Foreign Digest: El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Belarus, Venezuela, Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzogovina

El Salvador: El Salvador amended its Constitution to remove the limit on presidential terms, which had been one term, and extended the term office from 5 to 6 years. The current President, who as I have posted is becoming increasingly authoritarian, is in his second term, despite the previous one-term limit. Life presidencies have been a hallmark of growing autocracy in Latin America, whether the elected leaders are leftist or populist far-right like the Salvadoran strongman. Nicaragua: The Marxist Nicaraguan dictatorship recognized Russian sovereignty over conquered Ukrainian lands, despite the Russian Federation’s recognition of the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, making the Central American State’s regime one of the few to legitimize aggression. Cuba and Belarus: Communist Cuba has been arresting more dissidents for their peaceful dissent against the Caribbean State’s tyrannical dictatorship. Meanwhile, Belarus has been modernizing Cuban missiles. The former Soviet Republic of Belarus was complicit in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Belarusian support for Cuba is an example of cooperation among what I call the “Axis of Rogues,” which work together to oppose liberty, representative government, the United States and the West, which their dictatorial governments recognize as threats to their tyrannical rule. Venezuela: The arrests and imprisonment of many political prisoners under harsh conditions by the Venezuelan Socialist dictatorship have become so frequent that even Venezuela’s Communist Party has increasingly been speaking out against the tyrannical regime in the South American State. Lebanon: The Lebanese Government voted unanimously to disarm Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization backed by the Islamist Republic of Iran that also has a political party that has sometimes dominated Lebanon’s politics and that has American blood on its hands. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bosniak Republic leader’s sentence of imprisonment for violating the constitution has been confirmed. Electoral Commission has voted to remove him from office, which will take effect after appeals have been exhausted. Elections must then be called within 90 days. But he is refusing to give up power. The pro-Russian ethnic Serbian nationalist who favors succession from Bosnia and Herzegovina and union with Serbia and who denies the genocide committed by Serbs is under United States sanctions for corruption. Bosnia, a former Yugoslav Republic, is divided into a Croat (Catholic Slavic) and Bosniak (Muslim Slavic) republic and a Serbian (Orthodox Slavic) republic, with a relatively weak central government ruled by a European Union-appointed High Representative. The arrangement was part of the 1995 Dayton Accords negotiated by the U.S. under the Clinton Administration that ended the civil war, but ratified the genocidal “ethnic cleansing” inspired by Yugoslav and Serbian Communist dictator Slobodan Milosevic, who was trying to create a “Greater Serbia” amidst the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia into its religious and ethnic components.