XXI Century mafias: corrupt, incompetent, immoral and murderous

Raúl Castro, Daniel Ortega and Nicolás Maduro

Within the background of bloody repression by Daniel Ortega’s tyranny in Nicaragua, with almost 300 unarmed students murdered, exponentially exceeding the Somoza’s crimes in that country, Raúl Castro in Cuba declared that he will “provide all the solidarity needed” to Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, as stated by José Ramón Machado Ventura, Cuba’s Communist Party second secretary. Dictator Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has made similar statements, blaming Nicaraguan opposition and “North American Imperialism” for the violence in Nicaragua.

Both statements supporting Ortega remind us of Euclid’s axioms, the Greek mathematician: “Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.” A principle that applied to castrismo, danielismo, and madurismo, leads to the logical conclusion that the three dictatorships are exactly alike: they are corrupt, incompetent, immoral and murderous. These are regimes associated with drug traffickers as well as with large foreign investors. They prevent or suffocate national private property and have constitutions that they do not respect and laws that circumvent and violate people’s rights.

Those mafias defend one another because they know that loss of power by one jeopardizes the two that are left. It is not a question of ideological solidarity. Mafias only use ideas to cheat and to mask themselves. It is a question of survival because they know they are bordering the abyss.