Inter-American Watch Tuesday 6/14/2022 Analysis Alberto Fernández defends dictatorships while Daniel Ortega authorizes the arrival of Russian soldiers in Nicaragua Designated by Nicolás Maduro as his “voice” at the Summit of the Americas, Fernández regrets the absence of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, but does not mention the violation of human rights in the three…
The Ninth Summit of the Americas has ended. The biggest controversy aroused was the (fulfilled) threat by Andrés Manuel López Obrador not to attend… if the three remaining – although ruined – Latin American dictatorships, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, were not invited. They were not, and the Patron Saint of tyrannies didn’t attend. However, he…
The Summits of the Americas are meetings of heads of state and government that, like other multilateral meetings of an international nature, very rarely transcend the days that they last, because they continue to be a pastime for more than one of the participants. However, these shows, despite their few tangible results in favor of…
A lot has been said and written about the Summit of the Americas currently taking place in Los Angeles. The refusal of Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez, also known by AMLO, to participate over the exclusion of three dictatorships— Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua— gave the impression that the summit was going to be a total…
Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua’s regimes “exert their power using illegitimate methods to instill fear and terror in the civilian population in order to generate behaviors that otherwise would not occur” and to indefinitely hold power with impunity. It is “State- Terrorism”, an organizational system based on the commission of crimes against humanity, a system…
Inter-American Watch Thursday 6/9/2022 Bolivia Daughter of Áñez questions that Evo’s “flight” is not mentioned in the trial for “coup II” “In the first place, we know that this trial is illegal from beginning to end. My mother never proclaimed herself, they are judging her arbitrarily on November 10, 11 and 12, but they do…
I was one of the speakers at a recent forum organized by the Interamerican Institute for Democracy, Diario Las Américas and the Adam Smith Center at Florida International University. I kept the title since it is fully applicable to allof the Americas, since the struggle between education and indoctrination occurs not only in Latin America…
I first saw the intriguing lotus effect in a lotus flower lily pad in Laos while on a trip throughout Southeast Asia. Scientists refer to the lotus effect as the self-cleaning properties that are the result of ultra hydrophobicity where dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to the nanoscopic architecture of the…
Few days remain for the end of the Duque Administration in Colombia and judging by what we read in the local media, its people have not realized that it is one of the best governments in the history of that South American nation. Indeed, Colombia has been one of the modest growth nations in Latin…
Since the vice president of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca, spoke of the need to “share” the lands in the east of the country, the government once again promoted a massive invasion of the department of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, although its threats also extend to Beni and Panda. Why such an obsession with the Bolivian…
