May 19, 2008       Rafael Correa has said again, as he did in Lima on Friday, that if the OAS finds him guilty of criminal alliance with the FARC, he will resign. This is a deceptive ploy beneath the dignity of any sitting president. Correa knows very well that he will never be tried in an Ecuadorean court fairly for his many crimes because, like the Congress which he ousted and refuses to replace, Correa kicked out all independent justices and controls Ecuadorean justice. His auto golpe left Ecuador with...a dictator who is a criminal, married as he is to his own criminal complicity with the FARC, with Iran and Chavez and with his dream of instating a criminal communist-Marxist Castro paradise inside Ecuador.
 
In Venezuela, there is much nervousness underway: one and all are "afraid,” "nervous," and "worried"- victims of their own cascading nerviosa problema that the USA and or the EU will declare Venezuela a State Sponsor of Terror, which it is and has been for many years as is Ecuador. But Venezuelans want you to know that they are innocent victims of Chavez and none of this is their fault and they claim deep mental victimhood and la dependencia on their own state which leads them to conclude that they must never be punished by anyone for what their government does...never mind that not once have Ecuadoreans or Venezuelans done anything meaningful [except lie to themselves and their families] to insist that normative law and order return. No indeed- they insist that they can manipulate their way into fully operational lives and that they can manipulate law and order today by proclaiming their own self described innocence, a complicity so deceptive that it rivals some of history's worst examples.
 
While we have some sympathy for the plight of Venezuelan and Ecuadorean rank and file as they live inside their own narcostates of complete cartel rackets where freedoms have ended and democracy is overtly manipulated to cover up their on going crime sprees, we remind that the warning signs were present about Chavez and his totalitarian regime every step of the way, as is the case in Correa's Ecuador. But Venezuelans, like Ecuadoreans want you to believe their manipulative lie that they are manipulative and helpless and deceitful because...the state made them act this way and under the blinders of deceptive adolescent behaviors, they want you to know that they want your mercy to understand that they just could not help themselves when they lied a lot, manipulated their own families and communities and manipulated their own statehoods' truths in to the debased and irresponsibly childish place that it is today. Not once- not ever- have one anti communist from the Andes ever detailed their condition as anything less than a self centered problem and is always only about just them and no one else. This selfish and adolescent outlook on life may be considered a family virtue in the Andes but it is a singularly disgusting personality characteristic in the real world, which of course Andeans pretend to hide and do yet stay behind locked doors so that no one will notice how irresponsible, childish and manipulative they remain not just about their own personal approach to living in the 21st Century but also about their failed nation-states and their failed religiosity and non-commitment to civic life.
 
When Rafael Correa tells us that he will step down if and only if the OAS finds him complicit with the FARC he knows that the OAS is not only guilty of covering up Correa and Chavez's crimes but that the OAS has pledged to never deem the FARC criminal enough to warrant any problems whatsoever. Or as Insulza essentially told reporters [ the words are ours alone] about one month ago- echoing all lazy, irresponsible and morally vacated Latins: `you just do not understand the Latin mindset- we actually do not want law and order and anyone who tries to impose this, such as the U.S. Republicans, does not understand the Latin outlook at the OAS.'   Not just the height of surreal rejection of all international norms regarding law and order is Insulza but he speaks for the whole OAS and its members and he even spoke of all Latins who prefer to manipulate law and order to satisfy their own selfish demands and to jigger what can only be called normative adult behavior. The epidemic of crime in Latin America starts with the profoundly aberrant teachings from schools, churches and from each home that all of life is best manipulated by adolescents with power derived not by legitimate leadership but by their skills to use someone else's money and to scream the loudest and demand the most....as we see in the uber-adolescent manipulations of Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa. Insulza tells us that this lawlessness is everyman in Latin America and must be protected because manipulative values are what we want and what all of society reveres. This is of course the end of any presence of Western Civilization and moral responsibility in Latin America where its days go down because no one wants to stop being addicted to their own foolish manipulative living standards where dishonesty is valued above all else and democracy is only a joke.
 
Currently, Andean oil traders and derivatives speculators have teamed up with US AID pro FARC actors backed by the George Soros team members from the U.S. Democratic Party who seriously believe that Barack Obama will be the leader of the USA and will end the so called war on drugs and will promptly cut and run from all U.S. support against crime and the Chavez-Correa-Lula aggressive weapons build up- turning a blind eye to the rampant communist cartel criminality in Latin America. We know this because these semi-Chavez agents tell us so. And they tell the USA that this is what all Latins want: they want to be left alone and for us all to pretend that their leadership is neither criminal nor undemocratic when everyone knows that it is so that their income producing stream is untouched.

All this sounds pretty decent until we grapples with the facts that education, justice, daily economies, jobs, development and future generations are badly, sadly debased, polluted and unprepared under the criminal rackets running Ecuador and Venezuela today: they are unwelcome vermin. And if Ecuadoreans and Venezuelans want to be known for being slightly better than rodents, vermin and locusts- as they are today- then each man, woman and child must stand up for something more meaningful than their half baked lies, propaganda and manipulative excuses for Why None Dare Tell the Truth About the Andes.
 
These business and community  "leaders" [that is each of us] are begging the world to turn a blind eye on their own complicity with their own criminal cartel governments because they neither want the inconvenience of facing the facts nor the punishment that comes from their own lazy and aberrant refusals to grow up and start being honest and responsible.
 
We read their pleas that the USA and the EU never ever declare Venezuela and Ecuador as state sponsors of terror because...this will hurt innocent citizens.

We reject this morally depraved debauchery- a theory itself which is stubbornly gaining ground for all its dishonest manipulative glory. We ARE the state and we have done nothing responsible to end this cancerous scourge that afflicts the region so repulsively. Each citizen is repulsively manipulated every day when each refuses to even insist that both Chavez and Correa resign for their known criminality.
 
It is the height of deceptive living to selfishly insist that just because Ecuadoreans and Venezuelans are too lazy and too irresponsible to state the facts about the criminal cartels overriding their own governance that the rest of the world should mirror their own dishonesty...under the false trick that "Innocent People" will get hurt inside Ecuador and Venezuela. Meanwhile, these "innocent" nations have crafted a full military offensive, complete with mutual weapons of aggressive destruction to protect and defend their own criminal cartels and to take over other nations. When we refuse to state the facts about Correa and Chavez- to protect the innocents- we forget that there are other "innocents" who would be victimized by this same rampant extortion racket cartel spreading across over half of South America now. If we refuse to be honest about our own lives and insist that globally all else be dishonest too, we are failures in every sense.
 
It is morally irresponsible to beg, whine, cry and manipulate the criminality that Chavez and Correa perform- pretending that all Andean citizens are innocent of their racketeering. By actively insisting that no one be honest about this criminal state of affairs, we ourselves deliver Chavez-the FARC- Correa and Iran the enabling, the complicity, the very Faustian Bargain they seek: our souls for eternity as actors of deception and complicity.
 
Latin America today is hit hard by a terrifying cancer and it is spreading. To combat any scourge, first one must define what it is: diagnose the problem.

One would think that Venezuelans and Ecuadoreans would be thrilled that Chavez and Correa are diagnosed for what they are: criminal cartel leaders acting criminally in every sense. One would think that Ecuadoreans and Venezuelans would set about to insist that this criminal cancer be removed and ended.

Ecuadoreans and Venezuelans today manipulate their reality to cry a lot to tell us that they are innocent of all of Chavez's crimes and that no one can be honest about Chavez or Correa and never ever diagnose the scourge for what it is. This is childish denial of the facts, a trait carried by all manipulatives and taught us daily by our Mothers in a twisted and debauched setting where no one is honest and all pretend that dishonest manipulative living serves us all best.
 
The choice is clear: Ecuador and Venezuela can live in the shadow of the volcano that is their own manipulative ethos or they can for once grow up and act responsibly and denounce the criminal cartels that do run these two nations today. Instead of whining and pretending that all is wonderfully well when all is a disaster, each citizen can insist that the very functions of liberty be returned to these lands and that truth telling commence immediately. We urge this course of action because...no matter what the USA or the EU does or does not do, it is quite clear that Venezuelans and Ecuadoreans continue to self-delude and cannot be honest on a global scale and are repulsive to all men and women of honor. If we want honor, we have to start acting honorably and honestly from the bottom up and never pretend that living la vida manipulativa is helpful, even as it is enshrined in our daily bread. Time to desist this addiction to deception, rampant now and stop deluding ourselves that if we just shut up, retreat and remain silent that all will be well. All is never well under these dishonest rules and never can be. 

It remains that not just Correa and Chavez were exposed with their pants down the night of Raul Reyes's last orgy on February 29, 2008 in the Ecuadorean jungle, also caught with his pants down. Indeed Correa and Chavez are seen correctly as criminally sponsoring, protecting and enabling the dark evil of the FARC and are lying about it or as in the case of Correa- challenging the adult world to catch his adolescent crime spree and prove it. We need no further action on Correa's demands: he needs to go. Chavez needs to go and they both need to take their entire criminal  support network of thugs, drug runners, protection rackets, weapons dealers and media manipulators with them.
 
Today, Venezuelans beg, cry and whine- and manipulate- their reality to insist that no one tell the truth about Chavez and pretend that Chavez's Venezuela is not a state sponsor of terror- just as long as they themselves can make some money and pretend that this scourge is not their problem for it is, they dishonestly and irresponsibly tell us, someone else's problem, someone else's fault. It seems they only screech and get angry when their capacity to make more money or live off someone else's money is shadowed. This is truly the very definition of appeasement: it is alive and well today in the Andes. Ecuadoreans are typically behind the times- they are still stuck in abject denial about Rafael Correa, who like Lucio Gutierrez and Alfredo Palacio before him, have protected, defended and aided and abetted the FARC for too long, providing shelter, delivering protection and assisting in their drug running and money laundering, most notably today through Banco Pichincha and all Ecuadorean banks even as the nation has no functional money laundering laws and no meaningful law enforcement on anything, contrary to the deceptions spread by the U.S. Department of State which is now legally complicit in aiding U.S. investors to lose their money, if anyone ever took the US Department of State seriously which of course no sane business organization does any more, having been lied to and manipulated by the useless and irresponsible Andean team, whose efforts actually cover up the growing Andean cartel rackets and hurt U.S. investors, whom these  self anointed Marxists despise anyway: just ask them. Ask every one of them WHY they insist that all U.S. businesses are best stolen from, robbed from and booted from the Andes and ask them for a factual analysis of why it is that Marxism helps the poor, whom they so ardently claim to be helping when they help only themselves, their US AID contractors and the spread of off the books speculators- the only persons actually benefiting from the Chavez-Correa-Soros cartel complicity in the Andes which seeks to legitimize all that should never be legitimized.

Unless and until Ecuadoreans and Venezuelans stand up and denounce Correa and Chavez in their criminal support of global racketeering, these same self-defined agents of deception and manipulation begging the world to never ever detail Chavez and Correa as the brutally repressive thugs that they are because "innocents will be harmed" are uselessly and hopelessly seen for what they are: double agents of the double morality of Venezuela and Ecuador. Unless all citizens stand up and denounce Correa and Chavez, they are not victims of Correa and Chavez but their double agents, having done nothing honest to remove their cartels except whine a lot and pretend that if we are dishonest about their crimes, all is well and innocents protected.
 
We have heard this line before. We have heard this line throughout history. It is called appeasement. It is called dishonesty. It is called aiding and abetting evil which can only be combated by fact based truths and restoration of normative integrity, a feature these Venezuelan and Ecuadorean manipulatives reject and refuse in all senses. This is not helpful. If you want to get well, first start acting on the facts and start to get well- not pretend that all is well when it is not and stop pretending that the truth will hurt you more than it will set you free.
 
Here is the WASHINGTON POST of 5-18-08 telling us all what Chavez's double agents have been saying inside Washington and how previously respected [ but not any more] business leaders in Venezuela buy in to this morally depraved string of manipulative dishonesty, which is an epidemic today in  Ecuador and Venezuela: " What is already known is enough to demonstrate that Mr. Chávez and senior members of his government, army and intelligence service had a far-reaching clandestine relationship with the FARC and that Venezuela offered the group weapons, money and harbor on its own territory. Ecuador, which under President Rafael Correa has become a Venezuelan satellite, had lesser but also incriminating ties to the group, which specializes in drug trafficking, kidnapping and massacres of civilians.  On its face the evidence is enough to convict Mr. Chávez and his collaborators of backing terrorism against a democratic government. If Venezuela were a European or Asian country, it would surely become an international pariah virtually overnight. But Venezuela is in Latin America -- where governments are reluctant to criticize their neighbors, terrorist groups professing a left-wing ideology have often won sympathy in Europe and the United States, and demagogues such as Mr. Chávez are able to turn hostility from Washington to their advantage. That of course is the Venezuelan strategy: Rather than even attempt to respond to the contents of the laptops, Mr. Chávez is describing them as a CIA plot and a pretext for a U.S. invasion.
 
Therein lies the best approach for Colombia and the United States. Since neither Mr. Chávez nor Mr. Correa has offered any credible or even serious response to the laptop material, they should be firmly, repeatedly and relentlessly confronted with the evidence and asked for answers. Colombia can do this by petitioning the Organization of American States to determine whether Venezuela and Ecuador have breached its charter; it could also ask the U.N. Security Council to judge whether the two governments violated Resolution 1373, passed in September 2001, which prohibits all states from providing financing or havens to terrorist organizations. President Álvaro Uribe should order that all of the captured material be posted on the Internet. This should at least expose Mr. Chávez's behavior to global scrutiny and make it more difficult for countries and political leaders who have tried to ignore or excuse it, ranging from neighbors such as Brazil to some U.S. Democrats.

Some in Congress are already calling for Venezuela to be placed on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. While the designation may be justified and even mandated by U.S. law, it could simply bolster Mr. Chávez's anti-American narrative. A better course would be to single out and sanction Venezuelan companies and individuals compromised by the laptop evidence, such as the generals who have been secretly meeting and doing business with FARC leaders. Punishment of Venezuelans as a whole would serve little purpose. After all, the country recently voted down Mr. Chávez's attempt to prolong and institutionalize his rule. If managed correctly, the laptop scandal will surely deepen the domestic political hole into which the would-be "Bolivarian" revolutionary is sinking. "
 
While we commend the POST for wading in to the murky waters of these sponsors of the FARC, we can only ask if this piece was not inspired by those who benefit the most from barring the facts about Chavez and Correa from functional prosecution. The only ones making money out of all this, besides the obvious FARC agents, money launderers and drug runners inside the Correa and Chavez teams are, as we have stated before, the hundreds of millions of US dollars spent on maintaining the cartels in Venezuela and Ecuador- also called the Soros family of US AID -NGO contractors who are delivering a more perfect narcostate in the Andes and offshore, spot oil traders and derivatives speculators who make billions off each spike in per barrel crude, not to mention weapons runners while refusing to report the whole facts or perform the very tasks for which they are paid to perform. Why the POST listens to these double agents and actual manipulative agents is beyond our worst fears. In Venezuela, nothing is separate and distinct from the Chavez cartel any longer: just check their Chamber of Commerce, which as in Ecuador has been very busy cutting every self enriching deal known. There is no separation of state and private businesses under Chavez or Correa if any check the facts. Tom Shannon of the U.S. Department of State tells us that the USA is considering this problem- what to do about the poor innocent Venezuelans and Ecuadoreans who are victims of their state run crime spree while never ever doing one thing on record to stop or bar the spread of their state crime? To be sure, the crime spree continuation is precisely why the cartels kept Chavez from departing in December after his own rigged elections were exposed. Venezuelans need to insist that Chavez's crime spree with the FARC and Iran end. But this they have never done and anyone who says differently is a liar. Like Ecuadoreans, the Venezuelans know no difference between state and private sector any longer. This is the leadership and government they wanted and what they do have. No vote next November or September respectively will change this, no matter what US AID and the NED cheerfully lie about. Both Chavez and Correa have full and total control over all facets of their lands and the private is not separate from their iron fist. All private citizens need to denounce the Chavez-Correa cartel crime spree in the Andes. Their silence implicates them more than any court could do even as the U.S. State Department foolishly believes the innocent victim ploy to pretend that none dare call these state sponsors of terror for what they are- state sponsors of terror. We feel badly for the really innocent peoples of the Andes but they must make their voices heard that they reject evil in all its FARC, Iranian and communist transactions. Shannon needs to grasp the fact the pure evil has taken over all state functions in Ecuador and Venezuela: denial of this criminality is costing him his reputation and is hurting the cause of freedom, which depends on the facts.

Reread the POST piece as it tells the world to ignore U.S. law which mandates that if a nation is a state sponsor of terror, it must be so classified. The POST wants us all to ignore this law to "help the innocent Venezuelans" and "Ecuadoreans" who have nothing whatsoever to do with their evil leadership in Caracas and Quito. Never mind that all justice and democracy ended there years ago and never mind that cartels and rackets run Venezuela and Ecuador: never mind that. These liars want to protect the only ones making serious money these days out of Venezuela and Ecuador- far more than the paltry small businesses and 3 hectare broccoli farms or Cuenca "leather" sellers which US AID wants you to foolishly believe are the mainstay of these cartel economies when they are not- and protect their own income stream for they are the only two groups making real money today in Ecuador and Venezuela which is not overtly linked to transshipments and laundering of criminal contraband and money for the criminal cartels of communism. Like Venezuela, Ecuador has killed off any real North American businesses, allowing these US AID efforts for show while the real money is burglarized or run off.

Indeed, Rafael Correa has been active for many years supporting his special brand of Cuban-Chavez money making schemes called the state theft of foreign assets in Ecuador. Correa enthused full support for stealing from North American businesses long before any media paid him any real attention. Denial of this fact is easily confirmed with slight due diligence about Rafael Correa. Venezuela and Ecuador are abusive criminal backers of the FARC and steal from North Americans. Why the POST fell in to this trap is very peculiar since they were off to a good start a few weeks ago. As with all USA newspapers, we know as we know of this in the Andes, the incessant propaganda against law and order is strong while the snakes of the axis of evil cartels are presenting serious lie to defend their right to lie, steal, cheat and manipulate the facts.

The POST should be aware, but it too pretends to ignore this fact, that the OAS itself refuses to claim that the FARC is a terror group and is thus incapable and incompetent to adjudicate anything. The POST should know that the OAS court in Costa Rica has no enforcement capacity and a waiting list of on average 9 years. The Hague is just getting around to considering the brutal murder of millions in Rwanda over 15 years ago. Justice delayed is justice denied and handing anything over to these courts of no consequence is a devastating hand over to the forces of evil where justice will be denied in every semblance, as all Latins know because they refuse to reform the OAS and its court in Costa Rica. The POST owed it to its readers to deliver factual due diligence. We object to their mistaken analysis which is not based on fact but is guaranteed to maintain the status quo of criminal cartels in the Andes where there is no justice.
 
For the record, Alvaro Uribe cannot prosecute Chavez and Correa for their crimes against all Andean people.

Where can he proceed to do this? The media? The media cannot be judge and jury on anything: they are not trained nor should they bear this undue burden. Ecuadorean and Venezuelan courts are controlled by their presidents and are a joke: there is no justice in Ecuador or Venezuela. The Hague? The Hague is so far behind that they will never catch up. The OAS court in Costa Rica?  And wait another 9 years as Chavez and Correa "consolidate their democracy" which is to take over all of Latin America for their special brand of justice for cartels and by cartels? We all know that Insulza is a Soros backed man who seriously wants the Andes as a FARC zone. The POST should pay more attention.
 
As for the POST suggesting that the US Congress should ignore the laws and norms of the USA to enable more crime in the Andes, we can only ponder what the POST is thinking of. We know what the agents of Chavez and Correa are selling...we just do not know why the POST is buying.
 
What the POST must do is report the facts: that is appropriate journalism. No newspaper should enable the cover up of any crime spree nor spread canard that essentially appeases Chavez-Correa and the FARC's Iranian ploys in this hemisphere. The first step to ending this scourge is to state the facts. The POST correctly urges that the facts be promulgated by Uribe. The next step is for Venezuelans and Ecuadoreans to stand up and state their facts and insist that their lands never more appease and build criminal cartels in South America. This will require not just the facts but the knowledge that these crimes are not acceptable, no matter their political color or cover up. Friends do not enable their friends to appease crime and dysfunction. The POST has been a good friend to truth tellers and needs to do so again. No one is helped when friends help friends cover up their crimes and appease cartels. The OAS and the UN will never prosecute their Soros allies named Chavez and Correa. Soon enough the POST will come around to supporting an independent tribunal to adjudicate that which the OAS and the Andean courts are incapable of doing. There is precedence for this and the gravity of the matter will not be solved unless and until responsible decision makers consider all legitimate options: not just the shallow enabling options proffered through the POST by Andean double agents.
 
Respect for law and order is paramount and anything less is tantamount to appeasement of crime so dark and so filthy that it need not be defended, except in a court of law and never across the confused media nor the politically and criminally appeasing incompetent OAS which cannot even bring itself to state under oath before the U.S. Congress that the FARC is a terror group. The USA and the EU could kick out the OAS for its duplicity. Better yet to kick out Insulza and take all his narcostate enthusiasts with him- back to Chile where he feels assured he will be the next Chavista president. He knows this because he has, like Barack Obama, the full backing of George Soros. The POST should not take these people seriously although they do seriously seek to defend their cartels.
 
Who stands to insist that Chavez and Correa resign for their crimes? Where is the list of democracy backers and anti cartel actors? Will the USA finally get around to welcoming truth tellers from the Andes or will they continue to shut them out and turn off the light of integrity? Not one shred of evidence exists that the USA itself is returning to any support for democracy's best tools and this is tragic in the Andes where adult leadership is badly needed in a land run by shrieking adolescents busy spending someone else's money while doing nothing meaningful. Will Andeans finally divorce themselves from their cold and heartless, fake marriages of convenience? Have they learned nothing yet from the functioning social contracts active now in Colombia and Peru or will they defend and enable their false relationships which lead them nowhere but the unending designation as a failed matter? That is the story which is far more important than praising appeasement agents and the cover up of crime. Who stands with truth tellers? Who will prosecute these agents of evil?
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis