Committing crimes to take and indefinitely hold power with impunity and attribute them to the victims, judicially violating their human rights, is the methodology of the Cuban dictatorship expanded as State terrorism in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and in their dictatorial governments. The use of prosecutors and judges as a weapon of 21st century socialism, judicializing the violation of human rights is current, has produced deaths, thousands of prisoners, millions of political exiles and must end without impunity.
To institutionalize its dictatorial system of 21st century socialism or Castro-Chavism, it replaces all the essential elements of democracy with mechanisms of “state terrorism”: it changes laws that protect freedom and fundamental rights for “infamous laws” that violate human rights, creating a system of norms that falsifies the structure of the rule of law; it controls all the organs of the State, taking over the judiciary, extinguishing the separation and independence of powers; Thus, it judicializes political repression, nullifying real opposition and free political association, thereby building its “functional opposition” to operate the “electoral dictatorship” in which the people vote but do not elect.
The regulations imposed by the so-called left or Castro-Chavism with constituents, changes in laws, codes, types of crimes, procedures, systems, violation of universal principles of law, liquidation of accountability and transparency, in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador with Correa, Argentina with the Kirchners, Brazil with Lula, Mexico with López Obrador and more, have produced the barbarism that is summarized in the “judicialized violation of human rights.”
This iter criminis of destruction of freedom and democracy has generated “hitman prosecutors” or accusers against innocent people, falsifiers of evidence, violators of human rights and thugs with the power to dispose of people’s lives and property; and has produced “infamous judges” who lack honor because they apply laws that violate human rights, ignoring principles, values and universal legal and moral regulations, issuing sentences and rulings that support state terrorism, which give impunity to those in power. They are not justice, they are part of the narcoterrorist criminal group.
It is the regime of “defenselessness”, defined as “the situation in which someone who is unduly prevented or limited in the defense of their right is placed”, it is the “unjustified alteration of equality”. Citizens under dictatorial regimes live in a defenseless situation and that is why they become impoverished, migrate or are subjected to misery.
This scenario of the normalization of organized crime holding political power is today fully in force in Cuba and Nicaragua whose dictatorships remain intact; and shows signs of disassembly in Venezuela and Bolivia. To end dictatorships, we must remove power – not just the government – from organized crime that owns the dictatorial regulatory system they have created.
The change in geopolitics in the Americas that began in 2025, with its greatest signal the capture of Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, produces the expectation of the end of the dictatorships of Cuba and Nicaragua, shows growing progress in Venezuela under the tutelage of the United States and opens spaces for freedom initiatives in Bolivia whose government remains until now a continuator in the plurinational narco-state system.
In this framework, judges and constitutional courts in Bolivia, addressing “actions of freedom” which is the plurinational substitute for “habeas corpus”, have begun to partially restore the validity of human rights such as “the right to personal liberty”, “judicial guarantees”, “the principle of legality and non-retroactivity”, “the presumption of innocence”, “legal equality”, “due process”, “the impartial judge”, and more, enshrined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and mandatory by articles 7, 8 and 9 of the American Convention on Human Rights or Pact of San José.
This is the case of the processes brought by former ministers of President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada that have earned two rulings in the courts of Santra Cruz and one in Cochabamba that CANCEL the trial and the judicial persecution unleashed by the authors of the criminal acts disguised as accusers, witnesses or victims. Constitutional justice “recognized violations of due process, equality before the law, material truth and comprehensive investigation as only the former authorities were persecuted without investigating the actors who benefited from the amnesty dictated by Carlos Mesa.”
The true investigation of the beginning of the Bolivian crisis with the coup d’état that the conspirators and beneficiaries call “the gas war” is opened in Bolivia, which produced the Castro-Chavist dictatorship of Evo Morales and Arce, the impersonation of the Republic of Bolivia by the plurinational narco-state, more than 20 bloody massacres, more than 300 political prisoners, more than 27,000 exiles, the disappearance of gas wealth, the non-existence of gasoline, diesel, dollars and gold reserves, more than 60% of national poverty, surrender, betrayal of the Homeland, confrontation, impunity and more.
It is a breeze of freedom, which can be suppressed by the Plurinational Constitutional Court – the organ of the dictatorial system – in the review of rulings, but the request of the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights continues. The fight for freedom continues.
*Lawyer and Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy
www.carlossanchezberzain.com
