Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 5/17/2022
Argentina
Inflation and food prices fuel social tension in Argentina
In April, Argentinas monthly inflation rate was 6.7% and the number for the year to date reached 23.1%, according to the national statistics agency, INDEC. Argentina, which has been struggling with high inflation for years, is on course to see inflation of at least 60% by the end of 2022. Poverty has risen by over 43% since the beginning of the year, according to a report by the Social Debt Observatory of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
Bolivia
Evo proposes withdrawing Bolivia from the OAS and defends the democracies of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
Former President Evo Morales proposed this Sunday to withdraw Bolivia from the Organization of American States (OAS) in the face of the United States’ decision to exclude Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the IX Summit of the Americas, which have, as he stated, democracies ” most advanced” in Latin America.…Read more >>
Source: correodelsur.com
Deinstitutionalization of the State worsens in terms of justice
The January-April 2022 Situation report from Grupo Prima warns that the deinstitutionalization of the Bolivian State is worsening, especially in the area of justice, which has demonstrated its inability to sanction and is increasingly corrupt. “There is no data that allows us to think that the process of deinstitutionalization of the State will be reversed, especially in relation to the crisis of the already non-existent justice”, reads part of the report that also makes an analysis of democracy, legislative management , independence and balance of powers, international relations, among others.…Read more >>
Source: fmbolivia.com.bo
Former ambassador describes Morales’ suggestion to leave the OAS as “nonsense”
Pointing out that Evo Morales is responsible for the two biggest diplomatic defeats that the country has suffered, former ambassador Jaime Aparicio Otero, questioned and described as “nonsense” the former president’s suggestions for Bolivia to stop being part of the Organization of American States. (OAS). The diplomat and former representative of the country before the American States, rejected Morales’s suggestions, pointing out that it is a new nonsense of the former authority, whom he also blamed for the defeats suffered by the country in the International Court of Justice. “Evo Morales, responsible for the two biggest diplomatic defeats of the century in The Hague, now proposes a new nonsense: that Bolivia leave the OAS,” Aparicio questioned from his Twitter account. He pointed out that according to the arguments raised by Morales, the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are the ones that reflect the best rates of democracy today and under the same logic “Russia is a victim”.…Read more >>
Source: eldiario.net
Colombia
Petroleum engineers sued Gustavo Petro for violating his good name
In a television interview, Petro equated the oil, coal and cocaine industries. “All three produce violence,” said the presidential candidate. The Petroleum Engineers Guild says it is violating their rights.…Read more >>
Source: elespectador.com
Cuba
Russia will export meat and dairy products to Cuba
Russia will export to Cuba sausages, canned fish, seafood, beef, pork, and poultry, and dairy products and their derivatives, reported the Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision Service (Rosselkhoznador), in charge of executing an agreement between the two countries, without specifying its duration, amount and volume of products.…Read more >>
Source: cibercuba.com
The Cuban dictatorship approved a new Penal Code that punishes those who insult public officials with prison – Infobae
The unicameral Parliament of the Cuban dictatorship, the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba (ANPP), approved this Sunday, in an extraordinary session, the new Penal Code that provides, among other issues, sanctions of up to three years for those who insult high officials and prohibits external financing of the media.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Ecuador announces more than 1,100 detainees in operations against crime and drug trafficking
More than 1,100 people have been arrested and 17 “criminal gangs” were “dismantled” by the Ecuadorian authorities, as part of special police and military operations in three provinces plagued by violence and drug trafficking, the government announced this Saturday…Read more >>
Source: france24.com
Human Rights
Kenneth Roth (HRW): “The great threat to human rights today is China”
China is today the “great threat” to global human rights standards, according to the executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Kenneth Roth, who in an interview with EFE warned of the risk posed in Latin America by the authoritarian tendencies of the leaders of Mexico and Brazil, the two great countries of the region.…Read more >>
Source: laestrella.com.pa
Nicaragua
What is behind the oil agreement between Iran and Nicaragua?
Ortega allows the use of Nicaraguan territory in search of support to stay in power and strengthen his dictatorship. Tehran and Managua have united against the US. An oil deal signed between Sandinista ruler Daniel Ortega and Iran’s Oil Minister, Javad Owji, aims to evade sanctions, entrench the Iranian presence in the region, espionage against the United States, and sponsor international terrorism.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
The shocking x-ray of the political prisoners of the Daniel Ortega regime: more than 180 opponents languish in the jails of Nicaragua
Presidential candidate Cristiana Chamarro has been deprived of liberty for 347 days, Dora María Téllez, an ex-guerrilla who dared to contradict Sandinismo, has been in captivity for 336 days, and Hugo Torres, Ortega’s comrade-in-arms who risked his life to get him out of jail, he died in the dungeons of the dictator… The infographic prepared by Infobae is a shocking snapshot of the scandalous number of days in captivity of the Ortega political prisoners and an undeniable reminder that more than 180 opponents remain kidnapped by his regime. …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Trials of 45 opponents of Daniel Ortega end; all damned
With sentences of up to 13 years in prison for “undermining” national integrity, Nicaragua ended the trials against 45 opponents of the government of Daniel Ortega, who could negotiate releases in exchange for the withdrawal of international sanctions.…Read more >>
Source: prensa.com
Peru
Congressman Cueto: Sao Paulo Forum aims to weaken the Armed Forces
Congressman José Cueto Aservi said that “it is a directive from the Sao Paulo Forum to weaken the armed forces, which is why the budget for fiscal year 2022 is the lowest in the last 20 years.” «The Sao Paulo Forum, today known as the Puebla Group, has as a plan to set a totalitarian agenda, taking over the institutions, and for this reason they have promoted issues such as the deformation of the language, the taking over of the cultural sphere and education. A model photocopied from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, which is already happening in Chile with the constituent assembly, we also see in Argentina and Bolivia where Evo Morales has great sympathy », he added…Read more >>
Source: expreso.com.pe
Marxist Luis Alberto Adrianzén will be Castillo’s new adviser
The communist government of Pedro Castillo has appointed the Marxist sociologist Luis Alberto Adrianzén Merino, an activist with a long career in the Peruvian left, affiliated with the Revolutionary Front of Socialist Students, close to the candidacy of Verónika Mendoza, as Advisor in the Ministerial Office of Foreign Relations. –linked to Podemos and the Puebla Group- and, later, an enthusiastic follower of Castillo when he went to the second round.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Pedro Cateriano: “President Castillo is paving the way to his own political destruction”
PorThe former prime minister believes that the political crisis in Peru will not be resolved as long as there is a pact between the government and the opposition in Congress. He also questions the influence of former Bolivian president Evo Morales to promote a Constituent Assembly in the country.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
The Summit of the Americas is for leaders and countries that respect democracy
Dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are not invited. Organizations and citizens ask for a similar decision regarding Bolivia and Castrochavism tries to sabotage the Summit with the governments that manipulate it. Up to now, it seems that the Summit of the Americas is for governments and States who respect democracy.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Vassalage and political bipolarity
That is the level of barbarism and political vassalage of the Chavista bloc, which now intends to sabotage the IX Summit of the Americas because the host country – the United States – has not invited the governments of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba for systematically violating human rights.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Summit of the Americas
USA: Respect for democracy, condition for meeting at the Summit of the Americas
The United States, host of the IX Summit of the Americas in June, recalled on Thursday that respect for democracy is a “condition” to participate in the event, when the presidents of Mexico and Bolivia have already made their attendance conditional on there being no exclusions. …Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Rodríguez Zapatero intercedes for the tyrannies of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela before the US
The former president of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is once again on a tour of South America where he continues to promote the accession to power of the communists while legitimizing the tyrannies of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. He also has no qualms about asking countries like the US to collaborate in this whitening.…Read more >>
Source: libertaddigital.com
