Freedom and security of the Americas start with the liberation of Cuban people

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) The violation of human rights, to wield power through State-terrorism, to commit crimes against humanity, to internationally intervene, to breed conspiracies, guerrillas, narcotics trafficking, wars, to establish dictatorships and narco-States, to have generations of misery and forced migrations used as attacks against other nations, to be the permanent epicenter of threat to international peace and security, are only a part of the unpunished exercise of power of Cuba’s dictatorship. This fact only has but one conclusion and that is; to understand that Americas’ freedom and security can only start with the liberation of the Cuban people.

The proliferation of issues or axis of confrontation to divide societies, the aggravation of social problems turning them into violent conflicts, the formation of and support given to terrorist and guerrilla groups, the use of narcotics’ trafficking as a means of social and economic harassment and destruction, the conspiracy and destabilization, the use of crime to generate fear and insecurity in the population, the use of torture, undue imprisonment, the judicial manipulation, the assassinations of reputation, the human trafficking and slavery, the counterfeiting of narratives in order to justify crime, and the transformation of criminals into political leaders and governing figures, are all a brief summary of the successful nature of the Cuban dictatorship.

To get a better understanding of the situation, we only need to go over the facts in each one of the countries of the Americas. This is not about the history of Cuba’s dictatorship, the issue at hand is the situation of each of the countries in the region. Throughout the past 65 years each State, without exception, has been attacked, affected, and intervened by the Cuban dictatorship. In this 21st century this tyrannical dictatorship, has renewed its strength thanks to the funds given to it since 1999 by the felonious dictator of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. Chavez salvaged Cuba’s dictatorship and surrendered the entire State of Venezuela and its wealth to Cuba, and paid for such a mistake with his life and with the misery of all Venezuelans and Latin Americans.

The United States is the permanent target of attacks by the Cuban dictatorship and ironically it enables Cuba to use the antiimperialist discourse reactivated in this 21st century in spite of having lost the dispute between capitalism and communism that ended with the disappearance of the Soviet Union and placed the world into its current condition of being “capitalist and globalized.” Albeit, the United States is the permanent target of attacks, all the rest of countries in the Americas endure far more grievous effects in their societies, economies, democracies, and their people because they are victims of conspiracies, guerrillas, narcotics’ trafficking, terrorism, interventionism, subjection, indoctrination, and more.

The breath and scope of the most important and longest lasting center for the formation and expansion of transnational organized crime that in all shapes is Cuba’s dictatorship, can be measured since 1959 at any Latin American country with the reality of existing crises and insecurity in the 21st century. Cuba’s dictatorship is the Dictatorship-In-Chief of the 21st century socialism or Castrochavism and has been able to cloak as politics all atrocities that it directs, executes, or covers up and has been seen as the leader for the intervention of extra-regional dictatorships such as Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and more.

Objective facts range; from Cuba’s missile crisis against the United States in 1962 until the current installation of espionage systems, from the high jacking of airlines in the sixties and seventies to the open backing and support to Hamas’ terrorism, from the organization of urban and rural guerrillas throughout Latin America, to the involvement of Cubans as soldiers for Russia’s invasion to Ukraine, from Cuban invasions in Central America and Africa, to the forced massive migrations -such as Mariel- used as a weapon for attack until 2023, from the trafficking of political prisoners as tokens for exchange to the current human trafficking, from on-going espionage with diplomatic façade in every country with its main base at the United Nations, from its condition as the first narco-State of the region with Pablo Escobar and Roberto Suarez as partners -a blemish that could not be eradicated even with the death by firing squad of General Ochoa and others- to the control of other narco-States in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua that were installed, and more.

Cuba’s dictatorship has organized and sustained guerrillas throughout Latin America, many of these, such as Colombia’s FARC and ELN, are still active today. It has also reactivated the MRTA and Shining Path guerrillas in Peru, the Sandinista Front in Nicaragua where a Castrochavist dictatorship wields power, the Tupak Katari Army who were instrumental in the wrecking of democracy in Bolivia. There are now new sources of confrontation with a Mapuche indigenous label in Chile and Argentina. All of it connected to narcotics’ trafficking and terrorism.

At the present, the danger and criminal actions of Cuba’s dictatorship are definitive and are reflected by the dictatorships from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia in which it has expanded and, in the Para-Dictatorial governments that it has installed in Argentina with Fernandez/Kirchner, Mexico with Lopez Obrador, Chile with Boric, Colombia with Petro, and Brazil with Lula. It is enough to see Boric asking President Biden to lift sanctions imposed on Cuba or to see all attacking Israel for defending itself after that attack against its humanity by terrorists from Hamas.

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

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas