April 7, 2010  Among all the bizarre activities in Ecuador yesterday and Monday, el presidente Correa’s hands over to Arturo Valenzuela of a copy of his astonishing vanity publication of his own words in his wild eyed diatribe against the USA, against free trade and supporting all criminal financial malfeasance and bond market crime as remains the highlight of the Arturo Valenzuela educational tour to Ecuador. No longer can Valenzuela play dumb and happy about Correa’s cartel for he holds in his little hands Correa’s own words that state that he fully intends to continue onward in his abuse of Ecuador’s finances and will of course game the USA for its negligence as he installs his replica state of Cuban criminality by his proxy role for the Russo-Iranian cartels.

Valenzuela has no excuse whatsoever to applaud and commend Correa. Indeed he now has prima facie evidence of Correa’s own words to legalize criminality. The U.S. Department of State will have to come up with a better excuse than their 4 years of enabling this fiscal crime spree than their dishonest excuse that they knew nothing about Correa and indeed intended, by caveat, to pretend that no news is good news. The US government still has no factual Report on Ecuador. The U.S. government has patently refused to officially translate and review the 9-08 ALBA constitution, lying to its own citizens that it matters nothing and that if one wanted to study it, they can go and read it in Spanish. This is of course a dereliction of duty. To comprehend Correa’s wild eyed schemes, one must have and hold an official translation and an official constitutional review of the 500+ pages of astonishing cartel backing constitutional mandates.

But Valenzuela went right on embracing and adoring Correa before Ecuador’s media. This translates to embracing the cartel that is Correa of course. No one needs the analysis from ECrisis to understand this utterly criminal aiding and abetting by the USA of Correa’s cartels. What we do remind is that Valenzuela, in so doing, is … a liar and a bad one at that, not at all deserving of his high salary. He is gamed now and no longer able to speak any truths as if Valenzuela were set up by Hillary to oust him. We do not believe this for one second but note that the end result is the same- Valenzuela is now unfit to serve. And all his functionaries fluttering around him in gay abandon to whisper How Great Correa Art are now known as idiots- dishonest idiots. The good news is about Valenzuela to anyone with a brain is that his visit was….meaningless and everyone knows this.

Correa’s words and deeds should come as no surprise to Valenzuela. Except that his own employees have never ever once stated the facts about Correa, including Valenzuela who should have had a full pre trip debrief on the facts. Obviously, continuing to pay for Correa’s crime spree with more and more illegally miss-spent U.S. tax dollars is more important to Valenzuela and Obama’s Soros who does also game Correa’s money for add-ins to the Brazilian betting bubble, blooming now like Dutch tulips with gay communist abandon.

But do not hold your breath for some moment when Soros man Valenzuela, like Soros’s own Valenzuela replacement at the White House Dan Restrepo come to a moment of truth telling. No indeed- these criminals intend to stay on the job spending U.S. tax dollars to boost and build Correa’s criminal cartels. Do you have any idea how much Obama has gifted Correa’s support propaganda, called either black contracts or US AID monies? Hundreds of millions in a few short years buys a lot of help from Soros’s favorite public relations company, Fenton which like Hinton PR works with Correa and an odd assortment of proxy so called NGOs to sell the cartel blessings. But we are not fooled and Valenzuela should not be either. He has fallen in to the same trap that many Ecuadoreans do, pretending that Correa is a friend when Correa is no friend at all except to his nasty little band of better-than-you manipulators and extortionists  called his dirty Pink Curtain, still operating with gay abandon, now embraced by Valenzuela and his unmanly [and ungodly] idiots. To be a decent man, one must be honest and honorable. Or as Soros tells us, honor and honesty are irrelevant because he himself holds no moral code. Well, duhhhh. So what are you going to do about it, Arturo? Start telling the truth? One can hope.

Some say Arturo tried to warn Correa about an issue Arturo knows nothing about, having spent his academic career selling silly Fulbright backed text books to his students at Georgetown on the vapid glories of Mexico’s peasant revolutions which of course gainsaid Mexico’s stubborn refusal to grow up and act responsibly while embracing semi democracy in a statist-mercantilist Marxism for over 100 years… to help the poor which of course meant that all of the nation outside of Mexico City was ignored. So much for Valenzuela’s university curricula... So much for Valenzuela’s ridiculous undereducation, even as he has full access to all classified information. Of course Valenzuela had neither interest nor preparedness to alter Correa’s mind about the criminal intentions of the Russo-Iranian axis now embraced by Correa, leaving the nation of Ecuador as a proxy to the cartels for who they all work now. Valenzuela is so stupid he had no clue that Correa is a proxy, like Hezbollah, in perpetuity to Iran’s nasty mullahs because Correa’s own burglaries of state monies have left him bankrupt and taking Iranian cartel subservience. But Valenzuela pretended he did not know this. Valenzuela pretended he would convert the evil in Correa’s heart, soul, mind and deeds to the right side.

Advice to that idiot Arturo Valenzuela: never go up against a Russo-Iranian proxy without full facts. You cannot find the facts you seek by semi-Marxists telling you non facts. You cannot find the facts in your inchoate tales of the glorious peasant revolutions in Mexican towns. You will not find the facts at State Department because you are incompetent to refuse to have and hold a full White Paper with formal analysis and translations of the Correa backbone- his constitution and all his central power holding laws and acts. If you want to go up against Correa, at least man up with the facts first.

Enough of Valenzuela and Luigi’s girl on the job Heather Hodges telling us all How Great Correa Art. Like a sex addict needing a fix, they neither care about their partnerings nor what real friends look like. Theirs are friends on the cheap- to be bought and sold like Vladimir Montesinos, the fixer of gold contracts to better serve Peter Romero’s chums at Newmont. There will be no fixing FACR-backed Correa’s Cuban communism now serving as proxy state for the Russo Iranian cartels. It is to Ecuadoreans to reject synthetic friends such as these. It is to Ecuadoreans to have and hold integrity and honor again.

We understand that it is a challenge when all around you look as dirty as they are. Here is a reprint of then US Senators Obama and Leahy encouraging Correa and USA’s Donziger’s extortion racket against Chevron Texaco. To date, Obama has not retracted this hideous, dirty support for his pal Donziger nor was he honest as to Donziger actually writing this letter. But he should be. The so called Obama facts here are neither factual nor well done. But they are effective in aiding and abetting Correa’s crime spree. Arturo Valenzuela did not apologize for these activities.

United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510

February 2, 2006

Ambassador Rob Portman
U.S. Trade Representative
600 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20508

Dear Ambassador Portman:

We are writing to express our concerns about news reports indicating that Chevron Corporation is trying to use the Andean Free Trade Agreement negotiations to eliminate a legal claim against Chevron by roughly 30,000 Ecuadorians who reside in a remote area of tropical forest.

The plaintiffs in the case argue that Texaco (which merged with Chevron in 2001) dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste water into unlined pits and waterways in Ecuadorian forests while drilling for qil. Indigenous residents complain that the pollution has caused severe health and environmental problems. An expert for the plaintiffs estimated clean-up costs topping $6 billion.

Chevron is reportedly lobbying Members of Congress and your office to use the leverage of the Andean Free Trade Agreement to pressure Ecuador to dismiss the case. A Chevron spokesman expressed the company's "present opposition to the inclusion of Ecuador in the Andean Free Trade Agreement until the government of Ecuador honors its existing contractual obligations and respects and upholds the rule of law with respect to our interests."

According to news reports, your office responded to questions about the Chevron case by saying free trade agreements often serve as leverage when it comes to disputes between countries.

We are writing to seek your assurances that the U.S. Trade Representative will not allow negotiations over the Andean Free Trade Agreement to interfere with a case involving Chevron that is under consideration by the Ecuadorian judiciary, particularly one involving environmental, health and human rights issues that have regional, importance. While we are not prejudging the outcome of the case, we do believe the 30,000 indigenous residents of Ecuador deserve their day in court.

Expanding trade and breaking down barriers between countries is good for our economy and for our security, for American consumers and American workers. Unfortunately, environmental and labor rights are too often the first bargaining chips that are traded away during free-trade negotiations. As you continue negotiating the Andean Free Trade Agreement, we urge you not to interfere in the Chevron case. We also urge you to give adequate consideration to environmental and labor standards as you negotiate. We will not be able to support an Andean Free Trade Agreement unless it contains strong labor and environmental protections, meaningful assistance for American workers who are not reaping its benefits and a plan to equip American workers with the skills and support they need to succeed in a 21stCentury economy.

We thank you in advance for your consideration of this critical issue.

 Sincerely,

Barack Obama       Patrick Leahy

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Of all the lies told here by Obama, the biggest is that Ecuador must have the gift of billions from the USA in duty free trade and floods of propaganda money from US AID.  What Ecuador needs is honesty- not within ten thousand miles of Obama’s screed. Ecuador will only thrive in the coming years not as a Russo Iranian extortion ring member but as a legitimate, accountable government of its peoples. Obama was wrong. Throwing one penny of USA money into Correa’s dirty toilet is itself criminal. Valenzuela knows this and yet he enables yet more.

And so we come to this: more liars paid by illegal NGOs with Donziger and Correa to scam money from a US company. Has anyone thought to bring criminal charges against the paid former US governmental official from he US EPA who wittingly committed contract fraud? He now tells us that Donziger and Correa scammed him of his full payments [natch] while using his professional name for fraud/lies. This former USG man should have turned states’ evidence to the US FBI. Guess he too was seduced by the power of extortion.
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Wall Street Journal
April 5, 2010, 11:35 AM ET
Misspelling Leads to Big Discovery in Chevron/Ecuador Case
Note to expert witnesses: If someone else is going to file allegedly fraudulent reports in a lawsuit in your name, for heaven’s sake, make sure they spell your name right.

It might sound like common sense. But the misspelling of an expert’s name in a multibillion-dollar environmental lawsuit filed against Chevron is what tipped off Chevron’s lawyers to the fact that the reports may have been fudged, a fact that has now been conceded by the expert himself. Click here for the WSJ story, by Ben Casselman and Angel Gonzalez. Click here, here and here for earlier LB posts on the Chevron case.

The disclosure comes in the midst of a huge lawsuit accusing Chevron of causing widespread environmental damage in the Ecuadorean rain forest. In 2004, the plaintiffs hired an American biologist named Charles Calmbacher to help oversee soil and water tests in Ecuador.

Reports signed by Calmbacher showed high levels of toxins at two sites and estimated the contamination would cost more than $40 million to clean up at these sites alone.

But in a sworn deposition last week, Calmbacher said he didn’t write the reports submitted over his signature, which said the sites were highly polluted and needed remediation.

“I concluded that I did not see significant contamination that posed immediate threat to the environment or to humans or wildlife around it,” Calmbacher said, according to a transcript provided by Chevron.

Steven Donziger, a New York-based attorney for the plaintiffs said Calmbacher’s reports were only a small part of the overall case, and that other tests have shown contamination at dozens of sites. (Click here for a story about Donziger and the case published last September, from the American Lawyer.)

Chevron has said it expects to lose the case in Ecuador but plans to challenge enforcement of any ruling in the U.S., where it is the second-largest oil company by revenue.

Now, back to the allegedly forged signature. Gibson Dunn’s Andrea Neuman, the Chevron lawyer who conducted the deposition, said Chevron became suspicious after Calmbacher apparently misspelled his own name in letters to the Ecuadorean court asking for an extension in filing his reports.

In his deposition, Calmbacher said he had flown back to the U.S. early due to illness, and had therefore sent pre-signed pages back to Ecuador with the understanding his findings would be printed over his signature. But he said the reports that were filed didn’t reflect his conclusions.

He said he never saw the final version of the reports that were submitted to the court until he was shown them during the deposition.

“I did not reach these conclusions and I did not write this report,” he said in the deposition.
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-Pedro Camargo for Ecrisis