News of political and institutional news in Latin American countries, especially when it concerns the health of their democracies.
Inter-American Watch Friday, January 14th, 2022 The Americas Russia won’t rule out military deployment to Cuba, Venezuela Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russian delegation in Monday’s talks with the U.S. in Geneva, said in televised remarks that he would “neither confirm nor exclude” the possibility that Russia could send military assets…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 The Americas Cocaine worth $20 billion seized in ports of Belgium and the Netherland in 2021, from Central and South America Shipments totalling 89 tons were intercepted in Antwerp in 2021, a one-third increase on 2020, with 70 tons seized across the border in Rotterdam, almost three quarters more…
Inter-American Watch Friday January 7th, 2022 The Americas U.S. adversaries are becoming South American conquistadores “Through networks of shell companies, courier systems and friendly relationships with adversarial nations like Venezuela and Nicaragua, Hezbollah is carrying out the money-laundering operation for a significant portion of the region’s illicit trade in drugs, weapons and human trafficking.…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday, January 5th 2022 The Americas Leftists Are Ascendant in Latin America as Key Elections Loom This year, leftist politicians are the favorites to win presidential elections in Colombia and Brazil, taking over from right-wing incumbents, which would put the left and center-left in power in the six largest economies in the region,…
Inter-American Watch Monday, January 3rd, 2022 The Americas Latin America ended 2021 with an unfavorable balance in the fight against criminal networks During the year that has ended, a growing dynamic has been observed in groups related to drug trafficking and money laundering in the region. The ties of these criminal networks have become closer…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
