April 2, 2008 We commend Alvaro Vargas Llosa on his grasp that in today's world to assuage the effects of well funded propaganda efforts to tell us all that the USA is hateful that we must have a new messiah- a new cult to tell us that help and transformative help by political leaders can replace Western Civilization's highest principles. Alvaro's column is here in Spanish, and here in English. This is important to grasp that many today tell us that politics can transform- and indeed it can- but politics ring hollow and never transform under criminal, self enriching Marxist states.
 
To be sure, Cuba was transformed politically by Fidel Castro to a dead zone where fear and justice do not exist. Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez are performing this identical transformation in Ecuador and Venezuela for any who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Part of their money comes from terror groups such as the FARC and part of their money comes from the unaccountable/unaudited theft of state funds, also called PetroEcuador and PdVSA.
 
The Heritage Foundation suggests functional transformative politics, unlike the current craze for so called transformations based solely on non facts. The author, Ray Walser correctly suggests, read it here, that an independent panel be convened to fully analyze the contents of the FARC files. Today every single pro Chavez activist to a person wants the OAS to politically resolve the FARC issue: that means that nothing will be adjudicated and no crime and no punishment will exist. This is an abnegation of responsible adult behavior, a current addiction in Ecuador, plus a dereliction of the high offices for which these paid professionals hold.

Currently, the OAS and every single pro drugs, Soros backed US Democratic Party member wants you to know that they do not want the FARC prosecuted under any circumstance and blather at end to encourage an OAS brokered "political solution" to the "Crisis in the Andes. The only crisis in the Andes is that the FARC and all its supporters were caught with their pants down, so to speak. Tragically, the current state of forensic analysis of the Raul Reyes FARC camp, utterly and irresponsibly only reviewed politically by Insulza and not with one single forensic expert, is so tragically inept that Mexicans were identified only by their panties which read "Hecho en Mexico" which of course led the crack team of so called experts to state that they believed that the Mexicans were from Mexico because of....their panties. This is the extent of foolishness underway to derail forensic analysis and pretend that politics- the Insulza politics of hatred- will overcome law and order in the dispensation of the Raul Reyes crime scene.

For its part, the Government of Ecuador is spending a lot of money and foolish time wasted in bolstering its own political transformation from a sovereign Republic to a narcozone where Chavez's DISIP agents and US funded pro drugs NGOs lay the, what does Obama's campaign manager call it-? Astroturf- for fake protests and so called civil society support. We see this in the current endeavors to provoke sovereign protections for FARC supporters through the GOE's specious claim filed before the Hague court against Colombia. Paul Reichler, counsel to Aristide, some Middle Eastern terror members currently residing at Guantanamo, Cuba and the formerly known as Cuban aligned Sandinistas is also Correa's lobbyist in chief in the USA, working in tandem as exists with the Fenton Communications team, also covering "outreach" for numerous pro drugs and pro neo Marxist efforts, sometimes called populists and sometimes called the Soros do drugs NGOs. This is what Correa is spending your money on. To be sure, Correa has ignored all boundaries, following the Chavez foot prints, to remain unaccountable for his payments for specious propaganda.
 
A very decent summary of how Correa and Chavez intend to hide their complicity with global criminals is here: it is called a very very expensive disinformation campaign paid to liars, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces to sell to the same ilk specious lies.

And more on looney conspiracy theories from the demented: Chavez's high military command on the job:


El ministro de Defensa Gral. Gustavo Rangel, defendió hoy el derecho de Venezuela a adquirir nuevas armas y denunció el intento de EE.UU. de infiltrarse en la zona del Orinoco para recabar datos sobre sus recursos naturales.         From EFE, 4-1-08.

Do you seriously believe these guys as in the above photo and why is it that these Chavistas impact the totality of Venezuelan lives? Would you put your safety in the hands of these thugs? You just did. The answer can be jump started by studying the IAPA Annual Conference Report for journalists and media owners which recently ended its sojourn in the unwelcoming place called Venezuela as it was noted in EDITORS and PUBLISHERS, " `It also noted with alarm what it said was an increase in the number of state-owned media, which it called clear evidence of new efforts by various governments to control information."

In addition to the seizures of media property in Venezuela, IAPA said the government of Guyana now has `a monopoly of radio frequency.' Bolivia is creating `chains of state-owned radio and TV stations,' allegedly with the help of Venezuela and Iran, IAPA said."
 
What Hugo Chavez apparently knows is that once property is stolen, it is almost impossible for the victims to get it back in nations which have no functional judicial system, no honest representation and a totalitarian government while the bulk of the citizens simply do not care much at all about much of anything, although in Venezuela this incompetent self abandonment of principles has had some positive bursts from time to time but is sadly laconic and inchoate. The fact is this: Hugo Chavez, like Rafael Correa of Ecuador, has crafted a state racket to craft self enrichment schemes for his own politburo. Local leaders who enjoy the pretensions of their own self delusions that these state take overs can be resolved locally, when there is no existing rule of law, no democracy, no justice, no law and order- are dangerously costly both in terms of truth telling and financial ineptitude. Their "advice" has cost a lot of people a lot of money.
 
As is obvious, there is no relief- no relief at all from the rampant Chavez-Correa criminal cartels today from the OAS, from the UN or from any of the 19 out of 32 OAS member states who are already signed up and on the Chavez payroll. No corporation is protected or defended by any Latin nation now with the exception of Brazil which helps its own only, Chile and Peru are  the selfish same and Colombia which willingly helps many but is of course slated by Chavez and Correa for destruction as fast as they can. Meanwhile, the continent continues to look with disdain to the CAFTA-DR nations and would never consider teaming with the pro business El Salvador as if beneath them. In other words, businesses who are outside the Chavez-Correa-Kirchner extortion rackets for state monopolies are without allies, without rule of law and without any meaningful defense south of the Rio Grande River. And anyone who tells you differently is either selling something or is incompetent because assiduously in South America there has been a concerted effort to remove rule of law and transparency. It does not exist and no where are its effects more overt than in the end of free speech. The proof of this wide eyed claim is in the details. Ask yourself: name one company that stands one chance against the nondemocratic nations of Ecuador and Venezuela. Just one. You may say EXXON but you would be wrong: for its asset thefts, EXXON had to seek relief internationally and certainly not from the sluggish Hague court or the OAS court in Costa Rica. No indeed. But Latins are advised consistently that they must only utilize their local lawyers' advice and ignore the rest of the world and certainly ignore first and second tier nations that thrive because they have rule of law. But in order to sustain a more perfect string of criminal cartels linked with Iran, first nations ignore the facts and pretend that rule of law matters not because too many believe that the law can be politically manipulated, like the rest of their cheesy manipulative lives, and that even handed justice is meaningless. And for this foolishness, we hold no affection at all. We lament the victims and their losses but we reject the source of this very expensive, unending rule of manipulation.

There are remedies for Chavez and Correa's wild eyed Ponzi schemes and state thefts. But these remedies will never be found inside the circular and self destructing consigliares who assiduously advise that only the Chavez and Correa puppet courts, completely corrupt as they are, will satisfy to deliver justice.

This is a manipulative psychoses which does not even come close to law and order. It is a joke. Obviously many of our corporate leaders enjoy being the victim of really bad rackets because they do nothing about it.
 
 
Today, Richard Rahn chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth writes in the WASHINGTON TIMES:
"The nation of Colombia, for years, was beset by numerous criminal elements who engaged in terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, etc. The most prominent of these groups is the notorious Marxist narco-terrorists known as the FARC. Hugo Chavez, the Marxist-leaning aspirant dictator in neighboring Venezuela has been financially and otherwise supporting FARC. Fortunately, democratically elected President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, who has now just begun his second term, has greatly curtailed the criminal gangs, including FARC. Mr. Uribe, who enjoys an 84 percent approval rating, is leading a free-market, anti-terrorist revolution. Colombia is becoming a Latin American economic tiger and is the strongest U.S. friend in South America.

Refusing to ratify the trade agreement with Colombia will deny thousands of American (and Colombian) businesses and millions of American (and Colombian) workers the full benefits of participating in the new Colombian economic miracle, while only benefiting Hugo Chavez and the Marxist narco-terrorists. Those who say they support free trade, but then argue and vote against free trade agreements, are not only hypocritical, but reckless in their actual disregard for political stability and workers and consumers the world over."

Rahn is of course speaking of the U.S. Democratic-Soros backed efforts to transform Colombia from a first rate powerhouse and send it careening backwards in time to a place where it used to be in their happy memory called the pro FARC Clinton years where one half of Colombia was actually handed over to these criminals [called a peace effort]- a criminally negligent loser nation, like Ecuador and Venezuela today, where no one was safe or secure. Such transformative politics is not good for anyone outside of murky hidden speculators and criminal rackets.

As for the U.S. Democratic Party, Speaker Pelosi recently offered Ireland's neo socialist leader Ahern the full pulpit of the U.S. Congress in a backhanded effort to boost the Irish vote to ratify the EU constitution which restricts free speech and competitiveness, all couched in a treaty. Seems Ahern is due to step aside in May for taking political bribes. Does no one in the USA do due diligence anymore? And will Pelosi formally retract her coveted spotlight for Ahern, last used by the likes of Winston Churchill and not normally reserved for political hacks on the take from neo socialist advertures? The U.S. Department of State backs the EU constitution under the Lisbon Treaty so what, you may ask, is the problem? The problem is that once voters actually get a chance to see this new scribbling called their new constitution, they reject it for the statist French neo socialist model it is which of course is precisely why so many DCMs at US Embassies and Latin nations serving in Europe secretly beaver away to help the Soros teams get this underway before anyone wakes up and actually looks at this so called constitution.

Today's neo Marxists, also called Bolivarian coordinators and populists do indeed trade in recklessness. They would do well to pay attention to Uribe: he trades in stabilizing law and order and is deeply adored for his hard work while manipulative adolescent princelings, unprepared as they are, like Rafael Correa are laughed at globally for their chutzpah to continuously lie, cheat and steal. Ecuadoreans are not welcome because they actually think that Correa is a great guy for his capacity to mislead and lie, jumping in to bed as he does with thugs, criminals, Iran and the FARC. Correa's indiscriminate choice of bed mates has exposed him and he is found lacking.

Transformative politics belongs with each of us- not some singular elected cult leader.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis