January 17, 2008   The Editors of ECrisis commend the Washington Post for its helpful analysis of Hugo Chavez's formal support of the FARC, placing Venezuela squarely in need of rapidly having its duty free status cancelled by the USA and the beginnings of its formal designation, always a much slower process, as a State Sponsor of Terror, which it is. Ecuador has mimicked Chavez's Venezuela. There is nothing to celebrate in Ecuador- nothing at all.
 
With the pro FARC groups and their coordinated Ecuadorean dictatorship of Rafael Correa paying the lobbying-propaganda outfits coordinated to maintain unity of political agendas for the George Soros pro drugs efforts and the U.S. Democratic Party active across the U.S. Congress, called Fenton Communications, there is little chance that any U.S. Congressional action will even review anything remotely fact based about the FARC or Chavez's formal support of narcoterrorism, called his 5 nation bloc. Fenton has improperly pledged to create harm to Colombia's honest reputation before the U.S. Congress to sell a fake package of legislation to swap Colombia's FTA legislation for Ecuador's ATPDEA extension to be covered under the umbrella of Colombia's ATPDEA extension on false grounds, which also includes Fenton's lobbying collusion to boost their third client....far left Labor Union activists.

Never one to shrink from aiding and abetting Chavez and the do-drugs NGOs so popular across all Andean embassies of the U.S. government, Congressman Delahunt and his cabal of pro-communist congressmen who abhor Uribe and praise Chavez, have set in to motion a political scam of dire proportions whose goal is to undermine U.S. law enforcement efforts in the Andes. Already the end of January 2008 shows broad reaching lobbying efforts scheduled by the U.S. Democrats' preferred activist PR company called Fenton delivering lobbying presentations across U.S. Congressional staffs and offices to persuade decision makers that Rafael Correa is a wonderful partner to reduce crime and drug running in the Andes and that it is Uribe who is the menace to democracy, both claims, also called lying to the U.S. Congress, are false propaganda. And when U.S. ambassador Jewell tells us in the media that the USA will of course deliver sine qua non a new ATPDEA extension for Rafael Correa, she knows what Correa and Soros and the U.S. Democrats have set in store to accomplish. She knows that the heavy propaganda campaign will suffer no countervailing views from any Ecuadorean to present any facts because Ecuadoreans have vacated their fact based positions before the free world by choice and have decided instead to refuse to tell the facts of their own demise. Of course Jewell forgot to check in with the US Trade Representative or any other fact based decision maker whose own data and positions expose Jewell's misinformation campaign to help Correa help the pro FARC actors and assist Hugo Chavez while ignoring U.S. laws, policies and legal treaties.
 
Hugo Chavez is an Ally to Kidnappers. The POST is correct to pint this out and is also correct to state that Chavez used the recent duo released by the FARC to announce that he had formally allied with the FARC. The POST is tragically wrong about Argentina and Ecuador: they are fully aligned, bought and sold, partners in crime with Hugo Chavez as Allies to Kidnappers. Argentina itself today is overwhelmed with drug crimes and drug deaths. Ecuador launders anyone's dirty drug money and is proud of it. It is all part of being allied with Iran, the FARC, and Hugo Chavez's new bloc of criminal nations.
 
Far more correct coverage is noted at Once Upon a Time in the West, which correctly reports:

"The inauguration of crypto-communist Alvaro Colom to the presidency of Guatemala received the imprimatur of Latin America's Red Axis, which dispatched its spokesentities to Guatemala City on January 14. In attendance, according to the mouthpiece of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, were the "ex"-communist President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega (pictured here with Colom), the neo-communist dictator of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, the neo-communist dictator of Ecuador Rafael Correa, and the neo-communist President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and social democratic President of Panama Martin Torrijos, as well as "neo-liberal" national leaders like Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Salvadoran President Antonio Saca, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. After welcoming President Colom to the Western Hemisphere's regional Communist Bloc, Lula flew to Cuba, where he conferred with Acting President Raul Castro, younger brother of the ailing Fidel."
 
Rafael Correa is indeed Ecuador's neo communist dictator. To all our friends who disagree, we invite you to submit to our site your reasons to detail why it is your continue to enjoy the disinformation campaign the Correa is not a Marxist communist and why he is not a dictator. Please be sure to check your definitions in the dictionary first. You will want to review Correa's pledge to Fidel Castro to install a replica of Cuba inside Ecuador and his life long so called academics on the joys of Marxism and state controls of everything, sometimes not to be confused with state kleptocracy which must always   be seen as the ploy/cover for helping the poor while lining their own pockets. The poor in Ecuador are today worse under Correa than any flawed or failed leader of Ecuador in the last ten years. You will also want to add the irrefutable fact that Correa has completed his 2007 self coup and has purged all democracy from Ecuador, replacing it with his own paid mouth organs allegiant only to his Chavez-funded dictatorship in this land and in this time with no justice, no congress, no open media allowed and no accountability.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

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The Washington Post

Ally to Kidnappers
Venezuela's Hugo Chávez endorses Colombian groups known for abductions, drug trafficking and mass murder.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008; A14

ON THURSDAY, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an organization that in the past decade has kidnapped more than 750 people who remain missing, released two captives into the custody of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The FARC, which decades ago discarded the Marxist ideology it wielded in the 1960s for the mercenary causes of abduction and drug trafficking, is anything but an altruistic movement, so many wondered what it would get in exchange for the propaganda coup it handed Mr. Chávez.

The shocking answer arrived the next day: In a four-hour address to the Venezuelan Congress, Mr. Chávez described the FARC and another Colombian group, the Army of National Liberation (ELN), as "not terrorists" but "genuine armies." He claimed that they possessed "a Bolivarian political project that is respected here," a reference to his own, half-baked "socialism for the 21st century." And he demanded that they be recognized as lawful belligerents by the United States and Latin American and European governments that now classify them as terrorist organizations. In short, Mr. Chávez was endorsing groups dedicated to violence and other criminal behavior in a neighboring Latin American democracy, and associating his agenda with theirs.

It was encouraging to see the revulsion this statement instantly produced in Latin America, where terrorism has caused incalculable damage. But the message the FARC channeled through Mr. Chávez was really aimed at Europeans and Americans. Some in Washington, London and Madrid, where kidnappings are rare, are happy to embrace Mr. Chávez -- former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, for example, can be heard in radio advertisements touting his alliance with the Venezuelan leader. The FARC may think it can similarly find allies. Filmmaker Oliver Stone is already sold: He recently called the FARC "heroic."

The answer to this logic was provided by the press office of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who has been waging what is, in fact, a heroic battle against the brutal gangs that for decades have plagued his country. "The violent groups of Colombia are terrorists because they finance themselves through a business that is lethal to humanity: drug trafficking," the press office said. (The FARC exports hundreds of tons of cocaine annually, and an increasing portion of it passes through Venezuela.) "The violent groups of Colombia are terrorists because they kidnap, place bombs indiscriminately, recruit and murder children, murder pregnant women, murder the elderly and use antipersonnel mines that leave in their wake thousands of innocent victims." All these assertions have been well documented by Western human rights groups that are otherwise hostile to Mr. Uribe's government.

No wonder even governments allied with Mr. Chavez, such as those of Argentina and Ecuador, recoiled from his appeal. Latin American leaders who until now have seen in Mr. Chavez a crude populist who buys his friends with petrodollars are faced with something new: a head of state who has openly endorsed an organization of kidnappers and drug traffickers in a neighboring, democratic country. "You can't be legal in your own country and accept illegality in another," said Guatemala's newly elected president, Álvaro Colom. Venezuela's neighbors now must calculate how to respond to a leader who has violated that fundamental rule.