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Barack Obama's government last week continued his charm offensive directed at the authoritarian governments Latin America by sending Deputy Secretary of the Department of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, Ecuador to meet with President Rafael Correa.

Why pay attention to a visit from a middle-ranking diplomat to a banana republic? Because if you know what eluded Honduras last year by refusing to bow to the United States is facing Ecuador. Moreover, Valenzuela's visit shows how little U.S. is willing or can do for people who succumb to the tyranny of the left.

After taking office in 2007, Correa decided to put its popularity Congress above the law. A solid majority of Ecuadorians wanted a new constitution. Correa, however, ruled that the Constituent Assembly that drafted the new document, you should also have broad powers, including authority to dissolve Congress. That triggered a constitutional crisis was resolved in favor of Correa when he used the power of the state and its supporters resorted to violence. If the Ecuadorian armed forces have responded with courage and patriotism displayed their peers Hondurans, today the country could still have a chance for a democracy.

Now that Correa has consolidated his power, government is using intimidation to destroy their opponents. The press is under constant threat, opponents are being driven into exile, the economy is in ruins and has emerged that the Colombian guerrilla FARC Correa government considers an ally. The country also maintains friendly relations with Iran.

Look how the situation got to this point. When Congress Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said he will not grant the Constituent Assembly the powers he sought, the electoral court, which he controls, dismissed the opposition lawmakers, who were replaced with more compliant members.

The Constitutional Court intervened and ruled that the ousted congressmen should be returned. In response, according to Gabriela Burgos Calderon, a columnist for the daily "El Universo", Guayaquil, "Correa went on the radio and television to say that, despite the decision of the Court, dismissed lawmakers not returning.

In a telephone interview last week, Calderón de Burgos added: "The same day, police forces under government authority and the duty to protect the Court did not act and were easily outnumbered by an angry mob who made his way. Former members of the Court argue that they evidence showing that the police let in the crowd. This was never investigated. Some of the individuals who were members of the Constituent Assembly and are now in Congress, participated in the violent takeover of the Court. We saw on TV to members of the Court to run the building as people on the street were throwing things. "

Using these methods, does not take long to destroy Correa institutional balance of powers that stood in his way to become the Juan Domingo Peron of Ecuador.

The media has been a more difficult problem. In June last year when I reported on unpublished documents obtained by the FARC in Colombia raided a rebel base, indicating collusion between the guerrillas and government of Correa, he jumped out of anger. On a trip to New York next month threatened to "sue" The Wall Street Journal by my column. "We are sick of their lies," he said. Days later, I received a video showing the leader of the FARC, the Mono Jojoy, speaking to his soldiers on how the rebels had supported Correa's campaign. The lawsuit has not yet materialized.

Today, Correa them is making life miserable for Ecuadorian journalists. Since coming to power, his government has taken control of four television channels and created your own. Correa used his pulpit to insult regular intimidation of journalists and attack the personality of their opponents. She also likes to file lawsuits.

When a crowd gathered outside the offices of The Universe in August to intimidate employees because in an article published by the newspaper, Emilio Palacio, a columnist for the newspaper center-left, complained to a subordinate Correa. The president appeared on television to say that the Palace should be sued. The column was then accused of defamation under the Penal Code and sentenced to three years prison.

During Tuesday's meeting before the television cameras, Valenzuela expressed concern about Iran's nuclear ambitions and its budding relationship with Ecuador. According to Reuters, Correa said, "We will not get into that discussion. But what has that to do with selling bananas to Iran, which has to do with that Iran wants to fund certain stations?" Translation: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is my friend. You do not slip.

"The U.S. response? Valenzuela does not rule out a meeting between Correa and Obama. If that happens, get ready for the second part of the embrace of Obama and Hugo Chávez in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in April 2009: More humiliation for the Americans who used to believe in their government as a noble defender of liberty against tyrants.

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Ecuador El Chavez Attorneys for the plaintiffs against Texaco committed fraud

So in many cases, the news appeared on many national and international media, but the truth comes to light and those who have made corruption their way of life end up being exposed.

I have received the press release in full Texaco on the obvious fraud incurred by lawyers for the environmentalists who are suing Texaco, whose desire is not justice and the pursuit of a clean environment (in which case they would have sued Petroecuador, caused the Amazonian Chernobyl and current major pollutant of the jungle), no, your appetite is easy money, where this is easier : exploiting prejudice against large companies to demand millions and unjustified repairs that do not serve to improve the quality of life of communities, except to improve the pockets of a handful of plaintiffs and their crafty lawyers.

below the press release of Chevron - Texaco

reveals the plaintiffs Perito fraud on the part of lawyers in the trial of Ecuador

SAN RAMON, Calif., April 5, 2010 - Last week, the technical expert revealed original plaintiffs in a sworn statement that lawyers for the plaintiffs who brought the case against Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) fraudulent reporting an Ecuadorian court alleging the presence of hazardous contamination in oil wells Amazonia.

Dr. Charles W. Calmbacher, a biologist and hygienist American industrialist, who was the first expert instructed on behalf of plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Chevron in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, testified last week in a statement ordered by a U.S. federal court, the reports related to inspections of wells Sacha Shushufindi 94 and 48, were presented on their behalf without their knowledge or authorization. Dr. Calmbacher said he had never concluded that the wells represent a risk to human health or the environment, and that their views were known to the legal and technical equipment of the plaintiffs in Ecuador. However, plaintiffs' attorneys had conflicting reports on the conclusions of Dr. Calmbacher and used signature under false pretenses, months after completing their participation in the case.

"Your own expert has declared that two of the first reports of the claimants are fraudulent, which confirms that the trial in Ecuador has been corrupted from the start," said Hewitt Pate, vice president and general counsel for Chevron. "Chevron will ask the Lago Agrio court challenging the false reports on Sacha plaintiffs Shushufindi 94 and 48, and require the authorities to investigate these improper actions."

After filing the lawsuit against Chevron in 2003, both Lawyers for the plaintiffs and the court Dr. Calmbacher appointed to conduct the judicial inspections of oil wells in the former concession area of \u200b\u200bPetroecuador-Texaco Petroleum Co. in order to assess the environmental damage of course. Dr. Calmbacher was in charge of these inspections on behalf of the plaintiffs and oversaw the removal of soil and water samples from August to October 2004.

fraudulent reports were submitted in February and March 2005 and later used by Richard Cabrera, who was appointed as an expert by the court in Lago Agrio, in his report which estimated that damages against Chevron amounted to USD27. 000 million. Cabrera never investigated or Sacha Shushufindi 94 or 48; however, specified more than USD101 million in damages on the basis of findings invented. Dr. Calmbacher also inspected Sacha Sacha 6 and 21, however, lawyers for the plaintiffs did not submit the report with its findings on these wells. Dr. Calmbacher said it found no risk to human health or the environment or other cleaning that was necessary in any of the sites previously remediated by Texaco Petroleum and inspected by him. He said he had never stated that the remediation carried out in Ecuador in the '90s by Texaco Petroleum, had not been successful.

In his statement March 29 testimony required by the U.S. federal court, Dr. Calmbacher said it sent blank pages with your initials and his signature to the plaintiffs' legal team by courier, in late 2004, for reporting that he believed would contain their true findings. Dr. Calmbacher also ruled that the plaintiffs' attorneys never informed him that the court in Lago Agrio had asked to answer questions about the reports, after being presented with his signature in 2005.

Chevron has long said that the trial is without merit and is marred by numerous irregularities and fraud. In September last year, the company filed a complaint with the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, claiming that management by Ecuador in Lago Agrio trial violates the Bilateral Investment Treaty between the United States and Ecuador.

can access the full testimony under oath by Dr. Calmbacher in www.chevron.com / Ecuador / depo. Pdf . For more information on the trial of Ecuador, visit www.chevron.com / Ecuador .

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