The arrest in the United States of extending colonel Jorge Luis Vega García, known as “Veguita”, reopens the debate on the application of universal jurisdiction to Cuban repressors.
Puerto Padre, Cuba.- Minto, with premeditation and alevosía, which constitute aggravating criminal responsibility, violating borders, violating laws, slipping into US territory sometimes and sometimes publicly promoting busines Castrocommunists arrived Of all Laya, surreptitiously, without making complaints or public statements against the regime, because neither were nor political exiles and, only, their objective was always to take advantage of the Cuban adjustment law, to get a green card of a permanent resident that, as a Corsican patent, allow them to work or do business in the United States, and then return with dollars to Cuba, that, without stopping to applaud communism.
But from the policy of “humanitarian parole” those more or less sporadic imposters became a swarm and not precisely into a honeycomb of laborious bees but in guidandillos of once aggressive wasps.
Thus we saw the United States arrive at the first secretaries of the Communist Party, of municipal and provincial level, even, former members of the Central Committee; To judges, prosecutors, ex -officers in active duty of the Ministry of Interior and the Armed Forces, but that, for being retired and not low due to the convenience of the service (disease or other non -dishonorable causes) or by high convenience of the service (dishonorable causes), those former “parolado ”s continue to be official of the armed institutions of the regime, in a reserve condition, then, then, suitable for being called Of course, together with those figures well -known for their political, legal, military and repression actions for having been for the support of a totalitarian regime, or for their public devotion, apologetics to Castrocommunism, together with those repressors, hundreds of chivatos and paramilitaries or parapolials arrived in the United States, members of the so -called “quick response brigades”, which are institutions of rapid response ”, which are institutions. Cuban civilians.
And it must be said in honor of the truth, that, if the Biden administration It was Lax to allow the entry of those repressors to the United States, the Trump administration is not acting rigorously against those individuals, since deporting them or allowing them to return to Cuba without before demanding criminal responsibility after having violated US laws, Cuban laws and, in short, norms of international law, it is like giving them a prize.
The most recent of these cases, but is not the only one, is an example of what we have said so far. This is the exhaustive colonel of the Ministry of Interior and former head of penitentiary establishments Jorge Luis Vega García, aka “Veguita”thus known for its victims of the group of 75, political expirations that were massively imprisoned in March 2003 by express orders of Fidel Castro.
Vega García is arrested by US authorities. And in the territory of the United States they are expressly of the group of the 75 who have testified against Vega García, saying about cruel and degrading treatment that constitute torture according to international law, committed by this ex -official prisons.
Now it is useful to ask: why not judge this alleged repressor in the United States following the principle of universal jurisdiction?
The principle of universal jurisdiction is based on the legal and ethical, sociological and politically useful, in which certain crimes are so serious, so harmful to international interests all that, it makes the states legitimized and even obliged to exercise the criminal action against the alleged perpetrator of such crimes, regardless of where the crime has been committed, nor the nationality of the author.
In January 2001, jurists specialized in criminal law from all continents, they signed the Princeton principles in that American university, and who as the promoters stated, do not end the controversies raised so that the universal jurisdiction concerns, but illustrates the concept of the criminal jurisdiction because more than in territoriality it is directed to the severity of the crime victims, no matter where the crime was committed.
It is important to remember that according to the principles of Princeton (January 27, 2001), “the national judicial bodies can be based on universal jurisdiction even if their national legislation does not specifically contemplate it.” Theory is certainly, but with the human foundation of customary law.
The wave of hundreds of Cuban communists who in just two years and without cutting with their totalitarian roots have settled in the United States, constitute a danger of national security and should concern not only the Trump administration, but also to the legislative and judicial power, who together, should combine efforts to establish a legal precedent with proper name, which serves which wall of containment to those who intend to reside in the United States Serious criminals, even without judging, or that it would be judged in his country if he were merely deported as is the case of exhaustion Colonel Jorge Luis Vega García.
Júzguese and, to the accomplices of the totalitarian regime that are already in the United States, make them think that they can also be judged, and then the repressors who are yet to come will remember the “Veguita” case.
