Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
Bolivia is a dictatorship of the Castrochavist system comprised by Venezuela and Nicaragua with the active backing of Argentina’s government, all under the control of Cuba. For those who believed the successful fallacy of disguising a dictatorship as a democracy, with Bolivia’s fraudulent elections in October of 2020 the simulation has ended with the repetition of judicialized political persecution to jail, exile, and ensure impunity for corrupted officials. Former President Janine Añez has been arrested and the persecution against an undetermined number of Bolivians.
A four minute and three second musical video, a song recorded in Havana and Miami with six Cuban rap and reggaetón song-writer singers best portrays in its lyrics the clearest analysis of the situation of Cuba’s people and propounds the strategy needed to regain Cuba’s freedom that all political leaders, governments, academicians, businesspeople, defenders of freedom and human rights and the whole world should understand.
Reflexive Control is taught in Russian military schools and training programs, and is conceived as a national security strategy. A key concept of Reflexive Control is that an opponent is provided specific and predetermined information with the explicit goal of controlling his decision-making process. Unlike western concepts of perception management, Reflexive Control seeks to control, not just to manage, an opponent’s perception.
As it is too well known the best lithium depositories of the hemisphere are in Bolivia. And as it is also well known lithium to be the new oil as cars will rather soon be operated by batteries and batteries are made of lithium. Further, as solar panels mushroom all over the world to reduce carbon dioxide emissions storage of solar energy will spike demand for lithium. So as Venezuela falls more deeply into a humanitarian calamity and Cuba ceases to receive Venezuela’s generous transfers of oil and foreign exchange, taking over the Bolivian government will guarantee yet another 60 years of survival to the Cuban regime. And take over it is .
The 99.26% increase of registered voters relative to an only 22.51% growth of the population from 2005 to 2019, period in which voters registered in the registry was doubled.
The path these Framers mapped, as Madison wrote, had “no parallel in the annals of human society.” Thanks to them, Americans were the first free people in history to choose their own form of government. Often, revolutionary leaders evolve into despots keen on suppressing individual rights, as happened in France, Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and others.
At the plebiscite of 25 October of 2020 only 50.95% of those registered, voted and the outcome was presented as the vote of “78.28% of the population” or “the overwhelming majority of Chileans” when -in reality- it was only 39.61% of the Chilean electorate. Thus, Chile’s constituent is based on violent pressure, the restoration of the plebiscite of “Pinochet’s Constitution” and a minority of votes converted into a simulated majority of votes.
In the case of Venezuela , as the Wall Street Journal recently indicated its oil treasure might well be kept under the earth forever should the country fail to spin out of current chaos and seize the opportunities that the marriage of oil with other sources open to development.
Good governance is what will most improve lives in Latin American. For this the citizenry needs to learn to evaluate the stewardship of their leaders more responsibly. Good governance is about promoting socioeconomic systems where most citizens are able to provide adequately for their own needs. Only then will Bolívar’s dictum prove untrue that, the only thing one can do in America is emigrate.
Fortunately for Mexico the free trade agreement with the United States sealed in the policies and Salinas successor Ernesto Zedillo not only stayed course but engaged in significant political reforms. And while AMLO incarnates a reversal of fortunes near shoring will most probably end his appeal to Mexicans as well as that of his party. Argentina and Venezuela unfortunately seem to be drifting into chaos.
