August 7, 2008 "We are in the presence of a dictatorial government which has given a coup d'état to the constitution... Here we have no constitution, no law and the president does exactly what he wants....In the past few days, [the president] said that if anyone didn't approve of the laws, they could file a challenge with the Supreme Court. But critics of the ... president said that would be futile because six of the seven justices are sympathetic to the president." Truer words have not been spoken. In this case, the protagonist is Hugo Chavez of Venezuela but the exact deeds are replicated in a fast track and with no scrutiny - because it is a lesser known drugs transit nation- by Rafael Correa of Ecuador, currently legitimizing all that should never be legitimized.
This week is notable because these two nations are suffering from the outing of their presidents' rampant seizure of state powers. This exposure, while barely registering inside their own lands because the state controls at least 60 to 70% of all media and frankly because few care anyway, is finally reported, of course with no thanks to Chavista analysts, also called paid propagandists, such as Gregory Wilpert and his entire milieu spread more canard. But The WALL STREET JOURNAL's article called "In Enacticng Decrees, Chavez Makes New Power Grab" tries to shed some light on these shameful and illicit power grabs which leaves no doubt that both Chavez and Correa are not running democratic governments and could care even less. All nations remotely concerned about the Western Hemisphere must take a moment and actually review Chavez's sweeping dictatorial laws and Correa's sweeping dictatorial laws and analyze these texts for what they really are. To date, none have performed this essential constitutional law analysis while false paid Chavista-Cuban style propaganda has gotten shamefully ahead of the facts and supplants data with confused political rhetoric.
Here is Correa, doing what he always does....manipulating and lying while pretending that all is wonderfully well in Ecuador, when it is not:

Presidente ecuatoriano Rafael Correa; AFP
Apparently needing some more cash, as Correa's own regime refuses to disclose what or where Ecuador's finances are bleeding to, Correa continues to steal from others. In his current heists, Correa runs trumped up charges against the Isaias family who are guilty of nothing more that the sheer stupidity and irresponsibility of hiring and paying some of the world's most ridiculous lawyers and lobbyists who have done nothing at all to assist their plight. Echoing the foolishness of the RC TV theft by Hugo Chavez, the Isaias family businesses are not represented credibly to protect or defend their holdings in a place and in this time when rule of law and due process is tossed out the window in favor of state thefts to prop up illicit regimes. Correa's excuse-? He just ` needed the money to help the poor.' Helping the poor for Correa is his shocking excuse for stealing from anything he can or running drugs to profiteer, just as his father did. But helping the so called poor today in Ecuador by Correa is nothing more than campaign bribes to extort his rank and file voters with cash handouts while paying for his very expensive government funded Cuban and Venezuelan DISIP agents coordinated by Dan Fisk and Tom Shannon's new best friend Gustavo Larrea, the DISIP-Cuban spy coordinator of Ecuador, sent to Washington to boost Correa's paid propaganda team, sometimes called publicists and lobbyists. We call them criminal mafias.
Manipulative thinking in the Andes is shown here by the JOURNAL, "While Mr. Chávez remains fairly popular -- with a 56% approval rating -- most Venezuelans don't want him to deepen his "revolution." Polls show 86% of Venezuelans reject using Cuba as a model and 83% want the government to respect private property." The same is true about Ecuador: polls tell us that the debauched and disgustingly aberrant Rafael Correa remains relatively popular, especially seen in his state funded polling of late notable in his state controlled media of late which is estimated to control about 70 to 80% of all Ecuadorean media. Correa is said to be popular but his drive, like Chavez's to keep the one promise Correa has ever made in his life which is to insert the Cuban communist model where no rule of law exists and nothing private exists is repulsive. Once again we call on the United States of America and the OAS to cease and desist funding their hidden operatives from the Soros family pouring organizational supports in to these Cuban model operations in the Andes. Like the National Endowment for Democracy, the Inter American Dialogue has been telling us all for months now that the September election in Ecuador and the local elections in Venezuela in November are all about democracy and that if and only if the USA and the OAS pours more opaque money down the NED rat hole which fronts for Soros and the Dialogue and all their minions of drug legalization and neo Marxism, all will be well. Coming right in on time, the JOURNAL inexplicably sources just this point, " `Everything is related to this upcoming election, and it's hard to imagine he doesn't see this as important in his efforts to keep power,' said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank in Washington D.C." Of course Hakim's partner Michael Shifter rolled out the Dialogue's support for Correa and the FARC last week in the WASHINGTON POST to tell us all that the only thing that will be remembered- the only important issue about Correa's upcoming referenda on his new Cuban Marxist government is the re election capability of Correa. Hakim and Shifter are utterly wrong in their paid analysis of the Andes as usual and we deny their assessments as almost foolish paid propaganda, which is what it is anyway.
As it stands today, there is no democracy in Venezuela or Ecuador and neither election in either nation this Fall will magically restore any semblance of law and order, any functioning "democracy" or the baseline acts of "free or fair" elections. It is time that all Latin nations and Washington, DC performed fact based analysis and stopped funding enablers, liars, propagandists, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces. Tom Shannon and John Negroponte owe it to the U.S. taxpayers to have and hold the best analysis based on facts. To date, they are following the Roger Noriega plan to enable the least path of fact based analysis with all the integrity of a Gay Man's Bath House, based on paid propaganda and innuendo and gossip. This is pathetic. We believe that Secretary Rice and John Negroponte deserve better as do the peoples of the Americas but apparently today they are getting what they ask for which remains inchoate, dishonest and truncated. Being "Chock Full of Nuts" may be good coffee but it is not good policy planning and remains failed intelligence gathering which obviously the U.S. Department of State refuses to perform even as truth tellers from the Andes enable even more of this mischief by not standing united to work toward truth telling.
Contrary to what the Soros efforts funded by the United States and the paid Chavez propagandists tell us about Correa's new Manifesto, such as
" ...On September 28, the people of Ecuador will be asked to vote on a new constitution, drafted over the past eight months by an elected constituent assembly. ...
It expressly forbids foreign military bases on Ecuadorian soil, backing up Correa’s pledge to close the unpopular US airforce base at Manta, on Ecuador’s coast, when its contract expires next year.
Another article recognizes unpaid domestic work as productive labour, making those who perform it eligible for social security.
Undocumented immigrants — particularly refugees — will no longer be considered “illegal”, granting them more rights to stay and work in the country. Compulsory military service will be abolished, and, with some exceptions, genetically modified seeds will be banned.
Some of the new articles may be contentious in the heavily religious country, such as granting equal legal rights for same-sex relationships and guaranteeing “reproductive rights” to women. Both of these articles have drawn strong criticism from the Catholic Church.
If approved, the constitution would make Ecuador the second Latin American country, after Uruguay, to legalise same-sex unions.
The elements of the new constitution most criticised by the right-wing opposition parties, however, are those which threaten their control over Ecuador’s political and economic spheres. In the political sphere, the president will be able to run for a second consecutive term and to dissolve congress and order new elections once during a term. In the economic sphere, there are articles securing greater state control over strategic economic sectors, especially mining, and providing for the redistribution of idle land. "
We begin here and now to correct some of the utter trash about this so called constitution:
First- this is no constitution. It is a manifesto wrapped up in a dizzying array of Articles which are in fact a plebiscite referendum on Correa and his Cuban-Chavez plan to reform Ecuador in direct lock step with Cuba, Iran and Chavez's regional/central planning offices. In fact it is Marxism on the cheap: sub contracted to DISIP and Cuban intelligence agents who actually run the Correa team while buoyed by the dishonest paid propagandists from US AID's Soros actors who desperately seek a new Ecuadorean narcostate and they are very very close now to having and enjoying what they seek.
Second- the so called overpaid assembly gaggle in Montecristi committed fraud and did not write nor debate this so called constitution. As Correa himself revealed and as the facts warrant, the language was mostly prewritten over a year ago by the Viciano Pastor team out of Caracas currently busied with Chavez, Correa and Morales brain-busting buffooneries, also called inserting the Cuban-Marxist governance for the Andes.
Third- it is long past time to review why Correa has shifted Ecuadorean military to paid posts by his team running PetroEcuador, road building, etc while declaring that Ecuador no longer needs military service by conscription. Correa has not been honest about any of his military deals with Iran and Hugo Chavez nor discussed his plans for joint military management of Ecuador by and through Hezbollah and Chavez, notably out of the Manta Base and specifically by his paid goons from DISIP and Cuba, currently working to monitor the Catholic Church and pay off bribes to church goers on their way out of Mass. Correa believes he does not need the police or a national defensive military because Chavez and Cuba are providing all that he needs to maintain law and order even as "order" to Correa simply means complete control of the whole people. There are no rights in Ecuador unless granted by Correa. There is no due process and there is no court systems left. There is no reason for lawyers to practice because there is no law and there is no court system to practice before. Venezuelans learned too late that their own legal teams badly misled them by pretending that magically somehow they might enjoy justice when there is no justice to be had. In Ecuador, the situation is graver.
Fourth- the Catholic Church is not capable of organizing its own corrupt and foolish church leadership to morally combat the evil that is sweeping Ecuador. We of course hope and pray that they do but to date, the Church is evenly split between its own pro Correa Marxists and liars on the make and the Opus Dei fools who are equally as dishonest about their own false piety which is at best a For Show Pony in the ring of depravities. The Bishops of Ecuador, who gave not one ounce of support to the Bishops of Venezuela when their need was most dire and selfishly went along with Rafael Correa's fake church services with fake shamans and fake feathers and fake pieties appear to have woken up from its recent sleep walks through this ethical landscape only to find itself facing full and total take over not only of its religious teachings but its real estate and holdings, also called parochial schools and clinics. Enabling by Ecuadoreans has just gotten very expensive indeed as the Church writ large faces itself what it enabled as perforced against Occidental, TEXACO and the Isaias families: theft, extortion and bribery. Pathetically the Church believed that it was all right to do this to others as long as they were left alone. Indeed all Ecuadoreans have and hold the identical evil moral system today. This is the antithesis of church teaching and societal mores. We remind that it is NOT ok to murder the family next door to you as long as your family is not murdered.
But Ecuadoreans, in the losing position, tell us that the French enablers from the WW II Vichy Government are their role models and they tell us that enabling corruption is all right as long as one's own family is out of the line of fire even as innocents around them fall.
And fall they are and the factual analysis of this new socio-political manifesto for Ecuador looks like Lebanon, Cuba and Zimbabwe with all the integrity thereto. Like any legal issues in Ecuador, the Church must do what it has refused to do for 15 years and coalesce with global truth tellers and for once in 15 years start to act responsibly and stop acting like a manipulative, ignorant housewife from Quito who tell us that freedom is freedom to chose where to go shopping and is granted by Correa/the state and contains nothing more meaningful than that. The Church in Ecuador has a lot of work to do.
But two months is not a long time but miracles can happen. We at ECrisis do believe that Correa's constitution - his Cuban manifesto written in main by Venezuela's paid Marxist take over artists and enabled by the United States of America which illegally pours millions in to the Correa drug legalizing team called Correa's regime through the NED and US AID actors currently lying a lot about their work at "democracy building" in Ecuador is not legitimate and is not democratic. There is no democracy in Ecuador and there is no law and order either. We believe that given half a chance, Correa's constitution will not pass in September just as the Venezuelan language did not pass the year before in Caracas- an almost identical series of language- aka so called constitutions- also seen in La Paz Bolivia by the same team. A side by side of Chavez's paid constitutional writing team's language for Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba and Venezuela prove our point. We have long stated this and note that not once has appropriate intelligence been handed to reviewing the facts of these sweeping regional plans been made.
Indeed, ECrisis has received foolish criticisms from American and Andean souls for our truths that these regional bloc "manifestos" are of and by the coordinators of the Chavez-Correa-Morales constitutional writing teams, mostly made up of Cuban-old Europe Marxists. Of course these attacks on ECrisis are made to justify the illegal fraud underway in these three nations and to continue pouring millions of dollars illegally from the USA in to all supports for these Marxist manifestos. Here is HOY finally reporting scant facts about this paid Cuban-Marxist regional team of so called constitutional writers delivering the new narcozones in the Andes. We at ECrisis remind that we were the first to report this fact and of course were the first to be denounced by the Sorosites running the US Department of State and the OAS. This can be corrected. The Correa, Morales and Chavez ploys are frauds and no sane entity can support them.
This week, the ECONOMIST stated, "Radical socialists hope that a constitutional referendum will transform their country." This is true of Ecuador and Venezuela as it was just written about Bolivia: same authors/same plan.. And soon enough, like Chavez, if Morales and Correa cannot rig their votes enough, they will simply carry on with their illicit dictatorial mandating regimes to enhance their clients also called narcorunners as quality of life fails.
It is essential to focus on the real picture of what is being done here and now. It is a requisite to stop splintering with myriad side bar distractions in the Andes and maintain the real story. To date this has not even been attempted outside meager and useless efforts such as our own ECrisis and a few tiny window dressings in so called protest which amounts to a sneeze in the face of a full juggernaut in sail.
And the reason that all this is gaining like a snowball rolling down a mountain side is a combined lethal cocktail of two main so called justifications for approving the Andean take over by their agents of deceit: primarily all three regimes are enjoined to legalize socialist Marxist states and secondly to install narcostates by caveat.
Full dozens of millions of paid propaganda is pouring in to this war of attrition to support the Soros and FARC plan to craft narcostates in the Andes to grow safe zones for drug running out of Ecuador which today is raising the horrifying new hybrid heroin poppies even as its own pathetic so called constitution declares that most hybrids will be banned. The cover up for all this narcostate transformation is the attractability for any lesbian and gay issues which are decoy issues at best however sincere.
Yes- this is all about installing sovereign Marxist narcostates. There are solutions to preventing this and stopping these cartel take overs.
Have you studied these so called constitutions yet? Correa says he will pass out one million copies of his illegible and certifiably dishonest manifesto- soon. He believes this will absolve him of all transparency issues. As with all that Correa does, we disagree. We are not in the presence of an honest regime but an excessively dishonest team whose intent is to defile democracy and mislead. Meanwhile, Andres Oppenheimer and Roger Noriega foolishly tell us that their paid work reveals that "populism" is not thriving in the Andes today. This "populism" is dictatorial, dishonest and deceitful and anyone who says differently is a liar.
As they say about Venezuela [ and Bolivia] and we say about Ecuador , " We are in the presence of a dictatorial government which has given a coup d'état to the constitution... Here we have no constitution, no law and the president does exactly what he wants..."
Wake up Ecuador. Stop making excuses or the only excuse left will be twenty years of darkness which you brought on yourself by pretending that this is someone else's problem and that while you are busy shopping or watching TV, someone else, while you are hastily spending someone else's money, will fix your self prescribed and highly vaunted ineptitude. We hold your acts in this up or down vote as self evident: you are either with the narcostates/narcoterrorists or you are not.
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
August 6, 2008 ECrisis hopes that all Ecuadoreans will review Correa's so called constitution, which is not a constitution but one of the worst mandates for legitimizing all that should never be legitimized, and vote NO this September.
ECrisis wants you to know that this NO campaign is not seditious and by our hand is not dishonest or unpatriotic but remains.... common sense.
We are not afraid of Rafael Correa and his goons nor are we fearful that truthtellers should run and hide for they must not.
Yesterday, Goldman Sachs noted about Ecuador:
"Questions Arise About Integrity of Constitutional Text
There are growing questions being raised in the local press about the integrity of the final text of the Constitution recently approved by the Constituent Assembly, with some voices claiming new content was introduced in the final text that was not approved in the floor. Many legislators and some observers claim the final text is different on several counts from the version approved by the floor.
Most of the 444 Constitution articles were approved in rushed sessions during the last three days, and there is growing suspicion that the final drafting commission might have altered not only the wording but more importantly the meaning/substance of a number of articles (the local press mentions that 27 articles have been modified). In addition, the opposition is complaining that foreign advisers/consultants might have participated in changing some articles of the Constitution once it was approved by the plenary.
President Correa seems to recognize some flaws and contradictions in the new Constitution, but is taking a holistic view of the new document, campaigning animatedly for its approval.
The opposition claims that such a critical legal text should have been properly debated and drafted, and that the content reflects too closely the political and other interests of the current administration, which is bound to lead to a hyper-presidential system.
The campaign for the September 28 referendum to validate the new Constitution starts on August 13, and we anticipate a spirited debate between the “No” and the pro-government “Yes” camp, as the referendum is widely seen as an implicit plebiscite on the Correa administration."
To be sure, this dry albeit factual analysis from New York contains no political message. Others in the analysis business are not so adept and continue to sell some of the most unacceptable analysis about Ecuador. We already noted Michael Shifter's appallingly decrepit statement in the WASHINGTON POST that the only thing anyone will remember about `Correa's constitution' is his capacity to hold on to his rooms inside Miraflores Palace a bit longer. This is balderdash and a lie of course. The so called constitution of Correa is quite well known for its wholesale sell off of all liberties while enshrining all that is illegitimate. But Shifter is not alone in selling cheap and dishonest analyses to the media.
One of our favorite lies about the Andes gets repeated with all the honesty of a Gay Men's Bath House where rumor runs rampant. The USA's own Roger Noriega and his club irresponsibly repeats more gossip that the FARC's intelligence leader Raul Reyes was killed 3-1-08 by bombs. This is simply Bath House Boys gossip: Reyes was killed as all forensic evidence states clearly- by falling upon one of his own brutally lethal and illegal land mines. Raul Reyes did not die by Colombia's hands as Correa claims a break in Ecuador's sovereignty but Reyes dies because he himself broke all tenants of the UN plus the laws of Ecuador by installing thousands of land mines, each capable of killing almost 20 human beings, around his multi hectare plantation in Ecuador, as Rafael Correa knows very well. The government of Rafael Correa sanctioned those land mines as well as the FARC intelligence headquarters inside Ecuador which also lobbed missiles and bullets back in to Colombia, killing several over the years and approved their usage/residency in abeyance of all international standards. And Reyes died as he lived- deceptively and all the while paying Rafael Correa's team, along with bundled intelligence operatives under the lethally evil Gustavo Larrea- for so called protection. Even Correa could not protect Reyes from his own evil.
But Roger Noriega does not tell us this. Instead he writes that Chavez, Morales and Correa are on their way out: failures. This troika of evil doers should truly be on their way out but they are not departing any time soon as even today each is strengthening their dictatorships while no one- no one at all- lifts one hand to help stop this. Noriega’s inchoate piece here discredits the American Enterprise Institute just as Noriega discredited the people of the USA when he took a lot of money from the government of Ecuador to tell us all that it was wonderful for Ecuador to steal from OCCIDENTAL and other USA companies. Noriega also discredited the American people when he abused US tax dollars to tell the world that the USA approved Chavez's abuse of electioneering to jigger Venezuelan elections when Chavez has repeatedly stolen elections. Theft of anything is not wonderful and Noriega needs to apologize and return all the monies he took from Ecuador's government before he owns one ounce of credibility to speak about the removal of Chavez's dictatorial and criminal cartel-communism in the Andes.
Roger Noriega again tells us about Hugo Chavez: "...His acolytes in Bolivia and Ecuador are losing legitimacy with each passing day, as their sponsor in Caracas licks his wounds. Back home Chávez has had to resort to technicalities to prevent popular opposition figures from competing in upcoming regional and local elections. Even though he has used the police powers of the state to impose his absolute control over the courts, national assembly, and electoral commission, food shortages, rampant crime, and staggering corruption have left him increasingly unpopular. Chávez's supporters in the military and within his own Bolivarian movement are left to wonder whether his reckless, immoral support for terrorists will lead to their indictment by the United States or lead them into another war they cannot win. In short, the man who pretended to be the representative of the eternal Simon Bolivar appears to be running out of time."
We at ECrisis approvingly get the point- and it is somewhat well made by this impartial and sophomoric analysis of the Andes by Noriega, that the Chavez-Correa-Morales troika is repulsive. Noriega is honest to state that Chavez is "reckless and corrupt"- and to many irresponsible and repulsive Andean citizens those are assets- Chavez's good points. But Noriega is utterly incorrect that this gang of extortionists and dictators is "losing legitimacy" today. These liars, sometimes called presidents of democracies, which is also untrue, never ever once had any legitimacy: there is no legitimacy by their hands to lose and anyone who pretends otherwise is a fool. Then again, Noriega pretended that Hugo Chavez had lots of legitimacy when he lost every vote held since 2002 by lying about the votes and jiggering the very norms at bay and has yet to stop jiggering/manipulating all that was Venezuela and now the entire Andes.
But the worst canard ever spewed by the always enabling and intellectually dishonest Noriega is this: “In June, the United States government formally sanctioned a senior Venezuelan diplomat for supporting the terrorist group, Hezbollah. It is very clear that U.S. authorities are carefully reviewing the close cooperation between the Chávez camp and the FARC, and senior Venezuelan officials may face U.S. sanctions for their complicity." We say that this is dishonest because the government of the United States is in no way whatsoever, except for the most tepid and dishonest projects, supporting one modicum of sanctioning Chavez or Correa or Morales for their criminal cartel governments. We do applaud and compliment the United State for what extremely small efforts to date it has proffered although much more needs to be accomplished. No indeed- the National Endowment for Democracy, also called the Soros activists, inexplicably remains in the driver's seat at the U.S. Department of State/US AID and consistently self pay their own Soros crony groups to make false reports to John Negroponte of the USA to tell us all that the November elections in Venezuela will see a sea change against Chavez and that Rafael Correa's Plan Ecuador must be blessed to craft a new FARC safe zone in Northern Ecuador which they tell us will bring peace for the environmentalists and that Evo Morales will permit democracy's return to Bolivia. None of this is true and all of this is a disaster. Besides, anyone who ever ever relies on Luigi Einaudi's own Roger Noriega or even Peter Romero en famille to tell the facts about the Andes is a fool for believing that, like coitus interruptus, there was nothing going on there. We remind that true evil lives inside Miraflores Palace and inside Carondelet Palace in Quito and anyone who tells you differently is lying. The sum total of the generally faceless feeders of US policy monies in the Anders are controlled by the Soros policies today which have nothing to do with US laws and regulations by choice although they all duly report reams of lies about their so called work. And as much as we applaud the United States for doing just a little something- two or three efforts here or there- the sum total of doing too much, too little too late replicates enabling, direct assistance in the millions of wasted dollars and a bizarre support for retaining the dictatorships that do today run Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela out of greed and never out of improving quality of life. The entire undemocratic governments of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela are in fact criminal cartels run like extortion rings to enrich their rackets and anyone who says differently is a liar. These nations are not increasingly undemocratic: they are undemocratic and have been for quite some time.
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
August 4, 2008 Ecuador is rolling out one of the most expensive propaganda campaigns, flush with payments made no doubt from co mingled stolen funds from numerous confiscated North American and domestic businesses, to lie a lot to the world to tell us all that what we do know is not so. Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a life long Marxist-socialist has spent his life lying a lot and manipulating everything that he touches, when he is not busy being fired from post to post. He needs to be fired from Miraflores Palace today. Under Correa's criminal regime, Ecuador has plunged further in to the Hell of its own making under the inept but sexually addicted Lucio Gutierrez in to the inept strong arm tactics of the sociopathically addicted /pathological liars club of Correa. These addictions to corruption are getting Ecuador what it deserves: revulsion.
ECrisis commends the LATIN BUSINESS CHRONICLE's current piece: -you can read it here-
The CHRONICLE editors note that Ecuador today is lying about its qualifications for ATPDEA justifications and even misled NEWSWEEK magazine lately. This is so. In fact, nothing uttered by the Correa team remotely resembles verifiable data or justifies any support for this criminal cartel in Quito. The CHRONICLE calls this hypocritical. We call it- knowingly and illegally lying before the government of the United States which is itself illegal and is so reprehensible that it cannot even bring itself to insure U.S. regulatory enforcement while hastily trying to justify its millions wasted on encouraging and supporting and feeding this criminal cartel in Quito called the Correa cabal.
Commenting on Correa's DISIP-Cuban Intelligence co coordinator, also called Intelligence Minister, the article states, " `Minister Larrea would do well to dedicate his efforts to shoring up the rule of law rather than conducting a charm offensive,' argues John Murphy, the vice president of international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. `Concerns about the rule of law in Ecuador pose a real threat to any continuation of these benefits for Ecuador,' he wrote in a recent commentary.
HYPOCRITICAL
Murphy is right. It seems amazingly hypocritical to violate U.S. companies' contracts in Ecuador on the one hand and then expect that the United States will reward Ecuador with preferential treatment under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). The act will expire at the end of the year unless the U.S. Congress approves an extension (as it done on previous occasions). "
This article notes that Ecuador does not deserve an APTDEA free trade give away because Ecuador does not keep rule of law- that is, steals from North American and European nations and lies about it.
Both John Murphy, who has made a career of failing to support rule of law reforms in Ecuador until his tepid return to eschewing international norms of late to bolster the deceit from Quito about Chevron Texaco and the government of Ecuador have much to explain for their wholesale abandonment of the facts. While we applaud the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its recent warning that rule of law does not exist any longer in Ecuador, the U.S. Chamber has itself funded and notably enthused numerous activities and actors from Ecuador who themselves have long, like US AID's paid contractors, been notably anti-rule of law and counter to international standards for upholding normative law. That the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's lead Latin employee, in his CHAMBER POST here finally gets around to emptying his past Chamber Pots of canard and finally makes a tepid, feeble effort to share some truisms is not exactly too much too little too late but it comes very very close. Mr. Murphy has a track record of claiming to support anti corruption rule of law in the Andes but a track record, along with the U.S. Department of State's minions of mayhem called their Soros-based and socialist-Marxist minions which verifiably exudes years of slamming the door in the face of functional constitutional and rule of law reforms in Ecuador. Ignoring years of non rule of law efforts in Quito as effort after effort to debase the facts grew has led to the current avalanche of criminality in Quito. Like chickens clucking before numerous "think tank" and "association" efforts along with years and years of excuses and utter and willful abandonment of data and facts, the chickens of dishonor keep growing in this Andean zone. And now Mr. Murphy's chickens have come home to roost with the current regime in Quito's utterly dishonest and depraved behaviors regarding anything to do with anything: the disingenuously disastrous take over of anything legitimate in Ecuador has gone too far. Indeed, Rafael Correa's crowning achievement is his current so called constitution which should be his last erection for it is indeed the denouement of all that freedom seekers seek while legitimizing all that is illegitimate.
We hope that Mr. Murphy finds his voice as we wish him well on his virginal, seminal voyage in to stating the facts about Ecuador and his initial, first time ever rallying cry that rule of law is dead in Ecuador. Not that Mr. Murphy pulled the trigger but by ignoring these realities as rule of law was abandoned and raped over the last five years in Ecuador, Mr. Murphy has a track record of abandoning the essentials of commerce- any commerce. He joins the U.S. Embassy in Quito, US AID flacks for anti Americanism and the Correa boobs. We sincerely hope that he finally helps his member companies stand for the facts, although for the past several years, all he has done is make excuses for the darkening cess pool that is Ecuador which has led to this moment. Indeed we join in applauding John Murphy for his nascent efforts to find some manhood somewhere in all this when all around him are liars, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces, wined and dined by Tom Shannon at the U.S. Department of State and feted by the Inter American Dialogue-CSIS team and numerous U.S. Congressional offices. The always evil Gustavo Larrea even reports that he was met with White House officials from the National Security Council and was blessed with agents from the Obama and McCain teams, as he duly propagandized that all is well in Washington.
Indeed, Larrea reported back to Correa after last week's magical mystery tour that with regards to the American people- he came, he saw and he kicked some ass...by lying and refusing to state the facts. To be sure, Mr. Correa's intranational Cuban intelligence spy coordinator Mr. Larrea was assisted in his propaganda efforts by not only the U.S. Department of State but also Homeland Security [DHS] - ICE which forgot to perform its basic tasks and yank Larrea's VISA in order to assist the utterly flawed Chris Arcos in securing yet another propaganda contract to assist these Ecuadorean criminals. It must have been a great day for Ecuador's paid propagandists from the Soros teams of Fenton Communications, the legal firm boasting Paul Reichler, and assorted Soros and Barack Obama propagandists such as Mr. Barnes, Mr. Donziger and assorted others close to Fenton, Soros, Correa and Barack Hussein Obama. This team is all on one page today and their effect is to enshrine a narco state in the Andes called Correa's Ecuador. While outgoing U.S. ambassador Jewell called this paid Correa drug supporting activists team her "dear friends" we call them liars and seditious.
Aiding and abetting the criminal cartel that is Correa's communist team in Quito by U.S. leaders- elected, unelected and paid for by U.S. tax dollars- shows us that not one profile in courage strode the stage. No Leviathan held the advantage over the last few years regarding Ecuador and the known free world nor were any honest efforts made in this tragic tale. As anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows, the Correa cabal is co-funded with FARC drug runners and laboratory criminals along with Hugo Chavez's funds plus the formal marriage to Iran and all that this means.
The CHRONICLE correctly states, "...U.S. lawmakers would do well to deny Ecuador any ATPDEA extension until it starts respecting the rule of law, especially for U.S. companies that have invested in the country."
But NEWSWEEK, which apparently printed its non facts as if handed to Isikoff by none other than Correa's paid hacks named Paul Reichler and propagandists Fenton Communications, representing the illegal money from the Correa team to enjoin the fake law suits against Chevron Texaco, noted recently:
LOBBYING
A $16 Billion Problem
Chevron hires lobbyists to squeeze Ecuador in toxic-dumping case. What an Obama win could mean.
Eduardo Valenzuela / AP
Toxic: Indigenous workers in western Ecuador
By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 26, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Aug 4, 2008
Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five years in a steamy jungle courtroom in Ecuador's Amazon rain forest. Brought by a group of U.S. trial lawyers on behalf of thousands of indigenous Indian peasants, the suit accuses Chevron of responsibility for the dumping (allegedly conducted by Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001) of billions of gallons of toxic oil wastes into the region's rivers and streams. Activists describe the disaster as an Amazon Chernobyl. The plaintiffs—some suffering from cancer and physical deformities—have showed up in court in native garb, with painted faces and half naked. Chevron vigorously contests the charges and has denounced the entire proceeding as a "shakedown."
But this spring, events for Chevron took an ominous turn when a court-appointed expert recommended Chevron be required to pay between $8 billion and $16 billion to clean up the rain forest. Although it was not the final verdict, the figures sent shock waves through Chevron's corporate boardroom in San Ramon, Calif., and forced the company for the first time to disclose the issue to its shareholders. It has also now spawned an unusually high-powered battle in Washington between an army of Chevron lobbyists and a group of savvy plaintiff lawyers, one of whom has tapped a potent old schoolmate—Barack Obama.
Chevron is pushing the Bush administration to take the extraordinary step of yanking special trade preferences for Ecuador if the country's leftist government doesn't quash the case. A spokesman for U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab confirmed that her office is considering the request. Attorney Steven Donziger, who is coordinating the D.C. opposition to Chevron, says the firm is "trying to get the country to cry uncle." He adds: "It's the crudest form of power politics."
Chevron's powerhouse team includes former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, former Democratic senator John Breaux and Wayne Berman, a top fund-raiser for John McCain—all with access to Washington's top decision makers. (A senior Chevron exec has met with Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on the matter.) Chevron argues that it has been victimized by a "corrupt" Ecuadorean court system while the plaintiffs received active support from Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa—an ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. The company says a loss could set a dangerous precedent for other U.S. multinationals. "The ultimate issue here is Ecuador has mistreated a U.S. company," said one Chevron lobbyist who asked not to be identified talking about the firm's arguments to U.S. officials. "We can't let little countries screw around with big companies like this—companies that have made big investments around the world."
But Chevron's foes are not without their own resources. Just recently, Donziger and other trial lawyers in the case retained their own high-profile D.C. superlobbyist, Ben Barnes, a major Democratic fund-raiser. And they have tapped a capital connection that may pay off even more. Roughly two years ago, when Donziger first got wind that Chevron might take its case to Washington, he went to see Obama. The two were basketball buddies at Harvard Law School. In several meetings in Obama's office, Donziger showed his old friend graphic photos of toxic oil pits and runoffs. He also argued strongly that Chevron was trying to subvert the "rule of law" by doing an end run on an Ecuadorean legal case. Obama was "offended by that," said Donziger. Obama vetted the issue with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy (who has long worked on Latin American human-rights issues), and in February 2006 the two wrote a letter to the then U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman urging the administration to permit the Ecuadorean peasants to have "their day in court."
The Obama letter, written before the senator had even announced his run for president, is now the wild card in the Ecuador-Chevron dispute. Donziger said he has had no further discussions with Obama on the issue (although he has co-hosted a New York fund-raiser and, together with his wife, rose between $40,000 and $50,000 for Obama's campaign). An Obama spokesman last week said the senator "stands by his position" that the case is a "matter for the Ecuadorean judicial system." So now the prospect of an Obama presidency has given additional urgency to Chevron's plea for help in Washington. Waiting until next year could leave the oil giant at the mercy of a judge in the Amazon jungle.
With Stephan Küffner in Quito
While making great efforts to correct the NEWSWEEK article that Chevron TEXACO did not lie to its shareholders and Board of Directors by refusing to inform them of the dire roster of law suits against the corporation, as required by U.S. securities law, pretending once again that Chevron's utterly ignorant welter of lobbyists and lawyers can save their bottom line, so to speak from the Soros-Obama-Chavez team at their gates, we are not so upbeat about the composite, pending bankruptcy of a once vibrant company who stands to lose its will to thrive because its sole mistake, mimicking the Isaias family, was to retain some of the globe's silliest lawyers in Quito and across the USA in an essentially lazy, irresponsible strategy which is typically Ecuadorean. .
Ecuador does not deserve another U.S. taxpayer give away called the ATPDEA extension because Ecuador does not demonstrably honor the last three letters of the Agreement- the DEA. And has in no way done so for many years as we all know. Ecuador just freed all its drug runners from prison, not that it ever arrested very many anyway. Ecuador is a narcostate which provides narcotics labs and transshipping. Meanwhile, one and all want to pretend that it is just all right to ignore the probable fact that Chavez's own oil tankers, often called the inexplicably well protected monopoly TRAFIGURA is not running contraband along with Chavez's mainstay off the books spot oil, which is of course feeding the Andean cartels and the current welter of double agents across London, Moscow and the USA.
It is credulous to ask....just who is the hypocrite here?
While Ecuador's need is most dire, who stands to assist functional truth tellers? Certainly not the U.S. Department of State with its doubled budget to feed even more liars and propagandists in Ecuador, dishonestly calling their over funded projects democracy building when it has not be thus for years. Certainly not the Barack Hussein Obama team of Soros actors who actually believe that law and order is not helpful to deliver their goal of narcozones across Latin America. We believe that it is not in the interests of the free world to enable illegal oil traders who also transport narcotics as well as legalize all that should be illegal. And as yet no help comes from the lazy and irresponsible Ecuadoreans who today tell us that freedom only means the free choice to decide which shopping center to visit, which cruise ship they may chose, and which alcoholic beverage to imbibe.
After the past two weeks, while Gustavo Larrea was busy lying to the United States and Correa's team was busy penning even more deals with the utterly evil government of Iran, the USA cannot even bring itself to stop supporting the legitimization of all that is illegitimate, called the Correa constitution up for a vote on 9-28-08, if you can call this a vote. This repulsive picture is more like it as Correa's team enjoins the FARC and Hezbollah to make Ecuador replicate the Cuban-Lebanese failed state status or better named:
Feeding the Criminal Cartels Currently Running Quito: 
Here are the facts: Ecuador is a narcostate helping craft a narcozone. Ecuador neither has nor holds any rule of law today because it is utterly lawless under Rafael Correa and will indeed enshrine the cartel regime should its new so called constitution, co funded by the debauched Soros-US AID teams in Quito- passes. It is time to actually deliver the facts about this disaster and take all those chickens out of the roost and feed them some Viagra.
Pretending that rule of law's death in Ecuador did not matter cost American businesses at least $60 billion in probable losses which some clever industrialist may hold the USG responsible for misleading its investors even as the State Department's own web site today on Ecuador is guilty still of lying to the public. Pretending that this effort will be honest and funding that AMCHAM in Quito to lie some more has not helped either. Instead of pouring millions in to fake rule of law and lying to the United States about its real acts, the United States could hold Ecuador accountable instead of enabling, sometimes called deceptive diplomacy and abandonment of principles, and stick to the facts which remain barred where Ecuador is concerned. Indeed, one could start with a factual review of the Correa-Chavez and Iranian agreements. One could actually bar the sale of Predator drones for the Correa-Chavez-Iranian drug runners planning a free for all in Manta starting this January, 2009. And for the last time, render a legitimate analysis of the so called Ecuadorean constitution. Read it- know it- and stop supporting this legitimization of all that should never be legitimized.
We are delighted that Mayor Nebot of Guayaquil has made an initial stand against this cartel in Quito. Of late, Blasco's Chamber of Commerce in Quito joined the fray and we do mean of late. This week that Chamber will publicly begin to denounce the YES Campaign. Like the Chevron-Texaco law suit in Quito, the NO VOTE campaign in Ecuador will of course fail because it has not yet stood on principle nor promoted the essentials of what is happening while assiduously delivering lazy, chock a block flawed, disjointed, and irresponsible plans which do not defend the truth and still yet grievously intend to manipulate the truth as they have always done, pretending that a little integrity is all right for some but not for Ecuadoreans whose suicidal addiction to manipulative behaviors remains in tact.. The overpaid lazy Chevron-TEXACO protagonists, like all Ecuadoreans, need to learn the essential lesson that freedom seekers and truth tellers’ needs must hang together under integrity's banner or they will hang alone. To date, Chevron TEXACO has just wasted even more precious resources and legitimacy by depending on a failed strategy to send in the third rail- trade associations to do its work. This never succeeds because no one is better represented by anything except one's true self. Chevron of course is today hoisted on its own petard for its enthusiasm for Hugo Chavez's dirty dealings which exhibits its fine hand by denouncing Chevron TEXACO and will see this previously decent company in receivership for all its double dealings today which are startlingly different than how TEXACO played its cards. There is no rule of law in Ecuador but there is a massive juggernaut of Correa cartel actors and U.S.-funded so called NGOs of liars and deceivers whose aim is the end of integrity. There is also a huge need to empty their Chamber Pots of flawed actors, infiltrators, bribed and extorted complicit creatures who could care less about the fate of their nation....as it dies.
Like Chevron, should truth tellers rely on these Chambers to relay the facts, they will lose as they have lost over the last six or so years.
To win, start by standing up and telling the truth.
Remarkably, the ECONOMIST here for the first time in a very very long time reports some of the facts from the Andes. The ECONOMIST calls this The Good Life for Correa and His Lawyers and states,
Correa dictates his socialist credo
And if the ECONOMIST tells us that Correa has dictated his socialist credo, also called his Manifesto or so-called constitution, what is the reward for the USA to encourage this screed- this fake constitution which is an effrontery to normative behaviors? Why would the USA pour millions in to the chamber pot of illegality? Is it that important to pay back the Soros team of one worlders seeking to legitimize all that should never be legitimized just because one and all believe foolishly that liberty comes with no law under the benefits of Barack Hussein Obama's triumph? Is that what it is? How else to explain the complete roll over by the USA to share and spread the lies that Soros and Obama will craft more narcostates to help us all?
The article notes, “IF ONLY size, novelty and good intentions were everything when it came to constitutions, Ecuador would be a paradise. The document approved on July 25th by a Constituent Assembly dominated by supporters of Rafael Correa, the leftist president, is a 444-article behemoth. If approved by a referendum on September 28th, it will become Ecuador’s 20th constitution and the third in as many decades. It is nothing if not politically correct: it bans foreign military bases, promises a “just wage” and enshrines manifold rights, including that to sumak kawsay, or “good living” in Quichua, one of two indigenous languages whose use it now makes official alongside Spanish. Whether it will improve real life in a chronically misgoverned country is another matter."
Contrary to the dishonest Michael Shifter of Georgetown University and US AID and Soros's own propaganda team called the Inter American Dialogue who soothed the dishonest Marcella Sanchez of the WASHINGTON POST last week that the only thing anyone will remember about Correa's constitution is that Correa will gain the legitimacy to keep getting re elected, we find that this is once again cynical propaganda to assist the Correa-Chavez-FARC-Iranian team currently overpopulating Ecuador and Venezuela...and sometimes the aberrant failed state called Bolivia.
What is notable is the assiduous, in your face support of every single lying useless sack of horse droppings who pretend that Correa's so called constitution is legitimate when it denounces all that the OAS is supposed to stand for, not to mention the USA and the EU, what ever it is that they stand for.
Whenever a so called constitution specifically and notably legalizes the removal- the banishment - of neoliberal goals there can be no mistaking what this means, no matter how lazy or irresponsible one has become. It means that the end of legitimacy will be legalized, no matter what the status of Rafael Correa's job search.
What Correa has done over the last 18 months and will continue to do as long as the OAS and the USA keep feeding his efforts to make the best the enemy of the good is indeed the formal end to rule of law in Ecuador. All who have helped turn this nation into lawlessness will have much to rejoice. Their 7 year long efforts are about to pay off big time and as such, Ecuador will henceforth enjoy the same status as Lebanon, Palestine and Zimbabwe.
This is not the good life.
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
Manipulations Over the Top in State Cartel Merger Plans with Iran and Chavez
August 3, 2008 ECrisis notes that the government of Rafael Correa is all about lying and manipulating its own realities to cover over its vast criminal deceptions. This is a racketeering pattern which hallmarks the Correa team of liars, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces who should be in jail at once.
Needless to say, when the TERAN TIMES gushes about the government of Ecuador formally opening trade offices in Iran last week, any but the most ridiculous denier of reality should be repulsed. The Iranian state owned and controlled media, currently a business partner to spread even more propaganda about its criminal adventures with Venezuela and Ecuador, reported, "Maria Isabel Salvador expressed her happiness at the opening of Ecuador’s commercial office in Iran on Thursday. She pointed out that Ecuador wants to cooperate with as many countries as possible during its four-year economic plan of 2007-2011. Ecuador’s policy is to expand its relationship with many countries across the globe and open up its economy to more competition...She said that in the meeting they discussed ways to expand and strengthen the two countries’ cooperation. She also expressed hope that opening the commercial office in Tehran will help expand cooperation between the two countries. "
Salvador's words are sounding benign...until one grows up and honestly reviews/does due diligence on the Ecuadoreans' scams: there is not one iota of economic competition attractability to investors for Ecuador under the current regime because the current regime only attracts opaque criminal cartels and has driven off any sustainable business effort in Ecuador.
Indeed, why would any enjoy building up the Iranian cartels through hidden accounts in Ecuador unless one's entity was like Lebanese businesses- willing to sell out entire moral and legal codes simply to appear as a new rich idiot? Such ethics have debased and debilitated the Lebanese who are now a people without a nation and hold no government, just lots of complaints and a failed state overcome by Iran's Hezbollah. Whining, complaining and pretending that one is powerless to stop the overcoming of Ecuador by the utterly debilitating Iranian take over, assisted by Chavez and Cuba, is not only morally reprehensible but defines Ecuadoreans for what they are- lazy, self absorbed idiots whose greed as now formally extended to the Iranian state is a fact. Non ethical behaviors are today an epidemic, especially in Ecuador where formally nothing is rewarded that bears even the remotest semblance of integrity or culturally saving norms. This nation is run by goofy aberrant adolescents with major chips on their shoulders who whine a lot, lie a lot and have no clue how to act responsibly. These schlubbs are taught to behave this way since birth. The TIMES of London today notes that, "We’ve managed over the past 20 years or so to create a new generation of child-men, perpetual adolescents who see no point in growing up. By indulging every appetite instead of recognizing the importance of self-control and commitment, we’ve ratified the [selfish] id." In fact, at the heart of this addiction to manipulation is an ethos of selfishness and greed masked by non commitment to anything except the singular self which refuses to actually develop a commitment in the responsible arenas of life.
And that selfish and deceptive irresponsibility is up for ratification in the 9-28-08 Ecuadorean so called constitutional vote.
Pretending to gain freedom in Ecuador with a so called new constitution while selling the national soul to Iran and Chavez of Venezuela will expose even further the dishonesty of the manipulative life changing efforts underway. Ecuadoreans are now agents not just of Chavez's DISIP but Hezbollah and Hamas. Rafael Correa wants you to know that this is a great money maker. We completely disagree with Correa's fascism.
.In fact, we hope that some enterprising American journalist who still is concerned about writing the facts interviews Sra Correa currently living off of someone else's hard work inside the United States of America where, with some admirable exceptions but truly very few and far between, almost every single Ecuadorean residing in the USA is known to live well because someone else did the hard work- and never ever any Ecuadorean. In fact almost zero Ecuadoreans in the last ten years have ever lifted one selfish little finger to secure freedom's promise or defend God's gifts to mankind- the right to life and liberty. To be sure, these unwelcome exemplars of selfish living tell us that it is "beneath" them to work to support he USA or that they are too busy "shopping" to care one modicum, about anything. But la madre de Correa no doubt has a compelling tale to tell. And by the way- who pays her rent? Today this inertia of the lazy and irresponsibly unmanned of Ecuador tells us that they are "too busy" and that the work is beneath them to fight to retain freedom. You get what you want and if Ecuadoreans want Cuban Marxism with that special touch of Iranian fascism and criminality, this they will have because....this is what they wanted whether by unmanly default or by aberrant thinking. Either way, democracy's death and disgrace are on the line and its saving graces will never be found...shopping off of Brickell Avenue. We all know the answer to this matter because not one decision maker has insisted on reviewing Correa's formal agreements with Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while denial continues to erode integrity.
Where is la madre Sra. Correa [previously known as the abused, battered dishonest wife of a drug dealer with the Alfaristas and Shinning Path, cousins to the FARC] and why is she living off of someone else's money and benefiting from someone else's sacrifice inside the USA???
If this is the symbol of Ecuador- the face of Ecuadorean motherhood [and it is], that is the mother of all manipulators: know the reasons why and know that there is help to undo dishonesty which is always corrected by honest living.
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
July 30, 2008 ECrisis recalls Ronald Reagan's stirring words at the Brandenberg Gate in 1987: "... leaders understood the practical importance of liberty -- ...truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom."
Fortunately, we have the stirring reminder of the God-given inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness underscored in the United States and by the stirring homilies from Cardinal Castillo Lara of Venezuela who knew first hand that no state should abridge/deny what God has given to mankind and that is to take away his essential liberty, which of course leads to imprisonment of the soul, dishonesty when truth telling is denounced and every depravity and double dealing we witness today by the Rafael Correa team, currently cutting even more hidden, criminal deals with the government of Iran.
Guayaquil's Bishop Arregui began to speak some truth to power recently as the Ecuadorean Bishops commented not on the politics of Rafael Correa's disastrous and ruinous plans to plunge Ecuador in to decades of darkness and crime but instead focused on the right to vote this September 28, 2008 and the urgency to know what you are voting about. To be sure, the Church in Ecuador is a morass of dazed and confused theologians who have encouraged state theft and corruption to assuage the state's extortionary threats against the Catholic Church in Ecuador. We fervently pray that the Church in Ecuador ends its love affair with manipulative fake religiosity and stands united for truth, justice and clear ethical performances even though across the past decade it has not. The Bishop gives us a tiny hope that the Church might yet cease its addiction to manipulative behaviors as he begins to unite, seen in HOY here:
"EL PROYECTO CONSTITUCIONAL
Los Obispos de la Iglesia Católica en el Ecuador nos hemos reunido para conocer el proyecto de nueva Constitución que será sometido a referéndum popular el próximo mes de septiembre.
No nos corresponde como Obispos asumir una actitud política. Nos corresponde, en cambio, iluminar las conciencias de los católicos con la doctrina del Evangelio para que tomen una decisión responsable y en conciencia, ante Dios y la sociedad.
En sintonía con un sentir mayoritario, ajenos a los pronunciamientos y a la propaganda de los diversos grupos políticos, nos apoyamos ahora en el Concilio Vaticano II: "Es de justicia que pueda la Iglesia en todo momento predicar la fe con auténtica libertad, enseñar su doctrina sobre la sociedad y dar su juicio moral, incluso sobre materias referentes al orden político, cuando lo exijan los derechos fundamentales de la persona o la salvación de las almas". No nos alineamos con nadie, somos los mismos desde hace dos mil años.
En el contexto del servicio a los valores humanos fundamentales, hemos de afirmar, sin ceder a presiones del entorno, el valor sagrado de la dignidad de cada ser humano. La dignidad de la persona y la defensa de los derechos que de tal dignidad se derivan deben ser el objetivo de todo proyecto social y de todo esfuerzo por llevarlo a cabo.
Hemos apreciado los Obispos en forma unánime que el proyecto de Constitución ha recogido enunciados generosos acerca de la centralidad de la persona entre los fines de la sociedad, en la economía, la educación y la salud, con énfasis en la promoción de los pobres. Se trata de aspectos en que ha insistido siempre la Iglesia. Aunque echamos de menos la mención de los procesos para la lucha contra la pobreza y la corrupción.
Se han notado, sin embargo, inconsecuencias respecto a otros fundamentales enunciados, como el del aborto, la familia, la educación y la libertad religiosa.
Los Obispos del Ecuador consideran que se trata de puntos – tal como los ha definido el Papa Benenedicto XVI – "no negociables", que exigen una actitud clara de parte de los creyentes y personas de buena voluntad. Marcamos aquí esquemáticamente las razones de nuestro desacuerdo con el texto constitucional, sabiendo que éste rechazo es compartido con más de 800.000 firmas entregadas a la Asamblea Constituyente y también por los hermanos cristianos evangélicos y otros ecuatorianos de buena voluntad:
1. La persona humana existe antes que el Estado. En una democracia real el Estado está al servicio de la persona y de la sociedad y no las personas y la sociedad al servicio de Estado. Descubrimos que el estatismo parece ser un hilo conductor de la nueva Constitución. En ella se habla, por supuesto, de derechos; pero muchos de estos derechos fluyen del Estado, violentando así la creatividad y responsabilidad de las personas y de la sociedad.
2. No se reconoce claramente el derecho a la vida desde la concepción. Sin mencionar el término "aborto", el proyecto constitucional deja la puerta abierta a la supresión de la nueva creatura en el seno de la madre. En un contexto ambiguo, el art. 46 establece el reconocimiento y garantía de la vida, sin referencia a la concepción, y el cuidado y protección del niño desde su concepción, sin referencia a la vida.
Luego, en el marco de los "derechos sexuales y reproductivos", el mismo texto reconoce a toda persona el poder de decidir cuando y cuántos hijos "tener" (se entiende aún después de haberlos procreado), asumiendo así la aceptación del aborto.
3. Se atenta en contra de la familia como célula fundamental de la sociedad y del bien común. La nueva Constitución desdibuja la familia, cuando rechaza la existencia de la "familia tipo", para sustituirla con distintos "tipos de familia". De ahí se pasa a equiparar a la familia la unión de personas del mismo sexo. Hacemos notar que los derechos de las personas homosexuales se encuentran garantizados en la legislación común, en el marco de la no discriminación.
4. En la educación es más patente aún el estatismo. El derecho de los progenitores y el reconocimiento de la libertad de enseñanza vienen contradichos cuando el Estado se arroga el derecho de determinar lo que se tiene que enseñar y lo que se tiene que ignorar. Bajo la afirmación de que la educación es un servicio público, se considera la educación particular y fiscomisional como una mera concesión del Estado y no como una expresión del derecho de los padres de familia. Aunque el Gobierno actual siga todavía "delegando" a establecimientos particulares la facultad de educar, no hay ninguna garantía de futuro, cuando el Estado adquiere la facultad de regulación y control de todos los aspectos de la educación.
No agotamos en este análisis los puntos que son de importancia para una conciencia cristiana. Es preciso que cada ciudadano con derecho al voto profundice sobre estas y otras razones, implorando la sabiduría divina. Seremos, en el referendum, tan responsables como los propios legisladores respecto de las estructuras jurídicas y sociales que regirán al Ecuador del futuro.
Elevemos nuestras oraciones al Señor, por la intercesión de nuestros santos, para que nos bendiga siempre.
SECRETARIA GENERAL DE LA CONFERENCIA EPISCOPAL ECUATORIANA
Quito, julio 28 de 2008"
We at ECrisis applaud and commend the Bishops. Tragically, their statement only gave short shrift to the inalienable rights given by God which are stripped/removed/barred by the new Correa constitution in favor of handing the one central actor in all this- Rafael Correa- full dictatorial powers which of course he already enjoys. The Bishops need to get their message cleaned up and stop massaging and manipulating their mission and their job and stand united with the Vatican on the inherent values of functional liberty- not the heavily truncated Ecuadorean version of fake freedom as described by Opus Dei adherents in Ecuador where liberty is known as that which is easily sold to the highest racketeer and readily abandoned and functionally supported only as simply the choice between soap operas or where to go shopping. Freedom is freedom for all- not just cable TV viewers. The Church in Ecuador, which has much egg on its face for its mostly shameful and irresponsible failure to stand for anything except appeasement and enabling more criminal behaviors by the state and its citizenry, needs to get out of the way and let the Vatican assist in supporting freedom lovers and truth telling in Ecuador because the local Church abysmally sold out long ago while calling its bizarre version of liberation theology as "helpful" when it has blessed the current enshrinement of liberty-ending disasters.
No longer is this matter simply one of public piety or how long one is piously on display or is on one's knees. False piety never sustained the church anyway, as the current Pope keeps reminding us. This matter facing Ecuador is grave and its very future is on the line.
-Pedro Camargo

VICTORY LAPS UNWELCOME
July 28, 2008 The United States of America inexplicably supported the astonishingly inappropriate roll out of pure evil across its government last week of Ecuadorean perps, propagandists, liars and ninnyhammers. It was a roll out worthy of Fenton Communicatons astroturffers and propagandists. This dizzying array of liars -most of who should be in jail- has cost the USA credibility even as the Andean Desk at State Department self congratulates itself for its gay abandon of core principles and extols the virtues of its appeasement with criminals policy behind the back of Secretary Rice and President Bush.
We reprint here the jolly happy face of Ecuadorean evil: Gustavo Larrea. Of all his myths and lies- and every word is a whopper- we take special umbrage of his claim that the new democratic constitution of Ecuador will craft much needed stability in Ecuador. This is a bald lie. What Correa's so called constitution does is to actually kill liberty and inserts a totalitarian state by any definition. If this be stability by dictatorship then we suppose that Larrea spoke a half truth as he was busy selling the "alternative" stabilizing law or "new democracy" under Correa. Correa's plan is not new and it is not democracy and it will only stabilize by terror which benefits Correa's now entrenched extortionists and cartel leaders.
We call on the government of the United States, particularly the Department of State, US AID's pro drugs minions and the National Security Council to cease and desist its funding and support for liars and perps such as Gustavo Larrea and Rafael Correa. Instead, the USA must read that horrifying constitution for what it is and stop pouring out its money and support for this trash.
Here is a promotional inside the USA to enable Correa's narcostate:
Inter-American Dialogue
EVENT SUMMARIES
Title: Ecuador's Security and Foreign Policy
Author: Aaron Ordower
Date: July 24, 2008
In light of questions about Ecuador’s recent nationalizations, new draft constitution and relationship with Colombian rebels, Minister of Internal and External Security Gustavo Larrea is trying to combat what he sees as the international “stigmatization” of the government of President Rafael Correa. He gave an overview of security, border, drug, and foreign policy developments in Ecuador at an event sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue and the Center for Strategic and International Studies on July 24, 2008.
Larrea emphasized Ecuador’s unique success in deterring coca cultivation, saying “we do not have a single hectare of illegal drug production on our soil,” as a result of the country’s “zero tolerance” policy and their targeting of organized crime kingpins rather than so-called “drug mules.” A lynchpin of the anti-narcotics policy is the new Plan Ecuador, a security and development project offering credit to Ecuadorean farmers who produce legitimate crops, such as chocolate, along the border with Colombia. As Larrea put it, “Coca no, cocoa yes.”
Larrea emphasized that there were “discrepancies” between the United States and Ecuador but not conflict. Relations with the US embassy in Quito, counternarcotics successes and Andean trade preferences were cited as particularly encouraging points of convergence. Responding to a question about Ecuador’s decision to stop allowing the United States to operate anti-drug flights out of the Manta air force base, Larrea said the lease was simply expiring and the government had plans to use the runways for commercial flights.
Regarding Ecuador’s new draft constitution approved the same day as the event, Larrea insisted that it continues the push toward political stability, the best way to strengthen security and economic prosperity. Ecuador is distinct from its neighbors in the region, he said, and undergoing a unique process of socioeconomic change.
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ECrisis wants you to study the essentials of what Larrea blithely calls a "unique socioeconomic change." He is referring to Correa's socialist-Marxist-communist manifesto for the new narcostate of Ecuador. But neither Michael Shifter of the DIALOGUE nor the CSIS wizards noted this. McLarty's Donahoo is of course taking lots of money from CHEVRON to politically "negotiate" a legal claim against CHEVRON. This is a fools errand.
And when Larrea states that Ecuador does not have illegal drug production, this is because all facets of drug production is now legal in Ecuador, including cocaine labs, drugs trans shipments and hybrid heroin production as well as white slavery to work the poppy fields. Double speak gets no one the facts and we reject in full this pre written screed which is an effrontery to law abiding citizens of Ecuador. Lying to the United States is never a good idea.
As long as Ecuadoreans care nothing for the liars, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces running their lives- who should be in jail at once- we sustain no compassion however we do denounce the failed policy of appeasement for the corrupt cartel called Correa's government.
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
July 26, 2008 ECrisis notably feels the pain of Ecuadorean people whose government has launched a massive roll out of propaganda [lies] and disingenuous pop pap to assuage the unending stream of corruption and socialism underway in Quito. David Axelrod, Barack Hussein Obama's campaign manager calls this political theatre "astroturffing." Correa pays for a lot of Astroturffing- millions now and it is unreported and illegal as across the USA he has hired some of the same propagandists as the Soros and Obama teams
With US AID's darling Cesar Montufar taking the helm at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington this past week to tell the USA that Iran is in Ecuador successfully because no one likes the USA, also called President Bush, and that Iran is "benign," simply a mere nuisance, is as surreal as the U.S. Department of State's constant abuse of U.S. tax dollars to dine with Ministro de DISIP Gustavo Larrea of Correa's cabinet, who should never be allowed travel to the USA but instead be on the VISA bar list and of course in jail. Larrea, who is a FARC go -between, called by his code name "Juan" by the FARC, lied all over Washington, D.C. this past week, reselling the late, great U.S. "ambassador" Jewell's unauthorized lies that the USA finds nothing whatsoever of the FARC involvement with Correa's deeply FARC-involved government.
Larrea was feted by none other than CSIS and its shadow sister group the Inter American Dialogue to repackage the Soros groups' hatred for Plan Colombia, also called common sense law and order, while US AID's progeny named Montufar [ memorable for proclaiming the wonderfulness of Ecuador's criminal stealing of Occidental's assets of around $5 billion] did the honors at the now compromised Wilson Center, also on U.S. tax payer tabs, even as Larrea was spinning even more lies down the street before U.S. governmental officers who further enabled the sheer dishonesty of this Ecuadorean propaganda team while Correa was busy in Quito on Friday extolling the virtues of his and Chavez's "new" democracy by calling Ecuador the "new fatherland." This is not new and it is not democracy.
ECrisis is of course stunned at the blatant dishonesty of the Bush team which has, by design, rolled over to play dead for their new pet project called enhancing and enabling through direct funding, indirect funding and political support through dishonesty, the Ecuadorean narcostate to further the Barack Hussein Obama sponsor in main- the drug legalizing Soros teams, also called the Crisis Group, the now-infiltrated and utterly debauched OAS, plus Soros's Eurasia Group and the WOLA spin offs- among others- busily fighting against Plan Colombia while abusing U.S. tax dollars.
In essence, what you see here is a propaganda roll out by the USA, from the USA, paid for in part by the USA, to encourage and support the lying useless sacks of horse feathers called the liars from the current Correa regime in Quito and this is a travesty which will stop now. The U.S. Department of State has more money and power than common sense and as such, is spinning one of the most aberrant Disneyland tales about Ecuador that has ever been heard before in the halls of that godless building on C Street in Washington, D.C. where no truth dare enter their dark hallways.
We know this because the USA has yet to even translate the utterly disgusting Ecuadorean constitution and has yet to brief its own government on the facts and the ramifications of this now rogue narco-nation where only lies and power-drunk manipulators seem to matter and hold respect.
We know this because the U.S. Department of State has spent millions in building the Ecuadorean constitution through its armies of faceless, aberrant NGOs who would not know democracy if it hit them on the head and still yet defends this Correa communist criminal cabal even as it refuses to take responsibility for its inertia to stand against deceit, crime and narcoterror. If this be justice and truth telling, we are unaware of any substantive existence.
Further, our contempt for lazy, irresponsible Ecuadoreans who have not the grace to hold themselves while those around them are spewing lies and propaganda is now well known and is of course a grave matter which warrants a full housecleaning. No amount of excuses and hypochondria or addictions to manipulative living justifies the rape of this nation. We hold seer disregard for these handmaidens of utter dishonesty and debauchery. But our contempt for the current media has entered a higher zone. We agonize every time we read that Rafael Correa is a US-trained economist for this is said with no due diligence and no fact based research on Correa's actual fraudulent "U.S. training" which amounted to gifting him with a lot of money and insuring that he reinforced his Marxist ideals while learning nothing of economics and even less about integrity in finance, which he obviously learned nothing about...as if this is some badge of legitimacy. Rafaael Correa has been fired from every job he has ever held for either dishonesty or non performance. He should be fired from his current job and sent packing. The fact is that Correa abused an international scholarship-fellowship program and for 18 months lived freely, thanks to the US taxpayers and produced a joint Masters and PhD thesis from a massive state university system where no one cared about his so called education, no one cared about his scholarly pursuits, no one cared about his integrity, let alone the typos and miss-spelled words in Correa's less than 100 page total combination Masters-Doctoral paper which was in essence truly NOT indicative of USA education because Correa based his support and justification of his so called "economic theories" to proclaim that NAFTA is an economic evil for Mexico's economy and thus free trade is evil... on Mexican data from the IDB which predated NAFTA by a few years. Correa's thesis remains a fraud. Correa should never have been granted his degree based on a fake thesis from a fake university mill for a fake study. All news media need to check their facts before meandering down the propaganda mill. Correa's thesis is easily reviewed in the USA and shows that he was neither trained in the USA and is no economist: Correa did obtain a doctoral thesis supposedly on fake data as a political analyst abusing so called economic data to lie about free trade and capitalism. The media needs to stop its lies that Correa is a USA trained economist. No one who secures a Masters and Doctoral degree in 18 months on one paper that is less than 100 pages (mostly foot notes) is trained at anything other than scamming the easy to scam USA state university system money mill under the Fulbright money scams as we have come to know it from Ecuador.
Our contempt for the aberrant deviants at the US Department of State is second only to the lying useless horse feathers at US AID who retain their unique position in the universe called Latin America as one of the most debauched mafias ever devised. But the US Department of State has blessed the lies and the utterly disgusting canard spewing from the Cuban-Soros-Chavez-Correa mill of liars that Iran is not so bad and that the FARC are not all over Ecuador and that the Correa regime is fabulous. Nothing could be further from the truth.
We note this because not once- not once- has the U.S. government exercised its constitutional obligation to the citizens of the USA to have and hold full Inter Agency facts- based on verifiable data. Instead, State Department pays the pro drugs Soros groups to spin more pro FARC and pro Chavez-Correa-Iran lies. This will stop because it is contract fraud and is of course seditious. At the same time, not one mother in Ecuador has opened her mouth to stop her own families from lying about the glorious communist take over by criminals in Quito. Not one madre deserves respect or regard for failing to stand for integrity. And every father needs to look in the mirror and know that this garbage which has consumed Ecuador has occurred because it is the government that he wanted.
This irresponsible and dishonest trifecta by seditious actors will stop now.
Why do we say seditious? We say this because it is a crime to act against the best and legitimate interests of the U.S. government by U.S. governmental payments from its citizens who believe that US AID and State Department stand for law and order when indeed both a building the narcostate called Ecuador, pouring millions in to the disgusting morass called Ecuadorean democracy which is not democracy while selling the crude lie that Ecuador is wonderful for USA investors when USA investors are robbed, beaten and abused. It is time for the US government to enjoy investor lawsuits over Ecuador for its abuse of US laws and reporting requirements. This used to be a crime in Ecuador but thanks to dishonest mothers and fathers, sedition and dishonesty has been honored too long now.
Contrary to the ridiculously aberrant plans for Ecuador currently on the Ecuadorean desks, we know that:
1. The U.S. government needs to stop pretending that the US Department of State and Dan Fisk's National Security Council are coordinating the inter agency truth tellers from inside the US government and cease depending on the lies spewed by its preferred Soros contractors. We know that this occurs because the NSC approved the entree of the FARC-DISIP actor last week named Larrea who knowingly lied to the U.S. government and was invited to lie some more.
There are truths to tell about Ecuador. The US Department of Commerce knows well that American companies have been run off by Correa.
The US Treasury Department knows well that direct foreign investment is near zero in Ecuador because there is no rule of law.
Treasury officials also know that Ecuador has no independent Central Bank, no annual budget data and no financial integrity whatsoever.
The US Department of Defense knows that it supplies data regarding Ecuador which is not considered at all by the boobs and rubes at State Department whose higher purpose is not defense but offense of the essentials of democracy, also called assuaging the corrupt Soros armies of attrition running State
Department and the brain cells of Carl Meacham and his Soros friends, also called Gustavo Larrea and Jose Miguel Insulza of the OAS.
The USA also has the FBI and the DEA which were kicked out of Ecuador a year ago while Ecuador continues to falsify its narcotics performances to secure its on going US trade gifts called the ATPDEA even though Correa ripped up all DEA agreements a year ago....not that the Dodd-Baucus-Leahy team care one bit that verifiable DEA actors are kicked out of Ecuador and of course this should confer an end to the ATPDEA give away.
But Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon does not want you to know that Rafael Correa of Ecuador has converted Ecuador to a determinedly undemocra