Lula, Castro and Chavez, the leaders of organized crime in politics

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) The spread of Cuba’s dictatorship in the Americas, with its system of institutionalized violations of human rights, State terrorism, imprisonments, torture, exile, and the turning of countries into narco-States have in Fidel Castro, Lula da Silva, and Hugo Chavez its three structuring chiefs. They are the creators of 21st Century Socialism, or Castrochavism, the transnational organized crime system who wields political power and today subjects the peoples from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and attacks the whole region.

In his letter dated 9 July of 2020 addressed to the Forum of Sao Paolo on the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of its founding, Lula stated; “In talks I had with Fidel back then, we coincided that it would be important to pay special attention to the new crossroads and its impact for Latin America and the Caribbean and decided that the PT (Workers Party in Brazil’s Portuguese) could convene a meeting of parties and movements. . . initially we did not imagine that this meeting would get as far as it did. . . when we realize its contribution to promote changes of governments and of policies in the continent starting in 1998”.

Lula’s specific mention to 1998 refers to the election of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela that they consider “the first government of a member party of the Forum of Sao Paolo, after Cuba”. The reference to “changes of governments and of policies” refers to the permanent conspiracy against democracy with the Forum of Sao Paolo as an instrument. Lula and Castro created the Forum of Sao Paolo after the fall of the Berlin wall “with the objective of combatting the consequences of neo-liberalism in Latin America’s countries”.

With parties positioned “from the center left to the extreme left”, the Forum of Sao Paolo was comprised by guerrilla groups, terrorists, narcotics’ traffickers as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC in Spanish) and by the Castroist’s guerrilla system that was disguised as “political groups”. It is the strategy of presenting crime as politics (narcotics’ trafficking, assassinations, terrorism, violations, kidnappings, conspiracies. . .) by constantly mentioning the words “democracy and politics” in every one of their crimes, presenting anti-imperialism, Bolivarianism, anti-neo-liberalism, Latin-Americanism, communism, as ideologies. . .”

As president, starting in 2003, Lula was the third government coupled to the Forum of Sao Paolo and this is how the tripod was set for the expansion of dictatorships with the Forum as the operational instrument, with Cuba as the head, with the economic wealth of Venezuela and Brazil.

Lula wrecked Brazil’s foreign policy’s institutionalism in order to subject it to Cuba and create and promote Castrochavism. It was a party to the control of the Organization of American States (OAS) with Insulza’s administration that ignored and violated the Interamerican Democratic Charter and staffed critical positions with combative activists of well-known militance at the Interamerican Commission and Interamerican Court of Human Rights.

With the open operations of Marco Aurelio Garcia whom Lula designated as “Advisor on Foreign Affairs to the President of Brazil”, a position he kept until Dilma Rousseff was removed in 2016, Brazil’s power was exerted for the benefit of Cuba’s dictatorship, the restoration of dictatorship in Venezuela, the toppling of democratically elected presidents, the installation of dictatorships; Morales in Bolivia, Correa in Ecuador, Ortega in Nicaragua, and more.

Lula made Brazil an accomplice of Cuba’s trafficking in persons and slavery with the contracting of physicians and other personnel whose salaries benefitted the dictatorship. These crimes have been proven through on-going trials. The dictatorships from Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua repeat these crimes and so do the governments of Fernandez/Kirchner in Argentina and Lopez Obrador in Mexico.

Lula is responsible for the greatest corruption scheme in the history of the Americas, the “Lava Jato” scandal. Crimes with Brazil’s money given out as credit to other countries to fund major construction projects, typically Castrochavism’s high impact projects, to be done with Brazilian construction companies. Commissions and kick-backs in the millions of dollars. Crimes that still have gone unpunished because Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua’s dictatorships continue covering up such corruption, as in the case of Cuba’s Mariel’s Port at a cost of nearly three times greater than had been previously agreed to with another company, or the several projects already paid for but never built in Venezuela and other countries.

As far as the defense of the Amazonian jungle, Lula made his position very clear in Bolivia by promoting the construction of a highway that would destroy an ecological reserve known as TIPNIS National Park, to expand the illicit cultivation of coca leaf, the sustenance of the narco-State. Civil resistance triumphed but a former executive of the Brazilian construction company OAS stated that “his company came to Bolivia due to Lula’s involvement and with the promise of one other contract”.

With Chavez and Castro dead, Lula is the surviving head that continues attacking freedom and democracy from deep within organized crime with the disguise of democracy.

*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director del Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas