August 6, 2008   ECrisis hopes that all Ecuadoreans will review Correa's so called constitution, which is not a constitution but one of the worst mandates for legitimizing all that should never be legitimized, and vote NO this September.
 
ECrisis wants you to know that this NO campaign is not seditious and by our hand is not dishonest or unpatriotic but remains.... common sense.

We are not afraid of Rafael Correa and his goons nor are we fearful that truthtellers should run and hide for they must not.
 
Yesterday, Goldman Sachs noted about Ecuador:
                                "Questions Arise About Integrity of Constitutional Text

There are growing questions being raised in the local press about the integrity of the final text of the Constitution recently approved by the Constituent Assembly, with some voices claiming new content was introduced in the final text that was not approved in the floor. Many legislators and some observers claim the final text is different on several counts from the version approved by the floor.

Most of the 444 Constitution articles were approved in rushed sessions during the last three days, and there is growing suspicion that the final drafting commission might have altered not only the wording but more importantly the meaning/substance of a number of articles (the local press mentions that 27 articles have been modified).  In addition, the opposition is complaining that foreign advisers/consultants might have participated in changing some articles of the Constitution once it was approved by the plenary.

President Correa seems to recognize some flaws and contradictions in the new Constitution, but is taking a holistic view of the new document, campaigning animatedly for its approval.

The opposition claims that such a critical legal text should have been properly debated and drafted, and that the content reflects too closely the political and other interests of the current administration, which is bound to lead to a hyper-presidential system.

The campaign for the September 28 referendum to validate the new Constitution starts on August 13, and we anticipate a spirited debate between the “No” and the pro-government “Yes” camp, as the referendum is widely seen as an implicit plebiscite on the Correa administration."

To be sure, this dry albeit factual analysis from New York contains no political message. Others in the analysis business are not so adept and continue to sell some of the most unacceptable analysis about Ecuador. We already noted Michael Shifter's appallingly decrepit statement in the WASHINGTON POST that the only thing anyone will remember about `Correa's constitution' is his capacity to hold on to his rooms inside Miraflores Palace a bit longer. This is balderdash and a lie of course. The so called constitution of Correa is quite well known for its wholesale sell off of all liberties while enshrining all that is illegitimate. But Shifter is not alone in selling cheap and dishonest analyses to the media.

One of our favorite lies about the Andes gets repeated with all the honesty of a Gay Men's Bath House where rumor runs rampant. The USA's own Roger Noriega and his club irresponsibly repeats more gossip that the FARC's intelligence leader Raul Reyes was killed 3-1-08 by bombs. This is simply Bath House Boys gossip: Reyes was killed as all forensic evidence states clearly- by falling upon one of his own brutally lethal and illegal land mines. Raul Reyes did not die by Colombia's hands as Correa claims a break in Ecuador's sovereignty but Reyes dies because he himself broke all tenants of the UN plus the laws of Ecuador by installing thousands of land mines, each capable of killing almost 20 human  beings, around his multi hectare plantation in Ecuador, as Rafael Correa knows very well. The government of Rafael Correa sanctioned those land mines as well as the FARC intelligence headquarters inside Ecuador which also lobbed missiles and bullets back in to Colombia, killing several over the years and approved their usage/residency in abeyance of all international standards. And Reyes died as he lived- deceptively and all the while paying Rafael Correa's team, along with bundled intelligence operatives under the lethally evil Gustavo Larrea- for so called protection. Even Correa could not protect Reyes from his own evil.
 
But Roger Noriega does not tell us this. Instead he writes that Chavez, Morales and Correa are on their way out: failures. This troika of evil doers should truly be on their way out but they are not departing  any time soon as even today each is strengthening their dictatorships while no one- no one at all- lifts one hand to help stop this. Noriega’s inchoate piece here discredits the American Enterprise Institute just as Noriega discredited the people of the USA when he took a lot of money from the government of Ecuador to tell us all that it was wonderful for Ecuador to steal from OCCIDENTAL and other USA companies. Noriega also discredited the American people when he abused US tax dollars to tell the world that the USA approved Chavez's abuse of electioneering to jigger Venezuelan elections when Chavez has repeatedly stolen elections. Theft of anything is not wonderful and Noriega needs to apologize and return all the monies he took from Ecuador's government before he owns one ounce of credibility to speak about the removal of Chavez's dictatorial and criminal cartel-communism in the Andes.
  
Roger Noriega again tells us about Hugo Chavez: "...His acolytes in Bolivia and Ecuador are losing legitimacy with each passing day, as their sponsor in Caracas licks his wounds. Back home Chávez has had to resort to technicalities to prevent popular opposition figures from competing in upcoming regional and local elections. Even though he has used the police powers of the state to impose his absolute control over the courts, national assembly, and electoral commission, food shortages, rampant crime, and staggering corruption have left him increasingly unpopular. Chávez's supporters in the military and within his own Bolivarian movement are left to wonder whether his reckless, immoral support for terrorists will lead to their indictment by the United States or lead them into another war they cannot win. In short, the man who pretended to be the representative of the eternal Simon Bolivar appears to be running out of time."

We at ECrisis approvingly get the point- and it is somewhat well made by this impartial and sophomoric analysis of the Andes by Noriega, that the Chavez-Correa-Morales troika is repulsive. Noriega is honest to state that Chavez is "reckless and corrupt"- and to many irresponsible and repulsive Andean citizens those are assets- Chavez's good points. But Noriega is utterly incorrect that this gang of extortionists and dictators is "losing legitimacy" today. These liars, sometimes called presidents of democracies, which is also untrue, never ever once had any legitimacy: there is no legitimacy by their hands to lose and anyone who pretends otherwise is a fool. Then again, Noriega pretended that Hugo Chavez had lots of legitimacy when he lost every vote held since 2002 by lying about the votes and jiggering the very norms at bay and has yet to stop jiggering/manipulating all that was Venezuela and now the entire Andes.

But the worst canard ever spewed by the always enabling and intellectually dishonest Noriega is this: “In June, the United States government formally sanctioned a senior Venezuelan diplomat for supporting the terrorist group, Hezbollah. It is very clear that U.S. authorities are carefully reviewing the close cooperation between the Chávez camp and the FARC, and senior Venezuelan officials may face U.S. sanctions for their complicity." We say that this is dishonest because the government of the United States is in no way whatsoever, except for the most tepid and dishonest projects, supporting one modicum of sanctioning Chavez or Correa or Morales for their criminal cartel governments. We do applaud and compliment the United State for what extremely small efforts to date it has proffered although much more needs to be accomplished.  No indeed- the National Endowment for Democracy, also called the Soros activists, inexplicably  remains in the driver's seat at the U.S. Department of State/US AID  and consistently self pay their own Soros crony groups to make false reports to John Negroponte of the USA to tell us all that the November elections in Venezuela will see a sea change against Chavez and that Rafael Correa's Plan Ecuador must be blessed to craft a new FARC safe zone in Northern Ecuador  which they tell us will bring peace for the environmentalists and that Evo Morales will permit democracy's return to Bolivia. None of this is true and all of this is a disaster. Besides, anyone who ever ever relies on Luigi Einaudi's own Roger Noriega or even Peter Romero en famille to tell the facts about the Andes is a fool for believing that, like coitus interruptus, there was nothing going on there. We remind that true evil lives inside Miraflores Palace and inside Carondelet Palace in Quito and anyone who tells you differently is lying. The sum total of the generally faceless feeders of US policy monies in the Anders are controlled by the Soros policies today which have nothing to do with US laws and regulations by choice although they all duly report reams of lies about their so called work. And as much as we applaud the United States for doing just a little something- two or three efforts here or there- the sum total of doing too much, too little too late replicates enabling, direct assistance in the millions of wasted dollars and a bizarre support for retaining the dictatorships that do today run Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela out of greed and never out of improving quality of life. The entire undemocratic governments of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela are in fact criminal cartels run like extortion rings to enrich their rackets and anyone who says differently is a liar. These nations are not increasingly undemocratic: they are undemocratic and have been for quite some time.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis