February 12, 2009   For the duration of the Correa administration in Ecuador, much has been spent to retain supposed duty free trade and diplomatic ties with the USA by covering up what really occurs inside Ecuador. The entire Correa position before the US government is predicated on a pretext- on a lie- that Correa co operates in counternarcotics efforts. This sole claim is based on one effort using a US gift of highly sensitive intelligence gathering equipment which has just been publicly proven to have been illegally abused by Correa's own team and is now revealed as a fraud/ a sham/ a lie and a deal breaker. The USA has cancelled its sole counterdrugs effort with Ecuador because Ecuador abused the technology and refused to apply any part of this toward law and order and instead acted to promote crime while abusing the cooperation of the USA. Correctly, the equipment- and its computer data- has been restored to the USA. To be sure, this verifies the fact that Correa has been lying to the US Congress, to the US media and to all ecuadorians about the extent of his narcotrafficking.
 
There is nothing left inside Ecuador that supports Correa's lies that he is a full partner against drugs. All deceptions are now removed and the facts are clear: Correa is a drug king pin running drugs and humans and weapons. It is time to follow the facts and be honest. 
 
ECrisis has been reporting for some time now that Rafael Correa, in cahoots with Hugo Chavez, Iran and the FARC, is a drug king pin as his father before him. Correa of course has not yet gone to jail for his crimes but he should. In fact, we hope he is soon on the INTERPOL List to never leave Ecuador to perpetuate his crime spree.
 
Correa demanded a return of the USA's equipment, which he never owned. Today's media, such as HOY here telling us that the US Embassy ridiculously returned- and illegally we might add- these so called intelligence gifts- back to Correa. That is to say, Ecuador now has all the proof it needs as to what its own corrupt actors have been up to and why it is that the USA deems Ecuador a criminal narcostate. Of course there are none so bold as to be honest about this. Comes now the Correa liars to tell us that they do believe that the data has been tampered. Correa ordered all USA gifts returned to the USA on Saturday. What Correa needs instead is an arrest warrant.
 
This of course will shock Ecuadoreans today who incorrectly prefer to remain uneducated and intellectually vacated to believe that they have successfully manipulated the world through their half truths, lies, complaints and false data. To be sure, Correa has spent a lot of money to sell these lies. So too has US AID in order to "develop" that which should never be developed- more cartel crime in the Andes. And now comes the uneducated and ridiculously dysfunctional symbol of Ecuador's perfidy- its own top diplomat to tell us that none of these crimes in Ecuador are Ecuador's fault. Oh no- this is all the fault of the USA for not dropping its concerns about Ecuador's burgeoning drug and human trafficking business, run now by the military, the police and Correa's cabinet of thugs:
 
Ecuador foreign minister says US cooperation must be about more than drugs
11 February 2009
8:19 PM GMT
BBC Monitoring Americas 

[El Universo interview with Foreign Minister Fander Falconi, place and time not given, first paragraph is El Universo introduction: "This Sort Of Agreement Will No Longer Wash In Either The Police Or The Armed Forces"]
Foreign Minister Fander Falconi hopes that the bilateral agenda with the United States will not be limited to security and drug trafficking issues. He also maintains that his Ministry did not know that the Latin American Human Rights Association [ALDHU] was handing out identity documents on the border [with Colombia].

[El Universo] What were the results of the meeting with US Ambassador Heather Hodges?
[Falconi] The aim was to express to her the Ecuadoran Government's indignation about and rejection of the language [former US Embassy Immigration and Customs Attache] Armando Astorga used in a letter sent to the commander of the Police [in which Astorga said that the US Embassy was withdrawing funding from a Police unit because the government had not "coordinated" a change in the unit's command with him].
 
An attache cannot give his own reading of a government's international policies. On the other hand, we reiterate that Ecuador wants to maintain relations of cooperation and mutual benefit with the United States, in a framework of respect, along the lines of our international policy. No instrument of cooperation can be ruled by the logic of any type of conditions.

[El Universo] Will you present a formal complaint to the United States?

[Falconi] The [Barack] Obama administration is opening a different window for relations between the two countries to eliminate this type of practice, which does not accord with autonomy, dignity, or sovereignty.

[El Universo] Is the US State Department seeking a diplomatic solution?

[Falconi] We want to construct a solid and stable relationship in which the security and drug trafficking issues are part of the bilateral agenda, but not the only part. Issues such as human rights, immigration, and the fight against poverty must also be included.

[El Universo] So it will not affect bilateral relations?

[Falconi] We hope not. This type of agreement, so-called mutual understanding agreements that are not even formal and which in the past have been made particularly in the security area, will no longer wash in the Police or Armed Forces.

[El Universo] Had the president [Correa] seen Astorga's letter before Saturday [7 February, when Correa announced during his weekly address to the nation that he was ordering Astorga to "pack his bags and leave"]?

[Falconi] He saw it days before.

[El Universo] So why did he not order the expulsion prior to that?

[Falconi] Because the president has his own rhythms and makes his own evaluations, making decisions when he thinks the time is right.

[El Universo] On another issue: did the Foreign Ministry know that the ALDHU was giving out identity documents on the border?

[Falconi] The only organization authorized to hand out documents to refugees or asylum seekers is the General Refugees Directorate [DGR]. Documents from human rights organizations or organizations protecting Colombian refugees have no validity and are no substitute for the official document. In ALDHU's case specifically there was no authorization.

[El Universo] Why did you only say that four months after they handed out the documents?

[Falconi] As I said, the only organization authorized by the government [is the DGR]. That has always been public knowledge. If there were any irregularities then due process has to be followed. In general, we are conducting an evaluation of all the implications of [the government's] agreement with the ALDHU; and I repeat: the ALDHU has no authorization for attempting to fill in for the Ecuadoran state.

[El Universo] So did you know about the ALDHU giving out identity documents on the border or not?

[Falconi] Obviously not, or we would have done something about it.

[El Universo] Have you thought about sanctions for the ALDHU?

[Falconi] I am not the one to decide; there are competent authorities for that.

Source: El Universo website, Guayaquil, in Spanish 11 Feb 09 
 
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As noted above, the brainless Falconi speaks for this criminally manipulative regime in Quito and deceptively lies a lot to state, "An attaché cannot give his own reading of a government's international policies. On the other hand, we reiterate that Ecuador wants to maintain relations of cooperation and mutual benefit with the United States, in a framework of respect, along the lines of our international policy. No instrument of cooperation can be ruled by the logic of any type of conditions. "
 
Let us be clear: the USA's employee had a legal obligation to review the almost $1/2 billion in intelligence-sensitive material gifted [stupidly we might add by former. amb. Kinney]. Had this factual analysis and subsequent withdrawal of USA intelligence gathering equipment  not occurred, the Correa cartel would continue its systemic abuse of US technology to promote its on going cartel activities. Minister Falconi incorrectly says that the contract review officer cannot make a reading of USA policies. In other words, the Minister demands that the facts be overwhelmed by astroturffing- that is, propaganda and more lies. Falconi demands respect and Correa stupidly walks in to a revelation of his own criminal and deviant behavior, trumpeted now loudly by Falconi. In fact, no one- no one at all- from the USA can gift a foreign government with clandestine intelligence equipment without certifications that the gift is not being abused to aid and abet crime. Mr. Falconi insists that contract law "ruled by logic" cannot be active in Ecuador in order to show "respect" for Ecuador...for mutual benefit...of the drug runners.
 
Minister Falconi states that Ecuador cannot suffer transparency or oversight on what it does criminally because to be honest about anything Ecuadorean shows a loss of respect for their deceitful, manipulative criminal regime.
 
Falconi calls for the US-Ecuadorean relationship to be more than just counternarcotics. In this essentially dishonest claim by Falconi he misses military cooperation, environmental and agricultural cooperation, trade and bond market and oil selling protections plus the one thing that has kept Correa popular: the gift of using and abusing the US dollar. The USA is far more multi faceted than just drugs. But drugs are a baseline of all that is and what lies beneath. For the now revealed Correa, what lies beneath is putrid and dishonest.

Minister Falconi does now pull the ultimate in ridiculous ploys: he now says that the USA must end its war on drugs and enable drug running governments like Correa's to further. We know, although too few ever reviewed the pathetically crime-enhancing "new" Ecuadorean constitution, that Ecuador can and does sell fake passports, fake IDs and fake transport to the USA for any Hezbollah criminal previously called Mustaffah but now free to move about the USA as Mendoza. Correa sells fake identities for fees and his Embassy in Washington sells fake propaganda and more safe passage for criminals. Although George Soros may embrace these plenipotentiaries of cartel deception, it is not good for Ecuadorean stability nor stability for the USA, currently welcoming fake Ecuadoreans by the thousands who are in fact criminals and terrorists. No Ecuadoreans should be allowed passage to the USA unless and until Correa's passport and ID scams, blessed under his ridiculous constitution, stops.
 
Indeed, Ecuador has all the earmarks of a narcostate which deserves nothing from anyone except the adult rejoinder that they must grow up and act as law abiding actors. But Correa tells you that it is your sovereign right now as an Ecuadorean to be a criminal, to perform acts of deviancy and sell your neighbor in to white slavery overseas or for the FARC ranks.
 
In the lawless place, Ecuador loudly proclaims its "new democracy" of lawlessness: "No instrument of cooperation can be ruled by the logic of any type ..."

No contract shall be respected by Ecuador and nothing based on logic will be allowed. This is a mental and socioeconomic free fall in to mobocracy and rampant lawlessness which is Ecuador's foreign policy.
 
But the USA is so busy blessing drugs legalization that it is all too happy to let Ecuador remain lawless and drug running in order to forget that rule of law and contract law do not exist in Ecuador today, as has been the case for the last 3 years.
 
No contract and no policy can be ruled by logic- that is, verifiable data, certain facts nor transparency. Ecuadoreans today believe that they can do anything they want with no consequences because they are very good liars and manipulators. What they really are....is an exact replica of human vermin.
 
As to the fear in the eyes of Rafael Correa's criminal accomplices when face to face with an utterly honest Luis Fernando Torres, we understand their fear because honest and good men are not tracked by dishonest manipulative cartel mavens. As to the fact that faked signatures were illicitly added to the CAMBIO petition for Torres's candidacy, this is an ages old tactic. Numerous US Democratic operatives have deployed this deceit of adding illegal faked signatures to petitions for candidate registries on numerous occasions. In Washington, DC city residents may recall a specious occurrence some years ago when ACORN actors illegally defrauded and forged bad signatures on a Mayoral petition for registry and saw the petition rejected for names the candidate never had added but were forged to make the petition/signatures look illegal. This was done clandestinely by the opposition. This is a bad sign and Correa's team is way over its neck in this crime which of course will have no justice- no justice at all in this land of forgerers and corrupt actors. Just ask the Ecuadorean passport forgerers- there are now hundreds of very very good forgery artists deployed in every Ecuadorean landscape today. We have seen their handiwork and they are tragically very good. We have also seen the footprints of state take overs and communist cartels- they do not work well at all for anyone. The globe is proclaiming its fiscal collapse to day, proclaiming the urgency of HYPE for socialism's installation because trillions of dollars were illicitly waged in unknown- unregulated, untaxed, unregistered, unknown derivatives and hedge bets and a lot of fools lost a lot of money, causing massive drains on available tax bases and public coffers because of these massive scams. As for bailing out these speculators who brought forward the regime change to benefit political agendas, we suggest that illicit bets not be rewarded. This runs counter to what George Soros and his paid cronies want to tell you.  Here is one take on all this:
           
Adam Smith gets the last laugh
By P.J. O’Rourke
"The free market is dead. It was killed by the Bolshevik Revolution, fascist dirigisme, Keynesianism, the Great Depression, the second world war economic controls, the Labour party victory of 1945, Keynesianism again, the Arab oil embargo, Anthony Giddens’s “third way” and the current financial crisis. The free market has died at least 10 times in the past century. And whenever the market expires people want to know what Adam Smith would say. It is a moment of, “Hello, God, how’s my atheism going?”

Adam Smith would be laughing too hard to say anything. Smith spotted the precise cause of our economic calamity not just before it happened but 232 years before – probably a record for going short.

“A dwelling-house, as such, contributes nothing to the revenue of its inhabitant,” Smith said in The Wealth of Nations. “If it is lett [sic] to a tenant for rent, as the house itself can produce nothing, the tenant must always pay the rent out of some other revenue.” Therefore Smith concluded that, although a house can make money for its owner if it is rented, “the revenue of the whole body of the people can never be in the smallest degree increased by it”. [281]*

Smith was familiar with rampant speculation, or “overtrading” as he politely called it.

The Mississippi Scheme and the South Sea Bubble had both collapsed in 1720, three years before his birth. In 1772, while Smith was writing The Wealth of Nations, a bank run occurred in Scotland. Only three of Edinburgh’s 30 private banks survived. The reaction to the ensuing credit freeze from the Scottish overtraders sounds familiar, “The banks, they seem to have thought,” Smith said, “were in honour bound to supply the deficiency, and to provide them with all the capital which they wanted to trade with.” [308]

The phenomenon of speculative excess has less to do with free markets than with high profits. “When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary,” Smith said, “overtrading becomes a general error.” [438] And rate of profit, Smith claimed, “is always highest in the countries that are going fastest to ruin”. [266]

The South Sea Bubble was the result of ruinous machinations by Britain’s lord treasurer, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, who was looking to fund the national debt. The Mississippi Scheme was started by the French regent Philippe duc d’Orléans when he gave control of the royal bank to the Scottish financier John Law, the Bernard Madoff of his day.

Law’s fellow Scots – who were more inclined to market freedoms than the English, let alone the French – had already heard Law’s plan for “establishing a bank ... which he seems to have imagined might issue paper to the amount of the whole value of all the lands in the country”. The parliament of Scotland, Smith noted, “did not think proper to adopt it”. [317]

One simple idea allows an over-trading folly to turn into a speculative disaster – whether it involves ocean commerce, land in Louisiana, stocks, bonds, tulip bulbs or home mortgages. The idea is that unlimited prosperity can be created by the unlimited expansion of credit.

Such wild flights of borrowing can be effected only with what Smith called “the Daedalian wings of paper money”. [321] To produce enough of this paper requires either a government or something the size of a government, which modern merchant banks have become. As Smith pointed out: “The government of an exclusive company of merchants, is, perhaps, the worst of all governments.” [570]

The idea that The Wealth of Nations puts forth for creating prosperity is more complex. It involves all the baffling intricacies of human liberty. Smith proposed that everyone be free – free of bondage and of political, economic and regulatory oppression (Smith’s principle of “self-interest”), free in choice of employment (Smith’s principle of “division of labour”), and free to own and exchange the products of that labour (Smith’s principle of “free trade”). “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence,” Smith told a learned society in Edinburgh (with what degree of sarcasm we can imagine), “but peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice.”

How then would Adam Smith fix the present mess? Sorry, but it is fixed already. The answer to a decline in the value of speculative assets is to pay less for them. Job done.

We could pump the banks full of our national treasure. But Smith said: “To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families, by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils.” [440]

We could send in the experts to manage our bail-out. But Smith said: “I have never known much good done by those who affect to trade for the public good.” [456]

And we could nationalise our economies. But Smith said: “The state cannot be very great of which the sovereign has leisure to carry on the trade of a wine merchant or apothecary”. [818] Or chairman of General Motors.

* Bracketed numbers in the text refer to pages in ‘The Wealth of Nations’, Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith, Oxford University Press, 1976

The writer is a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard and is the author, most recently, of On The Wealth of Nations, Books That Changed the World, published by Atlantic Books, 2007

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We at ECrisis say this: you can insist that your government cease and desist taking over and stealing other people's property and assets.

More to the point: now that each and every single causal relationship and contract between Ecuador and the USA has been broken or corrupted by Rafael Correa, it is time for the USA to cease and desist gifting Correa with more money and more gifts for his crimes. There is nothing legitimate or beneficial for any honest nation to continue to lie a lot that Ecuador is a legitimate nation when it is a FARC zone- a  narcocartel state which neither deserves the ATPDEA nor one more penny from the USA. Shut this scam down.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis