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From Declarations to Effective Actions to End Dictatorial Impunity

De declaraciones a acciones efectivas para terminar la impunidad dictatorial, EFE

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The violation of human rights and crimes against humanity committed by the holders of power in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia exercising state terrorism, are found in innumerable reports, investigations and reports that prove criminal recidivism with impunity and subject the peoples to defenselessness. . The contempt of dictatorships to repeated requests and resolutions of organizations and governments discredits the international system and strengthens dictators, but imposes on democracies the urgency of moving from declarations to effective actions.

The 52nd General Assembly of the Organization of American States of the OAS has just issued “Resolution on the political and human rights crisis in Nicaragua” approved by acclamation, in which it urges the regime of Daniel Ortega to “cease all violent action against the population and to fully restore civic and political rights, religious freedoms and the rule of law”… “immediately release all political prisoners in compliance with the decisions and recommendations of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Humans”.

The 52nd General Assembly of the Organization of American States of the OAS has just issued “Resolution on the political and human rights crisis in Nicaragua” approved by acclamation, in which it urges the regime of Daniel Ortega to “cease all violent action against the population and to fully restore civic and political rights, religious freedoms and the rule of law”… “immediately release all political prisoners in compliance with the decisions and recommendations of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Humans”.

The civil resistance to the dictatorships of Cuba and its satellites organized and participated in events around the General Assembly pointing out the crimes of the dictatorships of 21st century socialism or Castrochavism, the thousands of political prisoners and the humanitarian crises. Activists for freedom and human rights, non-governmental organizations and relatives of the victims sought contact with foreign ministers and authorities to remind them of the reality of the region with prisoners, torture and political exile.

Recalling a year of July 11, 2021, in which the Cuban people took to the streets to peacefully ask for freedom “Homeland and Life”, the rapporteur for Cuba of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights certified “six waves of repression” of the dictatorship against the population, expressing that: “The patterns of violation of human rights observed in Cuba, through the different repressive actions aimed at repressing dissenting voices and citizen demands for political and social changes are presented as part of a structural situation which is rooted in the very absence of democracy in the country”.

On September 20, the report of the “Independent International Fact-Finding Mission of the United Nations on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” was published, detailing the responsibilities for crimes against humanity to repress dissent through the organizations intelligence of the State with actions of the dictator and by people of higher authority. Institutionalization of state terrorism, torture and murder with impunity.

Under “reserve” for 9 months, report 394/21 of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Case 13,546 issued on December 21, 2021 was “leaked”, which “concludes that the Bolivian State is responsible for the violation of the rights to life, personal integrity, personal liberty, judicial guarantees…” in the case of the massacre perpetrated in April 2009 at the Hotel las Américas under the orders of Evo Morales. Torture, murders, impunity.

The requests to release political prisoners in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, because they are repeated and ineffective, become a form of complicity of the democracies and their leaders, who after such expressions continue to cohabit, trade, help and legitimize dictatorial regimes . Political prisoners are criminal bargaining chips that dictatorships use to negotiate and continue in power because democracies allow it.

There are effective political, individual, economic and legal actions: political, from the withdrawal of ambassadors to the breaking of relations; individual, are sanctions that put pressure on the political, economic and operational support of the regimes; economic, to reduce the financing and support capacity of dictatorships, from the prohibition of transactions of assets and reserves of their central banks to the exclusion of banking entities from the SWIFT secure messaging system; laws, the diligent application of international norms such as the Rome Statute, the Inter-American Democratic Charter, the TIAR, the Palermo Convention against organized crime and more.


This article is part of an agreement between El American and the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Carlos Sánchez Berzain es abogado, politólogo, máster en ciencia política y sociología. Catedrático. Estadista perseguido y exiliado político. Director del Interamerican Institute for Democracy // Carlos Sánchez Berzain is a lawyer, political scientist, with a master's degree in political science and sociology. Professor. Persecuted statesman and political exile. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

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