January 23, 2008   The United States of America is guilty of many things, currently guilty for having thrown its neighbors and former allies to the tender mercies of Cuban-instructed Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa without uttering one word against this treason nor recalling their own overpaid mouth organs who actually embrace freedom's end in the lands where they are to represent the USA but do not. However, the USA did not create this evil afoot in Latin America called narcoterrorism as nationhood. The living dead created their own horror by selfishly selling out their own ethics to the identical manipulative government they live under as they themselves live inside their own homes. Politics follows function, personal function and when there are only manipulative individuals who own no ethics, the state government not only preys on their valueless incoherence but enshrines itself as such. We are what our majority has become. Chavez land inhabitants are, as the mafia used to say, patsies ripe for the plucking. And plucked by the black hand of crime they have been. And will remain stoolies and patsies of the criminal state unless and until they chose to suffer no longer the extortion of their days which they brought upon themselves called Bolivarianism.
 
Comes now Diego Arria who calls on the USA here to "do something" about Chavez and the FARC. We hope he 1st conforms his own colleagues at US AID and NED to stop supporting the FARC in thousands of ways and also....stop preaching to the USA to "do something." The USA, last we looked, has done "something." About $4 billion ++ worth of something while no one- no one at all- has stepped up to support or defend Uribe in Latin America, including Diego Arria's half baked, nancy-girls of semi literacy and overpaid pals where he works today. It offends when a Venezuelan ignores what the USA has been doing, when the U.S. Democrats and George Soros do not get in their way....which is a lot these days and has stripped 1/2 of the anti FARC support from the U.S. budget to assist Uribe in fighting crime...and forgets that his own nation has done nothing of late against the FARC. Nor has the employment center for Soros political hacks who hate Uribe called NED done anything meaningful except trot out Opinion Pieces such as this to deflect from the fact that NED stands for nothing except overpriced salaries for their Sorosites. Far better for Diego Arria to thank the US DEA and President Bush for not cutting and running from Uribe and his work. Far better for Arria to thank the U.S. tax dollars for trying to stem the tide of heroin from the Andes now freely flowing in to the USA. Arria, instead of screaming for the USA to "do something" can...himself do something...meaningful. He could start by sensibly telling the NED/US AID to promote law and order and functional democracy and stop enabling the legitimization of illegitimacies, as they do so well in the Andes today.
 
Arria tells us, "Citizens of the United States - many of whom call for energy independence to extricate the country from the dangerous politics of the Middle East - must wake up to the threat this presents. A South American government awash in petrodollars has confessed its direct support for and solidarity with the two biggest terrorist organizations in the region. "
 
While we agree with Arria that those in the USA sleeping under a log who may have missed Chavez's looney tunes or are themselves complicit to encourage the FARC, sometimes called the Soros-laced NGOs paid by the USA, it is not helpful to discount or ignore the serious actors who have long stood with Uribe in his principled fight against narcoterror. That would not be a list that includes Soros, US AID or the NED or the U.S. Congressional democrats. Before screaming at the USA to "do something" about Chavez and the FARC, Diego can first clean up his own household, his colleagues and his community. He can also extend warm thanks to the U.S. law enforcement and the generosity of the U.S. taxpayers to date in their fight against the FARC, however much the Reid-Pelosi-Soros political funding triangle will destroy all progress if left to their intentions, returning Colombia to the Clinton Era zone of terror where the FARC terrorized an entire nation.
 
An American reader sent this explanation recently regarding how many see the U.S. presidential elections:

If this is how some see the U.S. presidential elections, already noted on pro-Democratic Party U.S. cable TV shows as the only game in town for the full control of the U.S. Congress and White House, readers need to make their own assessment of the Soros machine backing the Clintons and Barack Obama and the impact that the Reid-Pelosi controlled U.S. Congress will have under such an embarrassing pay to play political machine. Barack Obama has no foreign policy pretensions or knowledge. Hillary Clinton's most ardent experience as roving First Lady was to abuse her high wifely status to jet around Bill Clinton's pay pal and backer, the always self serving Soros....on White House jets to further the Soros business cum so called NGO empire. For his part, Soros has stated that he prefers this moment Obama and that may be so. But the real boss of both Hillary and Barack is Soros, without whose money they would not eat, in general. The same is so for Cuba as Castro's gulag of spies and serfs would not eat or have their being without Hugo Chavez. In Ecuador, Correa would not exist without the specific promotionals, also called political propaganda, enjoyed concurrently by the ever lying U.S.-funded NGOs in Ecuador [mostly funded by Soros and/or US AID] and the lady ambassador from the USA plus Chavez's money and governmental control agents, also called DISIP agents for command and control. What we do not understand is why Secretary Rice and her Assistant Tom Shannon have not recalled this entire tawdry mess called U.S. diplomacy in Ecuador and installed functional diplomats- not adolescent cheerleaders as is the case today. The current crop of so called U.S. diplomats is banking on a huge win by their funder in chief- Soros- in a winner take all sweepstakes next November in the USA to insure that their anti-USA work continues to wreck regional instability in the Andes to enable additional financial rewards for the speculative cartels, sometimes called joint Russian money movers, which is exactly the real political game afoot in South America. Note that the real game is not to feed the poor and is not some struggle about democracy, which is of no concern to Soros, the OAS or the liberal U.S. Democrats. It is about engineering instability for their preferred offshore derivatives swaps machines which now gobbles up about 20% of the globe's credit/cash on hand, draining available resources for sustainable economies while replenishing their hidden bank accounts.
 
The Washington Times writes that, "And, for his part, Mr. Chavez makes one state visit after another to Iran to demonstrate his solidarity with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while providing Mr. Castro an economic lifeline through the sale of cheap subsidized oil." To this we would add that Chavez has given an economic lifeline to other failed dictatorships such as Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa while also "giving an economic lifeline" to thousands of deeply flawed agents and worker bees of the Far Left/neo socialist sub class such as the Kennedy and Delahunt clan, enjoying not only Chavez largesse but in numerous ways extolling the benefits of the Soros-backed anti Colombia agenda. Giving out subsidized oil as an "economic lifeline" is still...bribery even as Chavez and his so called lifeline recipients still- to this day- fail, like Correa and the Kirchners- to disclose their ill gotten Chavez funds. For their part, Venezuelans needs-must demand that unless and until public transparency of the ship of state called Chavez's Venezuela is restored, they will see no more bribery and extortion from Chavez's hands.

The Times piece, read it here, tells us, "One of the most troubling threats in America's backyard is the emerging axis of Cuba's Communist regime and the Iranian government, assisted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Cuban President Fidel Castro has been cultivating the Islamist regime in Tehran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution...Both regimes are closely allied with Mr. Chavez, who has reciprocated with extensive military and intelligence ties. Indeed, the US. government's permanent bureaucracy is actively obstructionist when it is not indifferent...." In other words, Cuba and Chavez's big export is selling intelligence/spying services and as such, assists not only backers of terror but also subdenizens of the world's worst criminal cartels.
 
Chavez's take over of RC TV was not just to shut up a very decent arm of free speech. It had two additional effects. The first was to remonopolize Venezuela's media which is above 90% now under Chavez's monopolies and the second was to add RC TVs equipment - some estimate value at about $5 billion- for the betterment of Chavez's spying and propaganda services for hire. Like murder-for-hire thugs, Chavez's government is not much more than an adolescent DISIP style spy ring on steroids [or cocaine] as it sells its "intelligence" to any who will either join the circle of criminals called today's neo communists or enjoy the widening gyre of disastrous regimes for hire...or on the take, as is the case with Correa's Ecuador which is fully on the take now with the Chavez machine.

Replacing RC TV with Iranian News, which is partnered jointly now with Chavez, adds their two way spying community of communications...deeply flawed communications, nefarious communications, and dishonest communications to wage global wars of attrition communications. Stealing RC TV gave Chavez's fledgling spy command hard assets to sell his illicit global wars of attrition, soon to be backed up to protect and defend his "Assets." This then is what was triggered one fine day almost a year ago when Chavez stole RC TV. And this singular event by Chavez was of course established as irrevocable by the USA, having glorified Chavez for too many years and ignored the advancing set up, also called asset seizure, and the removal of law and order in Venezuela, claiming the high art of diplomatic enabling as sacrosanct, until RC TV went dark. And now all of Venezuela is essentially dark. And dark is the operative word...dark as in dirty, as in a blockade of lies and a morass of criminals. Why do you suppose that these featured articles state that the U.S. government's permanent bureaucracy obstructs informational exchange, especially on such a horrific assault on western civilization as engineered and well underway by the Iranian-Cuban-Venezuelan-Ecuadorian axis of crime? It is safe to safe that all U.S. diplomats, and their pet political activists from the US AID-George Soros sub set of pro FARC activists, who obstruct the facts are repulsive and not to be endured any longer. Indeed, we can only ponder, por qué no te callas?
 
Once in a while, good men and true can enjoy the moment. This one, caught by camera in Madrid, must surely feel like the real thing:



To all moments- large and small, we commend the King and Alvaro Uribe.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis