Inter-American Watch Friday December 31st, 2021 The Americas Latin America and the Caribbean: Predictions for 2022 By the end of 2022, the region will likely be strained by a combination of problematic behavior by radical left and populist authoritarian regimes, further significant electoral advances of the populist left, and increasing challenges from organized crime, political…
INTERAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY INVITES YOU TO VISIT THE EVENTS THAT WE CARRIED OUT IN 2021. In this guide you will find access to each of the forums, conferences and presentations that we carry out in the year that ends. 2021 FORUMS Forum “Argentina 2021” January 14th, 2021 https://youtu.be/dErpraUWTzM Forum “Elecciones Ecuador 2021”…
INTERAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY LE INVITA A VISITAR LOS EVENTOS QUE REALIZAMOS EL AÑO 2021. En esta guía Ud. encontrará el acceso a cada uno de los foros, conferencias y presentaciones que realizamos en el año que termina. FOROS 2021 Foro “Argentina 2021” Enero 14, 2021 https://youtu.be/dErpraUWTzM Foro “Elecciones Ecuador 2021” Enero 27,…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 The Americas How Organized Crime devoured the Amazon Rainforest Deforestation is more intertwined with criminal activities than ever. Those involved in gold mining, cattle ranching, drug trafficking and illegal logging are working hand-in-hand, either with each other or with public and private interests to destroy the lungs of the…
The argument the dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua use to coverup the violations of human rights they commit with State-sponsored terrorism, their economic failure, the social oppression, and the misery they have caused to their peoples, are the so-called sanctions or blockades. At the same time, however, for democracy’s banners and democratic leaders…
(FIRMAS PRESS) There was even talk of a “model.” Chile was a very positive thing that happened to Latin America for many years. From the 1980s until October 18, 2019, 35 or 40 years passed in which, apparently, an exhausting discussion had ended: whether a nation depended on the State to achieve development, or whether…
Inter-American Watch Monday December 27th, 2021 The Americas How Al Qaeda operates in Brazil: connections with drug trafficking to Europe and the Mara Salvatrucha The United States this week sanctioned three agents of the terrorist network operating in São Paulo. Cocaine leaving Peru and Bolivia passes through North Africa with the help of Islamic extremists.…
Renown journalist and scholar Nicholas Lemann asks in his latest book “American Democracy” five fundamental questions about our democracy that have yet to be fully answered. One of his questions is particularly thought-provoking in today’s sociopolitical setting: What is the government for? This is a question we answer indirectly with our political affiliations as Democrats,…
Inter-American Watch Friday December 24th, 2021 The Americas Dozens vanish without a trace in America’s new ‘Bermuda Triangle’ next door Groups of migrants that had entered a treacherous mountain area in the Chihuahuan desert—dubbed a migrant “Bermuda Triangle” by local reporters have vanished without a trace. In the last few years, dozens of migrants, including…
One of the most despicable arrangements to retain power featuring “State-sponsored terrorism” is to unjustifiably imprison human beings who ask for freedom. Dictatorships use political prisoners to instill fear in the population, forcing them not to fight for their human rights and remain subjected and defenseless by fear. There are political prisoners in Cuba, Venezuela,…
