March 18, 2011   Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa is doing all he can in his sustained passive-aggressive modality to drive out capitalism from Ecuador. The Bi Lateral Investment Treaties [BITs]are a primary tool to build capitalism….free trade and investors because the investors know that if the notoriously slow Ecuadorean courts are  not a healthy option, the parties might agree to a speedier, less costly arbitration of problems. Today, Ecuadorean courts are all kangaroos of Correa and not one item misses the tens of thousands of Cuban spies watching over any dissenting justice.

All North Americans believe that Correa supports attracting investments and will abide with the UN’s arbitral courts because the US government refuses to state what Correa knows: his 9-08 constitution declares the BITs as evil- unconstitutional. Only Correa’s corrupt justice exists for any post 9-08 investor.

What is critically important is the failure to relay facts about Rafael Correa and his horrible Cuban communist constitution of 9-08. No one knows one thing about it because any analysis and translation thereto is expressly forbidden by the Obama team in the USA. No- wait. The Obama team has graciously offered to translate 5 or 6 sections of the excessively wordy maligned as it is 9-08 constitution. We feel so much better. And our happiness is fulfilled because no Ecuadorean cares enough to even read that horrifying text. Actually, we despise Correa’s constitutional tricks, for anyone with a brain knows that one must review the 9-08 constitution in full for its complete power transfer to Correa.

Meanwhile, the US AID’s IRI- Republican Institute is beavering away to help install and t5rain Ecuadoreans how to enact Cuban communism inside Ecuador. The IRI fraudsters are teamed with the hideously corrupt Participacion Ciudadano, long loved by US AID’s John Sanbraillo on the forfront of socialist Marxism in Ecuador. And where o where is Valeria Merino these days as her project expands with the IRI under the watchful eye of the NED?

You may say: who cares about stupid old Sweden and France? We say: care a lot about the merits of Correa’s disregard for the very treaty his nation signed- the BITS and understand that it is Correa alone who drives away investors and jobs and honor. Pay attention to Correa’s little puppets called his kangaroo assembly. You think democracy lives in the Assembly? If you do, you are a liar just like the Obama team remains for all its dishonest shenanigans to tell us how wonderful Correa’s Ecuador is today when it is not..

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

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Ecuador
Congress Ends Bilateral Pacts With France, Sweden
QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador's National Assembly has approved a request by President Rafael Correa to end bilateral investment-promotion and protection agreements with France and Sweden.

National Assembly member Linda Machuca told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday that the lawmakers made the decision Tuesday.

According the Correa administration, bilateral investment-promotion and protection agreements are against the country's Constitution that was approved in 2008. That constitution prohibits international treaties or legal instruments that allow the transfer of sovereign jurisdiction to international bodies when disputes over contracts or investments arise.

Correa is expected to sign the treaty cancellations and communicate the decision to the countries involved.

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And here is the IRI/US AID selling fraud in Ecuador…to install BIT ending/economy destroying Correa who himself is busily defrauding anything and everything he can get his criminal little fingers on. The IRI laughably gets money to “improve” Correa’s single fisted government. It is impossible that no one in the US government cares about the tens and tens of millions of US tax dollars which madame ambassador Hodges waives in and none care about.

What is worse is he degeneration of the IRI, now partnered with Soros’s own NED working hard to lie, steal and cheat….defrauding US citizens and causing harm to Ecuadoreans who should boot them out.

http://www.iri.org/countries-and-programs/latin-america-and-caribbean/ecuador

Ecuador

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The recent wave of constitutional and legal reforms has left Ecuador’s local and national governments scrambling to adjust to major changes in responsibilities, power and structures.  The new constitution, passed in September 2008 by the national assembly, reconfigures the country’s power structure, creates new levels of government in the regions, empowers specific groups to have autonomous governing structures and shifts responsibilities between national and local levels of government.  Some powers will be devolved to the local level with others redistributed from the local level to the national level. 

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The recent wave of constitutional and legal reforms has left Ecuador’s local and national governments scrambling to adjust to major changes in responsibilities, power and structures.  The new constitution, passed in September 2008 by the national assembly, reconfigures the country’s power structure, creates new levels of government in the regions, empowers specific groups to have autonomous governing structures and shifts responsibilities between national and local levels of government.  Some powers will be devolved to the local level with others redistributed from the local level to the national level. 

The national government and the assembly are currently in the process of finalizing the specific division of responsibilities, amid varying levels of opposition, concern and confusion.  While this is being clarified, local leaders and citizens – often lacking information and background on these issues – are tasked with complying with the national government’s new regulations and procedures.  With so many new responsibilities, changes and pressure on the government and constituents to begin acting immediately, local governments face the urgent challenge of delivering services and continuing to govern while this transition slowly unfolds.

In October 2009, IRI began a program to help establish links between government officials and local citizens to promote a better understanding of changes in government processes and to strengthen their communications and interactions with each other.

IRI will initially work in Ambato, Ibarra and Loja with local partner Participación Ciudadana (Citizen Participation).  IRI and Participación Ciudadana will hold events in each city to deepen the understanding of the constitutional changes and foster dialogue between government representatives and citizens.  These events will allow for open discussion about the new government structure and how it will impact local organization’s ability to respond to citizens’ needs. 

Following the initial round of conferences, IRI will monitor the on-going effect the changes have on improved governance and constituent awareness.  A second round of events will be held to highlight the outcomes and to further deepen understanding of the new legal directives and their impact on governance in each city. 

As in all programming, IRI will draw on local and regional experts to work with the communities to strengthen their voice and role in the democratic process.  The skills learned will enable the communities to improve their local governance operations and improve communication and coordination with each other and government officials.

In each of the three cities, IRI will sponsor a weekly radio talk show where citizens can directly question their community and government leaders and officials can discuss important issues affecting the community. 

Since the voting age in Ecuador has been lowered to 16, engagement of younger Ecuadorians in the political process is essential to strengthening Ecuador’s democracy.  To engage these future leaders in the political process, IRI will work with university students to teach them about effective governance practices.

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