Inter-American Watch
Thursday 9/15/2022
Analysis
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, says America’s enemy countries including China, Russia, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela are taking advantage of the cultural Marxism that has permeated American society for years…Read more >>
Source: es.theepochtimes.com
Synthetic drugs are increasingly rewriting the rules of Latin America’s drug trade, as new markets, routes, and substances challenge the traditional dominance of plant-based narcotics. Mexican methamphetamine is being exported in bulk to the Asia-Pacific region, fentanyl is being added to stimulants in South America, and ecstasy flows from Europe to the Southern Cone are soaring.…Read more >>
Source: insightcrime.org
Beijing has been carefully looking to increase its influence in Latin America and with it, observers claim, advance its geopolitical goals. For decades, China has been investing in the region and building close relationships with politicians of undemocratic regimes who make decisions to benefit the Asian giant not only economically and commercially, but also politically.…Read more >>
Source: foxnews.com
Bolivia
The formation and state financing of the so-called “digital warriors”, the activation of legal proceedings against journalists with the intention of forcing them to reveal their sources, the detention of reporters in the midst of social conflict and the attempt to promote laws “against lying ”, among other actions, constitute evidence of non-compliance with international standards on freedom of expression according to the international expert on freedom of expression and media regulation, Joan Barata.…Read more >>
Source: lostiempos.com
Soledad Chapetón, former mayor of El Alto, was apprehended this Wednesday afternoon and taken to the offices of the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc). She was carrying her baby in her arms. The former authority was surprised by the police action and attributed the fact to political persecution.…Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
Brazil
In 2021, four million companies were created in Brazil. Due to the reforms, the time to open a business was reduced to 1 day and 23 hours, thanks to the fact that the Brazilian Executive is the most digitized in all of America and the seventh in the world. Brazil today has one of the largest industrial parks in the world and is a major producer of niobium, iron, copper, aluminum and manganese. It is also an agricultural powerhouse and one of the largest food producers in the world.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Chile
According to what the newspaper El Mercurio published this Monday morning, seven could be the ministries that would have modifications. They would be Interior (Izkia Siches), General Secretariat of the Presidency (Giorgio Jackson), Science and Technology (Flavio Salazar), Sports (Alexandra Benado), Mining (Marcela Hernando) and Energy (Claudio Huepe), which is added to the replacement of Jeanette Vega, who resigned from Social Development days before the election.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Colombia
The government of Gustavo Petro has already announced that the price of fuel will rise yes or yes because the State will stop investing in subsidies to finance the surcharge on hydrocarbons used by vehicles throughout the country, both private and public service, to move .…Read more >>
Source: elcolombiano.com
A VIDEO published by Noticias Caracol reportedly shows that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue to recruit minors into their ranks and train them as militia members.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Cuba
In recent weeks, 16 free journalists from the website El Toque have been threatened and forced to resign. Since 2020, around forty independent reporters have emigrated due to regime harassment and repression.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
On Tuesday, the Cuban regime forced the departure of the superior of the Society of Jesus on the island, the Dominican David Pantaleón, by not renewing his residence permit for foreigners.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
The proposal for a new constitution was rejected by no less than 62% of the voters. In the plebiscite, 13 of the 15 million authorized voters voted, and probably in the history of Chile there had not been an election with those numbers and participation.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
In Chile, a particular country in Latin America, a kind of popular clamor for democracy led to a variable called “progressivism”, which seems to have taken “sparks” from communism and socialism to confront, perhaps euphemistically, what called “neoliberalism”. This is how it seems that Chileans voted for Gabriel Boric and his government of him.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
At least six priests have crossed the southern Nicaraguan border, through blind spots, into Costa Rica in the last month, fleeing the repression that the Daniel Ortega regime has unleashed in Nicaragua against the Catholic Church. However, the number of religious exiles could be much higher, because most leave in silence.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Two months before the municipal elections, this week Daniel Ortega’s regime began a new wave of repression against opposition leaders, which included at least three arrests, several raids and the police siege of a dozen people.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
Ministerial changes, again. This Friday, Miguel Rodríguez Mackay resigned from the position of head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The decision took the public by surprise, although changes in the cabinet turn out to be a common phenomenon in the government of Pedro Castillo. In the case of the Foreign Ministry, the officials who have held the portfolio have decided to leave the post abruptly. Journalistic sources point out that these decisions have been based on disagreements with the head of state.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The president of the Congress of Peru, José Williams, has predicted that the Prosecutor’s Office will publish “really strong” information against the country’s president, Pedro Castillo, in the future, which will make even the official factions change their position regarding the motion of censure by agent.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Everything announced by the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, were only promises. This was reported a few hours ago by María Lumbre Figueroa, President of the Association for the Rights of Children with Cancer, during an interview with RPP Noticias. As you remember, a few months ago the head of state organized an event to receive a group of children suffering from this painful disease at the Government Palace facilities.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
President Pedro Castillo reached the figure of 70 ministers appointed in one year and two months of management in Peru. On Monday night, September 12, he decided to make two changes within his cabinet by appointing the new Foreign Minister César Landa and the head of the Agriculture portfolio, Jenny Ocampo. Both arrive in the midst of crises in their respective sectors.…Read more >>
Source: vozdeamerica.com
United States
A Democrat running for election to serve as California state controller, the state’s independent fiscal watchdog, traveled to Venezuela in 2006 to learn about Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution.…Read more >>
Source: foxnews.com
Venezuela
The Venezuelan NGO for the defense of political prisoners Foro Penal pointed out that the Chavista tyranny currently keeps 245 people in prison for political reasons. To date, among the detainees there are 232 men and 13 women.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
