Inter-American Watch Friday 4/29/2022 Ecuador Ecuador’s Minister of Defense resigned amid the scourge of drug trafficking Ecuadorian Defense Minister Luis Hernández announced his resignation on Tuesday amid the onslaught of drug trafficking, which has led to high levels of crime and the worst prison massacres in the country.…Read more >> Source: france24.com National Court of…
Hans Island is a barren uninhabited island measuring 4,230 feet long and 3,934 feet wide located in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island. Its location places Hans Island within the territorial waters of both Canada and Denmark and both countries claim it as their own territory. On periodic visits to the Island, the…
Let’s take a trip back in time to the year 2013. At that time, Bolivia’s 6.5% GDP growth was the most talked about news in the world. The main economic magazines began to speak of the Bolivian economic “miracle.” Luis Arce Catacora and Evo Morales became a kind of rock stars for the media and…
Another commodity boom is coming as a result of the COVID-19 induced break in the global supply chain and Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. Many analysts are predicting that this will be the launching device for some regional economies towards development. History however seems to contradict these optimistic views. From the 17th century to this part,…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday 4/27/2022 Bolivia Siles: corruption of exFondioc will go unpunished after Aramayo’s death Luis Eduardo Siles, affirmed this Sunday that the most serious case of corruption of the government of Evo Morales and the MAS was the diversion of money from the State to private accounts through the disappeared Fund Indígena Originario Campesino…
With that title, a Forum took place on April 26 in Miami, organized by the Interamerican Institute for Democracy and the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom at Florida International University. The timing was opportune for two days earlier Macron had been re-elected in France, but his rival’s political sector had obtained its best historical…
A country with political prisoners and exiles is a dictatorship that can only be possible when there is neither the rule of law nor the separation and independence of the branches of government, something that institutionalizes the violation of human rights and basic freedoms and allows State terrorism to exist. The seriousness of the current…
The quick answer is Ukraine, as Faared Zacaria and Thomas Friedman cleverly said, each on their own. But it’s winning at the cost of the demolition of a few cities, which makes reconciliation between the two countries impossible until several generations have passed. There are at least five reasons to suppose that Ukraine is “winning.”…
Inter-American Watch Friday 4/22/2022 Argentina Harsh letter from Amnesty International to Alberto Fernández: “Human rights problems in Venezuela have not dissipated” The humanitarian organization issued a strong statement in response to the statements of the Argentine president, who spoke in favor of normalizing diplomatic relations with the Caribbean country because, supposedly, “the accusations against the…
As human beings we are born with an innate understanding of property. This idea was recently validated by the work of experimental economist Bart Wilson. In his book The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind, Professor Wilson argues that the human property instinct evolved along with abstract reasoning and the production of compound…
