Inter-American Watch Wednesday January 26th, 2022 The Americas Corruption in Latin America: Uruguay is top of the class, Venezuela is the red lantern According to Transparency International, corruption has been entrenched in Latin America for a decade, with little progress and many setbacks in terms of democracy and human rights, which today warned of the…
In 2016, post-truth was selected by Oxford Dictionaries as its word of the year due to a 2,000 percent increase in usage compared to 2015. So, what exactly is post-truth, and what are its implications for democratic politics? ` The Oxford benign definition is that post-truth “describes circumstances in which objective facts are less influential…
Under the pretext that NATO has expanded into former Soviet Satellites and Republics and that such expansion cannot continue, Putin’s Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and annexed Crimea in 2014, and then worked to separate to regions of Eastern Ukraine from the rest of Ukraine by providing para-military concealed soldiers and inciting protests. Now Putin…
Inter-American Watch Monday, January 24th, 2022 The Americas US to use Summit of the Americas to press nations on democracy The United States will assess the “commitment to democracy” of the region”s leaders in order to decide who will be invited to the Ninth Summit of the Americas, to be held in Los Angeles on…
A few days ago, Mr. Díaz-Canel, Dimitri Peskov, the Russian spokesman, candidly said, “We think about how to guarantee our own security.” He was referring to statements by Sergei Riabkov, Russian deputy foreign minister, in which he, mumbling, threatened the US with deploying troops and missiles in Cuba and Venezuela if NATO continued to besiege…
The swearing-in of Nicaragua’s dictator with the attendance of Mohsen Rezaee in representation of Iran as his guest, the surge of tension of Russia against Ukraine, the announcement of the Russian Vice Minister not to rule-out the “deployment of military infrastructure to Cuba and Venezuela”, the announcement of China to fund infrastructure construction in Latin…
Inter-American Watch Friday, January 21st, 2022 The Americas Former Latin America presidents and activists warned that the region is torn “between democracies and dictatorships” During a forum organized by the Inter-American Institute for Democracy, Luis Almagro, secretary general of the OAS, argued that “social backwardness is generated” by totalitarian regimes such as those in…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday January 19th, 2022 The Americas Chavez gave millions to illegally finance the Left in Latin American The former Chief of Intelligence of the Venezuelan regime said in a letter published in Spain, that the late Venezuelan president ordered more than 20 suitcases full of hundreds of thousands of dollars to leftist politicians…
Inter-American Watch Monday, January 17th, 2022 The Americas Breaking Latin America’s authoritarian wave We enter 2022 with democracy facing a dangerous decline worldwide. The pandemic has accelerated a democratic backslide, as authoritarians are emerging everywhere. Latin America is no exception. National Interest: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/breaking-latin-america’s-authoritarian-wave-199272 Former intelligence officer reveals Russian clandestine military bases in Venezuela Former director…
I am reluctant to discuss nationalism in a short newspaper column. Nationalism is complex, misunderstood, and often abused. Yet, I will give it a try in my allotted 680 words. Let’s begin by clarifying that nationalism is not synonymous with patriotism. Nationalism and patriotism are often found together, but they are not the same. Just…
