Interamerican Watch Newsletter

Interamerican Watch Newsletter – Issue 102

Inter-American Watch Thursday 13/07/2022 Analysis   Hannan Serroukh: “Islamism uses victimhood to expand” Victimhood and a false persecution are the main arguments used by Islamism to, with impunity, achieve its objective of expansion, destabilization and destructuring of Western society, warns Hannan Serroukh, coordinator of the Group’s Islamic Research and Studies Area. of Strategic Studies (GEES).…Read…

Chile between two plebiscites

Perhaps two of Chile’s most important elections have been plebiscites, and both the model of society and democracy have been at stake. In 1988 the Chileans said NO to the continuity of General Pinochet and on September 4 they must approve or reject the proposal for a new constitution. My vote is in favour of…

Peter Corzo

A talented condottiere

The late Castroist general Luis Alberto Rodríguez López Calleja was, perhaps, the subject who could have led Cuba in the transition from totalitarianism to post-totalitarianism, the objective of those who defend change so that everything remains the same. His ability to produce money was an attraction for his peers, the children and grandchildren of the…

The Universe of the Gessen

I met the Gessens, a married couple who are both psychologists, as liberals – in the European sense of the term – and I saw them again as ambassadors of Venezuela in Canada, during the second government of Carlos Andrés Pérez. I remember that Vladimir Gessen never ceased to be useful to the Cubans who…

Interamerican Institute for Democracy Carlos Sánchez Berzaín

The toppling of Ecuador’s government has failed but the conspiracy in the Americas continues

In Ecuador, socialism of the 21st century has just repeated its method to topple democratic governments, a method that has been executed throughout this century and that consists in the aggravation of social and economic grievances through the mobilization of sectors who go beyond protesting, include violence, paralyze the country and seek fatal victims to…