Inter-American Watch Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 Bolivia Narcoaudios: Congressman reminds Evo that he had three former anti-drug chiefs linked to drug trafficking The Congressman from Creeemos suspects that the “narcoaudios” case is part of “a giant plan, linking drug trafficking with state institutions, the Bolivian police and high-ranking political power.” …Read more >> Source: noticiasfides.com…
One of the many biographers of Angela Merkel defined her political style as eminently pragmatic, opportunistic, trying to solve everyday problems in a way that was convenient for her image, and to maintain her power fiercely. She effectively lacked a vision of the future for her country and for Europe, she lacked ideas to formulate…
It was June 16, 1976, in the municipality of Itagüí, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria and his cousin Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero were arrested with 29 kilos of cocaine. Detectives Luis Fernando Vasco Urquijo and Jesús Hernández Patiño, belonging to the DAS, are in charge of carrying out the operation. Almost three months later, with…
In conversations with some friends of firm democratic convictions, I have appreciated a discreet defense of the aggression of the KGB colonel, Vladimir Putin, against Ukraine, something difficult to understand when one has the knowledge that they are people who have invariably repudiated dictators, in particular, those who, like Putin, Xi Jimping and Ayatollah Ali…
Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua’s dictatorships, who are in total control of their justice systems, hand-down “atrocious sentences” based on narratives and facts that have been counterfeited against innocent people in order to instill fear and terror on the civilian population and subject it. The sentences handed-down for the cases fabricated as a result of…
Volodymyr Zelensky has made the rounds of NATO parliaments. One of the first virtual visits was, of course, to the “American friend”. He used a video and talked about Pearl Harbor, that vile surprise attack against an American naval base. All people in the US know that the “day of infamy” happened when Japan tried…
Trying to understand Vladimir Putin, historians of the future will be faced with choosing which tsar should be compared to in the millenary Russian history, whether with the European orientation of Peter the Great or the Asian orientation of Ivan the Terrible. Probably, they will have less doubts about what his greater geopolitical influence was.…
Promised is debt is a phrase used to signal the fulfillment of a promise or the payment of an acquired liability. However, it does not exclusively refer to a chrematistic question, but is also used to show a moral obligation contracted with someone. However, I would add another meaning: Everything that politicians promise you ends…
There are many speculations that abound in blogs and podcasts about an alleged and imminent replacement of the dollar as the world reserve currency. These hecatombic pieces of advice, however, seem to be contradicted by the world’s main currency markets, where the US currency continues to gain ground against the euro and the pound sterling.…
Inter-American Watch Monday, April 4th, 2022 The Americas The Coast Guard seized more than $243 million of cocaine in the Caribbean A U.S. Coast Guard crew offloaded more than $243 million worth of cocaine at their base in Miami Beach following a 45-day patrol in the Caribbean, according to the military branch. The crew seized…
