Carlos Sanchez Berzain Abogado | Estadista | Político | Politólogo
Carlos Sánchez Berzaín
December 5, 2024
(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) Donald Trump, the President-Elect of the United States has started the change of his country’s foreign policy with global outcomes. Along with his nomination of Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, the new foreign policy prioritizes the interests and security of the United States with a clear identification of the enemies who attack it with drug trafficking, forcible migrations, common crime, and other features of a hybrid warfare, originated and carried out by dictatorships of 21st Century Socialism who perpetrate these crimes as a sine qua non condition to indefinitely remain in power.
The attacks against the United States and democracies of the Americas by dictatorships from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea are done through 21st Century Socialism dictatorships from the Americas who, under the command of Cuba are comprised by its satellites from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia.
The political, military, accords between dictatorships from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and dictatorships from Cuba -as the central conductor who determines the foreign policy of the entire group under its command- and dictatorships from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia are public. Public information has revealed and is further proof of the installation of bases and centers with different objectives, technology, equipment, civilian and military training, the release and assignment of host dictatorships’ natural resources and strategic territorial land spaces, the execution of commercial and debenture operations, and their subordination to China, Russia, and Iran are aimed against the United States and democracy.
Twenty-First Century Socialism dictatorships have expanded in the region by sponsoring candidates who -when they win- will place their governments at the service of dictatorships. These are the “Para-Dictatorial” governments from; Brazil with Lula, Mexico with Sheinbaum, Colombia with Petro, and Honduras with Castro. Chile with Boric appears to have withdrawn. Democratically elected presidents who subordinate their foreign, as well as internal policies to other dictatorships who under the leadership of Cuba augment the service capabilities to, and penetration of, China, Russia, and Iran against the United States and democracy.
Para-Dictatorial governments from the Americas, led by Brazil with Lula and Mexico with Lopez Obrador, have backed, led positions, and voted in favor of Russia and the terrorists that attacked Israel, against the United States, the European Union, Japan, and other countries who assumed positions to keep international peace and security. These Para-Dictatorial governments; have blocked decisions made by the Organization of American States (OAS) in defense of the popular will in Venezuela, financially sustain Cuba’s dictatorship by contracting enslaved personnel, impunely ignore and coverup violations of human rights and State-terrorism in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia, all without any consequence.
Dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia have become indispensable for the growing presence and threat of Russia, China, and Iran in the Americas, turning the region into an unprecedented area of confrontation. The map of the Americas today shows the United States surrounded by aggressive and assailing governments when -at the start of this century- this was a map of democracy, fight against crime, and a consensus for development.
As long as there are dictatorships in the Americas, democracies from the region and the United States in particular, will be threatened, attacked, an suffer the consequences of the control of political power by transnational organized crime disguised as 21st Century Socialism, or some other façade. Under current conditions the foreign policy of the United States can slow down and end the attacks of narcotics’ trafficking, forcible migrations, and several other forms of crime it endures in its territory, only with the return of democracy to the countries occupied by dictatorships.
Starting in the decade of the seventies of last century, in the midst of the Cold War, military dictatorships of Latin America opened the way to democracy basically by changes of the foreign policy of the United States. All countries under dictatorship in the region, except Cuba, democratized themselves and we closed the twentieth century with 34 democracies and one dictatorship. The forecast for the twenty-first century was that the Americas would be a region with vast democracy, but instead; the dictatorship from Cuba expanded, the war on drugs ended, to defend democracy and freedom became politically incorrect, violations of human rights, and the protection of organized crime were constitutionalized and to impunily attack the United States became a new normal.
All seems to indicate that changes to foreign policy the 47th President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio have started are very opportune, and will be successful in making the Americas (Western Hemisphere as defined by the U.S. State Department’s organization) the region of vast democracy, in consonance with the mandate of the Inter American Democratic Charter.
*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.
Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas
Published in Spanish by infobae.com Sunday December 1, 2024