Castrochavism in Argentina and the “boiled frog” syndrome

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s government has placed Argentina’s foreign policy at the service of Castrochavism’s dictatorships under the leadership of Cuba, backing Venezuela and Nicaragua, and directly intervening to regain complete power in Bolivia. Its internal agenda is the continuation of the 12-year government of the Kirchner’s, rapidly moving towards the destruction of democracy and the granting of impunity, turning crime into politics and criminals into politicians. Argentina is a democracy being destroyed and its Castrochavist government is repeating the application of the “boiled frog” syndrome.

The “boiled frog” syndrome describes that “if a frog is, all of the sudden, placed in boiling water, it will leap, but if you place it in lukewarm water that will eventually boil, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death”. It is a metaphor of “the lack of ability or unwillingness of people to react or be aware of sinister threats gradually applied”.

The 21st century is highlighted by the increase of dictatorships in the Americas. Cuba, the only dictatorship that was in agony back in 1999, was rescued by Hugo Chavez and today is the leader of the group that is called populist, Bolivarian, ALBA, 21st Century Socialism, and now “Castrochavism” that is “a system of Transnational Organized Crime that holds political power in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Argentina, and that threatens democracy and peace in the Americas. A group whose methodology consists of presenting crime as political facts and criminals as political actors”.

Ever since they were sworn-in on 10 December of 2019, Fernandez/Kirchner redelivered Argentina at the service of Castrochavism with its main guest from Cuba Diaz-Canel, the incident with the United States’ envoy who left, the invitation to Lula da Silva from Brazil, Rafael Correa from Ecuador and more. Argentina, with Fernandez/Kirchner, shifted its position at the Organization of American States and the Group from Lima, joining in support of Venezuela’s dictatorship, disavowing President Juan Guaido, accepting and credentialing ambassadors with the dictator Maduro, and pursued “antiimperialist” actions such as the election of the president of the Interamerican Development Bank (BID in Spanish), at a time when the trafficking of Cuban “slaved physicians” restarted.

Under Cuba’s direction, Fernandez/Kirchner turned Argentina into the center of conspiracy to liquidate the Bolivian peoples’ transition towards democracy. In their territory, and using Argentine’s funds, they protected the fugitive dictator Evo Morales and gave him all the means of the Argentinean people to conspire and pursue his return, committing crimes of; sedition, counterfeiting, electoral fraud, and assault against Bolivia’s sovereignty. Following those successful -yet criminal- efforts Argentina is today the Southern cone’s conspirator platform for Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil, providing the means and the coverage for the Forum of Sao Paolo operated by the Cuban G-2.

Fernandez/Kirchner’s government is only the continuity of the 12-year Nestor and Cristina Kirchner’s “K” government, totally aligned and integrated into Castrochavism that had previously not been able to destroy Argentina’s institutions to replace them with an indefinitely reelected “vote-catching” regime, similar to what today are the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua. Fernandez/Kirchner’s internal policy plan is to be a “franchise of Castrochavism” with emphasis in “getting impunity at any cost” and with the persecution of opposing politicians, reason why they use the control over the “Judicial branch”.

The process of the destruction of democracy in Argentina is best described by the “boiled frog” syndrome, just as it has happened in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador. Using manipulated majorities in the Legislative Branch they approve “despicable laws” that destroy the institutional system from the inside, they liquidate democracy with successive small coups d’état or “soft coups”. Going over the news from Argentina we can see that -by acts of the government- every day there are increasing violations of human rights and individual civil liberties, there is less of the Rule of Law and the separation and independence of the branches of government is at the brim of collapse.

For years we have heard that “Venezuela is not Cuba” and today Venezuela is similar -or perhaps even worse- than Cuba. Now we hear that “Argentina is not Venezuela” but the methodology that is applied to end freedom and democracy, destroy free enterprise, labor unions and private property, end the rule of law, and control the Judicial Branch in Argentina, is but a repetition of what has already been done in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

Argentina’s defense against the attacks from its own government is not an ideological matter, it is neither from the right, nor the left, is a matter of survival. Argentineans’ freedom is at stake, and it appears they are victims of the “boiled frog” syndrome.

Translated from Spanish by; Edgar L. Terrazas, member of the American Translators Association, ATA # 234680.