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Inter-American Watch Monday, February 28th, 2022 The Americas Ukrainian diasporas in Latin America protest invasion Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru, chanting “Long live Ukraine” and holding banners saying “Stop the war” and “Ukraine is not alone.” Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/she-woke-up-with-bombs-ukrainian-diasporas-latin-america-protest-invasion-2022-02-26/ How the war in Ukraine could empower Maduro Rapidly…
Rusia clearly violated international law with its aggression, both from its own territory and from Belarus. Probably, before it, both had stopped complying with the Minsk Agreements of 2014, signed to find a framework for a solution to the conflict between Ukraine and the separatist provinces, in the virtual civil war that had begun in…
It was the early days of the year 2000. The first major American official who spoke with Vladimir Putin was Madeleine Albright. Mrs. Albright, born in Prague, was then Secretary of State in the second term of the Clinton administration. She recorded her impression of the person who had replaced Boris Yeltsin at the helm…
The governments from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua use the same “illegitimate and criminal methods aimed to generate fear and terror in the civilian population that would not, in any other way, be generated”. This is “Terrorism of State” comprised by crimes against humanity evidenced by detentions, torture, false accusations, sentencing, assassinations, and violations of…
He is not an example of democracy, enough to observe the treatment of dissidents. In The Economist´s 2021 Democracy Index Russia appears in the category of “authoritarian” regime, at number 124 among 167 countries, bad or very bad under Scandinavian standards, but it is also true that, despite everything, today there are more freedoms than…
Inter-American Watch Friday, February 25th, 2022 The Americas Different reactions in Latin America to Russia’s actions in the Ukraine conflict The escalation of the conflict between Russia and the West regarding Ukraine, has exposed different reactions in Latin America, as well as President Vladimir Putin’s influence in the region. While Venezuela and Cuba have openly…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 The Americas Organized crime destroys Latin America forests Drug trafficking, illegal mining, and illegal logging in Latin America not only fuel violence, but also destroy the environment. In Latin America, narcotrafficking organizations are the “vanguard of deforestation.” It is estimated that up to 60 percent of the logging in…
When I first learned of Svalbard’s unusual laws, one of which is that no one is allowed to die there, my wife and I made plans to visit and learn. Unfortunately, the COVD-19 pandemic put those plans on hold. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Artic Ocean midway between continental Norway and the North…
Inter-American Watch Monday, February 21st, 2022 The Americas Former dictators, Latin America public officers and drug traffickers: the names in the Credit Suisse bank account leak Switzerland’s draconian banking secrecy laws have made it nearly impossible for other government or journalists to hold the industry to account. Until now. OCCRP obtained leaked records on more…
I write this article on Thursday, February 17, 2022. About 130,000 Russian troops are still on the borders of Ukraine. There are troops in Belarus and the bombs continue exploding in Donbass, in the eastern part of the country, on the Russian border, also accessible from the south, from Crimea. President Joe Biden does not…
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