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Iter-criminis means the process to carry out a crime. It is described as “the path that a criminal goes through from the time he thinks to commit a crime, going through all intermediate steps in its preparation and execution, up to the point of the consummation of the criminal act”. A “vote-catching dictatorship is “the regime that by force or violence concentrates all political power in a person or a group, that represses human rights and basic individual freedoms and uses elections -as a means of simulation and disguise- and propaganda in order to indefinitely keep itself in power”. The existence of a “functional opposition” is key in the iter-criminis process. The functional opposition is a “make-believe opposition”, it is a “fake opposition”. Everything that is happening in the vote-catching dictatorship in Bolivia has already happened in Venezuela and in Nicaragua and the results are crisis, confrontation, and death.
The objective reality reveals that by using the Barbados’ negotiations, Maduro the dictator stops the TIAR’s enforcement, with the foolishness of placing as apparent operators of this move, those in charge of regaining freedom and democracy. President Guaido stated that “the TIAR is not magical, it is not a button that fixes everything, quite to the contrary, it compels us to get out and be the majority that we are in all areas”. Dictator Maduro reacted violently, threatening to jail those members of the Assembly who approved the TIAR. The steps to follow to invoke the enforcement of the TIAR are very simple, quick and yield conclusive results. President Guaido has the obligation to request a meeting of the “TIAR’s Consultation Team” that must “immediately meet” at the request of the President of the Permanent Council. Invoking the TIAR’s enforcement will comprise “a credible threat” against the usurpation. There is nothing lacking to enforce the TIAR for the usurpation in Venezuela to end, and the dictatorship knows this.
To trap color in movement and movement in life is no simple feat. But Master Carlos Cruz Diez not only trapped life in his works but gave it a new and more beautiful dimension: that of joy. I cannot remember visiting any of his exhibitions without being replenished with optimism; joy to live and faith in the future. Color and light would penetrate your soul so deeply that fear, insecurity and sadness would be immediately exorcised . As a result, Cruz Diez’ vision of progress and human achievement would nest in your heart to trigger creative ideas and inspiring missions. In a sense, through his work, he would transform reality from struggle to survive into a creative paradise where all dreams could become true.
Venezuela’s farce of 2018 is now being replicated in Bolivia. What is criminal, dictatorial, and an usurpation in Venezuela, that without a doubt it is, has been backed by Secretary Almagro in Bolivia as a “human right” with the argument that “it would be discriminatory” to; enforce the law, respect the result of a binding referendum election and all the essential components of democracy. To enable an usurper candidate and then help him -with observers- to legitimize an election that does not meet the minimum of requirements to be a “free, fair election based on universal suffrage concepts, with secret balloting as an expression of the people’s sovereignty” is by far contradictory with the binding contents of the Democratic Charter. What has happened in Bolivia is a “breakdown of the democratic order and the alteration of the constitutional order that have wrecked democracy”. We are left with the hope that democratic governments of OAS’ member states, now threatened by destabilization machinations taken against them by the Castroist Chavist dictatorships, will react and will no longer wait to address Bolivia’s case “in extremis” as has already happened with Venezuela and Nicaragua.
The people of Hong Kong have decided that their land is to be free and that it is worthwhile to give their lives to protect freedom. China thus needs to co-exist with a relatively free Hong Kong if it is to become a world financial power. It could be hard for Hong Kong to keep its independence given that the population mix would change in favor of acceptance of totalitarianism. In Puerto Rico, the people decided that they had had it with corrupt and inept governments. Puerto Ricans have decided to take their destiny in their hands to get rid of bad rulers and clarify the nation’s political status. The road towards achieving such goal will be long and full of obstacles but booming political maturity of the Puerto Rican people is a the greatest asset to achieve the goal of either becoming and independent nation or part of the US.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent visit to Latin America and sent a message that the U.S. will not abandon its goals of getting rid of Maduro’s regime. The role of Cuba is becoming more and more important for the survival of Maduro and his cronies as dissidence and criticism among members of the military and political elite is becoming more and more significant. It is crucial that the Trump sanctions be aimed at hurting the Cuban troops as well as the Venezuelan intelligence services even more than the military. At the same time, it is important to establish contacts with the military to encourage rebellion against their superiors. Sanctions against top security and political elites must be strengthened. Likewise, sanctions against Cuba need to be reinforced. Latin American countries, particularly in the Central American triangle are already in a state of anarchy and suffer from high levels of crime. This problem needs to be addressed urgently regardless of Maduro. The multiplication of narco-states is a threat to the neighborhood where we live.
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 historic moon landing was perhaps the most significant collective and worldwide recollection of a human feat ever. The Us also continues to lead in the category of groundbreaking missions to space. China is second and accelerating its spacecraft capabilities. Third comes Russia. Following the big three come Japan, the United Kingdom, India and Canada. From the economic view point the space race has propelled communications and information gathering and processing. This has paved the road to entry by successful private corporations. By 2050 “Asgardia” the first space nation should be in orbit. Asgardia is totally financed by private companies. From the political dimension the world seems to be less fortunate today. Today successful leaders are those that instill in the hearts of their people fear, doubt and opacity. Those that fragment the political body to then ride on the worst sentiments of a faction while freezing through fear the rest of society. On this count we are much worse off than on the night the moon received the first earthlings.
The Forum from Sao Paulo has in fact the function of being an instrument through which; the holders of power in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia are granted the condition of politicians, those who are no longer in power seek impunity, and those who conspire against democratic governments in the Americas gather. It is the political disguise of the Transnational Organized Crime that usurps the political action and power. The Forum from Sao Paulo has been one of the most important instruments so that the criminal, conspirator, and anti-democratic alliance of Chavez and Castro have the look of being political. The Forum from Sao Paulo corroborates that it is the disguise for organized crime and calls to conspire against democracies with the plausible but invalid reasoning that dictatorships and the people’s struggle against their oppression “calls for a practical exercise of mutual internationalism between all leftist powers from Latin America”.
The fight for freedom and democracy in Venezuela has passed from stagnation to a clear lead favoring the dictatorship that has been able to return to “negotiations” as an ingredient of the Castroist Chavist dictatorships to retain power. Dialogue or negotiation has already caused the initial damage of; restoring Nicolas Maduro’s condition as an “international character” even though he was declared an “usurper” of power, and to conceal Cuba’s occupation, all while making Juan Guaido’s position as “President and Head of State” questionable, and who is now only accepted as President of the National Assembly. Negotiations are maneuvered so that Maduro will continue holding power until -with some fine tuning- “elections in a dictatorship” . Venezuela will continue being a narco-state and the criminal groups will become “members” of the legitimized political party of the dictatorship. Negotiations, as an ingredient of the Castroist Chavist system’ strategy and as a good trap, will have accomplished the change so that nothing will change.
“In seeking for yet another term, Mr. Morales was violating a basic tenet of the Tacanas, power sharing. He was also pushing for oil and gas extraction in protected areas and proposing hydroelectric dams that would displace native communities.” Mr Morales fails to represent the Tacanas vision of governance and leadership. “We don’t consider him indigenous her. He has turned his back on us.”
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