DURA LEX SED LEX

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Pudiéramos preguntarnos si la fe, entendida como la certeza de lo que se anhela, y la esperanza, o sea, la confianza en que ocurrirá aquello que deseamos, van unidas, en ese mundo complejo que es el alma. Pero, asimismo, cuál de ellas iría primero. Ese es el tema de una conversación entre dos venezolanos exiliados, dado el cataclismo generado durante las últimas casi dos docenas de largos años. “Dura lex, sed lex” “la fe y la esperanza se han unido, para salir de la penuria a la que nos tienen sometidos”. “Dios no olvida”. Esa pareciera la situación de una Venezuela destruida. Para castigar a los causantes y restablecerse como república ha de acudir a “Dura Lex, Sed Lex” y aplicarla en todo su rigor. Las probables injusticias, de haberlas, serían nimias, al comparárseles con los crímenes.

Popping the Party

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U.S. criminal indictments against Venezuela’s Maduro and 14 other current and former officials for drug trafficking and what it means for the rule of law in Latin America. “Criminal groups have wasted no time in embracing today’s globalized economy and the sophisticated technology that goes with it. But our efforts to combat them have remained up to now very fragmented and our weapons almost obsolete. ”These were Kofi Annan’s opening remarks at the signing ceremony for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNCTOC) . Thursday March 27th 2020 when the US unsealed indictments against the President of Venezuela and the Chief Justice and the Minister of Defense as well as 11 other top dignitaries. Charges were  drug trafficking money laundering and terrorism. From the political view point the  unsealing of indictments also indicate the US does not recognize Mr maduro as a legitimate head of state. Also by virtue of posting rewards for anyone producing information leading to the arrest of the indicted dignitaries creates around each of them an environment of fear and mistrust in everyone surrounding them that could lead to desperation. And as we all too well know desperation is divine poison as it leads persons to take wrong and hurtful decisions. Ultimately it is their own doings that brings them down.  Because as Annan indicated  .”They are powerful, representing entrenched interests and the clout of a global enterprise worth billions of dollars. But they are not invincible”. Because they cannot withstand the universal enforcement of rule of law.

THE UNITED STATES APPLIES THE PALERMO CONVENTION: CASTROCHAVISM IS ORGANIZED CRIME AND NOT POLITICS

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The “mechanism to fight Transnational Organized Crime more efficiently” established jurisdiction in the United States’ justice system, thus formalizing the concept that “Castrochavism” is organized crime and not politics. This is about the rule of law.  This is what the accusations of criminal wrongdoing filed in United States’ district courts. The “narco-terrorist conspiracy” involving the production and trafficking of cocaine was undertaken by this criminal group who controlled the de-facto political power under the label of “21st Century Socialism”, today known as “Castrochavism”. In columns, books, and conferences I have asserted -and today I insist- in that criminals who hold or held power in countries with Castrochavism dictatorships do not enjoy any type of immunity  or privilege, nor are they protected by any concept of sovereignty, non-intervention, nor territoriality, because they are an “organized criminal group” (Article 2 of the Palermo Convention) who commit “serious crimes of a transnational nature” (Art. 2, Subparagraph 2).  This is not a political matter, neither is it a matter of international affairs.  This is a matter of justice, of transnational crime.

Estados Unidos aplica la Convención de Palermo: el castrochavismo es crimen organizado y no política

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El “mecanismo para combatir mas eficazmente la delincuencia organizada trasnacional” abrió competencia ante el sistema de Justicia de los Estados Unidos oficializando el concepto de que el “castrochavismo” es crimen organizado y no es política. Del imperio de la ley. De eso se tratan las acusaciones criminales en Cortes de Distrito de los Estados Unidos. La “conspiración narco-terrorista”, producción y tráfico de cocaína fue asumida por este grupo criminal que controla el poder político de facto bajo el alias de “socialismo del siglo XXI” hoy “castrochavismo”. En columnas, libros y conferencias he afirmado e insisto ahora, que los delincuentes que detentan y detentaron el poder en los países con dictaduras del castrochavismo no tienen ningún tipo de inmunidad o privilegio, ni están protegidos por concepto alguno de soberanía, no intervención ni territorialidad, porque se trata de un “grupo delictivo organizado” (Art. 2 de la Convención de Palermo) que comete “delitos graves de carácter trasnacional” (Art. 2 inc 2). Este no es un tema político ni de relaciones internacionales. Es un asunto de justicia, de crimen transnacional.