False Dawn: Liberation Without Christ’s Kingship in Latin America
The Catholic News Agency portal reports (January 8, 2026) that Arturo McFields, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), claims “winds of hope are blowing” for Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba following Nicolás Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces. The article frames this event through secular liberation narratives while omitting the only true solution to tyranny: the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Naturalistic Reduction of Liberation Theology
“Democracy is not easy, but hope has strongly resurged among Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Cubans, the hope that no dictatorship is eternal…”
McFields’ statement exemplifies the naturalistic fallacy permeating the commentary. While correctly observing that “all these earthly gods, these Baals, are transient,” he replaces one form of naturalism (socialist dictatorship) with another (secular democracy). The analysis ignores Pius XI’s definitive teaching that “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas, 19).
Nowhere does the article mention that true liberation requires conversion – the rejection of Marxist materialism and acceptance of Catholic social order. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77). This omission reveals the modernist assumption that political systems operate independently of divine law.
Herodian Substitution: U.S. Imperialism as Savior
“International laws must change and adapt to reality to allow this type of intervention against perpetrators of crimes against humanity.”
Martha Patricia Molina’s call for revised international law sanctioning military interventions constitutes dangerous Herodian thinking – replacing one earthly power (Maduro) with another (U.S. hegemony). This directly contradicts Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of those who believe “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Syllabus of Errors, 39).
The article’s celebration of Maduro appearing “dressed in prison uniforms” in New York ignores the United States’ own culture of death – legalized abortion, gender ideology, and persecution of traditional Catholics. As Pius XI warned: “Nations will be intoxicated with liberty and become slaves to their own evil desires” (Quas Primas).
Ambiguous Religious References Mask Apostasy
“The most important thing for a people is their faith in God… only God is to be worshipped.” (Bp. Silvio Báez)
The exiled auxiliary bishop of Managua employs deliberately ambiguous language typical of post-conciliar modernists. His generic reference to “faith in God” avoids specifying the Catholic Faith, while his admonition against worshipping “any idol or power of this world” fails to name the true idolatry: the worship of democracy and human rights over Christ’s Social Reign.
This bishop’s silence regarding the consecration of nations to Christ the King proves complicity with the religious indifferentism condemned in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King… [they] will study and learn to preserve peace and harmony” (QP 11). His failure to call for Venezuela’s consecration to the Sacred Heart demonstrates abandonment of true Catholic action.
The Masonic Roots of Secular Liberation
The article’s enthusiasm for “earthly justice” through U.S. intervention parallels the false Fatima message’s focus on “external threats (communism)” while ignoring “the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church” (False Fatima Apparitions). Just as Fatima served as “a potential Masonic psychological operation” (Ibid.), this secular liberation narrative diverts attention from the Conciliar Church’s complicity with Marxism.
Nowhere do the quoted “experts” mention that Nicaragua’s persecution of Catholics began under the post-conciliar “Bishop” Ortega, nor that Cuba’s regime was initially tolerated by Rome. Their analysis lacks the integral Catholic perspective that “the abolition of the temporal power of which the Apostolic See is possessed would contribute in the greatest degree to the liberty and prosperity of the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, 76) constitutes heresy.
Conclusion: No Liberation Without the King
This reporting exemplifies the conciliar sect’s fundamental error: believing political solutions can replace spiritual renewal. As Pius XI declared: “When men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty” (Quas Primas). Until Latin America’s nations solemnly consecrate themselves to Christ the King through the Immaculate Heart of Mary – rejecting both communism and liberal democracy – no true liberation can occur. Regnare Christum volumus!
Source:
After Maduro’s capture, there’s hope for Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, leader says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 08.01.2026