Inter-American Watch Monday March 7th, 2022 The Americas Hundreds of Latin Americans return from Ukraine after invasion Close to 250 Ecuadoreans, many of them university students, arrived in the country on Friday after fleeing Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, joining hundreds of other Latin Americans who have evacuated. Latin American countries have been coordinating flights from…
Russia has roughly 6,000 nuclear warheads aimed at our venerable necks. Vladimir Putin – the ‘knucklehead’ – has asked his military to put them on alert in case they have to be used. The man was a KGB spy before he was a politician. The US has slightly fewer nuclear weapons, but much more precise…
Inter-American Watch Friday, March 4th, 2022 The Americas What does Russia’s war in Ukraine mean for Latin America and the Caribbean? Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has deep implications for Latin America and the Caribbean. First, it demonstrates the growing strategic challenge to the United States from the survival and proliferation of populist authoritarian regimes,…
The invasion of Russia into Ukraine is a “war crime of aggression against peace” determined by international common law, the international tribunals of Nuremberg and Tokyo, based in the United Nation’s Charter and established in Article 5 of the Rome Statute. This flagrant crime, aggravated by crimes against humanity that is perpetrated by Russia’s holders…
The political, economic and social situation of the American continent, without excluding any country, faces a destabilizing variant in terms of democracy. This demands an urgent review of the commitments and perspectives of citizens and organizations that feel committed to our way of life and the unrestricted respect for human rights. In the hemisphere apart…
At the end of the 1980s, the brothers Nelson, Eddy and Carlos Arévalo (who by then had not even turned 30) opened the FINSA real estate agency. The company began operating with luxurious offices, attractive secretaries and computers (which were luxury items at the time). Advertisements were then published in the newspapers offering high interest…
The Roman poet, Tenth June Juvenal, in Satires, immortalized the phrase: panem et circenses (bread and circuses). It arises at a time when the corruption of Rome had destroyed all traces of institutionality. Juvenal maintained that bread and circuses were the most fervent desires of a people raised on vice and softness. Centuries later, Lorenzo…
On February 21, 2016, a referendum was held to consult the population if they agreed to change article 168 of the Political Constitution of the State, which establishes that there can only be presidential re-election once. The results were not what the regime expected, since 2,682,517 Bolivians (51.3% of the votes) said No to the…
You know the type. They are those people who think they have all the answers and have never encountered a problem they did not know how to solve. They are the know-it-alls. They are dismissive of the opinions of others, they feel superior, and are unwilling to listen to others. They think they have all…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 The Americas China in Latin America: The Western Hemisphere Security Strategy Act Latin America and the Caribbean, to which the United States is intimately linked by ties of geography, commerce, and family, currently faces an unprecedented confluence of challenges potentially affecting our security and prosperity, as well as those…
