August 4, 2008    Ecuador is rolling out one of the most expensive propaganda campaigns, flush with payments made no doubt from co mingled stolen funds from numerous confiscated North American and domestic businesses, to lie a lot to the world to tell us all that what we do know is not so. Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a life long Marxist-socialist has spent his life lying a lot and manipulating everything that he touches, when he is not busy being fired from post to post. He needs to be fired from Miraflores Palace today. Under Correa's criminal regime, Ecuador has plunged further in to the Hell of its own making under the inept but sexually addicted Lucio Gutierrez in to the  inept strong arm tactics of the sociopathically addicted /pathological liars club of Correa. These addictions to corruption are getting Ecuador what it deserves: revulsion.
 
ECrisis commends the LATIN BUSINESS CHRONICLE's current piece: -you can read it here-   
 
The CHRONICLE editors note that Ecuador today is lying about its qualifications for ATPDEA justifications and even misled NEWSWEEK magazine lately. This is so. In fact, nothing uttered by the Correa team remotely resembles verifiable data or justifies any support for this criminal cartel in Quito. The CHRONICLE calls this hypocritical. We call it- knowingly and illegally lying before the government of the United States which is itself illegal and is so reprehensible that it cannot even bring itself to insure U.S. regulatory enforcement while hastily trying to justify its millions wasted on encouraging and supporting and feeding this criminal cartel in Quito called the Correa cabal.
 
Commenting on Correa's DISIP-Cuban Intelligence co coordinator, also called Intelligence Minister, the article states, " `Minister Larrea would do well to dedicate his efforts to shoring up the rule of law rather than conducting a charm offensive,' argues John Murphy, the vice president of international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. `Concerns about the rule of law in Ecuador pose a real threat to any continuation of these benefits for Ecuador,' he wrote in a recent commentary.

HYPOCRITICAL 
Murphy is right. It seems amazingly hypocritical to violate U.S. companies' contracts in Ecuador on the one hand and then expect that the United States will reward Ecuador with preferential treatment under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). The act will expire at the end of the year unless the U.S. Congress approves an extension (as it done on previous occasions). "

This article notes that Ecuador does not deserve an APTDEA free trade give away because Ecuador does not keep rule of law- that is, steals from North American and European nations and lies about it.

Both John Murphy, who has made a career of failing to support rule of law reforms in Ecuador until his tepid return to eschewing international norms of late to bolster the deceit from Quito about Chevron Texaco and the government of Ecuador have much to explain for their wholesale abandonment of the facts. While we applaud the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its recent warning that rule of law does not exist any longer in Ecuador, the U.S. Chamber has itself funded and notably enthused numerous activities and actors from Ecuador who themselves have long, like US AID's paid contractors, been notably anti-rule of law and counter to international standards for upholding normative law. That the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's lead Latin employee, in his CHAMBER POST here finally gets around to emptying his past Chamber Pots of canard and finally makes a tepid, feeble effort to share some truisms is not exactly too much too little too late but it comes very very close.  Mr. Murphy has a track record of claiming to support anti corruption rule of law in the Andes but a track record, along with the U.S. Department of State's minions of mayhem called their Soros-based and socialist-Marxist minions which verifiably exudes years of slamming the door in the face of functional constitutional and rule of law reforms in Ecuador. Ignoring years of non rule of law efforts in Quito as effort after effort to debase the facts grew has led to the current avalanche of criminality in Quito. Like chickens clucking before numerous "think tank" and "association" efforts along with years and years of excuses and utter and willful abandonment of data and facts, the chickens of dishonor keep growing in this Andean zone. And now Mr. Murphy's chickens have come home to roost with the current regime in Quito's utterly dishonest and depraved behaviors regarding anything to do with anything: the disingenuously disastrous take over of anything legitimate in Ecuador has gone too far. Indeed, Rafael Correa's crowning achievement is his current so called constitution which should be his last erection for it is indeed the denouement of all that freedom seekers seek while legitimizing all that is illegitimate.
 
We hope that Mr. Murphy finds his voice as we wish him well on his virginal, seminal voyage in to stating the facts about Ecuador and his initial, first time ever rallying cry that rule of law is dead in Ecuador. Not that Mr. Murphy pulled the trigger but by ignoring these realities as rule of law was abandoned and raped over the last five years in Ecuador, Mr. Murphy has a track record of abandoning the essentials of commerce- any commerce. He joins the U.S. Embassy in Quito, US AID flacks for anti Americanism and the Correa boobs. We sincerely hope that he finally helps his member companies stand for the facts, although for the past several years, all he has done is make excuses for the darkening cess pool that is Ecuador which has led to this moment.  Indeed we join in applauding John Murphy for his nascent efforts to find some manhood somewhere in all this when all around him are liars, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces, wined and dined by Tom Shannon at the U.S. Department of State and feted by the Inter American Dialogue-CSIS team and numerous U.S. Congressional offices. The always evil Gustavo Larrea even reports that he was met with White House officials from the National Security Council and was blessed with agents from the Obama and McCain teams, as he duly propagandized that all is well in Washington.

Indeed, Larrea reported back to Correa after last week's magical mystery tour that with regards to the American people- he came, he saw and he kicked some ass...by lying and refusing to state the facts. To be sure, Mr. Correa's intranational Cuban intelligence spy coordinator Mr. Larrea was assisted in his propaganda efforts by not only the U.S. Department of State but also Homeland Security [DHS] - ICE which forgot to perform its basic tasks and yank Larrea's VISA in order to assist the utterly flawed Chris Arcos in securing yet another propaganda contract to assist these Ecuadorean criminals. It must have been a great day for Ecuador's paid propagandists from the Soros teams of Fenton Communications, the legal firm boasting Paul Reichler, and assorted Soros and Barack Obama propagandists such as Mr. Barnes, Mr. Donziger and assorted others close to Fenton, Soros, Correa and Barack Hussein Obama. This team is all on one page today and their effect is to enshrine a narco state in the Andes called Correa's Ecuador. While outgoing U.S. ambassador Jewell called this paid Correa drug supporting activists  team her "dear friends" we call them liars and seditious.

Aiding and abetting the criminal cartel that is Correa's communist team in Quito by U.S. leaders- elected, unelected and paid for by U.S. tax dollars- shows us that not one profile in courage strode the stage. No Leviathan held the advantage over the last few years regarding Ecuador and the known free world nor were any honest efforts made in this tragic tale. As anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows, the Correa cabal is co-funded with FARC drug runners and laboratory criminals along with Hugo Chavez's funds plus the formal marriage to Iran and all that this means.

The CHRONICLE correctly states, "...U.S. lawmakers would do well to deny Ecuador any ATPDEA extension until it starts respecting the rule of law, especially for U.S. companies that have invested in the country."

But NEWSWEEK, which apparently printed its non facts as if handed to Isikoff by none other than Correa's paid hacks named Paul Reichler and propagandists Fenton Communications, representing the illegal money from the Correa team to enjoin the fake law suits against Chevron Texaco, noted recently:     

LOBBYING
A $16 Billion Problem
Chevron hires lobbyists to squeeze Ecuador in toxic-dumping case. What an Obama win could mean.


Eduardo Valenzuela / AP
Toxic: Indigenous workers in western Ecuador
By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 26, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Aug 4, 2008

Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five years in a steamy jungle courtroom in Ecuador's Amazon rain forest. Brought by a group of U.S. trial lawyers on behalf of thousands of indigenous Indian peasants, the suit accuses Chevron of responsibility for the dumping (allegedly conducted by Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001) of billions of gallons of toxic oil wastes into the region's rivers and streams. Activists describe the disaster as an Amazon Chernobyl. The plaintiffs—some suffering from cancer and physical deformities—have showed up in court in native garb, with painted faces and half naked. Chevron vigorously contests the charges and has denounced the entire proceeding as a "shakedown."

But this spring, events for Chevron took an ominous turn when a court-appointed expert recommended Chevron be required to pay between $8 billion and $16 billion to clean up the rain forest. Although it was not the final verdict, the figures sent shock waves through Chevron's corporate boardroom in San Ramon, Calif., and forced the company for the first time to disclose the issue to its shareholders. It has also now spawned an unusually high-powered battle in Washington between an army of Chevron lobbyists and a group of savvy plaintiff lawyers, one of whom has tapped a potent old schoolmate—Barack Obama.

Chevron is pushing the Bush administration to take the extraordinary step of yanking special trade preferences for Ecuador if the country's leftist government doesn't quash the case. A spokesman for U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab confirmed that her office is considering the request. Attorney Steven Donziger, who is coordinating the D.C. opposition to Chevron, says the firm is "trying to get the country to cry uncle." He adds: "It's the crudest form of power politics."

Chevron's powerhouse team includes former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, former Democratic senator John Breaux and Wayne Berman, a top fund-raiser for John McCain—all with access to Washington's top decision makers. (A senior Chevron exec has met with Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on the matter.) Chevron argues that it has been victimized by a "corrupt" Ecuadorean court system while the plaintiffs received active support from Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa—an ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. The company says a loss could set a dangerous precedent for other U.S. multinationals. "The ultimate issue here is Ecuador has mistreated a U.S. company," said one Chevron lobbyist who asked not to be identified talking about the firm's arguments to U.S. officials. "We can't let little countries screw around with big companies like this—companies that have made big investments around the world."

But Chevron's foes are not without their own resources. Just recently, Donziger and other trial lawyers in the case retained their own high-profile D.C. superlobbyist, Ben Barnes, a major Democratic fund-raiser. And they have tapped a capital connection that may pay off even more. Roughly two years ago, when Donziger first got wind that Chevron might take its case to Washington, he went to see Obama. The two were basketball buddies at Harvard Law School. In several meetings in Obama's office, Donziger showed his old friend graphic photos of toxic oil pits and runoffs. He also argued strongly that Chevron was trying to subvert the "rule of law" by doing an end run on an Ecuadorean legal case. Obama was "offended by that," said Donziger. Obama vetted the issue with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy (who has long worked on Latin American human-rights issues), and in February 2006 the two wrote a letter to the then U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman urging the administration to permit the Ecuadorean peasants to have "their day in court."

The Obama letter, written before the senator had even announced his run for president, is now the wild card in the Ecuador-Chevron dispute. Donziger said he has had no further discussions with Obama on the issue (although he has co-hosted a New York fund-raiser and, together with his wife, rose between $40,000 and $50,000 for Obama's campaign). An Obama spokesman last week said the senator "stands by his position" that the case is a "matter for the Ecuadorean judicial system." So now the prospect of an Obama presidency has given additional urgency to Chevron's plea for help in Washington. Waiting until next year could leave the oil giant at the mercy of a judge in the Amazon jungle.

With Stephan Küffner in Quito

While making great efforts to correct the NEWSWEEK article that Chevron TEXACO did not lie to its shareholders and Board of Directors by refusing to inform them of the dire roster of law suits against the corporation, as required by U.S. securities law, pretending once again that Chevron's utterly ignorant welter of lobbyists and lawyers can save their bottom line, so to speak from the Soros-Obama-Chavez team at their gates, we are not so upbeat about the composite, pending bankruptcy of a once vibrant company who stands to lose its will to thrive because its sole mistake, mimicking the Isaias family,  was to retain some of the globe's silliest lawyers in Quito and across the USA in an essentially lazy, irresponsible strategy which is typically Ecuadorean. .

Ecuador does not deserve another U.S. taxpayer give away called the ATPDEA extension because Ecuador does not demonstrably honor the last three letters of the Agreement- the DEA. And has in no way done so for many years as we all know. Ecuador just freed all its drug runners from prison, not that it ever arrested very many anyway. Ecuador is a narcostate which provides narcotics labs and transshipping. Meanwhile, one and all want to pretend that it is just all right to ignore the probable fact that Chavez's own oil tankers, often called the inexplicably well protected monopoly TRAFIGURA is not running contraband along with Chavez's mainstay off the books spot oil, which is of course feeding the Andean cartels and the current welter of double agents across London, Moscow and the USA.

It is credulous to ask....just who is the hypocrite here?

While Ecuador's need is most dire, who stands to assist functional truth tellers? Certainly not the U.S. Department of State with its doubled budget to feed even more liars and propagandists in Ecuador, dishonestly calling their over funded projects democracy building when it has not be thus for years.  Certainly not the Barack Hussein Obama team of Soros actors who actually believe that law and order is not helpful to deliver their goal of narcozones across Latin America. We believe that it is not in the interests of the free world to enable illegal oil traders who also transport narcotics as well as legalize all that should be illegal. And as yet no help comes from the lazy and irresponsible Ecuadoreans who today tell us that freedom only means the free choice to decide which shopping center to visit, which cruise ship they may chose, and which alcoholic beverage to imbibe.

After the past two weeks, while Gustavo Larrea was busy lying to the United States and Correa's team was busy penning even more deals with the utterly evil government of Iran, the USA cannot even bring itself to stop supporting the legitimization of all that is illegitimate, called the Correa constitution up for a vote on 9-28-08, if you can call this a vote. This repulsive picture is more like it as Correa's team enjoins the FARC and Hezbollah to make Ecuador replicate the Cuban-Lebanese failed state status or better named:
           
Feeding the Criminal Cartels Currently Running Quito: 

 
Here are the facts:   Ecuador is a narcostate helping craft a narcozone. Ecuador neither has nor holds any rule of law today because it is utterly lawless under Rafael Correa and will indeed enshrine the cartel regime should its new so called constitution, co funded by the debauched Soros-US AID teams in Quito- passes. It is time to actually deliver the facts about this disaster and take all those chickens out of the roost and feed them some Viagra.

Pretending that rule of law's death in Ecuador did not matter cost American businesses at least $60 billion in probable losses which some clever industrialist may hold the USG responsible for misleading its investors even as the State Department's own web site today on Ecuador is guilty still of lying to the public. Pretending that this effort will be honest and funding that AMCHAM in Quito to lie some more has not helped either. Instead of pouring millions in to fake rule of law and lying to the United States about its real acts, the United States could hold Ecuador accountable instead of enabling, sometimes called deceptive diplomacy and abandonment of principles, and stick to the facts which remain barred where Ecuador is concerned. Indeed, one could start with a factual review of the Correa-Chavez and Iranian agreements. One could actually bar the sale of Predator drones for the Correa-Chavez-Iranian drug runners planning a free for all in Manta starting this January, 2009. And for the last time, render a legitimate analysis of the so called Ecuadorean constitution. Read it- know it- and stop supporting this legitimization of all that should never be legitimized. 

We are delighted that Mayor Nebot of Guayaquil has made an initial stand against this cartel in Quito. Of late, Blasco's Chamber of Commerce in Quito joined the fray and we do mean of late.  This week that Chamber will publicly begin to denounce the YES Campaign. Like the Chevron-Texaco law suit in Quito, the NO VOTE campaign in Ecuador will of course fail because it has not yet stood on principle nor promoted the essentials of what is happening while assiduously delivering lazy, chock a block flawed, disjointed, and irresponsible plans which do not defend the truth and still yet grievously intend to manipulate the truth as they have always done, pretending that a little integrity is all right for some but not for Ecuadoreans whose suicidal addiction to manipulative behaviors remains in tact.. The overpaid lazy Chevron-TEXACO protagonists, like all Ecuadoreans, need to learn the essential lesson that freedom seekers and truth tellers’ needs must hang together under integrity's banner or they will hang alone.  To date, Chevron TEXACO has just wasted even more precious resources and legitimacy by depending on a failed strategy to send in the third rail- trade associations to do its work. This never succeeds because no one is better represented by anything except one's true self. Chevron of course is today hoisted on its own petard for its enthusiasm for Hugo Chavez's dirty dealings which exhibits its fine hand by denouncing Chevron TEXACO and will see this previously decent company in receivership for all its double dealings today which are startlingly different than how TEXACO played its cards. There is no rule of law in Ecuador but there is a massive juggernaut of Correa cartel actors and U.S.-funded so called NGOs of liars and deceivers whose aim is the end of integrity. There is also a huge need to empty their Chamber Pots of flawed actors, infiltrators, bribed and extorted complicit creatures who could care less about the fate of their nation....as it dies.

Like Chevron, should truth tellers rely on these Chambers to relay the facts, they will lose as they have lost over the last six or so years.

To win, start by standing up and telling the truth.

Remarkably, the ECONOMIST here for the first time in a very very long time reports some of the facts from the Andes. The ECONOMIST calls this The Good Life for Correa and His Lawyers and states,

Correa dictates his socialist credo
 
 
And if the ECONOMIST tells us that Correa has dictated his socialist credo, also called his Manifesto or so-called constitution, what is the reward for the USA to encourage this screed- this fake constitution which is an effrontery to normative behaviors? Why would the USA pour millions in to the chamber pot of illegality? Is it that important to pay back the Soros team of one worlders seeking to legitimize all that should never be legitimized just because one and all believe foolishly that liberty comes with no law under the benefits of Barack Hussein Obama's triumph? Is that what it is? How else to explain the complete roll over by the USA to share and spread the lies that Soros and Obama will craft more narcostates to help us all?
 
The article notes, “IF ONLY size, novelty and good intentions were everything when it came to constitutions, Ecuador would be a paradise. The document approved on July 25th by a Constituent Assembly dominated by supporters of Rafael Correa, the leftist president, is a 444-article behemoth. If approved by a referendum on September 28th, it will become Ecuador’s 20th constitution and the third in as many decades. It is nothing if not politically correct: it bans foreign military bases, promises a “just wage” and enshrines manifold rights, including that to sumak kawsay, or “good living” in Quichua, one of two indigenous languages whose use it now makes official alongside Spanish. Whether it will improve real life in a chronically misgoverned country is another matter."
 
Contrary to the dishonest Michael Shifter of Georgetown University and US AID and Soros's own propaganda team called the Inter American Dialogue who soothed the dishonest Marcella Sanchez of the WASHINGTON POST last week that the only thing anyone will remember about Correa's constitution is that Correa will gain the legitimacy to keep getting re elected, we find that this is once again cynical propaganda to assist the Correa-Chavez-FARC-Iranian team currently overpopulating Ecuador and Venezuela...and sometimes the aberrant failed state called Bolivia.
 
What is notable is the assiduous, in your face support of every single lying useless sack of horse droppings who pretend that Correa's so called constitution is legitimate when it denounces all that the OAS is supposed to stand for, not to mention the USA and the EU, what ever it is that they stand for.
Whenever a so called constitution specifically and notably legalizes the removal- the banishment - of neoliberal goals there can be no mistaking what this means, no matter how lazy or irresponsible one has become. It means that the end of legitimacy will be legalized, no matter what the status of Rafael Correa's job search.
What Correa has done over the last 18 months and will continue to do as long as the OAS and the USA keep feeding his efforts to make the best the enemy of the good is indeed the formal end to rule of law in Ecuador. All who have helped turn this nation into lawlessness will have much to rejoice. Their 7 year long efforts are about to pay off big time and as such, Ecuador will henceforth enjoy the same status as Lebanon, Palestine and Zimbabwe.
 
This is not the good life.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis