November 13, 2008   Of all the dumb and dumber self enriching cartel plans, converting Ecuador in to a FARC protectorate ranks as one of the worst. But the lack of logic and the failure of cowardly leadership, or, as...what did the U.S. Department of State call it- ? Throwing in the towel, also called abandoning any concerns whatsoever, as Ecuador legalized a nation of illicit behaviors in every matter.  Of course the USA did not really abandon Ecuador. In fact the USA poured tens and tens of millions of dollars in to covering up and enabling the corrupt Correa narcostate now legalized without one instance of USA honesty about the matter even as truth tellers from Ecuador got the cold harsh back hand of disgustingly bad treatment from its former "allies." By abandoning ethical leadership, dishonest and dishonorable activities have taken over in Ecuador which is now a totally corrupt criminal cartel in Quito, engineered by the Chavez-Cuban team with the support of the Soros juggernaut, still active in Ecuador.
 
One of the Soros family of U.S. politicians is Congressman McGovern of Massachusetts. Joined with his propaganda and media outreach team from other Soros-backed so called NGOs such as the WOLA-CIPCOL-CIP family of pro narcotics, anti USA and anti Uribe actors, the so called Congressional delegation under McGovern is spending lots of U.S. tax payer monies this week in Quito to enjoy strengthening support for the Correa-Chavez-Morales regional bloc of communist cartel states, active now. As we have noted before, McGovern and his flock of liars should not be in Quito and should be asked to leave. They exist only to solidify the narcobloc of nations in the Andes and to help the attacks against a US company called Chevron Texaco in its completely specious and reprehensible multi billions phony legal claims. The US Embassy and the U.S. Department of State think this is a terrific idea. We do not and join with scores of Ecuadoreans in rejection of this internecine and now overt support for the Soros War of Attrition, complete with paid hate campaigns and propaganda, to deliver us not from evil but in to the arms of evil cartel governance.
 
Here is Correa "explaining" his FARC protection plan for Ecuador, also called Plan Ecuador, ratified now under the so called constitution of Ecuador to protect, defend and self enrich from drug running, illegal identity and passport sales and legalized narcotics, which McGovern and his Soros FARC promoting molls and brain addlepated twits call wonderful. They also call this "helping the poor" who will soon have their very own bank for narcotics runners called ALBA, which they call "development funds to help the poor" which will also co mingle with commercial banks and Banco del Sur while using their own media called TeleSur under regional military protection, all blessed as the "new" regional bloc of democracy states with their own hemispheric protection scam called UNASUR. This is not new and it is not democracy and it is not legitimate. 
 
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Correa explica Plan en frontera con Colombia a congresista de EE.UU.
11/12/2008

Quito, EFE

El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, se reunió hoy con el congresista demócrata estadounidense James McGovern, al que le explicó el Plan Ecuador que ejecuta el Gobierno ecuatoriano desde 2007 en la zona fronteriza con Colombia, informó hoy radio Quito.

El encuentro se realizó en el palacio de Carondelet, en el centro histórico de la capital, en donde Correa ofreció detalles a McGovern del proyecto, que emprendió el Gobierno ecuatoriano para minimizar los efectos que ocasiona el conflicto interno que vive Colombia en el área limítrofe de Ecuador.

Por su parte, la Secretaría de la Presidencia informó de que el congresista estadounidense destacó los programas sociales que ejecuta Ecuador en las provincias que limitan con ese país.

Correa presentó el Plan Ecuador el 24 de abril de 2007 con el que, además de minimizar los efectos de las fumigaciones del Plan Colombia en la zona fronteriza de su país, pretende impulsar el desarrollo social en las provincias limítrofes a través del establecimiento de proyectos agrícolas y artesanales.

El programa establece también un mayor control en la frontera para evitar incidentes con grupos irregulares colombianos.

Para Correa, el Plan Ecuador busca una política de vecindad y de relaciones equitativas y solidarias, así como un control efectivo del territorio nacional y el respeto al medio ambiente.

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But Correa has succeeded to date by selling Ecuadoreans on lies, propaganda and the promise of Something for Nothing, promising to strip away what used to be called oligarchs who hurt the poor. In the USA, this identical political tactic, with slight variances, was used recently to elect Barack Hussein Obama who himself pledged the American voters....Something for Nothing - state hand outs in return for their votes and their soul.
 
Now so called home owners who purchased homes way beyond their means to pay for it demand bail outs- something for nothing. Banks demand bail outs from high risk, off the books speculative mortgage backed securities derivatives swaps- bizarre bets. Manufacturers such as Ford and GM demand bailouts because their labor union pension funds fueled the money to feund the high risk  mortgage backed securities derivatives swaps raids on other banks, stocks and currencies and want their pension funds replenished as a thank you from the U.S. Democrats for their service. And of course the U.S. Obama mavens want their check in the mail- every quarter to do nothing even as they want free housing and pay backs for doing absolutely nothing. Something for Nothing is a dead end for the moral structure of any life and creates a rejection of the moral principles that God alone gifted mankind with the freedom to make choices- not the state.
 
But along with the promises of state give aways, also called communism, comes the funder of hatred in chief, Soros to tell us all that this is not enough....the USA, so easily seduced now by his lies, must now bail out 3rd and 4th rate nations, rewarding them too for doing nothing but ruining their own economies through graft, corruption and extortion. Soros insists that these corrupt cartel nations, his business partners, enjoy from the U.S. tax payer Something for Nothing.
 
 
From the Financial Times:
"America must lead a rescue of emerging economies
George Soros

Published: October 28 2008 22:05 | Last updated: October 28 2008 22:05

The global financial system as it is currently constituted is characterised by a pernicious asymmetry. The financial authorities of the developed countries are in charge and they will do whatever it takes to prevent the system from collapsing. They are, however, less concerned with the fate of countries at the periphery. As a result, the system provides less stability and protection for those countries than for the countries at the centre. This asymmetry – which is enshrined in the veto rights the US enjoys in the International Monetary Fund, explains why the US has been able to run up an ever-increasing current account deficit over the past quarter of a century. The so-called Washington consensus imposed strict market discipline on other countries but the US was exempt from it.

The emerging market crisis of 1997 devastated the periphery such as Indonesia, Brazil, Korea and Russia but left America unscathed. Subsequently, many peripheral countries followed sound macroeconomic policies, once again attracting large capital inflows, and in recent years have enjoyed fast economic growth. Then came the financial crisis, which originated in the US. Until recently peripheral countries such as Brazil remained largely unaffected; indeed, they benefited from the commodity boom. But after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the financial system suffered a temporary cardiac arrest and the authorities in the US and Europe resorted to desperate measures to resuscitate it. In effect, they resolved that no other big financial institution would be allowed to default and also they guaranteed depositors against losses. This had unintended adverse consequences for the peripheral countries and the authorities have been caught unawares. In recent days there has been a general flight for safety from the periphery back to the centre. Currencies have dropped against the dollar and the yen, some precipitously. Interest rates and credit default premiums have soared and stock markets crashed. Margin calls have proliferated and spread to stock markets in the US and Europe, raising the spectre of renewed panic.

The IMF is discussing a new credit facility for countries at the periphery, in contrast to the conditional credit lines that were never used because the conditions attached to them were too onerous. The new facility would carry no conditions and no stigma for countries following sound macroeconomic policies. In addition, the IMF stands ready to extend conditional credit to countries that are less well qualified. Iceland and Ukraine have already signed and Hungary is next.

The approach is right but it will be too little, too late. The maximum that could be drawn under this facility would be five times a country’s quota. In the case of Brazil, for example, this would amount to $15bn, a pittance when compared with Brazil’s own foreign currency reserves of more than $200bn. A much larger and more flexible package is needed to reassure markets. The central banks at the centre should open large swap lines with the central banks of qualifying countries at the periphery and countries with large foreign currency reserves, notably China, Japan, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, ought to put up a supplemental fund that could be dispersed more flexibly. There is also an urgent need for short-term and longer-term credit to enable countries with sound fiscal positions to engage in Keynesian counter-cyclical policies. Only by stimulating domestic demand can the spectre of a world-wide depression be removed.

Unfortunately the authorities are always lagging behind events; that is why the financial crisis is spinning out of control. Already it has enveloped the Gulf countries, and Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi may be too concerned with their own region to contribute to a global fund. It is time to start thinking about creating special drawing rights or some other form of international reserves on a large scale, but that is subject to American veto.

President George W. Bush has convened a G20 summit for November 15 but there is not much point in holding such a meeting unless the US is serious about supporting a global rescue effort. The US must show the way in protecting the peripheral countries against a storm that has originated in the US, if it does not want to forfeit its claim to the leadership position. Even if Mr Bush does not share this point of view, it is to be hoped the next president will – but by then the damage will be much greater.

The writer is chairman of Soros Fund Management and author of ‘The New Paradigm for Financial Markets’"

Clearly Ecuador's Correa agrees with his welter of Soros advisors that Ecuador deserves Something for Nothing even from OPEC.

Correa's MO is to stamp his little adolescent feet scream, lie and stage tantrums. Then, like his mother and wife and his adoring team of self enhancing enablers, this ridiculous tyrant always gets what he wants because....he is special. Because he cannot govern legitimately and succeeds because he lies, manipulates and gets Something for Nothing. OPEC should size up this loser who is not accountable, does not pay his OPEC dues, whines, complains, boots any decent oil company and generally has run Ecuador's oil industry in to a regional cartel with Chavez and Iran and kick him out. Correa will demand more and more special treatment because he is a megalomaniac and thinks he is special when he is nothing but a garden variety sociopath whose life is based on manipulative behaviors and dishonesty while demanding Something for Nothing although Correa does return something- shelter, protection, fake identities for all the world's known criminals and contraband movers and shakers. So far his reward is to receive more and more criminals in to Ecuador as quality of life is about zero.

Goldman Sachs notes:

"ECUADOR

Authorities Seeking Preferential Treatment from OPEC

The Ecuadorian authorities stated they cannot accept another OPEC production quota reduction.

The authorities stated that Ecuador is a marginal producer for whom oil revenues are critically important and as such, will require preferential treatment within the OPEC.

In the last OPEC meeting, the Ecuadorean production quota was reduced to 493K barrels/day from 520K barrels/day.

Ecuador joined OPEC in November 2007, a move that was questioned by oil experts precisely on the basis that Ecuador is a marginal player that it can ill afford even lower oil production.

Beyond the OPEC developments, oil production in Ecuador declined 3.5% yoy in September to 498.6K barrels/day, with private sector oil production (about 46% of total oil production) declining a large 9.2% yoy.

The decline in private sector oil production reflects the aggressive negotiating stance adopted by the government and the uncertainty besetting the future regulatory framework."

ECrisis says that Goldman is being polite here. There is no regulatory framework for Correa's narco-nation cartel and there will be no future regulatory framework- only presidential deals made on the run and in the dark with Iran, Russia and Venezuela, none of this available to the public.

Not long ago, SPERONews blog reprinted an ACTON piece with a comment, which we reprint here. We have said before that the ACTON piece is correct as it was written:

Freedom under siege in Ecuador
Ecuador, notable for natural gas resources, is going to the polls September 28 to approve a gigantic constitution. It would diminish private enterprise but guarantee a good living." In the new regime, rights would flow from the State - not God.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
By Samuel Gregg
Constitutional referenda are usually tame, even boring affairs. Sometimes it's a challenge just getting people to vote.

None of this, however, rings true for Ecuador's forthcoming September 28 referendum. After much acrimonious debate, this beautiful but deeply troubled Latin American nation is being asked to approve a gigantesque constitution (it contains 444 articles) as part of President Rafael Correa's effort to reshape Ecuador in his own leftist image.

Instead of serving to protect fundamental civil, religious, and economic liberties, Correa's proposed constitution does the exact opposite.

For one thing, many of its provisions will diminish private enterprise and free exchange in theory and practice. It declares, for example, that Ecuador's economy will be "social and solidaristic." This is code-language for prioritizing state-run enterprises over private business.

The same constitution also guarantees all Ecuadorians "a good living." Precisely how this will occur in a country where 39 percent of people live in poverty is not explained. Perhaps the president assumes his constitution's furtherance of the state's already-dominant place in the economy will miraculously create abundant wealth for all.

Chávez and his allies rely on international distractions and U.S. inattention and immobility in the waning days of a lame duck Administration
Populist regimes of left and right sometimes try realizing this goal through manipulating the money supply and ignoring the inflationary consequences. Correa's new constitution will give him this option because it places Ecuador's Central Bank under his direct control. All these measures, Correa claims, will prevent "neo-liberalism" - which, as usual, remains undefined - from rearing its head in Ecuador.

As in the case of other Latin American leftist-governments, the main opposition to Correa's constitution-to-end-all-constitutions is coming from the Catholic Church. Quite rightly, Ecuador's Catholic bishops say the Church has no economic models to offer. Their job is saving souls -- not organizing an economy. The bishops are, however, deeply worried that the proposed constitution opens the door to direct attacks on innocent human life, marriage, and parental rights to educate their children as they see fit.

But the bishops go to the heart of the matter when they write: "We have discovered that statism seems to be the connecting thread of the new Constitution. It speaks about rights, of course, but many of these rights flow from the State, violating the creativity and responsibility of people within society."

The state, the bishops know, merely recognizes human rights. It doesn't create them.

The Church has been careful not to express its concerns about Ecuador's creeping statism in partisan-political terms. But even this cautious approach, it seems, was enough to strip away President Correa's hitherto smooth facade.

It has revealed an angry old-fashioned anti-clerical Christian-leftist of the type more familiar with liberation theology than orthodox Christian doctrine. Until recently, Correa was fond of claiming he was the only Latin American leftist leader with a good relationship with the Catholic Church.

That's no longer the case.

Like his self-described "personal friend," Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Correa now publically insults Catholic clergy. The Church, he says, wants to keep Ecuadorians in "darkness." Correa even accused the bishops of "stabbing me in the back" by questioning his proposed constitution. (Incidentally, Correa also derides Ecuador's press as "a group of wild beasts.") His language was so extreme that Ecuador's Council of Lay Catholics issued a public statement asking the president to tone down his rhetoric.

Correa's rage may have been provoked after he admitted in a radio-interview that his government paid two Spanish socialists associated with a left-wing hyper-secularist Spanish think-tank to help draft the proposed constitution. No one should be surprised by this. After all, Correa calls Cuba's Communist dictatorship a "democracy."

Even more sinister is the emergence of a coordinated wave of harassment of the Church. Death threats have been made against Archbishop Antonio Arregui of Guayaquil, and there are efforts to file criminal charges against him. The archbishop's criticisms of the new constitution, it is alleged, violate the clergy's legal obligation, enshrined in Ecuador's 1937 agreement with the Vatican, to abstain from partisan politics. But, the Bishops note, the same agreement explicitly acknowledges the clergy's freedom to publically defend Christian doctrine and morality.

Throughout Ecuador, television advertisements are regularly aired attacking Catholic bishops and clergy for questioning the draft constitution. Churches have been desecrated and the Eucharist profaned.

Sound familiar? It should. It's a replica of the intimidation campaign waged by Chavez against the Catholic Church in Venezuela. Once again, Latin America's populist-left has shown that it understands two freedoms must be radically curtailed before "21st Century socialism" (whatever that means) can be realized: religious liberty and economic freedom.

Could there be a timelier reminder that all liberty is ultimately indivisible?

Samuel Gregg is an analyst at Acton Institute.  
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Comments from Spero-
Ecuador's constitutional proposals to be voted on, were made by democratically elected delegates. The proposals require a majority of people eligible to vote to support it - not just a majority of those who turn up to vote. It recognizes indigenous rights, human rights for the first time ever anywhere, the right of the environment.

It also recognizes womens rights - this is what the Church is so strongly opposed to - they believe that womens rights will guarantee the right of women to choose to have power over their own bodies - including the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. Yet nothing nothing actually says this.

To the Administration in Washington, any nation that tortures its citizens like Egypt, is a democracy if it does the will of the States. While nations like Ecuador that fail to abide by the dictates of Washington are dictatorships. Many US media blindly accept the wisdom of their political leaders and fail to have unbiased reporters in the countries concerned.

by luke weyland | Monday, September 08, 2008  6:47:42 AM
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We at ECrisis rarely succumb to the deteriorating school of analysis if avoidable. Clearly, voter fraud in its newer formats such as pre rigged mathematical grid slates, 95% of all political vote control and the Correa-Chavez political promises of something for nothing- itself a political bribe- has been the electioneering scandal in Ecuador, contrary to the comments as above. As to Correa's so called constitution, in so many ways it legalizes abortion as a state funded opportunity along with same sex marriage and safe haven for global terrorists. For its part, "Washington" has done nothing but pour tens of millions of dollars in to Ecuador to enable the Correa dictatorship where abortionists, narcoterrorists, transgenderists and fake shamans worshipping/deifying rocks, paper and stone are all legalized but functional liberty, along with Western Civilization, is deligitimized and banished even as "the poor" statistically and exponentially increase with no way out..

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis