Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla was used by Raúl Castro to try to “scare” the young creators of “Archipelago” and the San Isidro Movement. Bruno summoned the diplomats based in Cuba and said that the excesses announced for November 15 wouldn’t be tolerated. Why? Very simple and very sinister: because the United States is…
The absence of democracy is the best way to create economic misery, as evidenced by humanitarian crises in Cuba and Venezuela, and economic crises in Bolivia and Nicaragua. Concentration of power, absence of control and accountability and impunity enable countries without democracy to falsify economic data, until the misery of the peoples reveals the falsehood.…
Inter-American Watch Friday 12th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Peru Peru’s Pedro Castillo to sell presidential Boeing jet in cut on perks Peru’s new left-wing president, Pedro Castillo, says he will sell the presidential plane and use the money to fund health and education. In a speech to mark his first 100 days, he also said…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Peru President Castillo’s secretary under criminal investigation for alleged influence peddling Peru’s Anti-Corruption Office announced it was starting a formal investigation of the President’s Secretary General, Arnulfo Bruno Pacheco Castillo, among others, for the alleged crime of influence peddling. The investigation is a result of the…
Inter-American Watch Monday November 8th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) (Reading time: 3 minutes) Peru Peruvian Army and National Police seized large cache of weapons amassed by terrorist group Shining Path The Directorate Against Terrorism (Dircote) of the Peruvian National Police, working together with members of the Army, gave a severe blow to the terrorist group…
Our contempt for liberty was a favorite theme of the brilliant economist and columnist Walter E. Williams. His book “American Contempt for Liberty” compiles nearly 200 of his newspaper columns on topics related to our personal freedoms. Williams was an eloquent and forceful defender of what he called “the moral superiority of personal liberty and…
In three months in office, President of Peru Pedro Castillo has made very clear he belongs and depends on the 21st century socialism, also known as Castro-Chavism. He also has made very clear his decision to repeat the plan -already applied in Bolivia- to destroy the “Peruvian Nation” and supplant it by a “Plurinational state”;…
I have not been able to find out, for sure, why Raúl Castro authorized the appearance of Carlos Lage asking for “deep changes.” Lage is the former Cuban vice president purged a few years ago along with former Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque. I have asked the experts in the Cuban nomenclature. Dr. Pedro Roig…
Inter-American Watch Friday November 5th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Peru Peru confirms new moderate-left cabinet Peru has confirmed a new moderate-left cabinet, three months after President Pedro Castillo’s lineup led by the ruling communist party leader Guido Bellido crumbled amid political uncertainty. The new cabinet formation approved on Thursday will be headed by Mirtha Vasquez,…
In his confessionary book Learning to Die in Miami, Carlos Eire, Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, explores his cultural assimilation to American life. As young Carlos learns English, he notes that his thinking is different in English, and that this new way of thinking alters his perception of the world. Carlos…
