Also Called Correa’s Carbon Bond Fraud Promoted by Same Liars against Chevron

May 27, 2010 Ecuador has had 20 constitutions in about 200 years. Each one gets longer and hands more and more power to the central state, cutting more and more business and personal freedoms. Rafael Correa’s 9-08  500 page ++constitution is the sine qua non of the worst of the worst. And you….you never even read it before voting to approve this trashy, ridiculous and incompetent constitution which gifted- by your stupidity- the full take over of your life to Correa and his Pink Goon cartels. You may say that Grace will Lead you Home but in this, you have Abandoned the very Grace given you and failed to stand up for the gifts of grace, selling them out like a cheap manipulative bribe or a cheap date to Correa’s cheap, Cuban communists and thugs. You alone can lead yourself home…by hard work and truth telling.

But truth telling is not what is on Mr. Shifter’s mind in his ridiculously ignorant review – see below- of Correa’s wonderland. No indeed. Shifter is true to form- paid form by the U.S. taxpayer- the hard Left abuse of US monies to lie a lot and pave the way for the happy visit  on June 3, 2010 to Quito by Senator Chris Dodd to help Ivonne a Baki and her Iranian dirty money movers fight back yet another effort to relay the facts about Ecuador’s cartel crime. Shifter sets the stage. Dodd will stroll across the dishonest theatrics like a drag queen at Carnival to be followed soon by Arturo Valenzuela’s insertion of Hillary Clinton who will refuse to have or hold any facts about Ecuador as she always does. Mrs Clinton prefers to ignoble those who are cheaters, liars and manipulators. It is what she does in life. And she has been looking for love in all the wrong places for all her life. Mrs Clinton embarrassingly tries to manipulate affection for her person by those who can be emotionally extorted, for example her own family. She has no clue that manipulation is no substitute for functional love, which is tragically anathema to her and her teams of manipulators.  Respect will never ever transpire as long as manipulators are running things.

In one week, we will all witness the embarrassing public visit of the pro Chavez Soros man from the U.S. Democratic Party of same, Chris Dodd whose career has been sustained by jumping to the beck and call of George Soros’s dirty money betting. Mrs Clinton rose to Soros’s bidding in China of late, taking with her the full panoply of the U.S. government’s cabinet of idiots of Obama for the show…to show how powerful Soros remains inside China. And yet we question why- why Hillary and Dodd answer the call to promote the utterly discredited and completely dishonest Correa, promoting Correa and making his criminality soothed by their very bestowing of legitimacy when Correa has legitimized all that is unholy and illegitimate.

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Ecuador's Foreign Policy

By Interview with Michael Shifter
World Politics Review May 26, 2010        The U.S. Embassy in Ecuador recently announced  that it had delivered $1.2 million of donated military equipment to the Ecuadoran military, a year after Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa ordered the closing of a U.S. air base in the country. In an e-mail interview, Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, explains Ecuador's bilateral relations with the U.S. and its regional foreign policy.

WPR: How has the closing of the Manta air base impacted U.S.-Ecuador relations, and in particular military-to-military cooperation?

Shifter: The closing of the Manta base was long expected and therefore its effect on U.S.-Ecuadoran relations has been minimal. The decade-long agreement had been unpopular in Ecuador. The terms were viewed as unfavorable to Ecuadoran national interests, especially in light of the spillover in drug and insurgent-related violence from Colombia's internal conflict. The U.S. has compensated for the Manta base with a new defense cooperation pact with Colombia (that generated considerable controversy), yet military-to-military ties between the U.S. and Ecuador have not significantly suffered. The effect of the Manta base closing should not be overstated. After all, during the Cold War the U.S. never had a base in South America.

WPR: More generally, how has President Rafael Correa repositioned Ecuador's regional foreign policy?

Shifter: President Correa has tried to be more assertive and independent in his regional foreign policy. He has been a key player in such South American arrangements as the Brazil-led UNASUR. After some time, the Correa administration eventually decided to join the Venezuela-led ALBA alliance. There is some commonality between Ecuadoran and Venezuelan foreign policy, yet Correa has also had a number of differences with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and has sought to chart his own course. To be sure, there has been a lot of strain with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, particularly after Colombia's military incursion attacking a FARC camp in 2008. But recently Ecuadoran-Colombian relations have been more relaxed and have improved.

WPR: What accounts for Correa's more balanced approach compared to other leaders of the Latin American populist left, like Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales?

Shifter: Correa's background shares little in common with that of Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales. He is an economist by training, with a doctorate from the University of Illinois. In some respects, he is quite pragmatic in his approach to a variety of issues, including Ecuador's mining law, which drew a lot of criticism from the left in that country. The country's complicated economic realities also force some political moderation and accommodation. Ecuador is an oil producer, but not in the same way that Venezuela is. Correa understands that he needs to diversify and broaden economic and political relationships. He can't afford to be as belligerent as Chavez sometimes is. Moreover, despite some similarities, it is useful to distinguish clearly among Chavez, Morales and Correa. They differ in political style and policy preference. The countries they lead have very different constraints and possibilities.

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And all this was played out on Correa’s one-nation under communism state controlled media:

ECUADOR
Harsh Indigenous Justice Sparks Debate
By Gonzalo Ortiz      

QUITO, May 26, 2010 (IPS) - Naked and carrying a heavy bag of rocks, a young man stumbled several laps around a plaza filled by some 2,000 indigenous Ecuadoreans, who shouted insults and called him "murderer" and "traitor."

Orlando Quishpe, 22, was then tied to a post where he was repeatedly doused with cold water while women whipped him with thorny branches.

That was immediately followed by the 20 presidents of the indigenous communities gathered there each taking a leather strap and flogging the young man's back.

Bleeding and faint, Quishpe was taken from the site by his mother, María Josefina Ante, and by leaders of his home community of Guantopolo. There, as decided by the local assembly, he is to perform five years of community service and may not leave the area during that time.

The punishment took place Sunday, May 23, in La Cocha, an indigenous village situated on a highland plateau 3,500 metres above sea level in the Pujilí district, 90 kilometres south of Quito.

It was broadcast in all its gory detail on all of Ecuador's television networks that night, and made the front page of all newspapers on Monday.

"The debate goes far beyond what the communications media, in their eagerness to turn it into a spectacle, have presented to the public," attorney Norman Wray, who served as a member of the constituent assembly of Ecuador's 2008 constitution, told IPS.

Neither physical punishment nor the death penalty are included in Ecuador's legislation, but the constitution does allow indigenous communities to impart their own justice under their customary laws, as long as they do not violate national human rights laws.

Quishpe's sentence is penance for the May 9 murder of Marco Antonio Olivo, also in his twenties, and a resident of La Cocha. Quishpe confessed to the crime, with details recorded in a video, after being accused by three young men who were allegedly his accomplices.

However, as he was subjected to the gruelling public punishment, he shouted, "I haven't killed anyone!"

Quishpe will have to pay 1,750 dollars to the victim's mother, María Luisa Pallo, 64, who was present for the public punishment and shouted insults at the man she believes killed her son.

A week earlier, the same La Cocha crowd had doused, lashed and whipped five other young men from Guantopolo thought to be accomplices in the murder. They were released, but are required to pay 1,000 dollars each to the La Cocha community.

In this country of 15 million people, according to the 2001 census, more than eight percent self-identified as indigenous. If the mother tongue spoken by the respondents is used as the determining trait, the indigenous population reaches 14 percent.

In a column published in Hoy (Today) newspaper, titled "Double Justice," psychologist Rodrigo Tenorio accused the constituent assembly of "facile snobbery in assuming it would have the indigenous groups under its control if it granted them everything, including their own justice system."

In his conversation with IPS, however, constituent member Wray said that what the constitution does is respect the indigenous rights consecrated since 1989 in Convention 169 of the International Labour Organisation.

But Wray noted that the "very clear limits" on indigenous justice are the human rights established by the nation's constitution and its adherence to international conventions.

In his column, Tenorio, in a tone shared by other editorial writers, stated, "It is time for Congress and other government bodies to undo these knots if we want to prevent chaos from descending upon the country."

"Juridical pluralism, through which two ways of applying justice coexist, is a huge challenge for Ecuador," said Wray, acknowledging that the Quishpe case demonstrates the need for written standards and clear procedures.

"If there is conflict between the regulations, we should be capable of establishing -- through an intercultural dialogue -- the minimums and maximums of the application of indigenous justice," the attorney said.

Ecuador's criminal law "does not comprehend the efforts of the indigenous communities to reinsert the convicts back in community life. A cold-water dousing or lashing is better than sending them to prison for four years, where there is no rehabilitation effort and the delinquent is isolated from his social context," Wray said.

Sociologist Luciano Martínez, professor at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and expert in rural issues, believes the incident reflects a matter that goes deeper in the native communities.

"There is a clear deterioration of communal organisation, because the young people do not feel represented by traditional practices. They are acting more from a position of urban citizen and, it might be said, Western citizen," Martínez told IPS.

Not judging the Quishpe case, he said, Martínez pointed out that the accused are six young men with tattoos, who dress in black, work in Quito, and only visit their communities on occasional weekends.

Many young people from rural areas "do not believe in or practice the communal values," said the sociologist. "There is a crisis among the rural youth and the indigenous community leaders, and the latter want to resolve things by imposing the traditions."

There are no easy solutions, he said: "It's a very acute crisis that runs through all aspects of communal life and violates its values. These young people already belong to urban subcultures." There is an indigenous rock music scene and there are even indigenous gangs in Quito, he said.

In Martinez's view, the indigenous authorities "are afraid of talking" about these matters.

"There is an idyllic vision of solidarity, of reciprocity in the indigenous community, but there are real phenomena that haven't been studied, such as the increase in youth suicides, which is depressing because they are unable to find their place" in the city or in the indigenous community, he said.

The Quishpe case began attracting attention when Attorney General Washington Pesántez attempted a few days earlier to travel to La Cocha to "rescue" the accused, who had been held captive for two weeks.

Despite being accompanied by an armed escort, the government official was unable to get near the town because the residents greeted his convoy with a heavy hail of rocks.

Meanwhile, President Rafael Correa had threatened an armed intervention because, he said, indigenous justice had gone too far.

Tuesday, Pesántez accepted the resignation of Vicente Tibán, who was in charge of indigenous affairs for the region. Tibán had made grave errors in the proceedings related to the Olivo murder and Quishpe's punishment, according to the attorney general. (END)

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And more adoration of the communists by Correa:

Ecuadorian National Assembly Awards Cuban Leader
miércoles, 26 de mayo de 2010
 
26 de mayo de 2010, 08:40By Pedro Rioseco

Quito, May 26 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador's National Assembly President Fernando Cordero Cueva traveled on Wednesday to Cuba carrying a decoration bestowed by his country's Legislature to the island's Revolution leader Fidel Castro Ruz. Cordero expects to meet today with Havana Peoples' Power Provincial Assembly President Juan Contino Islam, to analyze the regional, Latin American and international situation, in the framework of the parliamentary actions.

Later, the visitor will hold talks with Cuba's Foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, and the capital's historian Eusebio Leal, an official note from the Ecuadorian Parliament presidency states.

The objective of Cordero's trip is to meet with First Vice President of the State and Minister Council José Ramón Machado Ventura, to whom he will deliver the award bestowed by the Ecuadorian National Assembly to the Cuban revolutionary leader.

The Ecuadorian Legislative Power president also expects to meet today afternoon with his country's scholarship holders who are studying in Havana.

Thursday's agenda will include to attend the opening ceremony in the Havana capital of the seminar "Achievements and new challenges of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)."
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Worse yet- one has to ask what is this story? Fact or fiction?

This article tells us that Correa commandeers all of Ecuadorean money- and that he does do, including his fake carbon bond scams, currently- according to whoever wrote this- being hawked by Ivonne a Baki’s dishonest money movers and out of work actors and actresses currently teamed up with the anti-Chevron Texaco lawsuit liars to promo Correa’s fake carbon bonds. Is this a pay back or partial payment by Correa for their help in extorting Chevron? Who would buy such fake bonds- $10 billion?
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A lot is at stake for Yasuni National Park
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
By Silvana Larrea,DPA
 
Quito, Ecuador -- Ecuador's creative initiative to forego petroleum exploitation in the Yasuni reserve in exchange for international aid was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival in May in the hope of attracting investors.

The government wants to sell "carbon bonds" to raise at least half of the more than 7 billion dollars (about US$3.6 billion over 13 years) it would lose by not drilling in the ITT oil block (so named for the oil wells of Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) in Yasuni National Park, a U.N.-designated Biosphere Reserve.

There are proven reserves of 846 million barrels beneath the soil of Yasuni, which is home to several groups of indigenous people who have opted for voluntary isolation from the outside world. A successful bond sale would not only protect their habitat, but also provide some 407 million tons of emissions reduction savings mainly from non-exploitation of the ITT oilfields.

Already, the promotional drive has had some success in raising the profile of the initiative among the rich and famous in Western countries. Supporters include Britain's Prince Charles, actor Leonardo di Caprio and people involved in the making of the movies Crude and Avatar.

The Yasuni National Park, located in the high basin of the plentiful Napo River, is considered the most biologically diverse region on the planet. Within its 9,820 square kilometers, the park shelters more than 1,700 species of trees, 204 species of mammals, 596 of birds, 10 of primates, 104 varieties of amphibians, 83 of reptiles and more than 100,000 insect species per hectare.

The Cannes plan is only the latest step in a carbon financing initiative that has seen its fair share of ups and downs. In January, for instance, President Rafael Correa angered environmentalists with comments he made on television which critics say prove he is trying to undermine his own negotiators and scuttle the initiative.

Back then Correa harshly criticized the team he put together, denounced foreign donors and threatened to drill in the reserve claiming that the negotiators had accepted "shameful" conditions that put the country's sovereignty at risk. The team was on the verge of closing a deal for a U.N. Development Programme administered international trust fund that would provide donor countries with financial guarantees, considering Ecuador's volatile political history.

"(They) come to impose conditions, they think we're still a colony, there is a terrible arrogance, keep your millions, keep your money and in June we are going to begin exploiting ITT," Correa railed.

The outburst led to the resignation of team head Roque Sevilla, an ex-mayor of Quito, former Foreign Minister Fander Falconi and President of the World Wildlife Fund Yolanda Kakabadze. Correa called them "infantile environmentalists."

Asked to explain the president's objection to the arrangement, officials pointed to "certain elements of omission" in the text of the fund which were "not acceptable" to the government. It was not the first time the president had acted in a manner that could be interpreted as hostile to the Yasuni initiative. After its 2007 launch, the government insisted on a one-year deadline to raise almost US$4.5 billion, which observers and potential donors alike felt threatened the viability of the proposal since raising that amount of money in so short a time was considered impossible.

Even as the government touted the project abroad, it approved drilling in an oil block next to the ITT and inside the Yasuni reserve itself and granted several new mining concessions. In addition Accion Ecologica, or Environmental Action, a local environmental group has announced that oil interests have already begun constructing a pipeline into the southern "no-go" zone of the park from existing fields outside the park.

After his resignation, Falconi told a press conference, "Evidently there are oil interests wanting to drill."

These interests, observers say, reside within Correa's cabinet itself as well as in Petroecuador and other oil companies.

Since his January announcement Correa has again reiterated his commitment to the initiative and has taken over control of the negotiations.

In April he approved the terms of an international trust fund that would be set up to issue the carbon bonds.
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ECrisis repeats this:  Correa’s so called carbon bonds, at about $10 billion,  are worth less than toilet paper. At least toilet paper is marketed for what it is. Correa’s fake ploy aims to enrich his pockets using other people’s money gifting his scam.

The above article states that Correa totally controls his bond offer. It also says that the same gang which devised the fake lawsuit against Chevron Texaco in lawless FARC zone Lago Agrio, a zone fully populated by communists, FARC and Hezbollah scum, is backing Correa’s carbon bonds. And they wanted to tell everyone about this at the Cannes Film Festival. We were not there. But we do see the printed words at the end of the pro Corea propaganda screed so called movie CRUDE: it clearly states that the film was made with US taxpayer monies through the New York State Council on the Arts. Why would any US taxpayer assist in hawking fake carbon bonds for Correa’s dirty wallet? Is Joe Kohn that good? We think not. What we actually think is that unless and until full disclosure is on the table, Correa’s toilet paper bonds, and Correa’s bonds give toilet paper a bad name, are  henceforth to be known for what they are: a scam. A fraud.

Why Michael Shifter feels compelled to ignore the real facts for hire  about Rafael Correa’s communist cartel of pink perps and pervs, we are not sure. What we are sure about is that in paving the way for Senator Dodd and then Hillary to bless the Correa bond scam and support the illegal claims against Chevron in Ecuador, we know that Shifter is no John the Baptist- not an honest man. Indeed he is outrageous is all that he fails to evaluate. We do know that US AID gifts US tax dollars to Shifters’ employer. Why does US AID like to sell Americans on more fraud- bond and derivatives fraud for communist cartel fraudsters who appreciate Soros’s support because they are dishonest one globe communists?  Why does the USA co-fund these scams and schemes?

Will Hillary stand up like a man and demand the facts about PetroEcuador from Correa? Will she for once denounce Correa’s criminal cartels? How many of Correa’s lobbyists are planning this Magical Mystery Tour of Liars?

We will be watching. She, for her part, should not embrace Correa’s frauds and scams.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis