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Bolivia is a dictatorship since -at least- the supplanting of its Constitution and the elimination of the Republic perpetrated through bloody massacres within 2006 and 2009. The same “Castroist Chavist model”, the same provocateurs and owners of this discourse; the same “anti-imperialist” rhetoric, the same Cuban intervention, the same context and verbiage in their “despicable laws”, the same scheme to construct “narco-states”, in sum; the same dictatorial spiral of the same group of Transnational Organized Crime.
The realization that Notre Dame could succumb brought down the last thread of national pride. The people of France are now left without the spiritual support of an endurance symbol. From the perspective of a Venezuelan in exile Notre Dame’s fire reminded the continuing tragedy of a country that has gone through destruction one time too many. To see Notre Dame in flames is to go through the sorrow of seeing Venezuela burning once again without been able to predict when the current drama that takes 250 lives on a monthly basis is going to end.
Transition is “the act and effect of passing from one state to another different” and it implies change. A government transitioning to democracy faces “a process of transformation of the rules, of the mechanisms of participation, and of political competition” to get back the essential components and general conditions of democracy.
Mr Assange embodies the dangers posed by narcissism in the information era. He obviously forgot that true leaders face misery with elegance and success with humility.
In the Americas, democracy has five indispensable fundamental components; “respect for human rights and basic individual freedoms; access to power and its discharge subordinated to the rule of law; conducting periodic, free, and fair elections based upon the concepts of universal suffrage and secrecy as expressions of the people’s sovereignty; the existence of a plural regime of political parties and organizations; and the separation and independence of the branches of government”.
As I watch the unfolding tragedy in the US Southern border, I cannot repress a nostalgic flashback to 1992 when the Peace Treaty for el Salvador was signed in Chapultepec Mexico. As customary, UN mediators and warring parties signed the treaties, shook hands and patted each other on the back . Then everyone went back to their businesses. 27 years thereafter these gangs are part of a very sophisticated network of organized crime that crisscrosses the world and holds politics at ransom. The answer of course is not be found in a wall but in how to retake the Initiative for the Americas to bring prosperity vaccinating the region from the strain of organized crime.
Change nurtures fear. Once fear sets in people stops functioning normally as it acts a barrier to logical thinking while preferring explanations that clearly identify a culprit. Today fear is clearly thriving in several latitudes of the Americas. In the US the lack of clear project to confront change is spreading fear among its citizens. In Latin America organized crime has taken over politics to inject fear in most democratic leaders and their populations.
In this model, Evo Morales has implemented the “vote-catching dictatorship” in Bolivia. He has conceptualized this electioneering dictatorship as “that political regime that by force or violence concentrates all political power into one person or group, crushes and suppresses human rights and basic freedoms and utilizes elections as a means of simulation and propaganda in order to indefinitely keep itself in power”. It is about controlled and manipulated elections.
The recent announcement by President Donald Trump recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights generated a number of reactions. If the Golan Heights “legally” and actually belongs to Syria, as European nations claim, how exactly does this position serve the European goals and interests in the region? There should be little dispute that, in this chaotic situation, Israel should keep the Golan Heights indefinitely.
Juan Guaido is imprisoned, not physically as of yet, by the Castroist Chavist dictatorship. It is by far more serious than that, Guaido is imprisoned by the greatest act of selfishness that the so-called political class can perpetrate against a nation that is suffering a humanitarian crisis. Freeing Guaido means to immediately allow him to be the President In Charge, to help him to put together a government of national unity, and to truly help him by setting aside the “two-faced politics”.
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