The freedom and security of all states throughout the Americas depend on the freedom of Cuba

By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 16/07/2025

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The civil and popular mobilization on 11 July of 2021 signaled the end of Cuba’s dictatorship that, ever since then, agonizes with barbarism and State terrorism, sustained by accomplice leaders and governments who are coauthors of crimes committed against Cubans and the peoples from the Americas. The over 66-year-old Cuban dictatorship, is the origin of the attacks that endure all of countries in the region. As long as the Cuban people are not free, there will be neither freedom, nor security in the Americas.

Over 66 years of history has shown that the center for permanent aggression against all countries from the region, is Cuba’s dictatorship. From executions by firing squads, persecution, imprisonment, torture, exile, State terrorism against the people, all the way down to the exportation of such criminal methodology that today is practiced in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia and that was briefly practiced in Ecuador under Correa. Since the missile crisis of 1962 up to the establishment of espionage bases, training, coverup, and conspiracy with China, Iran, and Russia both in Cuba’s territory and the satellites’ territories. Since the organization of guerrillas and invasions in the sixties down do the sustainment of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), and criminal groups to attach the hemisphere’s democracies.

There is not a crime that Cuba’s dictatorship has not committed, covered-up in the narrative of a “revolution” that turned out to be solely an alibi to institutionalize the violation of human rights and corruption with impunity. Communism, that Castroism was hidden under during the Cold War, has evolved into 21st Century Socialism in order to continue committing the same and greater crimes that range from forcible migrations, human trafficking, narcotics’ trafficking, installation of narco-States, common transnational organized crime, destabilization of governments, coups d etat, assassinations of reputation, homicides, , massacres, genocides, and all sorts of aggression that make up the “hybrid war” against democracy.

Cuba’s dictatorship has converted the 20th century subversion into a “Hybrid War” against democracies in the 21st century, this is “the aggression in which all types of means, procedures, conventional and non-conventional forces, irregular means are used for the purpose of weakening and undermining the adversary’s resistance, erode its power, strength, and will and has the advantage for the aggressor to avoid being held responsible for the attacks” through a “plausible denial.”

Cuba’s dictatorship uses the label “21st Century Socialism” to perpetrate crimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia where it has installed its system, and in democratic countries that it controls with para-dictatorial governments as in Brazil with Lula, Mexico with Lopez Obrador and now Sheinbaum, Colombia with Petro, Chile with Boric, and Honduras with Xiomara Castro. Subjected nations with servile governments with the anti-imperialism discourse that sacrifice their national interests in order to sustain organized crime

Cuba’s dictatorship has no political, historical, or factual viability, it is a zombie: It has no peoples, because over 90% of Cubans repudiate the regime, as demonstrated by the 11 July uprising (11-J) and the permanent and growing protests; it has no economy because it is in misery, with a food crisis, without basic utilities, and without sources of income; it has no narrative because no one now believes the story of the “Cuban revolution” that now-a-days is nothing more than a mafia; and it has no alternatives or options because the only solution is the freedom of the Cuban peoples.

Twenty-first century’s history has shown that all attacks against democratic stability, the peoples’ development, the healthcare system, the sustainable growth in the Americas has been perpetrated, led, and operated by Cuba’s dictatorship.

After 66 years of being the enemy of freedom and security of the Americas, to have attacked each and every one of the States of the region, to have institutionalized the system to violate human rights as a mechanism to indefinitely wield power, to have become a constant threat against international peace and security, to have been used as a base for extracontinental dictatorships, to be and to have built narco-States, to have generated great migratory crises, to have assassinated inside and outside of its territory, to have installed and sustained guerrillas and terrorism, the only option left for the Americas is to end Cuba’s dictatorship.

For Cuban peoples to recover their freedom, the only thing needed is for democratic leaders, governments, and institutions from the Americas and the world, to fulfill their obligations established by far too many treaties, conventions, and accords. The Cuban people have, and continues to do, their part. The existence of Cuba’s dictatorship is an illegality that has far too many accomplices that are sort of masochistic because they protect a regime that constantly attacks them.

When Cuba’s dictatorship ends, the epicenter of attacks against freedom and the peoples from the Americas will have ended.

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

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas

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