The following piece was originally published, in Spanish, in the widely read Ecuadorian paper El Diario, based out Portoviejo, the capital city of the province of Manabi. It is said that the people of Manabi are tough and fearless. It is known that tribes in Manabi, during pre-Columbian times, were the only ones not conquered by the Incas. And the opinion piece below not only shows centuries later this courage survives within the people of Ecuador, despite a so called president who no longer represents them, but sheds a new insight on what is really going on in Latin America and what Hugo Chavez tries so hard to disguise behind the facade of the “Bolivarian” movement.
Under the excuse of “21st century socialism”, which is really communism in disguise, Chavez and his ALBA friends look to cover the real reason for their bravado, the establishment of an unprecedented drug cartel in Latin America, one sanctioned by constitutional laws. This piece makes sense out of the necessary cooperation of the United States with the Colombian government in fighting the drug traffic down south, which is currently aided and financed by Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan petrodollars and the growing narcotraffic.
This is exactly why Honduras fought back. This is one more piece of the puzzle that the world needs to see.
Please take a minute to read this translated post, written by the brave and diligent editors of the Ecuadorian paper, El Diario.
Authored by Héctor Ygonet Céspedes Ramírez, and published Monday, January 4th, 2010.
For the original article, as published, in Spanish, please click here.
Online version of Ecuadorian paper El Diario, "Free Thinker Manabita".
The Phantom Menace
The old method used by comandante Fidel Castro, in order to keep the Cuban armed forces alert, yielding and fearful, constantly scaring them with the imminence of an invasion by the empire up north, keeps coming back, like fruitcake during Christmas time, week after week in the lengthy speeches of the comandante of the other revolution, coronel Hugo Chavez.
The constant threat of an invasion serves as a pretext to create and arm Bolivarian militias, following the exact pattern of the German SS Hitler forces.
Recently, coronel Chavez uttered new accusations against the USA and Colombia, charging that they were preparing an invasion of Venezuelan territory, via the military bases in Colombia. He also stated that in the Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curacao, which belong to the Netherlands, radars and high tech military installations have been set up to detect low flying planes in the Caribbean sea, as an American contribution to the fight against international narcotraffic.
The truth hides behind the statements of the coronel, which attempt against the common sense of the facts and reality of the Caribbean zone. What’s now known as the Miraflores Cartel (Miraflores being the name of the Presidential palace of Venezuela), led by the Venezuelan dictator, has been responsible for the traffic of over 150 tons of cocaine hydrochloride, just within the past two years, using the Caribbean Antilles route. The main stops are Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The efforts of the Caribbean nations, within the past 18 months, have resulted in detours of these narco-routes, targeting less risky destinations such as Nicaragua and Honduras in Central America.
The American strategy aims to place a defense line and control of the Venezuelan airplanes along the Antilles arch, where dozens of islands of all sizes come together. Only in the Dominican Republic the armed forces and drug control authorities have made a dramatic call for alert, upon the confiscation of over 100 planes of Venezuelan registration, which have yielded positive in lab results, proving these were used for the transportation of cocaine hydrochloride.
We are talking about the real deal here in need of protection and hiding. It isn’t the defense of the “Bolivarian Revolution”, but that of the international narcotraffic and the capability of the Miraflores Cartel, with its Colombian partners, against the Mexican cartels of the Gulf and Sinaloa.
The presence of over 20,000 Cuban paramilitary troops in Venezuela, with the mission of “socializing and training” members of the Bolivarian militias, is the main threat to the opposition groups, which day after day are persecuted and subjected to the narco-socialist regime.
Authored by Héctor Ygonet Céspedes Ramírez.
Published Monday, January 4th, 2010 in El Diario.com.ec.
For the original article, as published, in Spanish, please click here.
My thanks to the editors of El Diario.com.ec for allowing the translation and publication of this piece, in English, making it available here for worldwide reading.
I will continue to work with other news media outlets from Latin America, to translate the message of these brave voices, for they live and work over there, seeing first hand what goes on. These journalists and citizens are brave enough to speak the truth and cut through the Chavez/narco-dollar-sponsored propaganda that shouts falsehoods, trying to pull the wool over the eyes of many who only watch from afar.
Excellent piece. It’d be nice if the South and Central American communities in places like New York take a greater interest in such matters, and affirm their support for a strong economic and security partnership with the United States. Unfortunately, community news and the demands of family and work keep too many people too busy to be involved in politics.
I have it on reliable information that Esmeraldas province in Ecuador is filled with FARC or FARC-like leftist guerilla, and that it is no longer safe for visitors to remain outdoors beginning in the early evening, for fear of kidnap or running into trouble. This is all while the Correa government knows, and it is a disgrace to the potentially excellent US-Ecuador partnership that could be. I’ve visited Ecuador twice and found the people to be friendly and supportive of friendly US relations – why, I wonder, must their government be sympathetic to destructive alliances that bring insecurity in Ecuador and throughout the Americas. “Yankee Empire,” don’t make me laugh…what is Correa hiding? Remind me, who funded his campaign and how did his daddy make his living again?