Inter-American Watch
Thursday 7/7/2022
Analysis
In Venezuela, violence has evolved in parallel to the crisis that has become a Complex Humanitarian Emergency, which affects the entire society. In the border states, both criminal gangs and guerrillas of Colombian origin, paramilitary groups and hybrid organizations that advance from Colombia even to states far from the border zone have participated in this process. The coexistence of these actors has led to confrontations and disputes over territories and spaces of power, as well as alliances, in other cases.…Read more >>
Source: fundaredes.org
Argentina
Silvina Batakis, the new Argentine Minister of Economy, considered as “relatively pragmatic”. The new Minister of Economy is Silvina Batakis, 53, who she identifies as positioned on the left wing of Peronism, closer to Kirchnerism and the La Cámpora movement.…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
Bolivia
The chapter of the document referring to cocaine trafficking details the route of the Bolivian and Peruvian drug. It was never a secret that the cocaine that leaves the country is destined for Europe, but it is the first time that the Unodc is encouraged to give a percentage, 41%.…Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
Three opposition groups in Bolivia asked the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on Friday to remove the legal status of the ruling party, for allegedly receiving funds from an Argentine suspected of drug trafficking.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
Bolivia is just a few shy of reaching a hundred political prisoners. In one year and seven months the dictatorship has 90 political prisoners, two of whom have been left to die in jail, without medical care and with signs of torture. …Read more >>
Source: elorientalbo.com
Colombia
More than 60 years ago, in a forgotten territory known as Marquetalia, in Tolima, some 50 men who rebelled against the State in the face of the rampant inequality in which the country lived at that time entrenched themselves. As a result of this rebel ‘seed’, the FARC guerrilla was later born, whose main objective was to seize power and become a government. Now, more than six decades later and with nearly 450,000 dead on the road as a result of the armed conflict, they have achieved it: they will be the government. But not by the wrong and perverse armed route that they insisted on for years, but by the route of democracy.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
Dozens of Venezuelan opposition figures, who have made Colombia their unofficial headquarters in recent years, say the election of Gustavo Petro as Colombia’s first leftist president puts them at risk and they plan to leave the country. Activists, party leaders, former officers and military deserters are making the move, according to seven people with knowledge of the plans. According to a Bloomberg post, they fear being harassed, spied on, or even kidnapped.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
Cuba
Around eleven o’clock today, the repressive apparatus attached to the communist regime in Havana began an escalation of repression and threats against journalist Iván García, correspondent for DIARIO LAS AMERICAS in the island’s capital, and other independent communicators with the objective to sow its policy of terror in the face of possible demonstrations on the anniversary of the historic 11J protests.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
International repudiation has provoked the latest wave of repression against journalists and independent civil society activists in Cuba who had called to demonstrate against police and racist abuse, following the death at the hands of the police of the 27-year-old black man, Hansel Ernesto Hernández, in the Guanabacoa municipality.…Read more >>
Source: radiotelevisionmarti.com
A delegation from Cuba, made up of diplomats, business executives and officials from the Ministries of Transportation, Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment and diplomats, is touring the United States. They visit the cities with important ports on the south and east coast of the country: Port Everglades, Palm Beach, New Orleans, Houston, the state of Virginia and DC, in what seems to be a long journey in search of commercial links and especially “ the opportunities for foreign investment in the country”, as stated in a note from the Cuban embassy in Washington DC.…Read more >>
Source: radiotelevisionmarti.com
Ecuador
“I call on international and human rights organizations, and particularly UNICEF, called to care for the rights of children and adolescents, to ask themselves what children are doing in a social protest where infiltrators provoke violence to hurt and even to kill people… I think we have to reflect. We cannot forget the cost of more than $1 billion, we cannot forget acts of violence, we cannot forget the use of children and women as cannon fodder to protect violent activities from infiltrators who have participated in these and other demonstrations with a single purpose: to destroy the constituted order,” said the head of state.…Read more >>
Source: eluniverso.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
I had thought to analyze the difficult situation facing Ecuadorian democracy as a result of the chaos generated by the vigilantes of a false progress that only leads to the end of all citizen rights, when I learned about the sentences in Cuba of two young activists who only freely express your ideas.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
On July 4, a formal delivery was made to President Boric of the proposal for the new constitution, which will be submitted to a plebiscite on September 4, 2022, the most important election that Chileans will have, to define the country’s own future. It was quite an achievement, considering that the term was one year and 2/3 of the 144 constituents were needed. The harmonization commission and the technical secretariat did their job well and managed to reduce the original 499 articles to 388, plus 57 transitory provisions.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Mexico
Mexico calculates that in 2019 alone the earnings of migrant smugglers amounted to 615 million dollars, the Ministry of the Interior shared in a statement on Wednesday.…Read more >>
Source: nacion.com
The president has previously spoken out for the authorities to take care of the integrity and well-being of alleged criminals during confrontations…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Nicaragua
Last week he appeared assassinating in Honduras an opponent who had gone into exile in Costa Rica. It is presumed that he was deceived, tortured and executed for political reasons. “There is a source that told us that a heavy diplomat from Nicaragua and a gringo gained my father’s trust, deceived him and there they set him up, they tricked him into taking him to the United States. Upon arrival in Honduras, they handed him over to the regime’s hitmen,” said a family member quoted by the digital platform Cien por Cent Noticias. …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
A massacre carried out just over a year ago in Peru’s largest coca valley is the latest bloodbath attributed to a dissident faction of the Shining Path, which, 30 years after the arrest of its leader, continues to pose a stealthy threat in alliance with drug mafias. Those 16 murders, one of the worst atrocities committed in decades in the country, revived the memories of the terror provoked by the movement led by Abimael Guzmán who, under a Maoist flag, unleashed an internal armed conflict (1980-2000), in which Around 69,000 people were killed, according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.…Read more >>
Source: es-us.vida-estilo.yahoo.com
While it is true that Fray Vásquez, the fugitive nephew of President Pedro Castillo, accompanied his uncle during the presidential campaign, telephone communications between them increased after Castillo was proclaimed the winner of the general elections, and while preparations were being made to favor the Puente Tarata III Consortium with contracts amounting to S/459.7 million.…Read more >>
Source: expreso.com.pe
Regional Security
Iran, Russia, and China are gearing up to run a series of major war drills in Latin America in a show of force meant to signal how these militaries can reach the United States.…Read more >>
Source: freebeacon.com
According to the president of Paraguay, Mohammad Khosraviragh would have had his identity changed in Cuba. And there reappears on the scene the Argentine Edgardo Rubén “Soheil” Assad, leader of the Cuban Shiite community, disciple of Moshen Rabbani and investigated for the attack on the AMIA …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Senior US and British law enforcement officials met Wednesday with business leaders and private academics to draw attention to what they said is the serious economic and security threat posed by China, which seeks to steal its intellectual property and influencing politics in western countries.…Read more >>
Source: cnnespanol.cnn.com
Venezuela
The Venezuelan NGO Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy demanded this Wednesday the release of Alcides Bracho, professor and member of the opposition party Bandera Roja (BR), arrested last Monday by members of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin).…Read more >>
Source: swissinfo.ch
Andrei Serbin Pont, director of Cries, referred to the public appearance of new Iranian-made artillery drones at the military parade this Tuesday in Los Próceres, Fuerte Tiuna, Caracas.…Read more >>
Source: lapatilla.com
