Making political parties of criminal organizations in the Americas illegal
By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 04/04/2025
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One of the principal objectives of dictatorships against democracy is the destruction of the system from the inside, purpose for which they support and sustain political leaders and parties as part of an apparent democratic system. When they ascend to power, they constitute para-dictatorial governments seeking to advance to the establishment of new dictatorial regimes. Latin American democracies are vulnerable to these type of attacks, reason why it behooves us to analyze and make illegal these politically linked leaders and parties who are sustained by 21st Century Socialism’s dictatorships.
In Americas’ democratic countries, the conditions of democracy and freedom have been -and are- taken advantage of by dictatorships to deteriorate the system from the inside. Hugo Chavez was exonerated of his crimes as a government toppler and was enabled to be a presidential candidate who; ascended to power, and destroyed Venezuela’s and the region’s democracy.
In this 21st century, getting access to power through elections, has become the dictatorships’ mechanism to destroy from the inside; freedom, the rule of law, the separation and independence of the branches of government, and the free political organization, to establish -instead- vote-catching dictatorships that force the peoples “to vote but not elect.”
Objective reality reveals that electoral campaigns promoted and financed by 21st Century Socialism, such as that of the current president of Colombia Gustavo Petro, denounced and confessed by its very own Campaign Manager and now ambassador to Venezuela, Armando Benedetti; campaigns similar to the ones that took the now jailed Pedro Castillo to the presidency of Peru; or campaigns that enabled for the 16 years of Kirchnerism in Argentina -with suitcases loaded with money in between- campaigns marred by corruption and servitude to dictatorships; the return from jail -due to Lava Jato’s money laundering- to Lula da Silva’s presidency that took Brazil to have a para-dictatorial narco-State government; the reinstallation of the regime in Bolivia after Evo Morales resignation in 2019 with Argentina “K” as a launching pad for his return, and more.
Ecuador’s current electoral process is the most recent case of how elections can be used to present, sustain, and popularize narratives that although presented as democratic and political, are no more than a mere reflection of the system of dictatorships of Transnational Organized Crime of the Americas. This is the expansion of Cuba’s dictatorship with a political label of 21st Century Socialism and anti-imperialism.
The second round of Ecuador’s presidential elections this coming 13th of April, is disputed by a candidate who seeks to; grant impunity to the now convicted dictator Rafael Correa and his group, recognize the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, and continue supporting and sustaining organized crime with a label of “revolution” that leads Cuba’s dictatorship. An extreme undertaking to restore -in all forms- the narco-State and the absence of democracy that Ecuadoreans began to leave behind, under the presidency and leadership of Lenin Moreno, but were not completely liberated from.
And history in the making continues this 2025 because, beyond Ecuador’s elections, there will be general elections in Bolivia on 17 August with a prospective presidential second round on 19 October, there will be legislative elections in Argentina on 26 October, there will be general elections in Chile on 16 November with a possible presidential balloting on 14 December, and there will be general elections in Honduras on 30 November. In all cases -bar none- the confrontation is between candidates from 21st Century Socialism and democratic candidates, with the involvement of “functional oppositions” who, in the case of Bolivia and Honduras play along with and for the regime.
At the end of the Second World War, democracy would not have been feasible without making Nazism illegal in Germany, making Fascism illegal in Italy and throughout Europe, Without this, they would have continued being the misleading and destructive forces against democracy. In Europe, “the pattern that rules is the veto to political groups in periods of transition from authoritarianism to democracy. Making these groups illegal in Germany, Austria, or Italy is possible due to the formations with fascist roots, and in Lithuania or Moldovia, due to communist allegiances.”
On this matter, the Council of Europe has declared that “political pluralism is one of the fundamental principles of democracy” and has asked to limit any restrictions to political parties as “something exceptional in cases when there is a clear threat to the democratic order of the country.”
In Latin America, the problem is that beyond maintaining in democracy the dictatorships’ political parties, the countries who suffer or have suffered under dictatorial regimes maintain despicable constitutions and legislation that has been forcibly imposed and that do not sanction corruption.
To maintain the “authoritarian legal regime” and “impunity” is the formula for the indefinite permanence of Transnational Organized Crime disguised as a falsified political actor.
*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.
Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas
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