September 10, 2008   It is 18 days until Correa's communist constitution so called vote. To date, not one international agency or leader has reviewed the facts of the communist team's text. And Bolivia and Nicaragua like to tell us all that the USA hurts their political mismanagement by sending in functional pro democracy actors.
 
Currently, Daniel Ortega's common wife is busy with yet one more circus trick to proclaim that all international NGOS are operating in Nicaragua as anti-communist Trojan Horses for the pro democracy actors from the USA. We sincerely pray that Ortega's common woman were correct but tragically, she is once again spewing political propaganda which carries no factual back up. There is no reason whatsoever to determine that anyone from the US AID roster of communist apologists are honest, honorable or doing anything whatsoever to enable building truth telling anywhere in their Latin portfolio. It is as simple as that. But Ortega, like Chavez and Correa, knows the value of jumping to proclaim the evils of the USA empire.
 
Here is communist cartel capo Correa at Carondelet Palace with his FARC sheltering pals:
 
 
 The communist regime in Quito: Pictured here, from left to right: Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, Ortega, and First Lady/ex-Guerrilla Girl Rosario Murillo give the clenched-fist communist salute in Quito, on July 14, 2008.
 
More to the point of more disinformation from the clowns who revel in lying dishonorably, comes this report here which maintains that Chavez and Putin have truly and really aligned:
 
"LATIN AMERICAN THEATER

- Russian Foreign Ministry: Navy to "Temporarily" Base Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft in Venezuela; Announcement Follows by Less Than One Week Hugo Chavez's Offer to Host Russian Military

- US State Department Scoffs at Russian Navy's Capabilities Following Announcement of Joint Naval Maneuver with Venezuela; Drill to Begin Six Days after US Presidential Election

Taking affront to the NATO fleet in the Black Sea and its support for the reconstruction of Georgia, the Soviets have decided to thumb their nose at the USA by scheduling joint naval drills in the Caribbean Sea, America's "backyard," with Red Venezuela between November 10 and 14. The Russian naval task force, state-run Novosti reports below, will be dispatched from the Northern Fleet and consist of the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy and support ships. Moscow and Caracas formed a strategic partnership against the USA in May 2001 and thus the announced war game between the two Communist Bloc states is a natural progression in their plan to dethrone US influence in Latin America. The South American country has already purchased Russian fighter jets, military helicopters, diesel-powered submarines, AK-47 assault rifles, and a contract to build more such rifles.

This past summer Kremlin-run Gazprom and Venezuelan state oil and gas company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. inked an agreement on joint exploration of the Ayacucho 3 block in the Orinoco oil belt. Under the terms of this protocol Gazprom Latin America B.V. and PdVSA will complete the geological modeling, evaluation, and calculation of reserves in the block. The new chairman of Gazprom is "ex"-CPSU cadre and former prime minister Viktor Zubkov, who is also father in law of Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

Venezuela's communist dictator Hugo Chavez has visited Moscow seven times since assuming the presidency of that country in 1999. The most recent pilgrimage was completed in July of this year. Pictured above: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chavez meet at former's Novo Ogaryovo residence near Moscow, on July 22, 2008.

Russia confirms sending warships to the Atlantic, Caribbean
16:3008/ 09/ 2008

MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian naval task force from the Northern Fleet will go on a tour of duty in the Atlantic Ocean and participate in joint naval drills with the Venezuelan navy in November, a Navy spokesman said on Monday.

"In line with the 2008 training program and in order to expand military cooperation with foreign navies Russia will send in November a naval task force from the Northern Fleet, comprising nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy and support ships, to the Atlantic Ocean," Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said.

During the tour of duty, the Russian warships will participate in joint naval exercises with the Venezuelan navy.

"The decision to conduct Russian-Venezuelan naval exercises was adopted at the meeting between presidents in July this year," Dygalo said.

"During the exercise, ships and naval aircraft will practice coordinated maneuvering, search-and-rescue, and communications," he said.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez earlier said Venezuela would hold joint naval exercises with Russian warships in the Caribbean in late November-early December.

Russia announced last year that Russia's Navy had resumed, and would build up its continual presence in different regions of the world's oceans.

A naval task force from Russia's Northern Fleet, consisting of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, the Udaloy-Class destroyers Admiral Levchenko and Admiral Chabanenko, as well as auxiliary vessels, conducted from December 2007 to February 2008 a two-month tour of duty in the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic.

In response to the official announcement of the joint Russian-Venezuelan naval maneuvers, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack scoffed: "If Russia really intends to send ships to the Caribbean, then they found a few ships that can make it that far." The drill will commence six days after the US presidential election, which is probably not coincidental.

The consolidation of the Soviet-Venezuelan strategic partnership by way of a Caribbean naval exercise is troubling, although the Russian Navy is by itself no match for its US counterpart. More disturbing, however, is the Kremlin media's failure to mention that Venezuela will be "temporarily" hosting Russian anti-submarine warfare aircraft on its soil by year's end. The Iranian state media, citing the AFP news agency, reports today: "Moscow says it plans to temporarily deploy anti-sub aircraft in Venezuela, amid a growing danger of a NATO-Russia conflict in the Black Sea.’Before the end of the year, as part of a long-distance expedition, we plan a visit to Venezuela by a Russian navy flotilla... and the temporary basing of anti-submarine aircraft of the Russian Navy at an airport in Venezuela,' sspokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Monday, AFP reported." Russian Foreign Ministry spokesentity Nesterenko insisted that Russia's "South American naval visit 'is not in any way connected to the current situation in the Caucasus,' and that 'it is not aimed at any third country.'" The Russian Navy has in recent weeks tested new EW equipment in its Tu-142 Bear-F, the maritime reconnaissance version of the Tu-95 Bear bomber, over the Arctic Ocean.

Plans for the incremental deployment of Russian military assets in the Western Hemisphere have obviously been afoot for some time, well before Russia's August 8 invasion of Georgia. For example, on July 22 Chavez visited Moscow, dragging yet another lengthy shopping list of Russian-build armament. Novosti, above quotes Russian Navy spokesentity Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo as admitting: "The decision to conduct Russian-Venezuelan naval exercises was adopted at the meeting between presidents in July this year." A week later, on July 30 and 31 Russian Vice Premier Igor Sechin and ex-FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev visited Havana where military cooperation between Moscow and Havana was discussed. The US determination to rebuild Georgia's post-invasion economy provides Russia with a pretext to expand its military operations worldwide. Only weeks before the Georgia invasion, Kremlin-run Izvestia leaked a story, denied by the Russian Defense Ministry, to the affect that the Russian military was considering deploying its strategic bombers to Cuba, Venezuela, and Algeria. Finally, less than one week ago Comrade Hugo cheerfully offered to host Russia's long-range aircraft on Venezuelan soil. It appears that the neo-Soviet leadership liked Hugo's offer."ECrisis has no geo-military expertise in any way and cannot comment. But we do find it passing odd that the US Department of State is cited above: "In response to the official announcement of the joint Russian-Venezuelan naval maneuvers, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack scoffed: `If Russia really intends to send ships to the Caribbean, then they found a few ships that can make it that far.' “We simply want the facts. And the facts are....Russia and Chavez have a formal marriage deal and the USA and the OAS needs-must call this out for what it is and stop making fun, as is too often heard from armchair warriors inside the US Pentagon and other militaries, that Russia new weapons class arsenal is as bad as their owl arsenal. To our uneducated evaluation, the subtle distinctions of the military marriage- aka take over- by Putin of the Chavez-Correa-Morales  military businesses is not only enough to frighten local citizens but....we remind that even if 1/3 of Russia's weapons function, their goal succeeds. And because we want the facts- and Chavez-Correa-Putin-Iran are so dishonest, the facts are not on the table. This in turn leads to the scores of comments we hear from Venezuelans who tell us that they are paralyzed with fright that Chavez-Iran-Putin are using the Andean nations for their militarization schemes. Gosh- do ya' think so? Where have you been for the last 2 years? And moreover, what benefits are achieved by telling us all that so so so many are paralyzed with fright that they cannot get up and rise up and do anything about the now not so subtle Andean narcostates?
 
Incremental deployment of Russia's military assets to the Andes....what does that mean? Your local AL JAZEERA media, also called TeleSur will not tell you what that means. You had better shape up and stop waiting to be spoon fed by chock a block media. Make your own research.
 
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis