Twenty-first century socialism starts conspiracy to topple Argentina’s President-elect Milei

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) Although Argentina’s President-Elect Javier Milei has not yet been sworn-in, 21st Century Socialism -or Castrochavism- has already publicly initiated a conspiracy to topple him, repeating past operations through which it destabilized, subordinated, and deposed presidents and democratic governments in Latin America. This situation demands from the new president the urgency to adopt a clear foreign policy and a solid democratic security to guarantee the fulfillment of his mandate.

Twenty-First Century Socialism is the political label assumed by Latin America’s dictatorships under the command of Cuba and is comprised by Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and by the para-dictatorial governments of Fernández/Kirchner from Argentina, López Obrador from México, Boric from Chile, Petro from Colombia, and Lula da Silva from Brazil. It is also known as Castrochavism a coinage that describes the partnership of dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez in a system of transnational organized crime that perpetrates, covers up, and defends the violation of human rights, State-terrorism, narcotics’ trafficking, crimes against humanity, human trafficking, forced migrations and more.

Regarding the election of Javier Milei as the next president of Argentina, Nicolas Maduro the dictator from Venezuela stated “we are not going to keep quiet, the arrival of a right-wing extremist with a colonial project, absolute colonial, bowing down to North American imperialism is a great threat,” adding further that Milei “represents the neo-Nazi right from Argentina that pretends to lead a colonial project throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.” His statements make the dictatorships’ position and decisions undoubtedly clear.

Para-dictatorial presidents are elected in countries with democracy but owe their arrival to power to Castrochavism, reason why they subordinate their government and country to the sustainment and covering-up of dictatorships through foreign policies and internal actions that essentially surrender their States. Lopez Obrador from Mexico criticized Milei’s election stating “we respect the decision that a majority group made in Argentina … although we believe this is something that is not going to help them … it is clear that we do not agree with those who have authoritative, privatizing, racist, classist policies …” Petro from Colombia wrote “the extreme right has won in Argentina; it is the decision of their society. Sad for Latin America, we shall see … neo-liberalism has run out of proposals for society …”

Throughout this century, Castrochavist conspiracies seek at least three objectives; the first and main objective is to topple governments, attributing to them the crimes involved in the toppling in order to persecute government officials, if they are not able to do so they go after substantial modifications to the country’s institutional structure under the banner of “constituency” and other changes; and if they cannot do this, they will weaken the president and government by creating conditions that will erode their effectiveness and enable them to promote a candidate suitable to their rigging who will win the next elections.

At the start of this century and just days after having dollarized the economy of his country, Ecuador’s President Jamil Mahuad was toppled and so was Argentina’s President Fernando de la Rua also toppled; then Bolivia’s President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada was toppled. Ecuador’s President Lucio Gutierrez was deposed; Miguel Antel Rodriguez, the General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS) was ousted from his position. In Peru, Pedro Castillo was deposed for being a toppler; and more recently in Ecuador President Guillermo Lazo, caught in the cross-fire, was forced to prematurely abandon the presidency there.

This method was used in 2019 and 2020 in Chile, Ecuador, and Colombia and in Peru in 2023. In Chile with President Piñera they accomplished phases one and two, debilitated the government and were able to muster a Constituent Assembly with whose pretext Boric won the elections. In Colombia, they debilitated President Duque’s government and afterwards made Petro the president. In Ecuador, President Lenin Moreno resisted the coup d’état and did not give-in or gave up his mandate in any of the phases but ended his term with a wreaked popularity. In Peru, President Boluarte, is now enduring phases one and two of a conspiracy apparently ended by some sort of agreement.

One of Castrochavism’s features is that it always makes its objectives public as the best way to confuse its victims who simply do not believe it until is too late. The conspiracy against Javier Milei has started with the assassination of his domestic and international reputation, identifying him as “ultra-rightist,” manipulating his self-proclaimed condition of “libertarian” with that of being “authoritarian, privatizer, racist, classist, neo-Nazi, colonial, and pro North American imperialism,” the enemy, all while they activate the internal apparatus with operational and intelligence support from Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, the Forum of Sao Paolo, and more.

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

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas