Elections under Castro-Chavism

By: Pedro Corzo - 08/09/2025

Guest columnist.
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In all honesty, I express my deepest doubts that the peoples subjugated by what we identify as Castro-Chavism—Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Cuba, controlled by organized crime associated with real socialism—can once again embrace democracy through elections.

The leaders of these countries tightly control the electoral mechanisms and run as a bloc against a divided opposition, with the exception of Bolivia, where the governing party is divided into cannibalistic factions, which has led to its defeat.

With this statement, I'm not calling for violence, but rather for the opposition leaders of these nations to seek other alternatives to achieve the desired change. If they don't, by participating in deliberately rigged elections, they are lending legitimacy to the regime they are fighting.

It's true that not participating in elections significantly affects the democratic identity of the cause being championed, but accepting spurious processes lacking fundamental guarantees as valid is accepting participation in an oppressive dystopia. It's a very complex situation, a true trap on the part of the ruling party.

It is a kind of electoral suicide to exercise the right to vote regardless of any doubts we may have about the fairness of the process, knowing that the government has abused state resources in its favor, resorted to the manipulation of information held by the state, threatened its opponents and undecided voters, and announced that the opposition's victory could lead the country to ungovernability and civil war.

For the Castro-Chavistas, the election simulations are nothing more than civic ploys very similar to the military maneuvers that dictatorships periodically resort to instilling fear in the population and rousing their supporters.

With each electoral cycle, controlled before it takes place, these regimes emerge stronger and are clearly moving toward establishing a totalitarian system of government whose sole objective is the perpetuation and absolute power of its leadership, just as has occurred in Cuba, the model desired by the aforementioned partners.

21st-century socialism, or Castro-Chavism, fosters a false political pluralism that loses relevance and interest for the contenders with each electoral foray, as a consequence of the increasing rigidity of imposed social control and the constant institutional reforms of public powers that exclusively strengthen the executive branch.

The general public also suffers from the ruling class's truncheon. The population suffers from the ineptitude of its leaders and the deterioration of the community's general conditions, compounded by abusive police action that enjoys complete impunity, particularly when it acts against those who oppose it.

The enjoyment of freedoms such as those of expression and information will be drastically reduced, to the point of complete extinction. Civil society organizations will be integrated into the immense government machinery, and formulas will be established to seek to outlaw the most innocuous opposition, while promoting seemingly opposing political groups that actually respond to the government's plans.

These servile collaborators of the despots in power do the real dirty work. The so-called organic or functional opponents are those who most contribute to the fact that the citizenry, transformed into a servile mass, adopts a double standard in which they conceal their true views, contributing to the widespread use of hypocritical moral conduct in society in which the true opinion is ignored.

For its part, Cuban totalitarianism suffers from all these ailments and more. As early as 1959, Fidel Castro had his supporters proclaim a slogan against elections, "Elections for what?" after having promised in a public statement to go to the polls within a year under the 1940 Constitution and the 1943 Electoral Code.

Based on the beliefs of Nicolas Maduro, Daniel Ortega, and Evo Morales, the largest island in the Caribbean enjoys a kind of paradise from repression, a perfect police state where the only existing political party doesn't require electoral simulations and the enjoyment of citizen prerogatives is a power of the totalitarian state, the blessing of all autocrats.

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