Russia's mafia money movers:


Rafael Correa. Presidente del Ecuador   Foto:EL COMERCIO

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Who does Correa's look? More importantly, who does forensic audits on state holdings, assets and money flow? The answer is: no one knows. We do know who actually runs and manages Ecuador and it is not Rafael Correa. It is in fact his Chavez-conspired overlords from DISIP and Sr. Viciano Pastor's Cuban communist governance. The taxpayers of Ecuador buy these custom made outfits for Correa among far too many out of pocket expenditures in this unaudited, unaccountable criminal voyeurism called Correa's Ecuador. EL COMERCIO, read it here, runs a vapid, wimpy, chock full of holes interview with Correa, engineered to promote Correa's Disneyworld of crime and corruption, which Correa calls his illegal destruction of free speech and democracy under the false guise of removing what he calls "Opposition"- that is, opposition to his criminal empire. Correa wants you to know that supporters of functional liberty are the "worst possible" enemies in Ecuador. Rafael Correa is delusional and is a liar. He has not one effective opposition leader because all Ecuadoreans are instructed now domestically to insure that they have vacated their morals, vacated their principles and vacated their persons, abandoning their nation to non democracy of the Chavez statehood bloc of self enriching kleptocrats under their new fascist economic model. There is no opposition in Ecuador- not any more: they have all run away. Soon we hope they will stop running. Sooner yet, we hope that all Ecuadorean media will demand of Rafael Correa to present facts/proof of his wild eyed claims, also called lies, or else denounce his lies as baseless scams for....they are. Correa is not an honest man and never has been. Ecuador's media has an obligation to use its God given rights for free speech, which it abuses solely to make lots of money, and report the facts or else be seen as every other Ecuadorean for what they are: on vacation now from all that matters. 
 
In a new analysis on the under-reported good news out of the USA, read it here, on reduced crime and drug addiction in the USA, the report also relays growing systemic deteriorations. "Thus, our popular culture remains, in many respects, a cesspool of violence and vulgarity. The `soft nihilism' and cultural relativism about which Allan Bloom wrote so powerfully in the late 1980’s are still with us, and at the same time many of our leading universities remain beholden to a radical leftist ideology. The yoking-together of these two syndromes may be even more widespread today than yesterday." This is bad news to be sure because our undereducated, lazy, badly prepared young people serve no one, least of all themselves in the complex new Century. Far better to hold for championing multi-layered education and training for all our citizens even though Ecuador's educational systems, sui generis, are some of the globe's worst. This is shameful. Ecuadoreans are not prepared for this century at all in any way and nothing occurs to turn this around. Dead beat societies run by adolescents, also called the Correa regime, deliver dead beat members of society whose lives are prepared for little more than serving as useful mules and runners for state kleptocracy, which is about correct in summing up Ecuador's new "work force" overwhelmed as it is today by monsters of their own making. And still no one raises a cry of concern...they are far too busy vacationing. Lives lived in a perpetual state of vacation gives lives where nothing is real and all is shallow.
 
And yet this bottom of the globe status, as a dead nation with no democracy, no rule of law, no habeas corpus under the dictatorship of Rafael Correa- while abetted by educational systems that teach the glories of fake Marxism over the sustainability of freedom, can be reversed. In real time, the authors report, "We have also learned that progress can happen faster than many people thought possible. Despite the good case made by those who believe that diffidence, skepticism, and self-limitation are the prerequisites of sound policymaking, sometimes what is needed is a bold break with the past. There will always be unintended consequences, but even these needs not always be for the worse, and the prospect of such unintended consequences should not paralyze us from taking action. Guided by a modest sense of possibility, and by realistic notions of the limits of politics, reform can succeed... And we have learned the trap of fatalism. In the late 1990’s, Paul Weyrich, a founding leader of the `religious Right,' circulated a public letter declaring that America was `caught up in a cultural collapse of historic proportions, a collapse so great that it simply overwhelms politics.' In the face of this descent into `something approaching barbarism,' Weyrich urged people of faith to adapt a `strategy of separation.' `We need,' he wrote, `some sort of quarantine.' But no such separation or quarantine is possible; there is no safe harbor to which to retreat. Nor is one necessary. Problems that may seem intractable at one moment—violence and disorder, harmful and reckless conduct—can yield, and yield quickly, to the right policies and to a determined citizenry. Human problems, products of human failings, can be addressed at least in part by human ingenuity."
In the end, we note that nihilism, skepticism, fatalism and diffidence are the disease carriers of crime, corruption and democracy's end.

To combat the collapse of Ecuador's society, which has already happened as factually apparent in its sustained murder rate, it is important to rebuild society's positions for moral basis points...one family at a time. Barbarism is the next step with the necessary quarantine for this sweeping epidemic of crime and illicit living. This is repulsive and will soon be rejected/walled off and quarantined either by societal revulsion and rejection of- if it goes too far- by the naturally occurring rights of governments to defend themselves from overwhelming criminal empires, which can involve military protections.

Rafael Correa, if he thinks at all, appears to be gambling that the perversion of democracy and human rights will be so debased before anyone takes a factual look at what he has done, that by then...it will not matter and no one will care. Even though Ecuadoreans care nothing that their nation is an embarrassing sewer of crime and corruption, costing jobs and freedom's end, it may well be seen yet that Ecuadoreans are now so addicted to their lives of manipulation that internal self correction is rejected for the satisfactions of lives served on the cheap and with little meaning and even less integrity. If so, it is important to know that this is a self inflicted pariah state that leads to the current epidemic.

Here is actual footage of Chavez's formally aligned with Iran foot soldiers of disaster: Hezbollah actually converting idiots inside Venezuela even as Chavez welcomes the FARC's conversion efforts inside Venezuela, also called his 7 known FARC terror training camps. If you think that life under Castro if great, you will not consider what Correa-Chavez-Morales have in mind for you under the FARC, Cuba and Hezbollah plan. But know this: it will be our own fault for abandoning this nation today when its needs are most dire. There is help- neither from the ethically debauched OAS nor from the deeply compromised Soros-laced NGOs littering today's complicit media and diplomatic corps. Help comes from individual commitments to life well served and to coordination with communities of freedom lovers, not found inside U.S. embassies or U.S. funded NGOs in general any more. Cease blaming these folks anyway and do you own work. But know this: peace does not come from abandoning ethics or surrendering functional governance to the tender mercies of Iran's Hezbollah where FARC-style justice takes on a special effect. Hezbollah and the FARC have combined forces in the Andes now to remove all that should be held most dear by those who hold anything dearly, their numbers diminishing now as more and more are taught to hold their manhood, ethics, and honor cheaply.

Unless the George Soros-funded Clintons or Barack Obama take over the U.S. White House next year, the USA will continue its embargo against Correa's paradise and Venezuela's partner in terror called Castro's communist Cuba, itself a state sponsor of terror. ACCURACY in MEDIA [AIM] has a superb older analysis here as to why the USA will not end its morally correct embargo against the Correa-Chavez-Castro hub called Cuba. In an eerie parallel to Cuban imprisonment, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador under their new bloc of non free nationhood, will also see an embargo soon, too for their sponsorship of communism, terror and debauchery- now at epidemic levels, if any chose to stop lying and state the facts.

Regarding Cuba, the report notes, "The heart of the current anti-embargo stand is a plea for `constructive engagement.' Its advocates posit that when American citizens come face to face with Cuban citizens, mutual understanding will flower and democratic tendencies will spread. Actually, some of that did happen when Castro’s regime opened the door to family visits by Cuban exiles; but business-to-business relations are much more doubtful, because independent enterprise does not exist in Cuba. American companies would be dealing not with Cuban counterparts but directly-and whether they know it or not-with Castro’s security forces; a prospect that offers no hope of amelioration to ordinary Cubans.

Unlike U.S. companies, Cuba’s enterprises are completely dominated by government officials and informants. Any sign of disloyalty can bring the gravest consequence. Workers have no right to collective bargaining; any attempt to organize among workers is met with ostracism, demotion, dismissal, or with arrest and lengthy imprisonment. Foreign businesses that employ Cuban workers do not pay those workers directly. Payments are made to the state, which keeps nearly all the money and doles out a pittance to workers who receive, on average, about fifteen dollars a month. The fact that even so small an amount is paid in dollars makes the deal attractive to Cubans, who gladly accept jobs in foreign companies. This setup is a potential boon to offshore investors who can acquire the services of skilled workers without labor troubles, and without concerns about how workers are treated. A further irony-given the extensive support Castro’s regime has enjoyed in the West-is that such arrangements, far from fostering a general welfare, have led to the kind of hyper-exploitation that once occurred in pre-capitalist, feudal societies.

Even if our Western countries have no current experience in this regard, we do have words for a condition in which people must do as they are told, say and think as they are told, work as they are told, consume as they are told, live where they are told-with one’s only chance for a self-determined life residing in escape. One of those words is serfdom; another is slavery.

The freeborn Cuban people are now in chains, while their leaders cry for commerce with the United States. Can we sensibly believe that dealing with Cuba’s bosses will improve the lot of those who toil under them? At times, Western companies have made handsome profits in dealings with the Cuban government. At other times, especially with foreign banks, Cuban entities have defaulted so regularly that Castro’s regime now has a credit rating among the world’s worst. In neither case-foreign businesses gaining nor losing-do Cuba’s people benefit. The only winners, who get money and staying power, are the members of Castro’s regime.

Not so long ago, when Castro imprisoned his political enemies and forced a famous poet to recant his ideas, Western intellectuals argued that if the regime was on the side of the average farmer and laborer, then repression of a few artists and activists would not be a cause for concern. That argument was Maoism on stilts. Decades of history have now shown the bitter fruits of Castro’s rule. In all that time, the U.S. embargo has achieved exactly what it set out to do. It has simply stated, for everyone to hear, that Americans do not wish to have trade with Cuba’s overlords and slave-masters."

We hope our readers will stay well informed, well outside the mediocre confines of their local TV news and the TELESUR state propaganda. We hope even more that our readers will understand that this same Cuban slavery is what Rafael Correa is formally bringing your way. He has said he would and he is doing this. Today, the Pittsburgh Tribune here correctly reports that Hugo Chavez corrupts just about all that he touches, including the ripe for corrupting already debauched, ever useful as idiots easily bought on the cheap, Kennedy clan currently promoting Chavez. The article astutely states that Joe Kennedy is Chavez's useful idiot: “Kennedy actually admits that the reduced-cost oil is a cheap ploy by Chavez to get publicity. But he fails to mention that it also is an affront to this nation that sends a corrupted image of the free market to the world...Mr. Chavez has become a deadly oil slick seeping throughout the Western Hemisphere. He has used the windfall profits from Venezuelan oil to finance major purchases of arms for socialist insurgents in Central and South America as he disparages the U.S. and tries to undermine everything this republic stands for. Chavez could be mistaken for the bastard son of the dictator he idolizes, Cuba's Fidel Castro. However, Chavez has more blood money than his surrogate socialist sire ever could imagine to destabilize democracy after democracy."

Why would any decent soul be used as a cheap ploy to promote illicit governments, communism and cartels? Because they are easily bought out... greed is at play, not ethics. Faustian bargains are never undone easily and souls that sell out do not readily self correct without moral leadership, itself in short supply in Ecuador today as no one- not even our families- reach out to turn off the debauched.

If Ecuadoreans seek cambio -change- from their self delusional, self imprisoning unhappy lives one and all need first to walk away from the cold bed in which they sleep and turn instead to the warmth of living a life of basic ethics with some honor. Soon the cold cold bed we all know will come will be more real than before.
Hope is a real agent for cambio. It is palpable now in Ecuador but it will not last unless acted on. Act on hope.
 
- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis