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Another caravan of migrants seeking asylum in the US has started its journey in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. About 30% of them will never make it to the U.S. or even to Mexico. Everywhere they have to surrender a possession to make the next mile. When they have given up all their possessions, then they become servants to organized crime through drug cartel recruitment. Servitude comes in many packages, the most obvious is prostitution for both women and men. There also is kidnapping. Finally, there are two jobs that tie migrants to organized crime. These are drug distribution and transportation and spying for the criminal gangs. Today the genie is out of the bottle and is spreading havoc in the region. For the U.S. government it is raining unwanted immigrants. For Central America organized crime is taking away freedom and economic progress. Mexico on its part is being devoured by a wave of violence that claims more casualties than the war in Syria. In short, everyone is losing except organized crime. The clock is thus ticking for the U.S. as leader of the free world to realize that these developments merit a hemispheric treatment. One that brings together law enforcement resources while facilitating prosecution of the mafia leadership and drying out organized crime’s sources of economic gain. Or maybe it is too late to do anything effective, like it is too late to save a significant proportion of migrants from an assured death.
This new decade there continues to be two Americas, a democratic one and a dictatorial other. The dictatorships have lost some ground and are facing terminal crisis situations, but now they are being propped up by the governments from Argentina, Mexico, and Spain. Features of the democratic America are the “alternance of power and the predictability. Features of the dictatorial America, or Castrochavist dictatorships, are “the indefinite permanence in power and its de-facto execution thereof” that ranges from narcotics’ trafficking, terrorism, corruption, heinous crimes against humanity and more. In Spain, with the government of Pedro Sanchez / Pablo Iglesias, Castrochavism has taken over power because the political party PODEMOS is the dictatorial America’s creation to penetrate and destroy Spaniard’s democracy. Friends of enemies are not friends. America’s democracies must be clear and concise in assessing and denouncing Argentina, Mexico, and Spain’s position, not permit a “double standard” and act accordingly.
The term “maleconazo” describes “the demonstrations against the dictatorship that took place in Cuba on 5 August of 1994 that are considered as the most serious popular rebellion against the Castroist regime”. The maleconazo was a spontaneous revolt that was caused by the situation of misery and deprivation caused by the “special period in time of peace”. From the dictatorship’s point of view, the “maleconazo” is the feared popular reaction that places its indefinite tenure in power at risk, it is the nightmare the regime does not want to be repeated. The communications’ revolution the world lives through due to the internet, cellular phones and beyond, is a liberation instrument for oppressed peoples, such as the Cuban people. The contact with the island’s overseas world is a factor that erodes the dictatorship’s omnipotence. For Cuba’s dictatorship all is growing internal weaknesses and external threats. It is not an ideological matter; it is a depleted system. The time for new and terminal maleconazos against the Castroist system throughout Cuba’s territory has arrived, and 2020 will prove it.
Democrats insist on prosecuting the president and Republicans insist on preventing it. From the law’s point of view, Republicans are right, but, as Brazilians often say, “they are right, but little, so little that it is useless.” Trump will be prosecuted. It is a dialogue of the deaf.
Martins Scorsese just launched his latest creation: the story of Frank Sheeran a truck driver turned into a hitman by virtue of his relation to the mob master Russell Buffalino. Through Buffalino Sheeran meets Jimmy Hoffa the legendary International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ leader. The movie is quite opportune in these times of profound and multifaceted change when many leaders are confused and taken by surprise by events . And in the depths of confusion many strategic mistakes can be brought to bear. The first is the belief by one too many democratic forces. This besides being naïve is dangerous, as once organized crime gets a hold of anybody’s finances that person or institution becomes its operational base. The second mistake has been adopted by the leftist establishment in the region. Most of its leaders believe that concluding alliances with drug traffickers will accelerate the fall of the US. Finally, and equally important is the lesson about the law of negative returns and onerous liabilities. Let’s hope that the film gets a good audience in Latin America.
Now it is Colombia’s turn. It happened before in Mexico and Chile. Vandals have destroyed a great part of Santiago de Chile. Indirectly, vandals harm the whole society. The damages inflicted on the public sector mean less services than those already budgeted. Fewer school cafeterias. Less health and education. Less resources for retirees. Less parks and recreation. Less investment. Fewer jobs. Less growth. There is not a single positive aspect in vandalism. How can we deal with these destructive citizens? In my opinion, with severity and fairness. Maybe modifying the penal codes. The society, represented by the State, must do so. How? Perhaps taking the guilty ones before severe courts. If they are minors, making the families pay the expenses of the destruction carried out by these rascals. It is very important that these reforms of sentences and punishments be carried out. Then comes the time to cry, but the origin is in the vandals and in the passivity of the governments that tolerate them.
Once upon a time Chairman Mao revealed to Roger Peyrefitte his secret for success by cryptically indicating ‘I know my people because I pause to hear the grass grow'” This is looking at what is happening in Hong Kong, Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela. “In our hemisphere political leadership seems to have entered a hypnotic state that prevents them from even seeing the grass.”
The flagrant electoral fraud and crimes committed by Evo Morales and his regime catalyzed the “Bolivian nation” that had endured for more than a decade. In the wake of almost three weeks of civil resistance, Evo Morales is now a dictator who has been defeated by the Bolivian nation and is solely sustained by the Castrochavist intervention. The concept and existence of the Bolivian nation, a mongrel or mestizo nation, diverse yet unique, is built upon and is sustained through “an alliance of classes” and not through a fight between classes. Through the Castrochavist inspired constitution “the fight between races” is introduced through the acknowledgement of the existence of 36 nations in Bolivia’s territory and with the elimination of the Republic and the establishment of a plurinational state. This has got to be the greatest crime committed by Evo Morales to destroy the “Bolivian nation” and cannot be taken as anything but treason to the homeland when he delivered Bolivia to foreign intervention and Transnational Organized Crime that, at that time, was presented as the Bolivarian Movement, or 21st Century Socialism, but that now is known as Castrochavism. Because there exists a Bolivian nation, the confrontation in Bolivia is between the regime and Bolivia’s people, it is between Evo Morales and Bolivians, between the Castrochavist transnational intervention and the defense of the homeland. This is also why the request for the dictator’s resignation is national. Only Castrochavism’s violent and criminal intervention sustains Evo Morales. Bottom line; the dictator is defeated, the enemy identified, and the Bolivian nation is unified and mobilized.
On November 9, 1989, the demolition of the Berlin Wall began, together with the disappearance of communism in Europe. Thirty years have passed since that extraordinary episode. Freedom was that––to be able to fight for a better destiny without a State deciding for us, without a Party making our choices, without the eyes of the political police permanently perched on our necks. If Gorbachev had resorted to violence, communism would have continued to rule in the USSR and in Eastern Europe. Gorbachev was not a bloodthirsty man. He was communist and patriot, but not murderer. Gorbachev wanted to transform Russia into a truly developed, prosperous and free nation, but without private ownership of the means of production, governed by a planned system, in accordance with the Marxist collectivist project. “Why did Gorbachev fail?”. “Because communism does not adapt to human nature.” Thirty years after its disappearance in Europe, collectivism, intertwined with drug trafficking, is making a comeback and shows its hairy ear in some Latin American countries. It is no longer about creating paradise on earth, but hell. It will not prevail. Nor does it adapt to human nature.
Bolivia’s people are in civil resistance to regain their freedom and democracy, something achievable with unity, the international disavowing of the usurper in this electoral sham and appealing to the Armed Forces and Police. Evo Morales and his regime are arrogantly, shamefully, publicly and openly, perpetrating the crimes of electoral fraud, perversion of the course of justice, material and ideological falsehood, use of counterfeited instruments, criminal affiliation, misuse of governmental positions, attempting against the public trust, and more. This is not a Bolivian, or domestic way of doing things. It is “Castrochavism”. People vote, but they do not elect and when crimes are discovered, they simply go ahead with additional crime. Bolivian people are in a “defenseless state” due to the absence of the rule of law and the absolute inexistence of the separation and independence of the branches of government. In this uneven fight the national unity around the opposition’s political and civic leadership is indispensable. The world’s democracies must back Bolivian peoples’ fight to regain freedom and democracy by disavowing the 20th of October’s electoral results. Unity in the message: “Evo has got-to-go”
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