December 21, 2008    As Margaret Thatcher correctly said, "Never trust your economy to an economist." To this we add never trust your economy to a manipulative sociopath whose own degree in economics remains a shoddy testimony to a USA scholarship scam which handed out doctoral degrees for no work, faulty research and ridiculous academics which did not exist. Correa is no economist anyway. Correa is a Cuban Marxist political hack who truly believes that he alone can run your life, your money and your nation by doing what he does best: manipulating and stealing. Correa calls this helping the poor. Correa helps no one but his inner self enriching group.
 
Now this dysfunctional and dishonest bond speculator and derivatives market playing buffoon Correa lays out more manipulations:
 
                Ecuador’s Correa Says He’ll Maintain U.S. Dollar By Stephan Kueffner
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa said he’ll maintain the U.S. dollar as his country’s currency amid an “extremely grave” economic crisis sparked by the collapse of oil....

...Speculation has mounted that Correa, a critic of so-called dollarization who called the policy a “complete failure” in an April 2007 speech, would look to abandon the policy in coming years after defaulting on the country’s $3.9 billion of foreign bonds this week. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. forecasts Correa may scrap the dollar in as little as three years as the default prompts international banks to pull credit lines to the country, creating a cash crunch that drives up interest rates..."

And so it comes to pass that the incompetent Correa, who has been fired from every job he ever held and should be fired from his current job as dictator of manipulative government, is playing more games with the popular dollarization gift from the USA to gift Ecuadoreans with a stable inflation rate, which Correa's ruinous and dishonest governmental policies have handed Ecuador's inflation at double the inflation rate of the USA and probably more if real accounting was happening in Quito which it is not. In fact, nothing honest or functional is happening in Quito under Correa- just a lot of propaganda, a lot of indecisiveness to benefit Correa's speculative addictions and prove to the world that his regime is incompetent. Ecuador's cartel under Correa is incompetent and the economic indicators show clearly how incompetent Correa's dictatorship remains and how disastrous his single hand in dysfunction really is. Correa knows that dollarization, which under Correa is not deserved any longer and the USA should yank this gift along with the free trade ATPDEA gifting because Correa is a thief and bond market criminal and a nasty one at that, is popular. Dollarization holds over 70% of Ecuadorean support even though no one yet understands why it works but because it works, Ecuadoreans assume incorrectly that the USA gifts Ecuador with free trade because Ecuador is entitled to free trade and abuse of the U.S. dollar because....Ecuador is fabulous. Ecuador is not fabulous. Ecuador is a scapegrace nation of lazy adolescents who need to grow up and stop pretending that the world is best run by manipulations.

But Ecuador at almost the same rate as those who want dollarization- the key political issue that would remove Correa from his weird April elections, so they think, also stupidly accept and believe Correa's dishonest so called REPORT on its debt. Ecuadoreans in the same number also accepted Correa's ploy to rush out in September and vote to pass his pathetic Constitution without reading it. Correa told Ecuadorians to VOTE! for his communist manifesto in September sight unseen and he would give away free housing, free food, free jobs and free services. Ecuadoreans are so easily seduced that they voted blindly and ignorantly for one of the dumbest and dirtiest campaign plans ever and got themselves a nation of liars. What recent polls show is that yes- Ecuador wants to use the U.S. dollar for the buying stability it gifts Ecuadoreans although Ecuadoreans never did one thing to deserve this. But Ecuadoreans are also desirous of pretending that ignorance is cute and living off someone else's money is helpful when it is not.

THE MIAMI HERALD today reports, "Attacks on the rise against enemies of Chávez  ...President Hugo Chávez's backers have launched a string of attacks, shootings, explosions and office thrashings in an apparent attempt to intimidate opponents as Venezuela approaches a vote on unlimited presidential reelections, opposition leader say.  'It is an aggressive reaction that is becoming worse,' said Americo Martin, political analyst and opposition leader. `They are attacks inspired by a fascist model, similar to the rapid-response teams and acts of repudiation in Cuba.' " Well- duhhh. Who do you think trains the awful Chavez-Correa DISIP teams? The Cuban Intelligence teams also littered with former KGB and Stasi criminals for their new communist job corps in Venezuela and Ecuador. No one even know yet in the disorganized, miraculously self imploding of a sort Venezuela when Chavez's Springtime for Chavez vote for presidency in perpetuity is scheduled but you can bet your next Sucre that it will coincide with Chavez's partner in FARC cartel supporting activities that there will be a tandem play for both Correa and Chavez seek power for life and have raided their nations' monies to secure their power. Springtime for Correa comes in April. Springtime for Chavez may be in March, 2009. Both votes are guaranteed to be blessed by the Carter Center as fabulous and both votes are guaranteed to be chock full of fraud and disgrace.

    Ecuadoreans today actually like fraud and enjoy their self taught ethics of disgrace so they will enjoy the April vote for Correa in perpetuity.

The while thing stinks.

And while you are busy getting ready for Oprah Winfrey's new Reality TV of Washington, DC under Barack Hussein Obama for she will run daily propaganda for Obama, you may want to study what Correa's new partner- polygamous as Iran [also called Persia] is, are up to, this from the fact checked WALL STREET JOURNAL:

    "Egypt's president-for-life warned his ruling party last week that `the Persians are trying to devour the Arab states,' it's worth paying attention.

The immediate cause of the remarks is a war of words by Iran that led Mr. Mubarak to recall an envoy from Tehran last week. Among other provocations was the recent release of an Iranian film celebrating the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat, Mr. Mubarak's predecessor. A Tehran demonstration late last month also called for Mr. Mubarak's execution, on the grounds of his alleged `subservience to the Zionists. 'But the broader context of the friction is its steady progress toward a nuclear weapon and the encroachment by Iran into the Arab world -- principally through Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Mahdists in Iraq. States like Egypt and Saudi Arabia watched with dismay in the summer of 2006 as Israel failed to deliver a knockout blow against Hezbollah. Now they calculate that the U.S. lacks the will to prevent a nuclear Iran. As for Barack Obama's promise of `tough diplomacy,' we suspect the Arab states take him about as seriously as they would a tourist who thinks he knows how to bargain at an oriental bazaar. ..Maybe there's someone at the Council on Foreign Relations who can explain why this isn't such a terrible scenario, what with everyone pointing a gun at everyone else's head. Our view is that this is a recipe for global instability, if not catastrophe, and a reminder of why no one should be complacent at the looming prospect of an Iranian bomb."

No one will save Ecuador now that it is inside a bigamous marriage with Iran. Iran is very close now to terrorizing the world with its new nuclear bombs. Iran just called for the murder of Egypt's president. Egypt just recalled its ambassador. For his part, your new savior Barack Hussein Obama, a man whom no one takes seriously at all, says he will create a new Iran Envoy team to make progress with Iran, as if. Iran has called for death to the United States and to Israel. The United Nations has a long list of Resolutions barring Iran. On Saturday, the US FBI took out numerous dirty Iranian money launderers in hand cuffs in New York. Iran is not an honest nation and its evil is so duplicitous that only a thieving psychopathic dirt ball like Rafael Correa can appreciate its charms. Never mind that Tom Shannon of the US Department of State wants you to know that Iran's merger with Ecuador means nothing. You know, as we know, that it does. And you know, as we know, that Barack Hussein Obama will not help you. In fact, many of his close friends already work for Correa and his Iranian backed money. Only you can save Ecuador...from lying manipulative idiots. You had best get moving forward- your nation just jumped in to a marriage, as with almost every Ecuadorean marriage, based on lies and more manipulations with Iran: a truly murderous theocratic dictatorship. Correa did this because he has stolen too much from Ecuador and, as he says, he just wants the money so he sold you out to....to these murderers. But like all bad marriages based on deception and no sincere affection, the Ecuador-Iranian alliance is simply an enhanced weapons-for- money marriage. And it will kill Ecuador as all bad marriages do. Business and marriages under manipulative sociopaths never benefit anything.

The UK's TELEGRAPH today calls Iran a "genuinely terrorist regime in the Middle East. Its agents, the Revolutionary Guards, have done more than anyone to destabilise the entire region, from Lebanon to Iraq and Afghanistan (including the supply of arms used to kill British troops)... this [is a murderous theocratic dictatorship" 

And before you go rushing off believing because it is a convenient lie to pretend that Chavez and Correa are not friends any more and because numerous liars across both the United State government and Ecuadorean governments want to lie a lot and tell you that Correa is helping break Chavez [an utter canard spread by dirty derivatives dealers and former USG operatives of no consequence], know this: Chavez and Correa are taking Iran's dirty money to weaponize Latin America as fast as they can. This must be stopped by the feckless OAS and the UN now. It should be the cause of daily retributions against Correa and his filthy dictatorship, now in bed with Iran and Chavez. Here is Chavez breaking UN sanctions against Iran:

Chavez helping Iran smuggle equipment to Syria'

"...Iran is using its warm relations with Venezuela to dodge UN sanctions and use Venezuelan aircraft to ship missile parts to Syria, an Italian newspaper reported Sunday...."

Chavez has also voiced support for Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran’s Shahab-3 missiles have a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,280 miles), capable of hitting Israel as well as US military bases in the Middle East.

Here is NOTICIAS 24 on Chavez moving weapons around for Mahmoud even as Mahmoud hosts an ALBA investment series in....Tehran, Iran. We can only ponder if Soros's own employees were present and if US AID has stopped co funding Soros and US AID's own Joe Stiglitz now that his adored Iranian money laundering scam called ALBA is active...in Iran:            

Diario italiano revela escandaloso pacto entre Chávez y Ahmadinejad
If the USA and the UN and the OAS do not act to stop Chavez and Correa in their evil relationship with Iran, it is time to act.

Andres Oppenheimer reports today that the USA's Tom Shannon told Andres that he is "not yet" worried about Ecuador's tiers to Iran. Why-? Because Shannon's incompetent boobs are so deeply in bed with Correa's Change Agents, also called Cuban agents, now called masters of the Iranian axis? Or is Shannon's problem with the truth about Correa....due to the impossibly criminal nature of his own overpaid team in Quito busily covering up for the fact that for two years they have enabled Correa's criminal empire and are now caught with their dirty little hands....still dirty? What could it be? More to the point: when will Ecuadoreans rise up and insist that Correa oust Mahmoud from his governing grid?

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis