January 29, 2010   ECrisis is delighted that imminent researcher Doug Farah has tackled president Correa's past and current actions, spotlighting Correa's totalitarian regime in Quito, also called the Pink or Purple Curtain. Farah is good- he goes about 2/3 of the way to get the story and that is helpful as an opening piece, repeating what ECrisis has known and has so said here for three years: Correa is a corrupt, devious and dishonest pervert whose government is chock full of recycled communists, perverts and creeps. Nothing- not one thing- is honest out of Ecuador today. Correa's entire life is predicated on envy, greed and manipulating everything around him. He should, of course not be president for this primary reason alone as he is unfit for office. He is also guilty of destroying this nation step by step and that too demands that he must be held accountable for his crimes.

For our part, we acknowledge that Correa is utterly depraved. Doug's analysis is seminal but still weak because his conclusions are weak. Doug states that Correa makes possible bad decisions....and refuses to state the facts that Correa will always make wrong decisions. The excerpt below states that Correa's actions are ambiguous. In fact- Doug is wrong. Correa's actions are determinedly made to lie and present the false face of his intentions. Propaganda and total state control for Correa's criminal cartel play a large role in Ecuador's reprehensible statism today. Doug also tells us that Correa is not as well known as Chavez. Doug fails to deliver publicly available information that this is by design- by choice. Correa's advisors and paid publicity liars, such as Fenton Communications of the USA, have told Correa to stay out of the USA and stay silent in the American media because they know, as we know, that as soon as he opens his mouth and as soon as anyone looks at the facts about Correa- his game is over. Thus, Correa stays out of the main stream awareness, browned out and continues along his corrupt and corrupting agendas. There is no difference between Correa and Chavez except that Chavez has more money and is more of a public blowhard- a bag of hot air. Correa, for his part, is far more of a totalitarian-communist than even Chavez and that is hard to do but a quick review of Correa's acts confirms this fact.

For any student of Ecuador it is mandatory to study Doug's 76 pages here.
 
"…Yet Correa's actions have been ambiguous. While attacking the bearers of bad news regarding the ties of his government officials to the FARC, and to drug trafficking, he has distanced himself and the government from those individuals under investigation. However, while distancing himself, he has also appeared to retaliate against those carried out the most significant operations against the government officials, including reshuffling vetted units that worked with U.S. agencies after the units led to investigations of Correa allies.

There is a reasonable possibility that Correa, on a personal level, was seeking to engage the FARC solely to facilitate the release of hostages and other humanitarian reasons. However, given his closeness to Chávez, the declared support of the

Bolivarian revolution for the FARC, and Correa's apparent reluctance to publicly condemn the FARC's well documented human rights abuses, it is not clear he views the organization as either dangerous or criminal. Also, given his well known penchant for micro managing issues, he almost certainly knew, or could have known of the meetings of senior officials of his government with FARC commanders in Ecuadorian territory.

At best it shows extremely poor judgment by the president to surround himself with people who maintained contacts with non state armed actors and met with them repeatedly on national territory and did not communicate that fact, or the contents of the discussion, to the nation's commander in chief. At worst it shows a complicity in the dealings or a willful ignorance of the behavior and actions of his subordinates.

The question of Correa's knowledge of the FARC financing for his campaign also remains unresolved. There is ample evidence that the FARC, at the very highest level, decided to fund his campaign and collected at least $100,000 and mobilized its supporters in the border region to vote for him. There is some evidence that the money was accepted, although it is not conclusive. What remains unknown is whether Correa, as a candidate, knew or had reason to know of the contribution.

There are also significant challenges in the areas of governance and democracy. The Correa government, wrestling multiple challenges on many fronts, has chosen to concentrate most of the power in the hands of the president, arguing that this is necessary to give the country a chance to re-institutionalize. This is a dangerous strategy, given the nation's new constitution and Correa's own autocratic governing style. It is unlikely that a system of clear checks and balances, and centers of power outside of the executive, will be allowed to emerge.

While not pursuing the Boliviarian revolution with the same degree of authoritarianism and anti-American fervor as Chavez in Venezuela, Ortega in Nicaragua and Morales in Bolivia, Correa has clearly cast his lot with this profoundly Anti-democratic group and process. His visceral desire to attack and silence the media that opposes him and to publicly insult those who challenge him indicates he harbors a dangerous caudillismo tendency that bodes ill for democracy."

Again- Doug is good. His seminal review is fabulous. He however does not go far enough. Doug tells us that Correa's actions are ambiguous. This is a lie. Correa's actions are determinedly and decisively dishonest by intent, by design and by delivery. That is not ambiguous- it is criminal.  We note that Doug ridiculously sources the ridiculous Adrian Bonilla and Cesar Montufar... pathetic. He could have sourced actual truth tellers, which he did not do in this review and indeed he should have. As above, he says that Correa "bodes ill for democracy." Do you think? That is an understatement and we cannot comprehend why the 2/3 truths about Correa's undemocratic government remain hidden. Correa is an essential dictator without the tanks rumbling down the streets. He is a thug and his government is darkly, deeply, vastly corrupt and worse- is corrupting. To do business in Ecuador, to survive in Ecuador one is forced/mandated to act as the spouse of a drunk- as an enabler/as a victim with a primary role: to serve the addict, in this case Correa and his cabinet or pervs and criminals. No man and no woman is on this Earth to be a partner or a spouse to a childish, manipulative dishonest creep such as Correa. Ecuadoreans tell us that they cannot ever survive in Quito without playing the dishonest game that Correa is terrific lest they be....without their primary relationship that now defines them....with Correa. This is sick. And this dishonest sickness desperately needs correction, atonement and proper steps toward honest, clean government.

The real point here is this... and the question needs an answer- why o why did not one Ecuadorean deliver this review first? Why o why does the US government waste tens of millions of dollars creating false reports to lie a lot about Correa when this simple, easy to do review of Correa hits home runs out of the park on every page with its facts? What is wrong with the United States and its paid contractors through the U.S. Embassy? What is wrong with the people of Ecuador that they are so happy being manipulated in their personal lives that they refuse to stop Correa manipulating them in their public lives? Being married with manipulation means never having to be honest or honorable. And it certainly means that no one in Ecuador will be credible, honorable and respected unless and until they divorce themselves from their addiction to manipulated living and stand up for principles of function, accountability and dependable integrity. To date, this is a bridge too far.

Here too is yet another specious and ridiculous example of Correistas living la vida manipulativa, which no one wants to talk about. Correistas acting badly and stupidly inside the USA to sue  an American company, DynCorp  for spraying tobacco juice by air in Colombia. With no data, no forensic audits, no medical exams, Correistas do what they are trained by their mothers to do: lie a lot, blame everyone else and pretend that the USA hurt them and their holdings by spraying cocaine's leaves of coca. We hope the judge levies court fees for this waste of time against the people of Ecuador because this law suit is fraudulent and is the responsibility of every man, woman and child of Ecuador who perpetuates this type of fraudulent claim, winking and nodding and blaming everyone around them for their silly and irresponsible lives while never, ever having nor holding any check on reality nor the facts.

But Correistas today are quite aware that even Chevron Texaco which never did anything wrong in Ecuador except to have and hold some of the world's stupidest lawyers and paid mouth organs continues to ignore the basics of ending the surreal game that somehow there is a law suit against Chevron in Lago Agrio when there is no law suit, there are no facts and there is no discovery. Chevron's paid performing circle of jerks in Ecuador are from the same circle of jerks and self enriching idiots that started the entire problem of Correa's capital of corrupt capitol...living la vida manipulativa, always on the shallow, the hollow, the fake and the never ending disgraceful series of behaviors to lie a lot.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis