The political, economic and social situation of the American continent, without excluding any country, faces a destabilizing variant in terms of democracy. This demands an urgent review of the commitments and perspectives of citizens and organizations that feel committed to our way of life and the unrestricted respect for human rights.
In the hemisphere apart from Cuba, there are several countries ready to do the dirty work for despots from other continents, in addition to their willingness to govern according to instructions from organized crime, another sinister threat with equal or greater destructive capacity than totalitarianism. It is a factor to take into account the influence that criminals exert on different economic and political activities, simultaneously with constant electronic espionage to steal information or carry out sabotage.
Cuban totalitarianism is a faithful servant of Moscow, as are Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, but all these dictatorships are ready to serve different masters at the same time, as their approaches to both Beijing and Tehran indicate. They are rulers ready to take advantage of their suppliers in a constant fight against democracy and in particular its representative in the hemisphere, the United States.
Russia, regardless of its extensive resources, is a very serious threat because it has long operational experience in America, since Soviet times, a condition that Vladimir Putin, aspiring to become Czar of all of Europe, apparently hopes to reactivate with his proposals to lend direct aid to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
It is to be hoped that Moscow will encourage the differences that Havana, Managua and Caracas have with Washington to increase its influence in the governments of those countries and make them more dependent on military aid. Let’s keep in mind that the bosses of these dictatorships live in a permanent hysteria of a harassed country and require large armies whose generals are eager for new toys.
The statements of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu should not be overlooked, who said, “Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, Russia’s allies in Latin America, require Moscow’s support now more than ever to deal with what that it has cataloged as threats, including “the open use of military force” against those nations, which maintain a tense relationship with the United States”. His words have the same tone as those of his predecessor from the former Soviet Union, Rodion Malinosvski, in relation to Cuba prior to the missile crisis.
For its part, Beijing has spent years trying to increase its influence across the continent. Chinese communism seeks to have a beachhead like Havana has been for the Kremlin for more than sixty years and everything seems to indicate that it has its sights set on Nicaragua.
Daniel Ortega is in need of finding a powerful ally, which motivated his diplomatic rupture with the government of Taiwan and the reestablishment of the same with communist China, while it is to be hoped that he gets as close as possible to Moscow. The Nicaraguan regime needs renewed and strong international support and also requires investment, because the country remains the second poorest in the entire hemisphere.
Beijing has a very active foreign policy. In its aim to isolate Taiwan, it requires the nations it helps to ignore the existence of democratic China, while continuing to harass the citizens of Hong Kong. Xi Jinping’s government has very defined ambitions and is aware that this continent is essential to increase its influence and power.
Iran, although it does not have the military and economic power of Russia or China, does share imperial pretensions, in particular, to increase the problems of the United States in the American hemisphere and the rest of the world. In addition, ancient Persia is the main promoter of terrorist acts in the world, consequently, any criminal government can look to its leadership.
Tehran, according to analysts, maintains a very special trilateral relationship with Cuba and Venezuela, two regimes that blindly throw themselves into the arms of any supplier who shares their hatred of democracy, the only common denominator in this relationship, to which Nicaragua seems to have joined, since in The party of dictators, Ortega’s inauguration was attended by the Iranian Mohsen Rezai, one of those accused by the Argentine Justice of the 1994 attack against the AMIA Jewish Mutual Fund in Buenos Aires.
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