It has been 10 years since Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero were assassinated in Cuba. It was July 22, 2012. We’ll get to that later. Ángel Carromero, a Spaniard, and Aron Modig, a Swede, were, more or less, witnesses to the murder. Carromero was a delegate of Nuevas Generaciones (New Generations,) the youth organization of…
To present State-terrorism as revolution, violations of human rights as popular defense, the oppressed as subversives, political prisoners and tortured as criminals, the exiled as fugitives, the main transnational organized crime organization as 21st Century Socialism, the crimes of corruption and narcotics’ trafficking as political acts, and conspiracy as the liberation of the peoples, are…
President Biden’s trip reminded me of Henry Kissinger and unlike his traveling diplomacy, nothing substantial came out of the other, so much so that he almost immediately disappeared as news, since there was nothing substantial, beyond the rhetoric of the governments. I was angry with Kissinger for many years for his responsibility in creating the…
Inter-American Watch Thursday 21/07/2022 Analysis Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior Iranians, are wanted by INTERPOL for “aggravated…
The Latin American and Caribbean region represents 33 countries. The Caribbean countries except the Dominican Republic and Haiti base their legal system on the Common Law of England. Therefore, the constitutional texts have much less importance in the domestic legal system than the custom of observing the law. The rest have judicial systems based on…
Inter-American Watch Tuesday 7/19/2022 Analysis The great default? List of countries in danger zone grows and three are from Latin America At least a dozen are in the danger zone of default as rising borrowing costs, inflation and debt fuel fears of economic collapse. Argentina is by far the most exposed country with $150bn,…
The protests of July 11, 2021, were a glorious feat for all of us who reject the totalitarian Castro regime. A bravery that to a certain extent neutralizes the criticism that some make about what they describe as the extreme passivity of the Cuban people in the face of an iron dictatorship, an unpleasant saying,…
In the 2001 novel The Constant Gardener, author John le Carré answers the question What is a failed state?: I allow myself to suggest to you that, these days, broadly speaking, the requirements to be a civilized State are equivalent to electoral suffrage, the protection of life and property, justice, health and education for all,…
Petro’s experiment in Colombia will go terribly wrong. Mario Vargas Llosa has said it clearly. Colombians voted wrong. Also the Peruvians, and the Argentines and the Mexicans. Voting for the worst option is within everyone’s reach. Mario is an excellent writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2010, but he is not the Oracle of…
The 11th of July of 2021 (11-J) people peacefully took to the streets of Cuba with the chant of “freedom”, proclaiming the failure of the 62-year-old dictatorship, clamoring “down with communism” and pouring out their desperation due to the lack of food, medicines, and hope with the outcry “we are not afraid”. The regime’s response…
