May 10, 2008   The Editors of Ecrisis reprint here a very important new summary called "Oily Chavez Oozes Beyond Venezuela" from INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY of May 09, 2008:

The Hemisphere: Oil spiked $4 Friday on new evidence of Venezuela's deep involvement in terrorism. There's no glossing over such news: Hugo Chavez intends to destabilize the region. The U.S. will need to take action.

After poring over some of the 10,000 documents captured from the computer of dead FARC terrorist Raul Reyes, killed in a raid on March 1, U.S. intelligence officials are convinced that Chavez's involvement is deeper than anyone realized, according to a front-page story by the Wall Street Journal. "There is complete agreement in the intelligence community that these documents are what they purport to be," a U.S. official told the Journal.

The oil market understood the implications of this: The U.S. probably would be forced to declare Venezuela a state sponsor of terror and then end Venezuela's role as a top oil supplier, as required for other rogue states such as Iran.

With global oil supplies scarce, and Venezuela accounting for 12% of U.S. oil imports, the U.S. economy would feel the effects.

Yet the alternative of doing nothing probably is worse.

The new documents show Venezuelan complicity in the FARC's war on Colombia well beyond any past estimates. Chavez offered the drug-dealing Marxist terrorists rocket-propelled grenades and ground-to-air missiles to shoot down U.S. and Colombian aircraft.

Such rockets, remember, enabled ragtag Afghan tribesmen to chase out invading Soviet troops in 1989.
Chavez also offered port access for Russian arms shipments in Maracaibo to FARC's jungle bases. He offered FARC rest and recreational bases, along with state medical care. To cap it, he offered the terrorists a $250 million "loan," payable upon the overthrow of Colombia's government.

This is astonishing support for some of the worst terrorists on Earth. FARC is reviled by average Colombians. It should be dead or disarmed at this point because President Alvaro Uribe's courageous efforts to confront FARC have been relentless. Yet he hasn't won yet, thanks to FARC's clandestine support from Venezuela.
It's hard enough to win an asymmetrical war like this, harder still if the insurgents are stoked from other states. Chavez not only supports these jungle thugs, he's urging the West to take these killers off international terror lists, so they can openly raise more funds.

So long as America buys Venezuelan oil, Chavez will have the money to help FARC eventually destroy Colombia. He won't stop on his own, and the clandestine nature of his aid suggests he'll seek new ways to do it on the sly.
It's part of Chavez's strategy to use his petrodollars to take over the hemisphere — or at least become its main power broker.

Thus far, the open side of Chavez's quest is clear. Using democratic elections, Chavez seeks to get Latin leaders elected who will be his vassals. He does so by secretly buying off leftist political parties, and manipulating elections and the minds of poor voters. He has helped put socialist cronies in power in Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Now, he has his eyes on his next prize: U.S. ally El Salvador.

Bad as that is, the new FARC computer documents show an even darker side: Any nation that resists his charms, anti-U.S. rhetoric and oil cash, gets destabilized.

Colombia may be the scariest example of Chavez's destabilization efforts, but others are threatened, too — including Mexico and Peru, two stalwarts who have no interest in being Chavez's puppet states. It's significant that Mexico's and Peru's ambassadors were recently seen with President Bush at the Council of the Americas Wednesday pleading to Congress for free trade for their neighbor Colombia, whose economic success is as vital to them as their own.

All three nations are under fire from Chavez, and need vibrant economies to withstand him.

Peru is fighting Chavista infiltration through the dictator's newly formed "Houses of Alba" and has seen a resurgence of the Shining Path Marxist guerrillas it stomped out a decade ago.

Mexico's fighting a terrible war against drug-dealing criminals whose prime support from abroad is FARC terrorists.

Last Thursday the chief of Mexico's national police was gunned down by these thugs in Mexico City, striking into the heart of the Mexican state.

Meanwhile, the raid that killed Reyes also revealed the presence of Mexican operatives in Colombia believed to be in training to destroy Mexico's oil pipelines, which supply much of America's oil.

It's an ugly picture for the U.S. We must either de-fang Chavez soon, or watch democratic neighbors collapse to his vast dictatorship. If that happens, oil prices will rise as high as his ambition. 

This newspaper piece correctly states that Hugo Chavez [and the FARC] helped put Rafael Correa in Carondelet Palace, providing such non democratic tools as bribe money, hush money, terror tools such as illegal information about opposition and silencing all meaningful media. In return for their huge expenditures to complete what Chavez and the FARC began with Lucio Gutierrez, both investors in Correa's corruption expected and got protection for the FARC and illegal and opaque business deals for Chavez's illegal monopolies, without so much as a by your leave. There is not one thing to recommend the Chavez-FARC-Correa marriage of corruption. It is correct to state that Correa's cabal is a socialist regime by any name. But worse- it is a narcostate with marxist overtones and is a menace.

This article clearly states that the USA will "need" to take action. We can only ask: what action? More of the same lies and cover ups of Chavez, Correa and the FARC criminality? We think not. More of the paid operations from the U.S. Department of State- US AID's family welter of pro drug movement Soros actors and the U.S. Democrats to twist the facts and proclaim that President Bush is a liar when he upholds the U.S. law that the FARC is truly a terror net and is not merely a political or irregular group as these paid propagandists for enhancing narcozones would have us believe? Will we read more formal reprints of Plan Ecuador, paid for by the U.S. Senate to sell the idea that the FARC are irrelgular political groups and can be contained, viz the specious and ridiculous Plan Ecuador- written as it is by an agent of the FARC and Chavez by none other than Ecuadorean Cabinet member Larrea with explicit directives from Rafael Correa- to sell the money making plan that the Northern Regions of Ecuador can be run by pro drug NGOs and avoid normative law and order. Carl Meacham and all the U.S. Democrats think this is a great idea: they tell us so. The Soros-backed Crisis Group, making lots of U.S. Department of State money now to jigger so called Analysis Reports useful only to perpetuate their funding scams, tell us that Rafael Correa and his entire government are fabulous when they are not. The OAS's Insulza, himself a Soros man, tells us that Correa's Ecuador is wonderful when nothing- nothing at all about Ecuador under Correa is legitimate, honest or sustainable. Carl Meacham's U.S. Senate Report ratifies these lies and perpatuates untruths. For our part, we grasp the concept that the Andes today is the front battle of the forces of honest government and the forces of dishonest marxist-style corrupt regimes, such as is the case of Venezuela and Ecuador. Bolivia is not far behind.

The President of the USA has yet to lie or abuse any Latin nation. Bush's only failing is that he never once paid enough attention to the fact that his own team have been abusing U.S. monies to aid, abet and build up the new Maginot Line of Soros operatives to craft new narcozones in this hemisphere. If Bush has a failing, it is this and this is a nasty one. It can be corrected and must be. This will require a bit more than daily Bible study, however much we do pray for the corrupt and maligned. 

Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa did not emerge as they are today but they have had all the tendencies that are theirs today for a very long time. Both are sociopaths and both appear at times t be heavily medicated. Both are extremely excitable and are delusional. Both have pathologies from birth that they are aggrieved by normative law and order and that somehow society just did not understand their criminal family values which they have set about to correct by removing law and order and making the best the enemy of the good. Correa, who has been fired from every job he has ever held for dishonesty, is a liar and a nasty one at that. Correa claims to be an economist: he is no economist: he is an avowed Marxist who seeks to politically install a Cuban regime in Ecuador by using full power and FARC-Chavez money. Chavez claims to be a military man but he is a weak and shallow military man. But he is clever and well managed by his Cuban intelligence handlers who do not want to lose their cash payments which feeds Castro's regime. Chavez is in many ways their prisoner. But unaccountably, Chavez has seized all Venezuelan incomes and runs the nation like his own cash cow, for it is. It is the cash cow partners of this kleptocracy that refuse to let Chavez depart, as he should. The same is so in Ecuador.

And while answering the question....what do we do now? it is impossibly irresponsible to deliver the FARC materials over to the tender mercies of the incompetent OAS which refuses any transparency itself and has a political agenda today to help elect Insulza to lead Chile and grow the Chavez narcozones across South America to develop more Marxism and more state kleptocracy for monopolistic cartels and derivatives traders currently making lots of money with their off the books oil swaps and commodities deals. A hemisphere of derivatives and oil traders with no rule of law is a lawless anarchy. Ecuadoreans call this: family values to aid and abet the manipulative ethos they live by. This in turn supports the illicit regimes where the cold hard facts only get colder.

In yet another fake statement of analysis, the ECONOMIST reported recently that Correa's new constitution is bogged down and going nowhere. This is not true. Even Correa gushed recently that the text was written long ago and has been ready for the September so called vote. Sr. Viciano Pastor and his team from Caracas have locked it down and anyone who says differently is a liar.

Here is the Correa governance team, minus their third bed mate Raul Reyes, also called Plan Ecuador:



Currently, the president of the Inter American Development Bank was in Ecuador to sign some of the most irresponsible loan deals known to the IDB. Soothing a nation which has no transparency, no accountability and no interest whatsoever is an honest loan, the IDB appears craven. We hold no fear of clean bank loans. Even Mayor Paco Moncayo knows that if he lies enough to the IDB, claiming poverty, he need never reveal that no one knows where Ecuador's mismanaged funds have gone and that Quito must have more unaccountable loans- using someone else's money with no accountability- for transportation/roads.

Meanwhile, PetroEcuador is the government's wallet -open to its cartel club members and cheerily breaking all records for corruption. To boost PetroEcuador's capacity to lie, cheat and steal, Correa has joined law suits against not only Plan Colombia but also against Chevron Texaco on purely specious grounds, believing as he does that with the new legal team member- an old basketball law school chum of Barack Obama, his suit will have the same winning and illegal helping hand from the Obama team as he is promised by the Obama team to stop Plan Colombia and permit the FARC to operate freely- in Ecuador and all across Latin America, as planned and protected by Correa and Chavez.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis