While democratic societies, along with their economic and political systems, have freedom, welfare, and prosperity of their people as objectives, dictatorial regimes and any other type of authoritarianism use poverty as a mechanism to increase the citizenry’s dependence and control. Poverty, as shown by Cuba and Venezuela’s situation and the path Bolivia and Nicaragua have chosen to follow, is the tool of 21st Century Socialism, or Castrochavism, to oppress the peoples.
In democracy that -as a minimum- is founded on freedom, respect for human rights, equality before the law, separation, and independence of the branches of government, and accountability, sovereignty rests in the people and those who govern them are temporary mandataries and stewards responsible of improving the quality of life of their constituents. Any bad situation, hard to handle, or a crisis points out to the loss of popular backing and emergent liabilities.
With the 1999 merger of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Luz Ignacio Lula da Silva, when Chavez ascended to the presidency of Venezuela, the expansion of Cuba’s dictatorship was disguised as populism, anti-imperialism, and a war against poverty. Political leaders, parties, and institutions of democracy were attacked for the lack of better results to favor the poor. The expansionists benefitted from the wealth and reserves built up in democracy and used Venezuela’s oil and wealth, the Lava Jato corruption scheme funded by Brazil, the excessive international borrowing of funds, and crime to dazzle everyone with their effectist actions that did not solve anything.
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