Migration in the Americas is caused, forced, and manipulated by dictatorships of 21st century socialism

By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 18/11/2024

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The migratory explosion in the Americas is caused by dictatorships who wield power through State-terrorism in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia. These regimes, who in this century replicate the Castroist methodology, force people to abandon their homeland for fear, making migration a weapon in a hybrid warfare they manipulate by infiltrating official operators and criminals, thus producing crises in attacked democracies whose self-defense is disaccredited with a narrative of being inacceptable.

The introduction and manipulation of forcible migrations constitute a set of very grievous crimes that are committed by 21st Century Socialism dictatorships as part of their self-avowed “fight against imperialism,” that consists in attacking -through these means- the United States and extends to the region’s democracies as in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica, and elsewhere. Article seven, section one of the Statute of Rome, establishes as crimes against humanity those repeatedly committed with impunity by dictatorships, crimes that produce misery, helplessness, and cause forcible migrations.

Hybrid warfare is “the strategy in which all types of means and procedures, conventional forces, or irregular means (insurgence, terrorism, migration, common crime, narcotics’ trafficking, cybernetics…) are used.” It is the type of warfare that “has the advantage in which the attacker can avoid being attributed the attack,” and even use the acts of “plausible denial.” In the specific case of forcible migration, the orchestrators, and manipulators end-up offering the victim democracies their cooperation to mitigate the effects of the very aggression they inflicted and sustain.

This question involves millions of human beings, families, men, women, and children whose human rights, violated by dictatorships, must be protected by democracies where they arrive at. Seriously grievous, the dilemma of people turned into cannon fodder and of democratic governments who, within the framework of the rule of law existing in their countries, cannot ignore the respect of life and freedom, with a highest political, social, and economic cost.

Important internal welcoming, assistance, control, regulation, and security measures have been implemented by democratic countries where forcible migrations arrive and continue to go to. Ranging from border controls to the opening of borders, from receptions with temporary work permits, housing, education, and health services, to detentions and deportations, all are tried but the ones who are seen as insensible and guilty are the democratic governments of victim countries.

The problem is that receiving countries address the symptoms or consequences of these forcible migrations, but not the root causes. The cause of these pressures that have destabilized societies, economies, and political systems are 21st Century Socialism dictatorships, or the countries that expel their people. This is why, beyond mitigating the symptoms, it is important to end the origin of the problem, in other words; to return freedom and democracy to those countries who expel migrants. It is about curing the disease instead of only applying analgesics or palliative care in the victim countries, and to eradicate the illness is to eradicate and end dictatorships.

Amongst the expelling dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, is also Haiti, wherein the root cause of forcible migration is the same as in dictatorships, fear. Violence in Haiti is produced by armed criminal groups who do not formally wield power but hinder, assume, and exercise it, while in dictatorships of 21st Century Socialism fear is instilled by the regime through the use of institutionalized State-terrorism.

I insist in that the majority of people do not like to abandon their homeland, their home, their family, their community, their loved ones, their surroundings, in which they can even endure conditions of poverty but not of threats to their life and freedom. Latin-Americans migrate because of fear, they do so to protect their life. Migration, in this 21st century has been caused, induced, and produced by existing dictatorships wherein there is no respect for human rights, there is no rule of law, people live in a situation of defenselessness, and the State attempts to make people vassal serfs of the regime with political prisoners, torture, and terror.

If Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia recover the freedom and democracy that peoples are fighting for and dictatorships end, we will immediately see the return of the majority of migrants who were truly exiles and were forcibly uprooted by the dictatorial manipulation. Millions of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Bolivians yearn to return to their homeland, their home, and their communities but organized crime who wields power under the banner of 21st Century Socialism prevents it.

To end forcible migrations, we have to end 21st Century Socialism dictatorships who are criminal organizations, narco-States, and the epicenter of the threat against international peace and security.

*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas

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