Inter-American Watch Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 The Americas Latin America toward the abyss: Chilean socialist victory reinforce negative trend Will Latin Americans be able to reverse what seems to be a fall into even more socialism, corruption and misery? Many are pessimistic, but some have hope that an important awakening and a more energetic and…
Inter American Watch Monday December 20th, 2021 The Americas Gabriel Boric, a former student activist, is elected Chile’s youngest president Chileans on Sunday elected Gabriel Boric, as their next president, entrusting the young leftist lawmaker with helping to shape the future of a nation that has been roiled by protests and is now drafting a…
The July 11 protests reflect the misery in which Cubans live. And it was not even a particular region of the island. As Carla Gloria Colomé Santiago explains, in a sensational article published in El Estornudo, the protests occurred in 62 different places, although they arose in San Antonio de los Baños, a town located…
Inter-American Watch Friday December 17th, 2021 Peru New scandal shakes the government of Pedro Castillo Businesswoman Karelim Lopez said she gave an amount of money in cash to the now former Secretary General of the Presidency, Bruno Pacheco, destined for President Castillo and previously agreed with the president himself, according to prestigious investigative reporter Gustavo…
The Summit for Democracy organized by the president of the United States, the International Seminar with Mario Vargas Llosa, the Organization of American States, and the current situational awareness analyses, coincide those democracies are threatened by authoritarianism. The permanent destabilization of democracies in the Americas comes from Cuba’s dictatorship spread into Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua,…
In an August 1815 letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams reminisced about the American Revolution: “What do we mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People…” Adams goes on to wonder about…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 The Americas An addictive war: how Latin-American drug cartels bosses are playing the U.S. justice system An investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and partners, including the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald, using data collected in Colombia and Mexico, shows that extradition has become a…
Inter-American Watch Monday, December 13th, 2021 Ecuador United States concerned about ‘narco generals’ and drug trafficking in Ecuador According to the US ambassador to Quito, Michael Fitzpatrick, in Ecuador there are already ‘narco generals’ working surreptitiously with international drug cartels in the country. Primicias, in Spanish: https://www.primicias.ec/noticias/politica/entrevista-embajador-estados-unidos-ecuador/ More than 300 companies used the Sucre system…
On December 19, 2021, there will be elections in Chile. José Antonio Kast, 55, JAK for short, a lawyer representing the right, and Gabriel Boric (pronounced Borich in Croatian) on the left will face each other for the presidency. Boric, only 35 years old, doesn’t have a university degree, because he stopped studying law. Who…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, December 10th, 2021 Ecuador Ecuador: historic record of drug seizures in 2021 Drug seizures reached 192 tons at the beginning of December 2021 in Ecuador, 150% more than last year, the national anti-narcotics director, Police General Geovanni Ponce, announced. At the end of 2021, the figure could increase to 200 tons.…
