March 19, 2008   ECrisis notes that the current mood in the Andes has all the juicy components of a grade B movie: sex, drugs, rock and roll and lots of promotional monies to make a  fantasy world where love and peace- from the narcoterrorists- runs the ad campaigns. Welcome to the deteriorating world of global diplomacy where sex, drugs, rock and roll are replacing the hard work needed to stop the onward march of serious criminals from the FARC and Iran, thanks to the red carpet walk rolled out by Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez for these perps.
 
Indeed, we present here how many see the so called Andean Crisis: Chavez and Correa are in bed with the FARC and Uribe is coming....with the evidence:



In a self revealing bow to the influence of liars, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces at the George Soros flag ship, also called the inept OAS, the "new" resolution regarding the non crisis between the legitimate nation of Colombia and the very undemocratic failed state of Ecuador and its allegiance with the FARC, the OAS language itself was no triumph of anything except deception. Nowhere in the OAS Resolution can be found the words "terrorism" or the "FARC."

But Rafael Correa is thrilled that his pathetic criminal complicity was not further outed by the OAS: he is satisfied that for now his own criminality was rewarded by his childish temper tantrums and lies. Indeed, the OAS Resolution of 3-17-08 is a triumph of duplicity, double speak and an assiduous effort to avoid the facts and reject global norms regarding terrorism and the states who sponsor terror, which is clearly the case of Venezuela and Ecuador. But the U.S. Democrats, also called the party of Soros that concurrently co-manages the OAS, want you to know that rule of law and global standards regarding terrorists and criminals are irrelevant. A quick review of the final Resolution confirms the irresponsible double speak of reducing rule of law....to a foot note, a cipher...an afterthought of no importance. Indeed, the OAS version of diplomacy is to demand that the facts be denied and that rule of law be manipulated...in to a foot note of history.
 
Freedom lovers are told that the OAS, guided as it is by the U.S. Democratic Party operatives and the George Soros unique brand of "advisors" for global socialism, did a great service to Ecuador to give it an extended free pass on truth telling and compliance with global legal norms so that Ecuador can have "time:" to rebuild its doomed state. Meanwhile, the OAS's Insulza still tells really bad and insulting jokes against President Bush and the USA behind closed doors. Insulza calls this diplomacy. We call it....reprehensible.
 
Freedom lovers know a lie when they hear one and this whopper that Colombia and its fight against drug criminals must be harmed in order to save the now failed regime of Correa, called diplomacy, is one of the most crude of all lies. This is not diplomacy and it is not honest nor honorable. There was no honor present at table on March 17, 2008 at the OAS: just a gang rape of Colombia and its positions of principle. Gang rapes, group sex, lies, propaganda campaigns and harsh abusive behavior may be the preferred action plan of the debauched Correa but it has no place in civil society, unless of course one is an Ecuadorean and then as an Ecuadorean you will call this wholesale string of manipulative behaviors as "family values."
 
Rafael Correa's "government" in Ecuador calls the 3-17-08 OAS Resolution a "triumph" of Ecuadorean diplomacy, which is of course nothing more than a pack of lies and factual manipulations which Ecuadoreans today call diplomacy but we call it a wholesale propaganda campaign of lies to hide their own criminal complicity with global narcoterrorists. Here is the final OAS text:
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http://scm.oas.org/doc_public/ENGLISH/HIST_08/RC00107E06.DOC
MEETING OF CONSULTATION OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

TWENTY-FIFTH MEETING OF CONSULTATION  OEA/Ser.F/II.25
OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS  RC.25/RES.1/08
March 17, 2008  17 March 2008
Washington, D.C. Original:  Spanish

RESOLUTION OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH MEETING OF CONSULTATION
OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [1]/

CONSIDERING:

That the Organization of American States is fully competent to address any facts and events that may endanger hemispheric peace and security;

That one of the purposes of the OAS is respect for the personality, sovereignty, and independence of states, as well as the faithful fulfillment of obligations derived from treaties and other sources of international law; and

That among the essential purposes of the OAS Charter is “[t]o strengthen the peace and security of the continent” and “to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may arise among the Member States”;  and

TAKING UP the text of the resolution of the Permanent Council of March 5, 2008 and of the declaration of the XX Meeting of Presidents of the Rio Group on March 7, 2008,

RESOLVES:

1. To welcome the “Declaration of the Heads of State and Government of the Group of Rio on the recent events between Ecuador and Colombia,” adopted in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on March 7, 2008, and to underscore its contribution to the easing of tensions and to rapprochement between the Parties, based on the principle of international law.
2. To reaffirm the full applicability of the principles enshrined in international law of respect for sovereignty, abstention from the threat or use of force, and noninterference in the internal affairs of other states, which are embodied in Article 19 of the Charter and are founding principles of the inter-American system—principles that are binding on all its member states in all circumstances.
3. To reaffirm the full applicability of the principle of territorial sovereignty, enshrined unrestrictedly and without any exception in Article 21 of the OAS Charter, as a vital principle for harmonious relations among the nations of the Americas.
4. To reject the incursion by Colombian military forces and police personnel into the territory of Ecuador, in the Province of Sucumbíos, on March 1, 2008, carried out without the knowledge or prior consent of the Government of Ecuador, since it was a clear violation of Articles 19 and 21 of the OAS Charter.
5. To take note of the full apology for the events that occurred and the pledge by Colombia, expressed by its President to the Rio Group and reiterated by its delegation at this Meeting of Consultation, that they would not be repeated under any circumstances.
6. To reiterate the firm commitment of all member states to combat threats to security caused by the actions of irregular groups or criminal organizations, especially those associated with drug trafficking;
7. To instruct the Secretary General to use his good offices to implement a mechanism for observing compliance with this resolution and the restoration of an atmosphere of trust between the two Parties.
 8. To take note of the report submitted by the Commission headed by the Secretary General and composed of the Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of The Bahamas, Ambassador Cornelius Smith; and by the Permanent Representatives of Argentina, Ambassador Rodolfo Gil; Brazil, Ambassador Osmar Chohfi;  Panama, Ambassador Arístides Royo;  and Peru, Ambassador María Zavala; and to thank all of them for their outstanding efforts.
9. To keep this Meeting of Consultation open and hold its next session during the upcoming regular session of the General Assembly, in order to receive a report by the Secretary General on the implementation of this resolution.

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The real crisis in the Andes is one of truth tellers versus liars. Criminal terror groups, also called the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador, have been caught quite legally with their pants down and have been blasted. The USA's White House correctly believes that Colombia is a decent nation and warrants a full free trade deal. The U.S. Democrats believe that Colombia should be punished for their principled positions by using some trumped up, fake charges that the government of Colombia seeks to murder labor union activists. Here is U.S.

Congressman Berman desperately trying to cover up the fact that the Democrats in the USA will do anything to delay and obfuscate any U.S. trade stabilizer with Colombia...this time claiming they need more time. The U.S. Democrats have had "time" - years in fact. Moreover, the majority party of the U.S. Congress has played every trumped up trick they can play to create a false picture of Colombia as undeserving of free trade with the USA. As such, where criminal terrorists are involved, it is impossibly aberrant for U.S. Democrats, as reflected by Berman to whine that one is not either with the terrorists or against them when indeed this is the case- today more than ever. Moral equivalency is the propaganda campaign to craft harm to Colombia and this really needs to stop.

Here are the Democrats in all their moral  equivalency telling us that we can all support terrorists and be just wonderfully happy, when we all know that the U.S. Democrats are looking for more U.S. tax monies to give away to labor unionists in a package deal of hand outs:
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March 18, 2008   

Give Us Time to Assess Colombia Free Trade Pact
March 18, 2008; Page A21
The proposed Colombia Free Trade Agreement involves many complex issues; your paper's one-sided attack ("The Chávez Democrats1," Review & Outlook, March 10) is therefore disappointing.
You launched a misleading attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats, trivializing their legitimate questions about Colombia's troubling history of labor activist assassinations and human-rights violations. Rather than allowing Congress to adequately assess whether Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe has taken meaningful steps to protect labor leaders and other human rights activists from violence and prosecute those responsible for committing these heinous crimes, you are pushing for Congress to approve this agreement before that assessment is made. Setting up this agreement as merely choosing between Mr. Chávez and Colombia is resorting to a pointless and counterproductive "you are with or against us" mentality. It also mocks the plight of the broken families and communities victimized by this violence.

Speaker Pelosi has spent most of her two decades in Congress working to expand human rights around the globe and has been crystal clear in her views of Mr. Chávez's record of abuses, strong arm tactics, and outrageous statements.

Similarly well-documented is her commitment to free and fair trade in order to expand markets for U.S. businesses, farmers and workers. To that end, the speaker and House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel launched bipartisan discussions last spring to resuscitate a stalled trade agenda. This resulted in a strong bipartisan vote on the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement last November.

Rep. Howard Berman
(D., Calif.)
Chairman
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Washington
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But here comes a man from Chicago to restate some facts about the Andean "crisis" which we find especially factual, unlike Congressman Berman's PR ploy letter. The writer is totally correct, contrary to the Ecuadorean government's dishonest claims, that no solution to the ginned up crisis must stand that grants "silence and impunity" to the Chavistas in the Andean region. Here is a superb statement about all this:

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You have accurately reported how during his first and second terms as president, Alvaro Uribe has been the engine of several social, political and economic transformations in Colombia, and how his actions have turned a once hopeless Colombia into a vibrant and promising land. His approach to the recent crisis in Latin America, fueled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, was a demonstration of his exemplary diplomacy and solid character. Colombia's decisive military actions may have caused diplomatic distress in the region, but are clear and tangible results for President Uribe and his mission of exterminating the FARC.

But as accurately noted by Mary Anastasia O'Grady ("The FARC Files," Americas, March 10), the information discovered in the Ecuador-based terrorist camp where FARC leader Raul Reyes was killed by the Colombian army should not be disregarded. It shows that Mr. Uribe not only must fight the FARC as the internal cancer that developed within his country, but that he also must fight it as it is supported by Mr. Chávez and his marionettes in Latin America, including the leaders of Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. When FARC files mentioning uranium, arms, cocaine and hostages also include references to support from the governments of several countries in the region, the world should watch closely.

The Rio summit may have brought calm to the diplomatic rings, but it should not bring silence and impunity to the crimes being fueled by the inadequately termed Bolivarian revolution of Mr. Chávez. If only the Libertador Bolívar could see Venezuelan and Ecuadorian battalions pointed at Colombia!
Fernando J. Gómez, Ph.D.
Chicago
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Following the U.S. Embassy's support for the Correa regime of non democratic criminals and thugs, Ministra Salvador was feted March 18, 2008 at one of the more bizarre Inter American Dialogue presentations where she, true to form, lied like a dog, following the well trod pathways of her Sister Soljah Piedad Cordoba without the frenzied shopping extravaganzas. Ministra Salvador wants you to believe that Ecuador, a criminal narcostate, is the victim of law and order, globally accepted basic norms of human decency. She is embarrassing and so too is Rafael Correa's cover up of his criminality.
 
For their part, the U.S. House of Representatives' Republicans remind us that there are precedents at play here: namely U.N. Resolutions, OAS Resolutions, Geneva Conventions- in short all global bodies- regarding law and order which must not be ignored in Ecuador's rush to lie a lot to the global community, or as the U.S. Democratic Party calls it, "helping Ecuador."  Helping Ecuador by these liars and sloppy Soros-backed do drugs confabs, sometimes called statesmanship or NGO contractors, is not helping Ecuador. The government of Ecuador is complicit with Chavez and the FARC and anyone who tells you differently is a liar.  One is either with the criminals or not. There is no excuse for this.
 
Here are the real facts about the OAS Resolution from a strong truth teller, deeply needed these days:
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foreignaffairs.republicans.house.gov <http://foreignaffairs.republicans.house.gov/>

"For IMMEDIATE Release
Ros-Lehtinen Expresses Concern about OAS Resolution on Colombia
Urges regional support for Colombia’s efforts against violent FARC extremists

(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today expressed concern regarding a resolution adopted by the Organization of American States (OAS) critical of the government of Colombia for its March 1st raid on a hideout of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). During the raid, Colombian security forces seized computers with information reportedly linking senior officials in the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela to the FARC, a violent extremist group at war with Colombia. Information retrieved from the computer files also reportedly links the government of Venezuela to payment of an estimated $300 million to the FARC. Statement of Ros-Lehtinen:

        Colombia’s raid on a hideout of the FARC was an act of self-defense against a murderous group that has killed, kidnapped and wounded thousands of Colombians during decades of drug-fueled violence.

        The OAS resolution fails to acknowledge the suffering of the Colombian people and their right to self-defense against extremists operating freely in neighboring countries.
      
        In 2002, the Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism was adopted by OAS countries, including Ecuador and Venezuela. The treaty requires countries to adopt policies to prevent, punish and eliminate violent extremism that threatens democratic values and peace and security in the hemisphere.

        The one-sided resolution adopted by the OAS blatantly ignores the reported complicity of the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela with the FARC and neglects violations of the treaty.

        It is time for the democratic members of OAS to live up to their obligations under long-standing international commitments to combat violent extremism and stop using diversionary tactics to shift the blame to other countries. The United States remains dedicated to helping our allies in the region confront the evils of violent extremism. "
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Here stands the self congratulating actors of a deceptive end run to remove extant principles of international rule of law, the UN Resolutions and the Geneva Conventions, which Ecuadoreans dishonestly call “a triumph" but we call unacceptably dishonest behavior at the OAS:



Satisfacción ecuatoriana. La Canciller celebra el pronunciamiento de la OEA. Foto: Cortesía OEA
 
And to follow up on all this, the USA's Bush stated on 3-18-08 
 
"...Recently when Colombian forces killed one of the FARC's most senior leaders they discovered computer files that suggest even closer ties between Venezuela's regime and FARC terrorists than we previously knew. Colombia officials are investigating the ties, but this much should be clear: The United States strongly supports, strongly stands with Colombia in its fight against the terrorists and drug lords. (Applause.)

President Uribe has remained focused on strengthening Colombia's democracy. Over the past six years, kidnappings, terrorist attacks and murders of labor activists have all dropped by more than 75 percent. Police are on the streets. Tens of thousands of paramilitary fighters have been demobilized, and Colombia's murder rate has fallen substantially.

At the same time, Colombia's economy has shown strong growth. Poverty and unemployment have declined; trade and investment have increased substantially. That's what we want. We want less violence in our neighborhood, and more prosperity in our neighborhood. We want our neighbors to be prosperous.
President Uribe has been an unshakeable partner for the United States. He's answered hundreds of requests to extradite criminals to our country. And with the assistance from Plan Colombia, a program first supported by President Bill Clinton, and continued under my administration, he's cracked down on drug trafficking. He constantly speaks out against anti-Americanism. By any measure, he has been one of our most reliable and effective allies. And this trade agreement is the way to signal our strong support for President Uribe. It's the way to help this country develop more momentum toward peace.

Despite the record of success, some in Congress claim Colombia needs to do more before a treat -- the trade agreement can be approved. But this is unrealistic. And it is unfair. If members of Congress truly want Colombia to make further progress, then it makes no sense to block the very measure that would make progress more likely.

Our fellow citizens have got to know that across the hemisphere and across the globe, people are waiting to see what the members of Congress will do. In other words, this isn't just one of these isolated votes that gets no attention outside of Washington. This is a vote that is being observed very carefully by people across the world. Voices from near and far are urging Congress to make the right decision. Members of Congress from both parties travel to Colombia; they have seen firsthand the progress that President Uribe is making. Business leaders from many backgrounds, along with current and former senators, congressmens [sic], mayors, diplomats, national security council people, Cabinet members from both parties -- I emphasize, from both parties -- support this agreement.

In other words, it's just not me talking. There's a lot of people who understand the importance of this agreement. Our allies have made their position clear. I want the members of Congress to hear what the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, said. He said, `If the U.S. turns its back on its friends in Colombia, this will set back our cause far more than any Latin American dictator can hope to achieve.' Those are wise words, and words worth listening to. Congress needs to listen to the voices, and they need to pass this important piece of legislation. "
 
Once again, we ask: who do you believe?  You are either with the liars and criminals or not.

Congressman Berman is wrong. Today, due to the rampant criminality of narcoterror cells, one is either with the criminals or not. Congressman Berman also misses a key point: the U.S. Democrats are not just FARC and Chavez-helping politicians but are also Soros Democrats who actively seek to legitimize that which should never be legitimate.

Who do you believe? Uribe or the face of Chavez's propaganda: 


         
Nicolas Maduro: Rio Group, Latin America and the Caribbean found a way to bring down tensions.-PRENSA LATINA
 
To be sure, PRENSA LATINA, like the TELESUR-IRANEAN NEWS monopolies to aid and abet the criminal regimes of Chavez and Castro and Correa trumpet the triumph of lies and propaganda because that is what they are paid to do: lie a lot. This day we repeat the U.S. Congresswoman's words, which we all know to be true: "The one-sided resolution adopted by the OAS blatantly ignores the reported complicity of the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela with the FARC and neglects violations of the treaty."
 
The U.S. Democrats, like the Chavez and Correa coordinating propaganda team, claim they need more time to study the onward march of criminal regimes. They do not need to stall any longer. They need to act honorably.
 
Carlos Alberto Montaner, read it here is far more insightful that Andres Oppenheimer's deeply flawed rejection of any calls to state the facts about Hugo Chavez in his recent article foolishly pestering Bush to  never, ever tell the truth about Chavez because, as so many Chavez agents floundering around Washington DC state, any truths about Chavez will only give rise to his temper. As if this is cause to lie? We do not appreciate moral extortion and denounce this trickery although we too reject these skills as taught from birth by Ecuadorean mamas to teach their children how to lie and manipulate. But Montaner get it right as he notes, “The documents found in Reyes' computer tell of funding the FARC's activities with Venezuelan money. No less than 300 million petrodollars...

They describe the complicity of the government of President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, who assigned one of his principal ministers to be the liaison with the narcoguerrillas and offered to remove from the border any soldiers who interfered with the rebels' work...Chávez is convinced that the Caracas-Havana-Quito-La Paz axis is the seed of what someday will be a global power capable of destroying the rotten capitalist Western world. He dreams that he will have the honor of founding that glorious neocommunist era."

As for the USA, what we find grossly objectionable by President Bush et al are their insistence, at first blush a true cover to the knowingly complicit actors from the U.S. Democratic Party who knowingly take Chavez and Correa team supports and sometimes money along with the Soros pro drugs monies, that they had no clue- were clueless- about the rampant criminality and drug running supports of the Correa-Castro-Chavez-FARC criminal club. This is either a feature of a grossly incompetent staff or a strident effort to bar even President Bush from the facts. Or both. Either way, we feel that the U.S. tax payers are not getting what they have been promised as apparently no due diligence is permitted. Until a bomb goes off. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear have been aware that Chavez-Castro-Correa and the FARC are financially and politically intertwined: this is no new news, unless of course one is either a Soros-backed NGO or the vapid OAS or a Chris Dodd handmaiden, also called a U.S. diplomat who likes to tell us all that this is not true.
 
There was no crisis in the Andes. There was only ever a pretext/ a fake dust up to cover up criminal complicity of two nations at war with integrity and at war with law and order.  In either case, dignity failed and courage ran from the OAS yesterday to refuse the facts that in the very lawless Venezuela and Ecuador today justice is still denied by the point of a gun.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis