August 7, 2008      "We are in the presence of a dictatorial government which has given a coup d'état to the constitution... Here we have no constitution, no law and the president does exactly what he wants....In the past few days, [the president] said that if anyone didn't approve of the laws, they could file a challenge with the Supreme Court. But critics of the ... president said that would be futile because six of the seven justices are sympathetic to the president."  Truer words have not been spoken. In this case, the protagonist is Hugo Chavez of Venezuela but the exact deeds are replicated in a fast track and with no scrutiny - because it is a lesser known drugs transit nation- by Rafael Correa of Ecuador, currently legitimizing all that should never be legitimized.
 
This week is notable because these two nations are suffering from the outing of their presidents' rampant seizure of state powers. This exposure, while barely registering inside their own lands because the state controls at least 60 to 70% of all media and frankly because few care anyway, is finally reported, of course with no thanks to Chavista analysts, also called paid propagandists, such as Gregory Wilpert and his entire milieu spread more canard. But The WALL STREET JOURNAL's article called "In Enacticng Decrees, Chavez Makes New Power Grab" tries to shed some light on these shameful and illicit power grabs which leaves no doubt that both Chavez and Correa are not running democratic governments and could care even less. All nations remotely concerned about the Western Hemisphere must take a moment and actually review Chavez's sweeping dictatorial laws and Correa's sweeping dictatorial laws and analyze these texts for what they really are. To date, none have performed this essential constitutional law analysis while false paid Chavista-Cuban style propaganda has gotten shamefully ahead of the facts and supplants data with confused political rhetoric.
 
Here is Correa, doing what he always does....manipulating and lying while pretending that all is wonderfully well in Ecuador, when it is not:

 
                                            
Presidente ecuatoriano Rafael Correa; AFP

Apparently needing some more cash, as Correa's own regime refuses to disclose what or where Ecuador's finances are bleeding to, Correa continues to steal from others. In his current heists, Correa runs trumped up charges against the Isaias family who are guilty of nothing more that the sheer stupidity and irresponsibility of hiring and paying some of the world's most ridiculous lawyers and lobbyists who have done nothing at all to assist their plight. Echoing the foolishness of the RC TV theft by Hugo Chavez, the Isaias family businesses are not represented credibly to protect or defend their holdings in a place and in this time when rule of law and due process is tossed out the window in favor of state thefts to prop up illicit regimes. Correa's excuse-? He just ` needed the money to help the poor.' Helping the poor for Correa is his shocking excuse for stealing from anything he can or running drugs to profiteer, just as his father did. But helping the so called poor today in Ecuador by Correa is nothing more than campaign bribes to extort his rank and file voters with cash handouts while paying for his very expensive government funded Cuban and Venezuelan DISIP agents coordinated by Dan Fisk and Tom Shannon's new best friend Gustavo Larrea, the DISIP-Cuban spy coordinator of Ecuador, sent to Washington to boost Correa's paid propaganda team, sometimes called publicists and lobbyists. We call them criminal mafias.
 
 Manipulative thinking in the Andes is shown here by the JOURNAL, "While Mr. Chávez remains fairly popular -- with a 56% approval rating -- most Venezuelans don't want him to deepen his "revolution." Polls show 86% of Venezuelans reject using Cuba as a model and 83% want the government to respect private property." The same is true about Ecuador: polls tell us that the debauched and disgustingly aberrant Rafael Correa remains relatively popular, especially seen  in his state funded polling of late notable in his state controlled media of late which is estimated to control about 70 to 80% of all Ecuadorean media. Correa is said to be popular but his drive, like Chavez's to keep the one promise Correa has ever made in his life which is to insert the Cuban communist model where no rule of law exists and nothing private exists is repulsive. Once again we call on the United States of America and the OAS to cease and desist funding their hidden operatives from the Soros family pouring organizational supports in to these Cuban model operations in the Andes. Like the National Endowment for Democracy, the Inter American Dialogue has been telling us all for months now that the September election in Ecuador and the local elections in Venezuela in November are all about democracy and that if and only if the USA and the OAS pours more opaque money down the NED rat hole which fronts for Soros and the Dialogue and all their minions of drug legalization and neo Marxism, all will be well. Coming right in on time, the JOURNAL inexplicably sources just this point, " `Everything is related to this upcoming election, and it's hard to imagine he doesn't see this as important in his efforts to keep power,' said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank in Washington D.C."  Of course Hakim's partner Michael Shifter rolled out the Dialogue's support for Correa and the FARC last week in the WASHINGTON POST to tell us all that the only thing that will be remembered- the only important issue about Correa's upcoming referenda on his new Cuban Marxist government is the re election capability of Correa. Hakim and Shifter are utterly wrong in their paid analysis of the Andes as usual and we deny their assessments as almost foolish paid propaganda, which is what it is anyway.
 
As it stands today, there is no democracy in Venezuela or Ecuador and neither election in either nation this Fall will magically restore any semblance of law and order, any functioning "democracy" or the baseline acts of "free or fair" elections. It is time that all Latin nations and Washington, DC performed fact based analysis and stopped funding enablers, liars, propagandists, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces. Tom Shannon and John Negroponte owe it to the U.S. taxpayers to have and hold the best analysis based on facts. To date, they are following the Roger Noriega plan to enable the least path of fact based analysis with all the integrity of a Gay Man's Bath House, based on paid propaganda and innuendo and gossip. This is pathetic. We believe that Secretary Rice and John Negroponte deserve better as do the peoples of the Americas but apparently today they are getting what they ask for which remains inchoate, dishonest and truncated. Being "Chock Full of Nuts" may be good coffee but it is not good policy planning and remains failed intelligence gathering which obviously the U.S. Department of State refuses to perform even as truth tellers from the Andes enable even more of this mischief by not standing united to work toward truth telling.
 
 
Contrary to what the Soros efforts funded by the United States and the paid Chavez propagandists tell us about Correa's new Manifesto, such as
            " ...On September 28, the people of Ecuador will be asked to vote on a new constitution, drafted over the past eight months by an elected constituent assembly. ...
 
            It expressly forbids foreign military bases on Ecuadorian soil, backing up Correa’s pledge to close the unpopular US airforce base at Manta, on Ecuador’s     coast, when its contract expires next year.

    Another article recognizes unpaid domestic work as productive labour, making those who perform it eligible for social security.

    Undocumented immigrants — particularly refugees — will no longer be considered “illegal”, granting them more rights to stay and work in the country.         Compulsory military service will be abolished, and, with some exceptions, genetically modified seeds will be banned.

Some of the new articles may be contentious in the heavily religious country, such as granting equal legal rights for same-sex relationships and guaranteeing “reproductive rights” to women. Both of these articles have drawn strong criticism from the Catholic Church.

    If approved, the constitution would make Ecuador the second Latin American country, after Uruguay, to legalise same-sex unions.

    The elements of the new constitution most criticised by the right-wing opposition parties, however, are those which threaten their control over Ecuador’s political     and economic spheres. In the political sphere, the president will be able to run for a second consecutive term and to dissolve congress and order new elections     once during a term.  In the economic sphere, there are articles securing greater state control over strategic economic sectors, especially mining, and providing for the redistribution of     idle land. "
 
 
We begin here and now to correct some of the utter trash about this so called constitution:
 
First- this is no constitution. It is a manifesto wrapped up in a dizzying array of Articles which are in fact a plebiscite referendum on Correa and his Cuban-Chavez plan to reform Ecuador in direct lock step with Cuba, Iran and Chavez's regional/central planning offices. In fact it is Marxism on the cheap: sub contracted to DISIP and Cuban intelligence agents who actually run the Correa team while buoyed by the dishonest paid propagandists from US AID's Soros actors who desperately seek a new Ecuadorean narcostate and they are very very close now to having and enjoying what they seek.
 
Second- the so called overpaid assembly gaggle in Montecristi committed fraud and did not write nor debate this so called constitution. As Correa himself revealed and as the facts warrant, the language was mostly prewritten over a year ago by the Viciano Pastor team out of Caracas currently busied with Chavez, Correa and Morales brain-busting buffooneries, also called inserting the Cuban-Marxist governance for the Andes.
 
Third- it is long past time to review why Correa has shifted Ecuadorean military to paid posts by his team running PetroEcuador, road building, etc while declaring that Ecuador no longer needs military service by conscription. Correa has not been honest about any of his military deals with Iran and Hugo Chavez nor discussed his plans for joint military management of Ecuador by and through Hezbollah and Chavez, notably out of the Manta Base and specifically by his paid goons from DISIP and Cuba, currently working to monitor the Catholic Church and pay off bribes to church goers on their way out of Mass. Correa believes he does not need the police or a national defensive military because Chavez and Cuba are providing all that he needs to maintain law and order even as "order" to Correa simply means complete control of the whole people. There are no rights in Ecuador unless granted by Correa. There is no due process and there is no court systems left. There is no reason for lawyers to practice because there is no law and there is no court system to practice before. Venezuelans learned too late that their own legal teams badly misled them by pretending that magically somehow they might enjoy justice when there is no justice to be had. In Ecuador, the situation is graver.
 
Fourth- the Catholic Church is not capable of organizing its own corrupt and foolish church leadership to morally combat the evil that is sweeping Ecuador. We of course hope and pray that they do but to date, the Church is evenly split between its own pro Correa Marxists and liars on the make and the Opus Dei fools who are equally as dishonest about their own false piety which is at best a For Show Pony in the ring of depravities. The Bishops of Ecuador, who gave not one ounce of support to the Bishops of Venezuela when their need was most dire and selfishly went along with Rafael Correa's fake church services with fake shamans and fake feathers and fake pieties appear to have woken up from its recent sleep walks through this ethical landscape only to find itself facing full and total take over not only of its religious teachings but its real estate and holdings, also called parochial schools and clinics. Enabling by Ecuadoreans has just gotten very expensive indeed as the Church writ large faces itself what it enabled as perforced against Occidental, TEXACO and the Isaias families: theft, extortion and bribery. Pathetically the Church believed that it was all right to do this to others as long as they were left alone. Indeed all Ecuadoreans have and hold the identical evil moral system today. This is the antithesis of church teaching and societal mores. We remind that it is NOT ok to murder the family next door to you as long as your family is not murdered.
 
But Ecuadoreans, in the losing position, tell us that the French enablers from the WW II Vichy Government are their role models and they tell us that enabling corruption is all right as long as one's own family is out of the line of fire even as innocents around them fall.

And fall they are and the factual analysis of this new socio-political manifesto for Ecuador looks like Lebanon, Cuba and Zimbabwe with all the integrity thereto. Like any legal issues in Ecuador, the Church must do what it has refused to do for 15 years and coalesce with global truth tellers and for once in 15 years start to act responsibly and stop acting like a manipulative, ignorant housewife from Quito who tell us that freedom is freedom to chose where to go shopping and is granted by Correa/the state and contains nothing more meaningful than that. The Church in Ecuador has a lot of work to do.
 
But two months is not a long time but miracles can happen. We at ECrisis do believe that Correa's constitution - his Cuban manifesto written in main by Venezuela's paid Marxist take over artists and enabled by the United States of America which illegally pours millions in to the Correa drug legalizing team called Correa's regime through the NED and US AID actors currently lying a lot about their work at "democracy building" in Ecuador is not legitimate and is not democratic. There is no democracy in Ecuador and there is no law and order either. We believe that given half a chance, Correa's constitution will not pass in September just as the Venezuelan language did not pass the year before in Caracas- an almost identical series of language- aka so called constitutions- also seen in La Paz Bolivia by the same team. A side by side of Chavez's paid constitutional writing team's language for Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba and Venezuela prove our point. We have long stated this and note that not once has appropriate intelligence been handed to reviewing the facts of these sweeping regional plans been made.
 
Indeed, ECrisis has received foolish criticisms from American and Andean souls for our truths that these regional bloc "manifestos" are of and by the coordinators of the Chavez-Correa-Morales constitutional writing teams, mostly made up of Cuban-old Europe Marxists. Of course these attacks on ECrisis are made to justify the illegal fraud underway in these three nations and to continue pouring millions of dollars illegally from the USA in to all supports for these Marxist manifestos. Here is HOY finally reporting scant facts about this paid Cuban-Marxist regional team of so called constitutional writers delivering the new narcozones in the Andes. We at ECrisis remind that we were the first to report this fact and of course were the first to be denounced by the Sorosites running the US Department of State and the OAS. This can be corrected. The Correa, Morales and Chavez ploys are frauds and no sane entity can support them.
 
This week, the ECONOMIST stated, "Radical socialists hope that a constitutional referendum will transform their country." This is true of Ecuador and Venezuela as it was just written about Bolivia: same authors/same plan.. And soon enough, like Chavez, if Morales and Correa cannot rig their votes enough, they will simply carry on with their illicit dictatorial mandating regimes to enhance their clients also called narcorunners as quality of life fails.
 
It is essential to focus on the real picture of what is being done here and now. It is a requisite to stop splintering with myriad side bar distractions in the Andes and maintain the real story. To date this has not even been attempted outside meager and useless efforts such as our own ECrisis and a few tiny window  dressings in so called protest which amounts to a sneeze in the face of a full juggernaut in sail.
 
And the reason that all this is gaining like a snowball rolling down a mountain side is a combined lethal cocktail of two main so called justifications for approving the Andean take over by their agents of deceit: primarily all three regimes are enjoined to legalize socialist Marxist states and secondly to install narcostates by caveat.
Full dozens of millions of paid propaganda is pouring in to this war of attrition to support the Soros and FARC plan to craft  narcostates in the Andes to grow safe zones for drug running out of Ecuador which today is raising the horrifying new hybrid heroin poppies even as its own pathetic so called constitution declares that most hybrids will be banned. The cover up for all this narcostate transformation is the attractability for any lesbian and gay issues which are decoy issues at best however sincere.
 
Yes- this is all about installing sovereign Marxist narcostates. There are solutions to preventing this and stopping these cartel take overs.
Have you studied these so called constitutions yet? Correa says he will pass out one million copies of his illegible and certifiably dishonest manifesto- soon. He believes this will absolve him of all transparency issues. As with all that Correa does, we disagree. We are not in the presence of an honest regime but an excessively dishonest team whose intent is to defile democracy and mislead. Meanwhile, Andres Oppenheimer and Roger Noriega foolishly tell us that their paid work reveals that "populism" is not thriving in the Andes today. This "populism" is dictatorial, dishonest and deceitful and anyone who says differently is a liar.
 
As they say  about Venezuela [ and Bolivia] and we say about Ecuador , " We are in the presence of a dictatorial government which has given a coup d'état to the constitution... Here we have no constitution, no law and the president does exactly what he wants..."
 
Wake up Ecuador. Stop making excuses or the only excuse left will be twenty years of darkness which you brought on yourself by pretending that this is someone else's problem and that while you are busy shopping or watching TV, someone else, while you are hastily spending someone else's money, will fix your self prescribed and highly vaunted ineptitude. We hold your acts in this up or down vote as self evident: you are either with the narcostates/narcoterrorists or you are not.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis