December 11, 2008  Like all good and useful passive-aggressive idiots, Ecuadoreans today just sit around and wait for more disasters to befall them. It is easier this way, don't you know? You can readily blame everyone else for failures because you never did anything anyway with your own life except maybe live off of someone else's money. But Correa has sent forth his overpaid lobbyists and propagandists to tell us all that the kingdom and the power are his. He knows this because no Ecuadorean ever did an honest day's work anyway- complaining, manipulating and listening at  key holes while pretending that their days are important by bossing around underpaid helpers and going shopping. Sanity and real time quality of life is destroyed by such vapidity.
 
But Rafael Correa wants you to believe that his theft of Ecuadorean finances and his utter mismanagement is fabulous. And like all good Ecuadoreans, he acts simply not with an ignorance of the law, but with total, complete and utter contempt for the law. In fact there is no law in Ecuador any more. There are no courts that are not run by Correa. There are no checks and balances- there is not even a Congress. This is a nation run by one dictator under his self coup and no one- no one at all gets upset at this. Because they are waiting for Correa to commit more fraud so that he can do more dishonest things.
 
As US federal prosecutor Fitzgerald, noted in today's WALL STREET JOURNAL,  said the other day when explaining why the US FBI arrested Obama's Illinois governor Blogojevich, "`It is a crime in and of itself for people to scheme to violate the law,' Mr. Fitzgerald said in his briefing Tuesday. `That's called conspiracy.' " Such an arrest for conspiracy, racketeering, self enrichment by an elected official, bribes and kick backs for tax payer give aways is not a crime in Rafael Correa's world. Then again, there are no crimes in Correa's Ecuador- only his trumped up charges of crimes perpetrated by his political enemies, usually called truth tellers in any other nation. In Ecuador, Correa and his cabinet do daily scheme to violate what few laws are left in Ecuador and no one says a word about this wide spread racket of crime. Instead- their hands are held out for more kick backs from Correa. This is bribery at its worst, a terrific seduction known only to those so easily seduced because they have abandoned all spine, all ethics anyway in their workplaces, in their homes and in their communities by giving in/surrendering  constantly to the incessant pressures of the manipulators who control them by bribes, threats, temper tantrums, false witness against all neighbors large and small, and genuine valueless, self imprisoning sociopathic living standards.
 
But the drop in oil prices has exposed Correa's now empty bank accounts. He wants a lot of money to keep  himself in power and pay off lots of campaign bribes while buying 9/10 of Ecuadorean media air time, not already owned by Iran, Chavez and Correa. But Correa has lost on oil prices and has lost global affection because he never deserved it anyway, never having done one thing to deserve respect from anyone except his highly vaulted excuse that he is a father to two children. As if simply being a father is worthy of any credence to lie a lot and manipulate his family and Carondelet. But once la vida manipulative takes over, even parenting and its virtues are fully up for manipulation by these addicts and manipulate they do- always and everywhere. But Correa is a badly undereducated narcissist- sociopath who sees himself on the losing end of a power struggle and possible financial scam exposure. Correa's power comes from controlling the easily-seduced around him by incessant lies, screaming matches, laziness and irresponsibly vain adolescent actors. Hell hath no fury for these manipulators when they feel backed in to a corner: they will lie, steal, cheat and even claim disease to control by deceit all around them. .

Today we know read here that an American has filed a Racketeering case against Rafael Correa's dishonest brother and Canada's Ivanhoe oil company.

In the hallmarks of total incredulousness, no Ecuadorean heretofore has filed one single claim under US RICO laws for performance  under sane law, pretending ignorance, pretending necessary victimhood by never defending one's legal rights, and the need to run away as all Ecuadorean lawyers and idiots have advised Ecuadoreans who do trap themselves inside their own manipulative and losing prisons...or run away to the sainted shopping malls off Brickell Avenue in Miami for additional Venezuelan-style money laundering, called Hugo Chavez's political bribery system using state monies for campaign hand outs.
 
But Hugo Chavez promotes the tender mercies of Lebanon's criminal mind set- always and ever manipulative Hezbollah which is really the astroturffing militaristic drug running, money laundering, murder for hire Iranian group so protected by ardent cartel building followers of Hugo Chavez, George ` we support Hamas and Hezbollah! and we know that there are no terrorists-only political groups' Soros [currently owning the U.S. Democratic Party and most all of the U.S. Embassy in Quito is anyone cared to look] and Rafael Correa, currently selling fake IDs, bank accounts and international travel papers to criminal Iranians for cash:
 
Hugo’s Hezbollah

By Alan Levine
FrontPageMagazine.com | 12/11/2008

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defied the United States unlike any other leader in the Western Hemisphere since Cuba's Fidel Castro. Chavez has strong ties with state sponsors of terror, suppresses democracy at home, and has worked to destabilize his neighbors. Recently, Chavez has also helped the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah establish a base in the Western hemisphere.

For years, the U.S. State Department has stated its concern that Hezbollah raises funds “among the sizable Muslim communities” the South America, and that weak rule of law could “tempt terrorist groups to seek to establish safe havens” in the tri-border area between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Indeed, with the aid of Iranian embassies, the area was believed to be a staging ground for Hezbollah’s 1992 and 1994 bombings of Jewish and Israeli targets in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It was the U.S. Treasury Department, however, that provided recent evidence that Hezbollah had found a safe haven in Venezuela. In January 2008, Treasury’s Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed two Venezuelans—including one prominent diplomat—on its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, for providing financial support to Hezbollah. Adam Szubin, director of OFAC, noted that the Venezuelan regime was “employing and providing safe harbor for Hezbollah facilitators and fundraisers.”

According to the Treasury, Ghazi Nasr al-Din, a former official of the Venezuelan embassies in both Lebanon and Syria, provided counsel on fundraising to Hezbollah supporters, and provided information on where to deposit money that would go directly to Hezbollah.

Fawzi Kanan, a businessman, was also designated by OFAC. The owner of two travel agencies, Kanan used his businesses in Venezuela to transfer funds to Hezbollah and to facilitate travel for Hezbollah operatives. He even met Hezbollah officials in Lebanon about possible kidnappings and terrorist attacks.

Instead of opening an investigation, Chavez said that the world was using the allegations to “make a move” against him. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro lashed out at the United States: “If they want to search for terrorists, look for them in the White House.”

Venezuela’s support for Hezbollah doesn’t end there. It was reported a few months later that the Venezuelan minister of the interior, Tayek al-Ayssami, was working directly with al-Din to recruit young Venezuelans of Arab descent that were supportive of the Chavez regime to train in Lebanon with Hezbollah. Reportedly, the purpose was to prepare these youths for asymmetric warfare against the United States in the event of a confrontation. According to this report, Hezbollah also established training camps inside Venezuela, complete with ammunition and explosives, courtesy of al-Ayssami.

Reports also indicate that Hezbollah has been responsible for converting a number of indigenous tribes in Latin America to their radical version of Islam, including the Venezuela-based Wayuu tribe. These tribe members now make up much of the membership of “Hezbollah Venezuela,” a group tied to the attempted bombing of the U.S. embassy in Caracas in 2006.

Chavez, meanwhile, is perhaps the most open apologist for Hezbollah in the hemisphere. During the Israel-Hezbollah War in 2006, Chavez withdrew the Venezuelan ambassador to Israel. He later accused Israel of conducting its defensive war in “the fascist manner of Hitler.” After making those comments on al-Jazeera television, Chavez returned home and continued to malign Israel on his weekly television broadcast, Aló Presidente, where he labeled the United States “a terrorist nation” for supporting Israel.

Chavez's rhetorical and material support for Hezbollah likely stems from his affinity for the group’s benefactor and ideological inspiration, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who refer to each other as “dear brother,” are proud to share “revolutionary views.” Chavez says the two countries are “united like a single fist.” Despite their differing faiths, they joined hands and prayed for the peoples of the world “to destroy [U.S.] world hegemony.”

The U.S. Treasury should be commended for designating Venezuelan individuals and entities that support Hezbollah. Effective sanctions against the Venezuelan government, however, will be impossible to implement until the United States breaks its reliance on Venezuelan oil. Until that day comes, Washington should strengthen its alliances with Venezuela’s neighbors in an effort to weaken Chavez’s power. Congress can assist by passing a free trade agreement with Colombia, a staunch anti-Chavez ally. Failure to take these and other important steps will only encourage Hezbollah to expand in America’s backyard. 
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But Correa wants you to believe his lies. All good sociopaths want you to believe their lies, spend their every waking hour scheming for more ways to manipulate thee and me, and you fall for this time and time again.

Here is Correa spending millions for dishonest propaganda, this time by cleverly buying even more very expensive propagandists called Barack and Michelle Obama's most peculiar propaganda team, sometimes called Chicago lawyers of Sidley & Austin, to sell his lies about Global Debt while beggaring Ecuador in to bed with the exceedingly dirty and evil Iranian forces:
 
ECUADOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1932
New York
Tel: 212-233-7776 -  Fax: 212-233-7779  
Email: info@andean-us.com 
  
LUNCH PROGRAM   
Friday, December 12, 2008 

Special Presidential Envoys on the Debt Report:

H.E. María Elsa Viteri
Minister of Finance
 
H.E. Fernando Bustamante
Minister of Government

Registration and Reception: 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.          
 
Lunch and Presentations: 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. 

(Presentations will be given in Spanish)  
 
Co-Sponsor: 
787 Seventh Avenue
(between 51st and 52nd Streets)
 23rd Floor

NEW YORK CITY

Registration fee:  
 
$  90 for EAA members
$150 for non-members    
 
Payment required in advance:  
 
Credit Card: Send an email to programs@andean-us.com or fax form to 212-233-7779 or telephone 212-233-7776.  
 
Check: Send with form to Ecuadorean American Association, 30 Vesey Street, Suite 506, New York, NY  10007. 
  
Minister of Finance and Minister of Government
Friday, December 12, 2008 
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You know you want to help Sidley make some more money out of selling Ecuadorean lies to jigger global bond markets and hide Ecuadorean state theft. Sidley & Austin was carefully selected by Correa and his cartel mavens because it is Obama's law firm as everyone knows. To buy Sidley is to try to purchase White House bona fides and follows the Soros plan for drug cartel protection rackets in the Andes.

Of course you knew this- you are an Ecuadorean and exercise our adult obligations to keep up with the facts. Just send in your $150 for a love fest with lying, manipulative criminal agents of financial fraud. They are very good at manipulative living: they are....Ecuadoreans.
 
Meanwhile, Hugo Chavez spent Venezuela's oil money to install his Marxist Cuban-Iranian tyranny. So too did Rafael Correa and you helped this fraud by...doing nothing and going shopping while you could. This is not a profile in courage but a profile in irresponsible dishonesty. Here is an update:
 
Chavez Steps Into 'Devil's Excrement'
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Latin America: With oil, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez fueled a revolution based on Marxism and his own swaggering persona. But with oil prices now plunging, he and his near-dictatorship may also go bust.

What goes up must come down. That's the reality of oil prices, which in the past decade have fluctuated from $9 to $178 a barrel in global markets.

But that reality's been disregarded in Venezuela, where $800 billion in oil earnings in the past decade provided the engine of Hugo Chavez's socialist rule.

Premising his government spending on perpetual rises in oil prices, he's now facing an economy with 40% inflation and not enough foreign reserves to cover exports. It's a classic recipe for trouble.

Wild price fluctuations are a fact of life in the oil industry. They explain why private oil companies aren't as profitable as headlines suggest. Fact is, price highs and lows average out profits to just 9% of revenues over a decade, nothing like the 15% returns seen in other industries, such as drugs.

But even on a price roller coaster, oil companies survive by investing in new production when prices are high, and subsidizing production when they're low. The state of Alaska also does this. Gov. Sarah Palin emphasized to IBD last summer that in managing Alaska's oil bonanza, her priority was "saving for a rainy day."

Petro-states dominated by state-owned oil companies employ no such strategy. In booms, their revenues overwhelm their economies, driving out small, non-oil businesses and leaving oil as the only game in town. They also tempt governments to become dictatorships. Flush with oil cash, rulers can slash taxes for their supporters, who will demand even less transparency and accountability.

But it never lasts, and the hangover when prices fall is always ugly. "I call petroleum the devil's excrement. It brings trouble," as Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, once Venezuela's oil minister, famously said in 1975. "Look at this lunacy — waste, corruption, consumption, our public services falling apart. And debt, debt we shall have for years."

The sad thing is that Venezuela's Chavez has learned nothing from history. He's ignored every lesson from the past, confident oil would remain high forever, while claiming he'd created a new paradigm. Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution," built around one-man rule by Chavez, was "different," he insisted.

After posting a surplus of 12.5% of GDP this year, and spending at least 4.5% of GDP on a stimulus package of soup kitchen offerings, Chavez is now down to his last $87 billion in reserves, having created nothing of permanent value. Next year, S&P estimates a wild swing into deficit by Venezuela, forcing devaluation.

Venezuelan oil prices are now $34 a barrel. Producing 2.3 million barrels a day, down 16% from 2005, and now consuming 795,000 barrels of that, as Caracas investment banker Miguel Octavio estimated on his blog, "The Devil's Excrement," he doesn't even have enough earnings to finance imports. He's given away about 424,000 barrels of oil output, and must make do on sales of about 1 million barrels. With oil down, Chavez has entered the worst phase of the oil cycle.

The cash he used to buy elections in 2004 and 2006 is no more, and his hasty call for a new measure to end term limits — and enable him to be president for life — is pretty much a desperate effort to end any calls for accountability in the wake of the bust.

He's not likely to last in these conditions any more than the other strongmen thrown out in Venezuelan history. The irony is that he sold his revolution on faith in socialism.

In reality, it was an ungodly faith in high oil prices. With oil prices falling, the devil is coming for his due.

This article above explains that the USA's excuse for not declaring Chavez a drug king pin to protect the  only revenue portion of Detroit's General Motors can company- Venezuela- and thus give more profits to pay USA labor unions a composite well over $90 an hour for union wages forever, is at an end. GM and its US Congressional Democrats will stop at nothing to help Soros expand his FARC drug running friends, including the lie that Colombia tries to hurt labor unionists.

But Colombia will not get its free trade deal with the US Democrats: Speaker Pelosi's team just jiggered US House Rules to prevent even a vote from occurring to assist in their political pay back for labor union monies. And now it looks like Correa has hired Obama's old law firm on the promise that they will jigger US positions to ignore Correa's bond market manipulations, his theft of companies and his rampant extortion rackets. Sidley & Austin do not come cheap- they charge a lot to cook the facts. Just ask  Chicago's Tony Rezko and then remind yourself that sometimes- once in  a while- rule of law works. What Correa has done is, "`...is a crime in and of itself ... to scheme to violate the law...That's called conspiracy...' "

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis