“As long as Cuba is a dictatorship, persecuting, torturing, and silencing its people and teaching others to persecute, to assassinate, to torture and to silence, we cannot have a hemisphere lacking of bad habits that affect freedom, democracy and peace”.
Today while Russia could not effectively compete in the military and political dimension with either the US or China, it can certainly look at them at the eye in cyber space. Cyber power includes computer network exploitation (CNE) or the ability to use IT ( information technologies) to spy on another nation’s information technologies.
Venezuela at a turning point???? Beatrice E. Rangel While Americans celebrated their Thanksgiving festivities, Venezuelans everywhere in the world began to mobilize against the Maduro regime. All seem to believe that come January the 10th a sort of spell will befall upon the land of Bolivar withering away the criminal regime that holds the nation…
The Cuban model is a stubborn system that conducts brutal repression, and does not care about legitimacy or the well-being of civil society. The regime seeks to stay in power at any price. This model endangers regional democracy as it uses elections to thereafter transform the country into a dictatorship. This has taken place in Venezuela and in Nicaragua and very well could happen again elsewhere in the region. What the Trump Administration is doing has tremendous importance and it would be highly significant and meaningful if the international community were to join these efforts now.
Elections where human rights and basic individual freedoms are violated, with politically persecuted, imprisoned, or exiled, where there is no freedom of the press, where voters’ registration and information are manipulated wherein there is no “Rule of Law” and the “separation and independence of the branches of government” is inexistent. These are not elections, it is fraud, it is organized crime in action.
The right to “the supreme recourse of rebellion against tyranny and oppression” is a natural and legal right. When a government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is, for the people and for each of its sectors, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties”.
Transparency has long been a scarce commodity in public life. Technological change has placed this virtue at the center of any healthy and enduring leadership. Today however, cyberspace is a dimension where everyone sees everyone else as they are with their virtues and their flaws.
Paradoxically, as president, he advocated among his Latin American colleagues for the establishment of hemispheric caucus that would promote growth and act as crises muffler. The presence of the Group 20 in Latin America in a way was a tribute to the most strategic mind to live at the White House since president Jefferson.
Venezuelans are today slaves in a country of servitude and misery. And the misery is now spreading to neighboring Colombia. The Venezuelan tragedy is also bringing Latin America back to the 1950s in terms of the health landscape. Vanquished diseases are staging a dreadful home coming. And as the region is inoculated with these diseases development efforts are destroyed by a regime that seems to have taken looting to perfection.
Under the spurious appearance of being “cooperators or internationalists”, Cuba’s dictatorship runs a system involved in lending physicians and other personnel in “conditions of slavery” to Latin American governments and others. Details, threats, and the coercion with which the regime is forcing the return of these physicians to Cuba, make the United Nations’ protocol on Transnational Organized Crime’s “Human Trafficking” applicable.
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