June 18, 2009  ECrisis was the first to report that under Rafael Correa, there is no rule of law just the rule of manipulative ethics, manipulative business, manipulative politics and manipulative money laundering to enrich Rafael Correa and his cartel. The president of Ecuador has enabled his deceitful and manipulative family to grow rich off the backs of the Ecuadorean family, breaking not only bars to family nepotism laws for their rampant self enrichment but also hiding their money offshore through Panamanian banks. These so called governmentally blessed businesses are controlled by Rafael's brother and helps keep their mother in money while she hides her money in the United States of America.
 
We commend the brave Ecuadoreans who helped expose Correa's enrichment scams here.

We have no problem with anyone running legitimate businesses and in fact know well that Correa's 2008 constitution bars normal life for everyone in Ecuador while any family connected business is banned for state business contracts, which the family of Correa ignores blatantly along with everything else including common sense. We do consider the stubborn and corrupt Correa family business schemes as way over the top. Rafael's brother Fabrizio and his mother knowingly take Ecuadorean government monies to do a time honored mafia or union scam: road building. Not only are their massive governmental road building schemes seen as incompetent but massively corrupt, as with all classic mafia moves while they stash their money through Panama and on to the USA for laundering for the family through their criminal agent, Sra. Correa. The entire familia de Correa lovingly encourages this family mafia plan, as always. To understand the utter, sheer lack of accountability and death of justice in Ecuador, consider watching the Correa family money trail from FARC payments to concrete and road building contracts to enrich the family pot. Consider following the money. Then consider what happens when someone- anyone- questions the great [power hungry greed of the Correa regime. Then consider determining.....where has the money gone? And why indeed does Correa claim he needs the money while he is stealing form you, me, and any American he can find. And you still think that Correa is a responsible head of state when he is not and has never been? 
 
We also must pause here and commend the exemplary citizens of Ecuador who are daily protesting the take over of TELEAMAZONAS by the Correa cartel regime. They are true patriots in our opinion and while heir numbers may be small, their stance is most well come indeed.
 
Correa's entire governmental team in Ecuador- now fully merged with Venezuela and Iran- is one massive racketeering effort. Correa's team moves lots of drugs and runs lots of money making scams while laundering lots of dirty money while demanding that there is no law that applies to their crimes which they claim is constitutionally blessed by the fake deity of their New Age porn called Pachamama, now legally enshrined as the state religion of Ecuador under Correa's ridiculous 2008 constitution which no one as yet has ever even read except how to avoid being caught for running illegal weapons, dirty monies, slaves and drugs, which are of course legal in Ecuador.
 
And when we say that there is no rule of law left in Ecuador, we say this because Correa controls all the courts, the police and all government functions including the military and all monies. He thinks this is great- we think it is lawless and is fascism.
 
In fact what we have here is an end, as in Bolivia and Venezuela of state institutional functions. Farah correctly details Bolivia's plunge in to the abyss. Ecuador is a replica- as is Venezuela. We remind that smaller governments serve best. Government only works when all powers are separate and defined....not controlled by one party machine, as is the case today in 3 Andean nations. Losing one's free speech and open media coupled with the denial of juridical structuring is a plunge in to the abyss. 
 
Farah is good in his analysis. As for Ecuador, Correa has not only grown ties to the FARC, he is their money launderer and their protector and drug runner- for hire .As for the repid deterioration of Ecuador's finances, Standard & Poor's Credit raters did no one a service except Correa's thugs and their poker players at Clifford Chance-Lazard Freres speculators who mock legal investors this past week. Fitch hits closer to the mark:
 
Ecuador Buyback ‘Doesn’t Solve’ Country’s Problems

Notable in all this is the Chavez-Correa-LuLa-Putin enthusiasm to team up with George Soros's new funny money provided by the U.S. taxpayer who have no clue what they are seeding....because the Pelosi-Reid Congress has yet to reveal their facts in all this scam. All this is supposed to make Correa and Chavez feel better about stealing from their state funds while claiming to help the poor and indeed speculating away their very assets, calling this "development aid." We call all of this fraudulent.

Somewhere in all this Ecuadoreans know that they are victimizing themselves. We are continuously hoping that Rafael Correa returns to the land of the responsibly mature, lawfully abiding by sane norms and standards. Hope and prayer may be what drives the point home. Meanwhile, Correa's family's nepotism is vast. We hope that the Madre de Correa is finally reporting her earned income for tax purposes as co owner of the Correa family construction business operated thanks to the taxpayers- illegally gained- as she cheerfully lives off the kindness of the United States. Any guesses as to her legal tax paying? Her avoidance of laundering Correa family ill gotten gains through the U.S. banking system for safe keeping [ because the USA actually has banking laws where as Ecuador only has.....no laws except Correa]. Anyone?
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis