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Hugo Chavezâs Multi Billion Dollar Effort to Take Over Ecuador
I have temporarily escaped from Tom Biscardi's clutches in order to bring you this important link from Vcrisis.com, written by Pedro Camargo.After weeks of planning, the activist political arms of Venezuelaâs Hugo Chavez, under the guise of the Bolivarian Revolutionary Party, staged an enormously destructive two province-wide oil production shut down. This was no mere tire burning event so often staged by protesters in Latin America. Rather the so-called protest was actually an orchestrated criminal assault on both government and privately owned property and assets in Ecuadorâs most vital petroleum producing region. It was no ideology-based protest for human or indigenous rights: it was engineered politically through the numerous groups, such as Ecuadorâs Movimiento Popular Democratico (MPD) party, to cause vast harm and is part of a planned destruction of property to squeeze Ecuador, which has scant margins for error, by cutting off its oil production and make it fall in to the arms of its seducer, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez that is. This is, of course, rank political extortion by destruction of oil production to financially force Ecuador into a binding geopolitical agreement with Chavez. The government of Ecuador is called upon to demand immediate due diligence on every situation involving its own mineral rights and any government backed financial âdeal.â This includes any relationship with Chavez, including the so-called medical doctors on 'loan' (with barely a year of training); or the Ecuadoran oil-backed bond debt deal (to bail out private speculators whose bond holdings collapsed when Gutierrez failed to return); plus the refinery and oil purchases offered by Chavez (currently backed by an ever-changing, always mysteriously opaque verbal deal). Each must be examined with full transparency under Ecuadoran law. Ecuador must also demand full disclosure of identities of agitators that took it to criminalize the productive oil areas: who paid them to be in the provinces, commandeering almost 1/10 of Ecuadorâs sovereign territory? To this must be added a demand for payment of restitution to the people of Ecuador for the property damages these `protestersâ inflicted. No one, even under the guise of thoughtful protesting, can render millions of dollars of property lost and assume that the hapless citizenry of Ecuador will cheerfully pick up the tab, leaving scarce resources for education, transportation, infrastructure and healthcare. In other words, the criminals who caused the millions of dollars in losses should repay the people of Ecuador and not leave taxpayers to cover what never should have taken place. We suggest: send the bill for damages and lost revenues to the creator of the planned attacks: Hugo Chavez. American media reports that Ecuador will negotiate with these protesters cum criminals. With pro-Gutierrez rogue elements of the Ecuadoran military assisting this destabilizing auto da fe last week, it can be hoped that the military will at last cease its aversion to military compliance under law. We suggest that all who participated in last weekâs armed assaults on two provinces, complete with bombings, lootings, pipeline attacks and oil well destruction, will be happier residing in Cuba instead and should be deported. As if to avoid any responsibility for the enormously expensive criminal destruction of Ecuadorâs assets, Chavez announced on August 21, 2005 that he would provide all necessary replacement petroleum, ostensibly the oil lost (by his goons) last week, for Ecuador. No word yet on who supplied the dynamite, mortars and bullets that terrorized a significant portion of Ecuador⊠or why the attacks were permitted to escalate for so long. Chavez needs a win to show off his successes, which to date amount to none at all. He wants fresh meat, so to speak. He wants a political gain and a financial gain. Ecuador would unwittingly give him both. With vast untapped natural gas fields and incredibly underperforming petroleum fields, Ecuador presents a land ripe for abuse and take over. Chavez, having drained Venezuelan resources to the breaking point by his on-going financial bailouts to Fidel Castro (which of course help no one in Cuba except the corrupt Castro-Chavez inner circle who are cheerfully profiteering from spot sales of the Chavez oil gifts to Cuba while Cubans suffer in the dark with no power at all). Chavez has made no small point regarding his interest in regaining the Panama Canal as well as squeezing Colombia into submission to his take over plans by surrounding Colombia and isolating Uribe with pro-FARC, anti-Plan Colombia state actors.
There's more at the link; read the whole thing. It's probably also a good idea to check out The Devil's Excrement from time to time. I have to run now, Biscardi's closing in again. Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2005-08-24 |
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