July 25, 2009  ECrisis has just about had it with too many proclaiming the joys of drug running out of Ecuador and Venezuela. There is no joy or honor for nations which run drugs and Ecuador's Correa happily runs lots of drugs.

The ALBA nations may well consolidate all military and paramilitary as one bloc. The ALBA statists like to tell us they are neo-Marxists. They are in fact cartels. Notably happy with the rise of ALBA communism is former president Zelaya's girl on the communist advance team Ms. Rodas. She is one nasty bit of work in her hardened cult like adoration of Chavez and his minions:
 
- ALBA States to Hold Summit in Bolivia in September, Host Evo Morales Follows Hugo Chavez in Once Again Raising Subject of Transforming Alliance into Military Coalition

Once Upon a Time in The West continues about Zelaya's small foot print back in to Honduras of July 24: "Earlier today deposed Honduran president Manuel (“Mel”) Zelaya, a wealthy rancher- turned-socialist and lackey of the Havana-Caracas-Managua Axis—arrived at the small Nicaraguan city Esteli, 25 miles south of the Honduran border. Since his ouster on June 28 Zelaya has jetted about Central America, with at least one sidetrip to the USA, on an aircraft supplied by Venezuela’s communist dictator Hugo Chavez. However, he has spent most of his time in Managua where, with the guidance of Comandante Ortega and other regional leftist leaders and their representatives, he has plotted his return to his homeland. No doubt buoyed by their attendance in Managua of various festivities associated with the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Zelaya arrived in Esteli in the company of his foreign minister Patricia Rodas and Chavez’s foreign minister Nicolas Maduro. “We will present ourselves in front of their bayonets and see if they lower them,” Zelaya vowed yesterday in Managua...."
 
"Zelaya used money from Venezuela’s dictator and blackmail to try to extend his rule, illegally cutting off funds to municipalities whose mayors who refused to back his referendum to rewrite Honduras’s Constitution to extend Zelaya’s tenure in office. Zelaya was planning vote fraud on a vast scale.

Honduras’s president was constitutionally removed pursuant to Articles 239 and 272 of the Honduras Constitution. Moreover, he was removed not by a “small group,” but with the unanimous support of the Honduras Supreme Court, the almost-unanimous support of Honduras’s Congress, and much of Honduran society. For each of these separate reasons, it was not a coup."

In tribute to a real freedom fighter, we urge you to read this: Marxism's Main Critic 

"...Kolakowski lived through and thought through the varieties of the totalitarian temptation. He was 12 when the Wehrmacht overran Poland. He witnessed the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto later in the war. In 1945, Soviet tyranny succeeded the Nazi variety, and Kolakowski grew up witnessing what a proletarian paradise looks like. Although he came of age as a professed Marxist, by the mid-1960s his disillusionment was far advanced. It was mutual, for Kolakowski found himself subject to constant police surveillance and, in 1968, was expelled from Warsaw University for "forming the opinions of young people in a direction glaringly contradictory to the dominant tendency of the development of the country.

Later that year, Kolakowski left Poland and embarked on a career in the West. He made stops at Berkeley, which gave him an opportunity to learn firsthand about and therefore despise the New Left culture of the 1960s; at Yale, where I studied with him; and the University of Chicago and Oxford, his intellectual homes for the last decades of his life. Kolakowski is best known as a critic of Marxism and its spiritual allotropes. His magnum opus, Main Currents of Marxism, is a three-volume work of philosophical demolition. Sidney Hook aptly called the book `magisterial.'....`At present,' Kolakowski observed, alluding to Marx's famous adage, `Marxism neither interprets the world nor changes it: it is merely a repertoire of slogans serving to organize various interests.' Main Currents demonstrates how Marxism, committed in Kolakowski's words to `the self-deification of mankind,' became `the greatest fantasy of our century.' "

ECrisis always suggests that readers stay well informed and on top of current events. The current story on Honduras is indeed a cautionary tale for all nations and how we respond is important. The July 10, 2009 US Congressional Hearings on Honduras are here.  

As a follow up, here is a superb response to the current crisis:

“The Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can no longer be considered a “neutral broker” in the current state of affairs in Honduras...” “Here’s why….”

What will transpire next week in the traveling ALBA circus is anyone's guess. What we do know is that Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez are drug king pins.

It all starts with the facts and then fact based conclusions.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis