December 26, 2011   ECrisis notes that in general, Russia is a terrible, no-good, very bad place.  And while it may be true that Joseph Stalin is dead, the societal addiction to lying, manipulating and denouncing mankind’s liberties has remained a stubborn pox upon its people, bred in their DNA today just as surely as man also knows that the insistence of liberty is part of his DNA. No matter: Russians think that manipulating everything is the best way to travel. No one likes Russians. No one trusts Russians and no one wants to move to Moscow to further his or her freedoms.

So what becomes of a people when their hearts and their souls are killed? The short answer is that they are parasites- living off someone else’s money and are zombies. The majority of Castro’s Cubans are zombies. Russians are zombies. And this sad tale repeats itself over and over around the globe.

The New York Times writes, “Although thousands of young Russians had joined Mr. Yeltsin in defying the coup plotters in August 1991, civic activism declined as conditions worsened. As state enterprises underwent privatization, workers feared unemployment and resisted calls to go on strike. Russia’s manufacturing sector collapsed; only the petrochemical, gold and timber sectors successfully weathered the storms of capitalist development. A few businessmen became super-rich by exploiting legal loopholes and often using fraudulent and violent methods. Most citizens of post-Communist Russia were too exhausted to do more than grumble.

Public protest against the Kremlin became more difficult under Mr. Putin. Elected to the presidency in 2000, and now serving as prime minister, he has used ballot-box fraud, disqualification of rival political candidates and control of national television to stay in power. Although he gained popularity for bringing stability, his own administration is now attracting growing hostility.  Most Russians are sick of the corruption, misrule and poverty that plague their country while the Kremlin elite feasts on the profits from oil and gas exports — and who can blame them? At the turn of the millennium, 40 percent of the Russian people were living below the United Nations-defined poverty line. Rising oil prices have made poverty decline to some extent, but Mr. Putin has made no effort to eradicate it altogether.”

Shamefully, this sounds all too close to today’s unfree communist-addicted Ecuador under president Correa: state control of media, falsified elections, fraud in all things, oil income’s false distributionist bribery to the poor and central state full controls. 

Moreover, Ecuador today is seriously akin to Castro’s Cuba and Iran’s mullahs through merger and mental addictions to cartel power. Zombies. Zombies have got no soul. Worse- Ecuadoreans under Correa have fostered their own growing epidemic….their own pestilence rampant in Sucumbios….stomach “amoebas” which are parasites that suck the life out of citizens. We daresay that about 80% of all Ecuadoreans today not only have these amoebas but in fact….are themselves today repugnant parasites for they surely do not add anything to the common good and live off someone else’s hard work.

- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis