The justice system is the castrochavist regimes’ instrument of oppression

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) Judges who have the mission of guaranteeing freedom and individual rights are used by Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua’s regimes to violate human rights, persecute, jail, seize, terrorize people, and grant impunity to those who are the oppressors. A system of district attorneys, prosecutors, and judges at the service of the transnational organized crime group that holds power. They turn the justice system as the most effective and scummy oppressive criminal instrument of Castrochavist dictatorships.

The separation and independence of the branches of government is the basis to ensure the people’s freedom and this is why we see that in the Interamerican Democratic Charter this is highlighted as an essential component of democracy that interacts with the existence of the “rule of law”. Simply stated; without checks and balances, without the separation and independence of the branches of government, democracy does not exist because under the Castrochavist regimes all power is concentrated in an autocratic dictator or tyrant, or in an organized crime group that yields power dictatorially.

Through the application of the constitution and laws, judges and the Judicial Branch are responsible to protect people from excesses or abuse of power of the government. They are the protectors of human rights that include; life, liberty, security, dignity, equality before the law, justice, the presumption of innocence, due legal process, privacy, freedom of movement, the right to seek asylum in case of persecution, nationality, family, private property, freedom of thought, freedom of speech and opinion, the right to work and rest, the right to education, and more.

Ever since taking power in 1959, Cuba’s dictatorship established and manipulated -under the banner of “justice”- a despicable system to persecute, jail, assassinate anyone who opposed the regime, citizens who thought differently and social groups that ended up destroyed. This way this system executed by firing squads and assassinated thousands of persons, thousands were jailed for years, forced millions of Cubans into exile. Cuba’s “Castroist justice” was established as the most efficient mechanism for “social control” using the judicialized repression methodology to instill fear and make dissidents learn from, all while the dictator and the regime’s operators enjoyed impunity.

“Castrochavism” is basically Castroism of the 21st century. It is all the same but improved by technological advancements, it is a repeat of all crimes committed by Cuba’s dictatorship from 1959 to 1999 that range from violations of human rights, corruption, narcotics’ trafficking, terrorism, human trafficking, and more, all the way up to invasions, guerrillas and the exportation of mechanisms of conspiracy, sedition, torture, assassinations of reputation.

In 1999, Hugo Chavez rescued Castroism from the agonizing state it was in and by doling out money, oil, and later on Venezuela as a whole, and constructed “Castrochavism” that is defined as a “Transnational Criminal Organization, not a political one, that usurps power and the government in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua”.

This is why we see more frequently and intensely the acts of “Castrochavism’s despicable judges” who have turned the justice system into “an instrument for the violation of human rights” and we see they “are not judges, they are henchmen executioners” who make out of the judicial due process “a lynching platform” and not a protection platform. They are criminals with aggravating circumstances because they act by mandate of organized crime who usurps power and the government, because they have installed and sustain a “state of defenselessness” violating human rights in the name of the law and justice.

Despicable judges are; those in Cuba that had Armando Valladares jailed for almost 23 years, those who jailed and torture Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, and over 136 political prisoners certified by Prisoner Defenders; those who just finished the attack against “El Nacional” newspaper in Venezuela, and those who keep jailed and torture over 320 political prisoners, as certified by the Venezuelan Penal Forum; those who keep over 125 political prisoners in Nicaragua as revealed by “Reconocimiento”; those who have former president Añez and almost 100 Bolivians jailed in order to impose a false narrative to the resignation and flight of dictator Evo Morales in November of 2019.

Despicable judges who preside over trials to persecute opposition members in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua to deprive them from participating in politics, keep them isolated or in exile, steal their estate, assassinate their reputation, and through all of these protect the true criminals who are the dictators and their inner circle.

The world knows the names of the dictators and it is time to begin to know, by name, that of their despicable judges and the cases through which they commit their crime.

*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translated from Spanish by; Edgar L. Terrazas, member of the American Translators Association, ATA # 234680.