Only the end of the dictatorship, not the modernization of the regime, brings freedom to Cuba and security to the Americas.
By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 22/02/2026
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The Cuban dictatorship is defeated. It has no popular support, no economy, no narrative, no allies or satellites, and no options. The 67-year-old criminal regime is playing its last card, offering a modernization of its infamy through economic liberalization and political concessions—a new maneuver to buy time by temporarily ceding ground. Only the end of the dictatorship will restore freedom to Cuba and security to the United States and the countries of the Americas.
The Castro dictatorship is known today for the misery it has inflicted on the Cuban people, the global evidence that it holds power through state terrorism and human rights violations, identified as a center of conspiracy against international peace and security, evidenced as the head of the criminal group that expanded by installing its model and narco-states in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Bolivia, seen as a center for the collection and trafficking of narcotics, a platform for China, Russia, and Iran to attack democracies, a base for terrorist training and protection, and more.
For 67 years, dictatorial Cuba has been the greatest regional threat to the security and stability of the Americas, with the United States as its main target and declared enemy, against which it has directed conspiracies, penetrations, destabilization, and direct and indirect attacks throughout this time.
Cuba has been controlled since 1959 by a criminal group that has relentlessly and continuously attacked the United States and the countries of the Americas. This uninterrupted criminal activity includes the installation of Soviet missiles against US territory, Fidel Castro's proclamation to use "drug trafficking as a weapon of anti-imperialist struggle" and flood the United States with drugs to annihilate its youth, the National Liberation Armies and the FARC, urban and rural narco-terrorist guerrillas, invasions, soft and armed subversion, espionage, terrorism, drug trafficking as the region's first narco-state, and a long list of other crimes, including forced migration, infiltration by common criminal groups, and human trafficking in the 21st century, when it established itself as a dictatorial regime.
The constant aggression of the criminal group that holds power in Cuba has transcended the Western Hemisphere with its military presence in Angola, its troops in the Middle East at war with Israel, its support of Islamic terrorism, and its current participation in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fully proven and pseudo-justified with the term "mercenaries." Subjugating and starving its people to force them to become the regime's henchmen is just one of its activities.
The Castroism of the 20th century transformed into the Castro-Chavista regime of the 21st century after Hugo Chávez's rescue, who ultimately died in a suspicious Castro-backed operation that led to the control and subordination of Venezuela as its main satellite state. Dictatorial Cuba commits crimes daily against its own people and against the peoples of the world, and has left no common crime, war crime, act of aggression, or crime against humanity unperpetrated.
Under these conditions proven by history and objective reality, the new policy of the United States, based on its internal security, has identified the center of the aggressions of "Hybrid Warfare" as the 21st century socialism under the command of Cuba, including democratic governments that owe their rise to power to it, as the para-dictatorial ones.
There is a new geopolitics in the Americas. The capture of Nicolás Maduro brings with it the loss of Cuban control in Venezuela, the loss of government in Bolivia, though not of power, the notorious attempt at realignment of the Nicaraguan dictatorship by its bourgeoisie operating with powerful lobbies, the loss of government in Honduras, the departure of the para-dictatorial Boric from Chile, the neutralization of the para-dictatorial Petro in Colombia, the curbing of Sheinbaum's subservient support from Mexico, and the appeasement of Lula da Silva—founder of the São Paulo Forum in 1991 and of Castro-Chavismo with Castro and Chávez in 1999—who positioned Brazil as a protector of the Cuban dictatorship.
The Castro dictatorship is currently under an ultimatum to liberate the Cuban people. Liberation simply means the end of the regime, its departure, its complete withdrawal. But the dictatorship is maneuvering with its strategy of "ceding ground to buy time," awaiting the ever-present change of government in the United States—a tactic it has used to outlast 13 US presidents, sometimes manipulating them and even gaining their favor. In the coming months, we will see if Trump, the 47th president, is the 14th US president manipulated by the Cuban dictatorship or the one who puts an end to the main aggression against his country.
The prestigious news site 14ymedio, in an article titled “Growing Fears That Trump Will Prioritize Economic Change Over Political Change in Cuba,” presents, citing sources and analysts, a scenario in which, if Trump loses, the Cuban dictatorship once again deceives American trust and allows time for the status quo to remain unchanged. The dictatorship must be annihilated, ended, and outlawed, just as Nazism, fascism, and all other criminal expressions were. Only then will the Cuban people regain their freedom, and the United States and the Americas their security.
*Lawyer and Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy
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