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Several events have happened in the last several weeks that are worrisome for hemispheric security. The first is the victory of Alberto Fernandez and his candidate for vice-president, the former president Cristina Kirchner, in the Argentinean primaries. The second is the ouster of National Security Advisor John Bolton. Most recently, Mr. Fernandez stated that the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is not a dictatorship because it is an elected government. There is absolutely no institution that functions in Venezuela except against the well-being of society. Democracy should be about government of the people, by the people and for the people. In Venezuela it is exactly the opposite. Another worrisome event is the departure of John Bolton as National Security Advisor. Bolton was one of the main pushers for regime change in Venezuela. Bolton created false expectations not only for Trump but also for the Venezuelan opposition and the Venezuelan people. However, Bolton was very assertive in making every possible effort to get rid of the Maduro regime and these efforts are worth continuing. Bolton’s departure has raised concerns in Venezuela. Recent events must not give comfort to the murderous and terrorist Venezuelan regime.
Here I am follow some of the worst case scenarios of the trend of outsiders helming countries around the world — from a full invasion of Hong Kong and Taiwan by communist China, to nuclear weapons in Venezuela.
In 1948 upon the adoption of the Universal declaration on Human rights the world sighted in relief. Slavery had finally been vanquished, as from now on slavery would be illicit. Soon after several strains of the disease began to sprout all over the world. These are sex trafficking, forced labor and migrant smuggling. And contrary to what many think, human trafficking is a very profitable endeavor. These economic returns are one of the pillars on which transnational organized crime builds other criminal activities such as terrorism finance and drug trafficking. In the end only organized crime gains with human trafficking. The creation of an appropriate international coordination center with secure technical equipment with capacity to direct law enforcement agencies to the very spots where criminal rings concentrate assets and resources, establish stash houses and place victims. Identification of money deposits would also be very useful in so far as the trade cannot be deployed without cash.
Ecocide is a neo-logism that means “the destruction of the environment, in a particular deliberate way”. An ecosystem is a “biological system comprised by a community of living organisms and the physical environment in which they inter-relate” and the suffix “cide” means “the act of killing”. Ecocide is, therefore, the act of killing an ecosystem, along with all living organisms that comprise it, as is exactly happening with the devastation produced by the forest fires in Bolivia, aggravated by the fact that Morales does not want to reach out and ask for international aid to put out these fires. For several weeks, Bolivia has been suffering tropical forest fires that have already burned over 2.5 million acres along with its flora and fauna and these fires are far from being controlled. The destruction of the environment was always part of Evo Morales´ activities whom for over 30 years, promotes and defends –with violence and death if needed- the implantation and expansion of illicit coca leaf cultivation as the raw material of cocaine and narcotics’ trafficking. The Friends of Nature Foundation (fan-bo.org) reports that “in the years between 2005 and 2018, over 17.75 million acres of tropical forestry have been burned in Bolivia. This would further show that in his 14 years of holding power, Evo Morales and his Castroist Chavist dictatorship have made ecocide a recurrent practice for his own benefit.
“Both Bernie Sanders and Emmanuel Macron are victims of what Professor Yehezkel Dror labeled ‘the mirror image trap’,” “They both end up in an ivory tower that dries out their correct instincts while detaching them from ordinary citizens.”
In the primary elections in Argentina, the government party lost by a relatively large margin of 15%. According to Argentina’s law, anybody can vote in the primaries as long as he/she votes one time. There is no need for party registration or affiliation. Macri’s chances are not impossible, but he has to work hard to convince voters to vote for him. But perhaps more important, it was Alberto Fernandez’ ability to unify a Peronist movement that set the path to victory. Kirchner is part of the economic problem that Macri needed to confront. The question is if Fernandez will continue Macri’s position towards Venezuela. Will Fernandez reverse his position towards the pro-Maduro left-wing camp or will he be a different type leader? What will happen is uncertain. However, it is important to be ready for the worst-case scenario. Therefore, it is important for the United States and the Lima Group to begin to reach to Mr. Fernandez to make sure that Argentina stays among those who demand freedom, human rights and regime change in Venezuela and those who remain committed to democracy and human rights in the continent.
Americas’ Transnational Organized Crime’s dictatorships are “vote-catching dictatorships”. They hold elections in which people vote but do not elect, taking the people to a situation in which by voting for the functional opposition’s candidates, they vote for the permanence of the dictator. In a vote catching dictatorship what is contested with the regime is not the legality but the legitimacy. The dictatorial legality is totally built, controlled, and manipulated by the regime that legislates. Legitimacy is that which is “legal, fair, genuinely truthful, and truthful in any line”, that which is allowed according to justice and reasoning.
For decades — or rather, for the better part of the 20th century — Marxist dogma silently penetrated the intellectual networks of Latin America. And like hemlock it quietly pierced all fields of knowledge production to create paralysis and inoculate the dogma.”
In Venezuela Mr Maduro who has given ample proof that he is by no means affected by public opinion or voting intentions, seems to be searching for the fire escape after all. Mr Maduro seems to be desperately searching for a scape his Cuban masters have decreed immolation. A martyr is a much better ideological currency than an exiled leader. For Maduro a sudden climate change in the military could indeed spell havoc to him , his family and his retinue. Perhaps it is now time to set his eyes in the cold Russian steppes. This would definitely be a rather creative climate change.
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.
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