21st-century socialism, Castro-Chavismo, or 21st-century communism, under the guise of the left, loses governments in countries across the Americas but retains power through the laws it imposed, the structures and officials it established, the cultural shift it implemented, the bourgeoisies it cultivated, the media it controlled, the justice systems it installed, and the armed and security forces it corrupted. This reality compels us to remember the difference between attaining government and wielding power.
Power is “having the ease, time, or place to do something,” and represents “having more strength than someone else.” Political power, in a broad sense, is “the ability to influence, control, or make decisions in a society or political system. It is the capacity of an entity or individual to affect how decisions are made and actions are taken that affect society as a whole.”
Government is “the act and effect of governing, of commanding with authority, ruling, guiding.” In a restricted political sense, it refers to “the highest organ of the executive power of a state or political community, constituted by the president and the ministers or advisors.” In a broader sense, it refers to the forms of government, which can generally be of two main types: “democracies and autocracies,” that is, “systems of consensus or systems of coercion.”
The Inter-American Democratic Charter establishes as an obligation that “The peoples of the Americas have the right to democracy and their governments the obligation to promote and defend it. Democracy is essential for the social, political, and economic development of the peoples of the Americas.” But this century is marked by the expansion of the Cuban dictatorship, which, beginning in 1999 with Hugo Chávez’s rise to the presidency of Venezuela, implemented what turned out to be 21st-century socialism, controlling Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Ecuador (under Correa) through its dictatorial model, and establishing para-dictatorial governments in most Latin American countries.
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Continúa la guerra entre la coalición de los Estados Unidos e Israel versus la República Islámica de Irán. Sigue sin una solución definitiva y duradera. Aún no existe un acuerdo de paz estable. Tampoco aparece un claro ganador.
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publicada por la revista Palabra Nueva de la Arquidiócesis de La Habana, que reúne circulares, cartas pastorales, exhortaciones, declaraciones y homilías de obispos, arzobispos y de la Conferencia Episcopal Cubana entre 1914 y 1994. Es un archivo de valor incalculable porque no es una reconstrucción posterior ni una interpretación de segunda mano: es la voz institucional de la Iglesia católica cubana, en su propio lenguaje y en el momento mismo en que los hechos ocurrían.