quickly followed by the attack of Franco Iacomella. And it was less than 10 days after that was announced Daniel Vasquez summoned Michelle Quito to "remake" the entire Ecuadorian nation state.  He went and evidently did not even meet Carlos Prieto the Spanish rector of IAEN and budgetary authority for the $700,000 .  He had a teleconference with Carlos where Carlos presumably backed up whatever it was that Daniel was telling him.  Did michel do any due diligence on carlos and renee ramirez?  He has told me that he did not.  He felt he could trust these people and that it was not necessary. ….

But with that last phrase "help" i think Andreas that we get to the critical issue on which you were focusing.  Who gets to define what help is or the conditions under which should be offered? Throughout the history of the last two centuries at least if not more this is a question most always faced by movements that proclaimed they want to help the people against an oppressive government. 

I suspect that the most important learning from Ecuador is that the idea of transforming an entire nation state into the abstract idealized nirvana of a commons is sheer lunacy.  

Looking at the USA I had a naïve hope  that if you just bring Internet access to enough poor people who could not afford Google fiber some how you would get a brilliant person in emerging from the shadows who, knowing how to use the appropriate databases,  would find out where the wealth was in Kansas City and having found out would show their neighbors what the problem was.  Now that is possible but before anything like that has a prayer of happening there are a huge amount of other tasks needing to be done in these tasks can only be done by an alliance of Kansas Cityians working together on the ground day after day and week after week.