Despicable sentence against former president Alvaro Uribe is proof of the para dictatorial control of the government of Colombia

By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 05/08/2025

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One of the most effective measures to install dictatorships is to liquidate democracy’s leaders in order to liquidate politics and replace it with populism that soon thereafter reveals its true nature of being an organized crime’s dictatorship. That is 21st Century Socialism or Castrochavism methodology to attack democracies as part of a hybrid warfare that has just taken place in Colombia with the despicable sentence against President Alvaro Uribe, that is proof of Petro’s para-dictatorial government and the final phase of the country’s occupation.

As part of the high treason of Juan Manuel Santos who -against Colombians’ popular will- perpetrated the Havana Accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who, soon thereafter, ventured into politics and became the dissident armed force that continues committing terrorism, narcotics’ trafficking, assassinations, kidnapping, and common crime, these groups have been incorporated into legality of Colombia’s government.

While the criminals operate unhindered, and with impunity, and are protected by the government of Gustavo Petro under the sophism of seeking peace -that had supposedly been already accorded- the most prominent president of Colombia in this 21st century, Alvaro Uribe, has just been sentenced, deprived of his freedom, of his political rights, has become a victim of the assassination of his reputation, and is being presented as the best example of the “vaccine” so that leaders of freedom and democracy in the Americas do not dare to defy Cuba’s dictatorship in any of its criminal endeavors.

What is taking place in Colombia is not a local issue, it is incumbent upon the Americas and the free world. Alvaro Uribe Velez, the triumphant fighter against narcotics’ trafficking, terrorism, guerrillas, and dictatorships, the honest, successful, and democratic president, has just been humiliated with a despicable sentence handed down against him. It is not a sentence just against him, it is a threat against anyone who dares to defy it, is the mafia tracing its territory and its system, it is Castrochavism -the expansion of Castroism as 21st Century Socialism- taunting its control in a country that is considered to be democratic but that is just a territory subjected by a para-dictatorial regime.

In a democracy with “the rule of law,” with “separation and independence of the branches of government,” with “respect for human rights and freedom,” what has just happened in Colombia against President Uribe, will not ever happen. This is a display of the unlimited power of organized crime directed by Cuba and expanded elsewhere with the narrative of “socialism” that rewards its hit-men with power, unlimited funding, impunity, and even with international awards. It is also, however, the display of the situation of defenselessness that democracies and their leaders have fallen into by committing the error of not properly identifying the enemy.

The “politically correct” has just been defeated again with the despicable sentencing of Uribe. While 21st Century Socialism or Castrochavism led by Cuba operates openly, democracies and their leaders are victims of the belief of the impartiality of judges who are henchmen and hit-men because they assess the situation with their own values and do not take heed to the level and depth of organized crime’s penetration. Lots of people believe this will not happen because Venezuela is not Cuba, Nicaragua is not Cuba, Bolivia is not Cuba, neither is Colombia, but it is happening.

The objective of 21st Century Socialism, Castrochavist, dictatorships is to turn criminals into politicians, narcotics’ traffickers into entrepreneurs, thugs and henchmen into leaders, hit-men into judges, mediocre and failed judges into process drivers, violators, and assassins into senators, mafiosi into avengers, sinful unbelievers into compassionate, oppressors into liberators, jailed politicians into presidents, that is all the cultural counterfeiting is all about. To get any of these done, they need to liquidate the honest ones, democratic leaders, knowledgeable and fair judges, political parties and politics, the principles and values of freedom and democracy, and in this way terrorize the people in order to subject them.

What has transpired against President Alvaro Uribe is the expression of the most grievous of cases of “State-terrorism,” defined as “the use of illegitimate methods by a government aimed at instilling fear and terror in the civil population to get or promote behaviors that would otherwise not occur on their own.” It is the use of a judicial system to falsely accuse, persecute, imprison, and condemn the innocent. It is the base of crimes that dictators and their criminal groups structured in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and now in Colombia perpetrate to terrorize their peoples.

A para-dictatorial government is the one “directed by an elected president of a country with democracy who owes his/her ascent to power and serves dictatorial regimes to contribute to their sustenance with legitimization efforts and support, unfulfilling international legal obligations and in hindrance to his/her own national interests.” That is Petro in Colombia, subservient to the dictatorships from Cuba and Venezuela, operating the destruction of national institutionality.

Democracy is not defenseless, but if it is attacked from the inside, it paralyzes. There is still time for Colombia, even if it is at the expense of the assassination of reputation perpetrated against its paradigm Alvaro Uribe.

*Lawyer and Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas

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