Carlos Sanchez Berzain Abogado | Estadista | Político | Politólogo
Carlos Sánchez Berzaín
November 15, 2024
(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) The people from the United States have achieved another milestone in the history of democracy by astoundingly electing Donald J. Trump as its 47th president. People elect on the basis of internal issues that affect their lives, and citizens from the United States have cast their vote mainly because of the economy and the massive migration that for the most powerful nation of the world have causes and effects worldwide. Forcible migrations are rooted in dictatorships that cause, manipulate, and benefit from them. To end this, the solution is to return freedom and democracy to the peoples from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia.
Forcible migration to the United States is manipulated by dictatorships of 21st Century Socialism and their allies as a mechanism of a hybrid warfare against what they call north American imperialism, aggravated -in our side- by the absence of a clear strategy to prevent it. Dictatorships create the problem with misery, repression, persecution, and State-terrorism, forcing people to leave their countries, extorting victims to pay juicy amounts to enable their departure from their homeland, to then manipulate them to go in the direction of those countries they want to destabilize, mainly the United States. Closing the cycle of such lucrative crime with the expatriates’ remittances that are soon sent to their families.
People do not like to abandon their homeland, their community, their house, their loved ones, their surroundings where they can endure even conditions of poverty but not threats against their life and freedom. Latin-Americans do not migrate solely because of poverty, they do so because of the conditions of misery, insecurity, helplessness, and the lack of anything good to look forward to in the future, because they do not have freedom.
In this 21st century, dictatorships have spread in the Americas. Back in 1999, there was only one agonizing dictatorship; Cuba, but Hugo Chavez’s ascent to the presidency of Venezuela, followed by the United States’ foreign policy abandonment of the region in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 11 September of 2001, enabled the birth of 21st Century Socialism that is the label used to present as political this group of Transnational Organized Crime that today controls Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, and that has installed para-dictatorial governments in democratic countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia.
The main objective of 21st Century Socialism dictatorships, imposed by Cuban Castroism, is “the fight against imperialism,” evidenced by the defiance, threats, and constant attacks against the United States, its principles and values of freedom and respect for human rights, democracy, private property. Further evidence is the permanent and reiterated foreign policy and internal policy actions of the regimes from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, their structural organization as narco-States to make narcotics’ trafficking another anti-imperialist weapon, the kidnapping of citizens to be used as tokens of exchange, the organization and promotion of terrorism, human trafficking, their voting at international organizations and more.
The forcible migration caused by dictatorships has expelled important academicians, professionals, scientists, highly qualified persons, professors, technicians, and specialists that have been recognized and assimilated by the free market. It has caused the exile of millions of people in search of simply a place to live, in such numbers that these migrations have collapsed the reception and shelter systems and services that in-turn has resulted in the yearning of some to go back to their home countries. The forcible migration has also included criminals, members of the infamous criminal band “Tren de Aragua” and other criminal organizations that include agents and agitators to destabilize the receiving democracies. The problems being experienced in the United States are also endured by Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Spain, and elsewhere.
Peoples are fighting to end dictatorships and recover their democracy, but the international system shirks its responsibilities and obligations. Peoples subjected by dictatorships are in a civil resistance mode since many years back but more recently in a remarkable and actively way; in Cuba since 21 July of 2021, when people took to the streets and asked for “Homeland and Life” and have not stopped protesting to this day; in Venezuela since over a decade ago and now empowered by the electoral triumph of 28th of July of 2024 that -using the dictatorship’s own system- has defeated the dictatorship and now expects the swearing-in of Gonzalez Urrutia as President; in Bolivia since the 21st of February of 2016 when Bolivians said “NO” to an illegal reelection and then in 2019 lost hope in a government that was supposed to be of transition wherein “the dictator was ousted but not the dictatorship;” in Nicaragua since the protests of 18 April of 2018 that resulted in assassinations, persecutions, and then exile. The existence of nearly 3,500 political prisoners in these countries is proof.
Dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua are military and political espionage, logistics support, and propaganda bases of dictatorships from China, Russia, Iran, and of terrorism. They are narco-States who wield power through State-terrorism. They threaten and attack the United States daily, but have no economy, peoples, nor options, they are collapsing and this moment in history brings the 47th President Trump the opportunity to return security to the United States with policies to -once and for all- end organized crime dictatorships.
*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.
Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas
Published in Spanish by infobae.com Sunday November 10, 2024