January 15, 2012   Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa extorts human beings. He pays a lot of bribes. He exhausts sensible people with his full court press of hatred, dirty tricks, lies and manipulations. Correa calls this diplomacy. We call it some of the most evil dirty tricks we have seen outside Iran.

Then again, Cuban communist ALBA Ecuador and Iran have merged. All who work for Correa’s Ecuador, and every single soul who covers up for Correa, is a liar and is now an agent of Iran.  This of course is no compliment to the utterly depraved U.S. Department of State which has defrauded the U.S. public through its $ billions of lies to hide Correa’s criminal malfeasance and disgusting criminality, now openly operating with Iran and Cuba. You know this because not once in three years has the U.S. government- or any other government- reported factually about Ecuador.

Soon.

Soon enough the course of human events finally reveals some facts….facts blacked out today under the three most deadly sins of dishonesty: that Iran and Cuban communism simply exists to help the poor. The poor are never aided by crime.

Soon enough the Obama administration and the Correa administration will be exposed for their racketeering which began with data hiding, fact burying and now full throated monetary crimes. These schmucks lie to the U.S. congress and worse- to the U.S. public. The U.S. Congress has only itself to blame for accepting Mrs. Clinton and Ecuador’s lies, pre-packaged as they remain by hard Left contractors and Correa lobbyists who have teamed to defraud for three years. That the U.S. Congress seems to enjoy defrauding the public second hand is bad enough. But the U.S. citizens cannot get an honorable review out of any of them.

Why does this matter? It matters because the perfect storm of criminal racketeering is not diplomacy and does defraud the publics. Nothing good ever comes out of this.

Soon enough, the minions of Correa’s racketeering….the Tommy Boggses of this planet, the Hundreds of Soros groups operating daily in Ecuador with U.S. tax dollars and now running total control of Ecuador’s oil, gas and mining grid will be known for what they are: partners in crime. Today they are partnered with Iran. Soon the U.S. public will demand to know just why the U.S. taxpayers must gift this dirty Ecuadorean racket of Correa and Iran and Soros billions each year with no accountability and dishonestly called “trade” and “democracy building” when nothing of the sort occurs, unless one enjoys calling criminal human trafficking as trade.

Follow the reports below.  Ask yourself what you are going to do about all this?

- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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A look inside the mysterious Venezuelan-Iranian gunpowder plant 

Casto Ocando - Univision       January 14, 2012

While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday concluded his two-day visit to Venezuela, a secret team of technicians and military officials from both countries were putting the final touches on one of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces’ (FABN) most protected military installations, one surrounded by mystery.

The facility is a gunpowder manufacturing plant, whose construction is believed to be already completed and is expected to be operational early this year, according to official sources.

Located in the city of Moron, the petrochemical hub in central Venezuela, and under construction since 2006 with an initial budget of about $14 million, the plant was announced by President Hugo Chávez as part of a series of agreements between Venezuela and Iran signed during an Ahmadinejad visit in September 2006 to Caracas.

“Iran is going to help us set up a gunpowder factory and primers for ammunition that is imported because we’ve been kept in the backlog,” said Chávez, making reference to the US military embargo on Venezuela.

Yet, the true purpose of the Venezuelan-Iranian plant may be a bit more than simple manufacturing of gunpowder for munitions.

According to documents and drawings reviewed by Univision News, the plant was designed by the Iranian firm Parchin Chemical Industries (PCI), a subsidiary of Defense Industries Organization (DIO), the conglomerate controlled by the Iran Defense Ministry. PCI is believed to play a key role in the Iranian nuclear program, currently under heavy sanctions from the international community.

According to the documents, the project was commissioned to PCI by the Venezuelan Company of Military Industries (Cavim), under the code name of Bahman, the eleventh month of the Iranian civil calendar.

The plant’s purpose, according to the documents, is the manufacture of “ball powder,” a type of gunpowder that is used as a trigger for a wide range of weapons, from commercial rifles and pistols to 120 mm mortars and missiles for military use.

According to experts, PCI plays a key role in the Iranian weapons program. The firm was founded in 1939 and produces missiles in a facility located around 20 miles southwest of Tehran. Supervisors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have paid several visits to Parchin to determine whether or not it’s part of the Iranian nuclear program, according to Global Security, a non-government organization based in Alexandria, Virginia.

PCI was included in the June 2005 list of entities designated as “proliferators of weapons of mass destruction” by the United States, under Executive Order 13382, specifically because it “deals in chemicals used in ballistic missile programs.”

It also was included in the list of firms and individuals sanctioned by United Nations resolution 1747 in 2007, due to its links to the Iranian missile program, specifically for the manufacture of chemicals used as “solid propellants for rockets and missiles.”

In 2008, two years after the announcement of the Venezuelan-Iranian cooperation to manufacture ball powder in Moron, Cavim was sanctioned by the State Department, because of the company’s alleged cooperation with the proliferation of weapons and equipment to or from Iran.

In May 2011, Cavim was to be sanctioned again, alongside other companies, by the U.S. government under the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, because “there was credible information indicating that they had transferred to or acquired from Iran, North Korea, or Syria equipment and technology listed on multilateral export control lists (Australia Group, Chemical Weapons Convention, Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement) or otherwise having the potential to make a material contribution to WMD or cruise or ballistic missile systems.”

Several questions linger on the subject. For instance, has PCI shared advanced missile technology that would enable Hugo Chávez’s regime to produce and operate long-range missiles? It’s been confirmed that among the agreements with Chávez, Ahmadinedad has transferred technology to Cavim for the manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.

There’s little doubt the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and U.N. against Cavim were triggered, in part, by its relationship with PCI, whose most important details are unknown to the public.

According to experts in Venezuela, the military cooperation between Caracas and Tehran, has always been marked by secrecy.

“The military relationship between Iran and Venezuela has been completely opaque,” said Rocio San Miguel, an expert who chairs Control Ciudadano, a civil organization that monitors the military sector in Venezuela.

“The military agreements are kept secret, and the public parts of those agreements are very general, and do not say much of what’s being agreed upon,” said San Miguel in an interview with Univision News.

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