Paradictatorships supplant the defense of democracy as a new servile narrative in the face of the end of the dictatorship in Cuba

By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 19/04/2026

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The self-proclaimed progressives and leftists are campaigning to try to prop up their dictatorial boss in Cuba. Events in Havana mock the people's misery, lobbying efforts and support for those they owe favors are underway, media operations seek to portray the oppressor as a victim, fake news is being spread, there is character assassinations, and the recent gathering in Spain under the guise of "defending democracy" is a way to maintain 67 years of impunity. All these sycophants are mobilized, falsifying the narrative of defending democracy to prop up the crumbling Castro regime's organized crime.

The Castro dictatorship system, established in Cuba in 1959 and expanded as 21st-century socialism throughout the Americas, is brutal. Its basic methodology is state terrorism, the institutionalization of human rights violations, the commission of crimes against humanity, torture, political prisoners, exile, assassinations, invasions, the creation of narco-terrorist guerrillas, the establishment of narco-states, the use of common crime, kidnappings, genocide, but above all, the fabrication of narratives that attribute its crimes to its victims, criminalizing them, and allowing it to wage irregular, asymmetric, and hybrid wars with impunity.

Among the great historical achievements of the Castro dictatorship's narrative is its appropriation of the defense of human rights, despite being its own worst violators. This has allowed it to integrate and infiltrate the United Nations and regional organizations like the Organization of American States with its operatives. This gain has enabled it to persecute, imprison, and legally and physically assassinate the true defenders of freedom and democracy in the Americas. Cruel examples include politicians and military personnel from Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and many others, whom they use as a "deterrent" against those who refuse to submit.

They also have the prize of impunity. They proclaim that their friends are always assisted and win, citing as examples Ortega in Nicaragua, the Kirchners in Argentina, Lula in Brazil who left prison to become president again, Petro in Colombia, Evo Morales who remains undisturbed in Bolivia, and dozens of their servants who rest on millions of corrupt funds, comparing this to the fate of those who stood up to them, who at the very least face their character assassination, if not their physical elimination.

With President Trump at 47 and after Nicolás Maduro's submission to justice and the loss of the narco-terrorist control he exercised, the fall of the Cuban dictatorship seems only a matter of time.

This isn't about modernizing tyranny; the issue is about dismantling the transnational organized crime hub that is the source of constant aggression against the United States. From the missile crisis and the promise to flood American youth with drugs, to invasions, the creation of guerrilla groups and narco-states, to the leadership of 21st-century socialism attacking with hybrid warfare and serving as platforms for the dictatorships of Iran, China, and Russia.

The Cuban dictatorship understands this well. Trump 47 should not be the 14th president of the United States whom the Castro regime manipulates with the game of ceding ground in exchange for time, knowing full well that time in a democracy like the United States works in favor of the criminal dictatorship's continued rule. President Trump 45 is already among those overwhelmed by the Cuban dictatorship; we remain to see if Trump 47 will break the spell.

At this moment, the Castro dictatorship is attempting to shape its future scenario, and to that end, it has convened the “IV Meeting in Defense of Democracy” in Barcelona on April 18th. All the para-dictatorial governments that owe their rise to power to Castro and that would not withstand an investigation into campaign funds or the support of partisan or non-governmental organizations have gathered to support the head dictator, who is under an ultimatum from true democracy, from the Inter-American Democratic Charter.

The leaders Sánchez of Spain, Lula of Brazil, Sheinbaum of Mexico, Petro of Colombia, and Orsi of Uruguay, with their presence in Barcelona, ​​have solidified their subservience to the Cuban dictatorship. It is shameful that elected presidents of democratic countries are defending this criminal and narco-terrorist center of human rights violations and state terrorism, as proven in Cuba itself. Objective reality exposes and condemns them.

The issue is that they are trying to co-opt the narrative of “defending democracy” to defend the greatest enemy of democracy, and they are operating as they did last century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, creating the São Paulo Forum and proclaiming the “multiplication of axes of confrontation” before the collapse of the Soviet Union. They seek to own the “defense of democracy” banner so they can use it when the Cuban dictatorship ends and continue recycling the flag that was defeated by fascism in World War II and by communism in the Cold War.

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

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