November 10, 2008   ECrisis is always astonished at the chutzpah of the flawed thinking of Cuba's Fidel Castro- or whatever it is that remains of the almost dead Fidel. Here, in his own words, he reports that would the USA have elected John McCain, the USA would reveal its nation as racist: "all kinds of racism prevail and the Republican candidate obtains the presidency, the danger of war would grow and the opportunities of the peoples to advance would be reduced."
 
Fidel Castro is offensive not just for his uneducated analysis, with a full media propaganda machine to spread his canard, but also because he most always presents a false analysis based on non facts. While the conclusion has been made by fellow travelers in the communist propaganda media world- and there are now tens of thousands dishonestly beavering away with more lies- Fidel forgets that the USA is not and has never been a nation with more than 15% of  its total population claiming African heritage. Indeed, the numbers are much lower and in some cases, after two hundred years of living in the USA, we ponder the racist debate in a country with strict laws against racism for the last thirty to forty years anyway. Racism is an unacceptable scourge anywhere, any time it occurs.
 
Here are excerpts from  Castro: "Fidel Castro Praises Obama on Eve of Election, Joined by Socialist Allies in Other Latin American Countries

 By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman  HAVANA, November 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fidel Castro, Cuba's semi-retired communist dictator, has issued a statement praising Barack Obama and denouncing John McCain, while claiming to be "neutral" on the elections... Castro added, "If my estimates should be erroneous, all kinds of racism prevail and the Republican candidate obtains the presidency, the danger of war would grow and the opportunities of the peoples to advance would be reduced. Despite everything, we must fight and raise awareness about this, no matter who wins these elections.”

Castro did not mention the deaths of more than 50 million unborn children in the United States by surgical abortion alone, a policy wholeheartedly supported by Obama.  Cuba is the only Latin American jurisdiction that has legalized abortion on demand, apart from Mexico City.

Castro expressed his hope that "when this opinion of mine is published tomorrow, nobody will have any time to say that I wrote something that could be utilized by one of the candidates for their campaign."

"I had to be, and have been, neutral in the electoral battle," he added.

Luis Lula, Brazil's socialist President and friend of Castro, has also praised Obama in the days leading to the election, saying that his election would be a "subject of joy in the silent mind of each one of us."

It would be an "extraordinary moment" in which the "left wing has power in so many countries," he said, apparently referring to the socialist governments in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay. "Hopefully, this will also occur in the greatest economy in the world!" he added.

Similar statements have been made in recent days by socialist presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, and Evo Morales of Bolivia, all of whom are strong supporters of the Cuban revolution.

Castro is completely wrong: real racism is essentially non existent in the USA and this has been the case for almost 30 years, unlike Europe where anti Semitism is growing exponentially, fueled by billions of dollars spent by the Hate Israel campaign of one formerly known as  Jew George Soros whose Hate Israel campaigns are spending billions of his dollars in the USA, only slightly slowed down by his Hate Bush campaign to install his preferred proxy Barack Hussein Obama like some unformed Manchurian candidate, surrounded by supposed great minds like the almost brain dead Paul Volcker supposedly giving heft and gravitas to the seriously vapid Obama, who does theatrically deliver beautifully. For its part, Europe is financially bankrupting while morally bankrupt in its majority.

ECrisis wonders why anyone cares anything about what Lula, Correa, Chavez, Morales and Castro say about the U.S. elections because neither of these "leaders" cares anything about fraud-free elections or fact sharing in their own bloc of aligned nations. But whoever wrote this is completely correct to call these "leaders" `socialists' because that is a useful expression for starters. In fact, these are men who head up a bloc of previously independent nations now formed as a criminal cartel bloc, all are essentially drug kingpins and oversee failed former republics.

But Ecuadoreans seem to think that Correa hands them enough give aways to make it all worth while, such as cheap oil and gas:

REPSOL sells diesel for around $1 a gallon in Quito, November 2008:

Something for Nothing is what Ecuadoreans believe they get with Correa, the communist cartel leader in Quito. For this, no one really gets much of anything from this completely dysfunctional and wholly opaque, manipulative, dishonest government where all of life is controlled/manipulated by its dysfunctional Correa-Chavez machine now while blessed by a rasher of paid chattering operatives to tell you that what you do not know is so.
 
At present, we read scores of left leaning- that is hard OR soft socialism which is an inchoate intellectual version of communism, reminding daily in the USA media of scores of "urgent matters" that president-elect of the USA Obama "Must do", mostly "must" lift the Cuban embargo and deal with Chavez. We remind our offensive, intellectually vapid friends around the globe that Cuba's communist regime has proven itself utterly murderous, depraved and indifferent, unworthy of respect. Besides, the US Congress passed the law enshrining the Cuban embargo, which hardly exists any more because the USA is Cuba's largest trading partner [which not one lying  communist advocate wants to talk about] and is only angry these days because to purchase goods from the USA, Cuba must pre pay because Cuba has stiffed/stolen from/remained a dead beat dishonest land for decades. And this makes Cuba's cartel despise President Bush. When it comes to protecting businesses, who do you trust-Bush or Correa-Chavez-Morales-Castro? And then please do not remind us why the USA 'must" subsidize the murdering thugs running Cuba as a failed state now. Currently, Cuba seeks to enjoy a tourist boomlet to bring in more foreign cash. No one, no one at all goes to Cuba except for communist cultural foolishness or to enjoy Cuba's sex tourism, where Something for Nothing is bought and sold, also called cheap Cuban sex, porn and perversions. No one goes to Cuba as a tourist except with this goal in mind in general. Like cheap sex with little children in Haiti, if you think this is a good use of Cuba's serfdom, you should stop reading this web site and return to GRANMA and Correa's TELESUR of lies.
 
Here is Brazil, a socialist ally and true believer with Fidel Castro, of a certain bizarre Brazilian dishonesty, as reported in today's FINANCIAL TIMES, Brazil's "Rubens Barbosa, a trade consultant and former Brazilian ambassador to London and Washington said ...`The governments of the emerging nations are part of a new distribution of power in the world,'  he said. `They want more power in the multilateral decision-making process.' ”
 
Speaking about the "G-20" meeting in Brazil this week, "Guido Mantega, the finance minister, said: `Global economic and financial governance needs urgent changes ... It is now more clear than ever that developing countries must have a stronger voice in global decisions. We are determined and ready.' ”
 
Brazil's finance minister wants you to know that Brazil is determined and focused. All that is very good but anyone with a brain knows that Brazil is mostly corrupted today and untrustworthy, although slightly more trustworthy than the completely dishonest and untrustworthy lawless Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa. But these half baked  leaders of what is essentially hedge fund governments, complete with expanding state labor unions and some "welfare' give aways to the "poor," demand- yes demand- that the global leaders respect them...gift more "power" in decision making processes. Indeed, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador demand Something for Nothing.
 
Why would anyone respect Chavez-Correa and their cartel pals? Is it because of their size? Is it because they have earned respect by even handed governance? Is it because they actually offer solutions other than their personal behaviors to steal, rob, cheat, manipulate, lie and thoroughly mismanage everything while running drugs and contraband? Is that why these mafia dons warrant global respect....because they are crime bosses?
 
At the end of the day, one must seriously ask: what do Latin American nations offer this old world? What have any of them done in recent years to garner respect?
Latins call for -demand- attention now, insists as Lula does that all be handed respect on a platter. For what? Their wisdom to sell their national identities to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as proxies with the aberrant Russo-Iranian nexus? Or is it their stunning commitment to liberty in law? Or could it be their utter honesty in leadership for better lives for the commongood, elevating health, safety and integrity of their citizens?
 
If this be the G-20 foolishness- something for nothing- we reject their adolescent demands which reveal a heart of a teen ager on a power binge, demanding the keys to the family car with no skill at driving drunk night after night while killing too many, leaving too many citizens as  road-kill on the side of life in their addiction to power, money and dishonesty. But Ecuadoreans seriously believe that giving the family car over to drunk teenagers to party all night, with no respect for community safety and with no law and order now, is a good thing...because it enables the drunks to feel good about themselves. Well- this is a sin which irresponsibly perpetuates the worst, most repulsive tendencies in mankind: something for nothing. Power undeserved, unearned, and patently dishonest. That is Ecuador today. And these behaviors are hardened now in to a state-backed extortion racket where no one is allowed to move up or down without first paying the Correa cartel either bribes of money or political power. Ecuadoreans, so easily seduced now because their schools, communities and families have refused to share the basics of morality, are vastly manipulated and abused by the state controls. No one in Ecuador deserves respect at all. They have left behind, like road kill at the side of the road, what little respectful behaviors once held and do now come to whine, cajole, lie, manipulate and gaily abandon comity and integrity.
 
This is what comes of living La  Vida Manipulativa and selling one's soul....Something for Nothing, leaving entire masses of humans who hold no convictions outside selfishness and with no soul left, a certifiable human morass of dysfunctional evil.
 
 
And still we ask:  why indeed does the axis of criminal cartel hedge-fund style governments in South America deserve any respect at all?
Here is a brilliant analysis which by the very commitment to truth telling, is verifiable and is thoroughly researched and fact checked [unlike Ecuadorean-Venezuelan-Bolivian state manipulated media and their huge morass of paid liars, also called US funded NGOs, which relies on no facts any more, that is to say is essentially criminal propaganda]:
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The Wall Street Journal            
THE AMERICAS
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
Hugo Chávez Spreads the Loot
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY

Venezuelan businessman Franklin Durán sat perfectly still last week, staring straight ahead, as a Miami jury pronounced him guilty of acting illegally as an agent for Venezuela on U.S. soil. He could be sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Yet while Durán showed no emotion in the courtroom, back in Venezuela the intellectual author of his crime, President Hugo Chávez, went bonkers.

The problem for Mr. Chávez is that, for almost a decade, Latin American democrats have been accusing Venezuela of violating the sovereignty of its neighbors by supporting the radical left with money and weapons. Mr. Chávez has denied it.

Now comes the Durán conviction, which has revealed that sizable financial contributions went from the Chávez government to Peronist candidate Cristina Kirchner in the 2007 Argentine presidential race. For Mr. Chávez, who appears to be still toiling at a number of other similar projects around the region, the bad publicity is devastating.

Mr. Chávez's trouble in Argentina began on Aug. 4, 2007, when a small jet from Caracas landed in Buenos Aires. On board were two Argentine government officials and three executives of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, PdVSA. Another passenger was Venezuelan businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini.

Customs agents discovered $800,000 in Mr. Antonini's suitcase that he had not declared. They let him go and he returned home to Miami, where he went to see the Federal Bureau of Investigations and agreed to cooperate in an investigation of the matter.

Mr. Chávez was unaware of this arrangement when he told his intelligence chief to find a way to shut up the bagman. Durán and another Venezuelan named Carlos Kauffman -- both of whom had made a fortune in deals with the Chávez government -- were sent to Florida to warn Mr. Antonini to remain silent. Little did they know that he had agreed to wear a wire to their meetings. The recordings of Durán and Kauffman -- offering Mr. Antonini money if he kept his mouth closed, and suggesting that his children would be at risk if he did not -- helped convict Durán. Kauffman pleaded guilty and testified against Durán.

The exposure of this thuggish behavior of the Venezuelan government is embarrassing enough. What is worse for Mr. Chávez is Mr. Antonini's testimony that he was told by a PdVSA executive that there was another $4.2 million on the same plane and that there had been other operations to smuggle cash into Argentina for political purposes. Kauffman further testified that the Venezuelan ambassador to Bolivia had told him he had "$100 million to spend on Bolivia." Kauffman said he had been negotiating the sale of $12 million of antiriot equipment to Bolivia, to be paid for by Venezuela.

That testimony jibes with reports from Bolivia that the Venezuela ambassador travels the country handing out checks to mayors who support President Evo Morales. Meanwhile, in Colombia, pro-Chávez Senator Piedad Córdoba recently admitted that a PdVSA subsidiary gave her $135,000.

One of the most egregious examples of Venezuelan influence in the domestic politics of neighbors is in Nicaragua, where the old Sandinista Daniel Ortega is now president. Venezuela is supplying 60%-70% of Nicaragua's annual crude-oil needs through a program that allows Mr. Ortega to pay only half the bill. The other half is a 25-year loan. After that the web gets tangled indeed.

Nicaragua's state oil company Petro-Nic sells the oil to private companies and collects the full value. Twenty-five percent of that income then goes to a social investment fund called Albanisa and the other 25% goes to something called Albacaruna. The director of Petronic and Albanisa is also the treasurer of the Sandinista Party. With its "oil income," Albanisa spent the last month giving away goodies like kitchens and houses ahead of yesterday's municipal elections. What Albacaruna does with the other half of the Venezuelan credit is not clear. Government critics say it is a slush fund for Mr. Ortega, and has been used to pay for Sandinista campaigning. Nicaraguans are worried about the loans, which imply more national debt.

In El Salvador, where the former guerrilla group FMLN is hoping to win the presidency in March, FMLN mayors have a company called Alba Petróleos. It receives gasoline and diesel on favorable terms from Venezuela, sells it at a slight discount to the market at its filling stations and captures a fat profit. This allows it to dominate the retail market, and may explain why the party is awash in campaign cash -- some speculate upwards of $60 million

The Durán case has blown the lid off of Mr. Chávez's covert Argentine activities. But his imperialist ambitions go far beyond that country. He may get away with it, but no one should assume from the successes of his protégés that his popularity is spreading. It's Venezuela's money that is doing the trick. With oil prices sinking, one wonders how long the money will last.

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ECrisis underscores this fact-based analysis: Hugo Chavez is a dictator. Chavez- "the intellectual author of this crime" [and thousands more]  has been busily bribing and paying for massive manipulations in his opaque, lawless bloc of nations.  Indeed, Chavez is the apex of what each and every Ecuadorean madre raises their children to become: whiney, dysfunctional, dishonest and spiritually aberrant persons, notably concurrent in the unbearable person of Rafael Correa, representing now all Ecuadoreans because he is their man.
 
The author here is completely correct: Chavez holds "imperialist ambitions" and has not slowed down one bit, contrary to the enabling classes of the Soros-NED-US AID dysfunctional liars on the scene in Caracas to soothe the world that Chavez is a great man who will see democracy restored to Venezuela this November with regional elections. To these overpaid liars from the U.S. government, akin to the chattering classes across the Century Club in New York of dysfunctional moral cretins for self promoting propaganda, we say: stop wasting our time. Stop selling us on the Andean criminal cartel just because you make profits- or help make profits- from illegal speculators in illegal financial speculations and off the books oil derivatives sales and swaps. You have cried HAVOC for fun, political and illegal self enrichment long enough.
 
But the estimable author above forgets to report that Hugo Chavez is also co-funding, along with US AID and the George Soros so called NGOs, the installation of the region's most profoundly aberrant lie today: that their constitutions are legitimate and helpful when these "new" constitutions do make a difference and install, with the force of law, a peculiar cartel or mafia style lawlessness where all that should never be legitimized is legitimized and all that is decent is banished. Notable is the Caracas Miranda Center, currently selling constitutional installing garbage such as Barack Hussein Obama's friend Bill Ayers, who serves on the Miranda Center. These communist screed sellers teamed with their US AID pals and brought forth the 9-08 Ecuadorean constitution which removes the capacity for sound education and by force replaces education with the Cuban curricula, now out of Caracas, and proclaims that the state educates Ecuadoreans to serve the state only [as brain dead communist zombies] and henceforth education, like employment, religion and speech] will be of the state and for the state alone. Chavez's prowess not only abandoned Western Civilization's highest goals but shot it in the back, leaving mankind's aspirations on the side of the road as so much road kill for the greater glory of the communist cartel [for the masses] while self enriching for the hidden inner mafia-style cartel of derivatives, hedgers and spot oil traders who are the real ruling governances in the region. Something for Nothing only gets you....nothing good.

Along with getting nothing factual and nothing meaningful in one's life while demanding something for nothing, Ecuadoreans have gotten something all right; a lawless land where no one is likable, no one is honorable and no future is bright. Nothingness is something all right.
 
O'Grady writes, "The problem for Mr. Chávez is that, for almost a decade, Latin American democrats have been accusing Venezuela of violating the sovereignty of its neighbors by supporting the radical left with money and weapons. Mr. Chávez has denied it." Noteworthy in this correct statement, besides the essential that Chavez has been staging a war of attrition and soon a very different war against freedom lovers in Latin America, is the foolishness of the U.S. Department of State to enable and approve their own- their corps- to lie under oath before the U.S. Congress to assuage the American public that all is well with Chavez- even calling his government " a democracy," as Roger Noriega did frequently with no attribution save false reporting, howevermuch State Department dumbed down the facts to proclaim that Chavez was "worrisome" and a "fiery populist." Here O'Grady is honest again: Chavez is not a populist nor is he worrisome: he is an illicit dictator and he does destroy South America by " violating the sovereignty of its neighbors by supporting the radical left with money and weapons..." Tragically, the U.S. Department of State remains in error regarding the Andean region en toto and has yet to even correct its past flawed analysis or even stand up for anything much at all these days except for low level support for free trade and some daily routine functionings. And we recall that upon departing US AID's Latin team  for the US Department of Energy, the USA's Karen Harbert [now departed for private work], then under Congressional oath, basically informed the USA that no one should utter one word against the oil barons of Chavez's regime because, as she explained incorrectly, the USA needed Chavez's oil....when it did not and does not. Recently other overpaid  liars informed the US Congress that the world needed Venezuela's corrupt banks because "they help the poor" and that no one should punish the Venezuelan victims, also called Venezuelans, for what its leaders perform. This is moral extortion based on a lie. Besides, no nation does well under extortion- a free pass card for criminality does not work well- even for oil- although history is replete with similar examples, to wit the 1979 to 2003 Iraqi dictatorship with its in-your-face-presentation that while criminal cartels in lawless, dark places may survive ostensibly for a while, good men and true will always make an effort to bring the dark back in to the light.  Unless of course they are lazy and dysfunctional addicts to living a life chock full of the soul-deadening credo of Something for Nothing as is the case today.
 
We at ECrisis do listen to comments about regional matters. We note that we are more than put out and are quite disgusted by the welter of paid Chavez agents in North and South America who have lied about the regional bloc of narcostates under the Correa-Morales-Chavez troika and continue unabated to lie some more. In the USA, this is seen today with the unending lies that this case against the Chavez government, called the Suitcase Scandal, is meaningless and has no bearing on the crime cartel of Chavez. They tell us that this matters nothing. Call us old fashioned but we still think that crime is a scourge that breaks human comity and binds men and women to a chain which frankly gets worse and worse, dragging each downward as they lose their primary goal to be honorable in an effort to be as dishonored as they become. And this is.... a disease of its own.
 
The cartel bloc of nations in the Andes continues with its covert internecine operations as well as its  overt paid propaganda and paid state infiltration agents, sometimes called Andean diplomats and most typically called pro cartel NGOs, pro communist actors and lobbyists, failed Hollywood actors and ridiculous paid propagandists to lie a lot. This then is what substitutes for honest government out of Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela: a repulsive juggernaut of scum. You want a piece of their pie? It will cost you- your soul which is the primary demand of the New Age Faustian Bargain. But the willfully undereducated Ecuadoreans, self taught by vapid Country Club Catholics now, are only too happy to sell their soul under the hideous excuse that this is morally and politically and financially "expedient, pragmatic" and necessary to raise the corrupt to levels of status to essentially strip law and order while pretending that their inherent lawlessness is just all right, notably seen in the lawless manifestos called the "new" Andean constitutions, all of which are a joke.
 
Since the dawn of a new day on November 5, 2008, our editors have been inundated with major claims of fear, fright, nerves...la nerviosa regarding the selling of the small majority of the US population to the credo of Something for Nothing - a vote for vague promises of state hand outs to buy the Soros engineered and now infused US Democratic Party with its proxy head Barack Hussein Obama, now elected. We agree that  tears are warranted for a while. And these fears and woes are not imagined. And yet we repeat: SNAP OUT OF IT. Forget the addiction to running away from problems as practiced by every ridiculously incompetent Ecuadorean. Stand your ground and know that liberty is worth dying for and is not, as Ecuador's manhood, sold so cheap or so easily debased. There is no VIAGRA pill on Earth that magically gives anyone instant manhood which of course relies on valor and honor, so easily sold out today and widely seduced through the weakness of fake in home morals. Anyone can buy fake VIAGRA for a nickel or a dime on the streets of Quito and these fake pills sell like hot cakes to the stupid buying public, mostly tourists and pathetic Ecuadoreans. Ecuadoreans are thrilled that instead of legal prescriptions for VIAGRA, as required in the USA and a real cost of about $10 a pill, Ecuadoreans can have and hold fake medicine on the streets, products stolen from legal manufacturers. This makes metrosexual dysfunctional Ecuadoreans feel manly- feel proud that they can....have and hold Something for Nothing. But what are you really holding in your hands? We consider that this is Much Ado about....Nothing much anyway. Without valor, integrity and honor, manhood is cheap now, easily seduced and remains affixed as an empty void- nothing. Something for Nothing always gives way to emptiness, hollow meaninglessness when hope, faith, charity are sold for....nothingness. There is no five cent pill on the black market that will give you your manhood back which you do sell today for cheap.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis