Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 8/9/2022
Bolivia
Fierce battles are now being waged in the department of Santa Cruz between the army of coca growers and the original landowners, while in La Paz coca growers from the Yungas are fighting in the streets against the government’s desire to open an illegal market for the coke.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Chile
A new arson attack has occurred in southern Chile. On this occasion, a radical Mapuche group burned at least five pieces of machinery and then fled. The authorities are investigating what happened to find those responsible.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
It is not new that, since Gabriel Boric took office as president last March, the leftist authorities have made countless mistakes and bad political decisions. We have already spoken on other occasions about the first and numerous errors of the cabinet, for which the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, has stood out in this matter. However, during the last week new controversies have emerged that are worrying, not only because of the controversy they generate, but because of what they imply: on the one hand, despair that the I approve option (the new Constitution) wins, which justifies all the means to achieve it, even if they are incomprehensibly clumsy. But, on the other hand, an indolence about the complete setback that Chile is experiencing due to the progressive ideological bias.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Cuba
At least one person died, 16 are missing and some 125 were injured after a fire in the largest fuel depot on the island that, almost three days later, has not been extinguished…Cuba, which is experiencing a deep economic crisis and shortage of the most essential products, such as soap or medicines, it does not have the technology and resources necessary to put out this type of fire and its infrastructure is aging or extremely deficient.…Read more >>
Source: bbc.com
Cuban officials may need to scramble to set up expensive floating storage capacity to handle imports aimed at easing an acute fuel scarcity, sources and experts said on Monday…”The most likely scenario now is that authorities will let burn the product remaining in the tanks while keeping the area as cold as possible by using water,” said Lino Carrillo, a Canada-based expert and former executive at Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.…Read more >>
Source: reuters.com
On the island, a loaf of cheese costs the same as a judge’s monthly salary. But that is not the most serious problem for Cubans these days…Read more >>
Source: elpais.com
There is not a day that the electricity is not cut off on the island and some interruptions last up to 10 hours. Discontent grows and the dictatorship has no answers. “The situation is like a building about to fall that suffers an earthquake,” the experts advance…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Haiti
All until, just after midday, a group of balaclava-wearing armed men entered the church and killed Police Inspector Réginald Laleau. The 45-year-old led a unit which regularly patrols territory controlled by one of the capital’s most feared gangs, called 400 Mawozo.…Read more >>
Source: bbc.com
Authorities are searching for suspected smugglers after a massive migrant landing near Key Largo on Saturday. More than 300 migrants from Haiti made the dangerous journey on an overloaded boat, 113 of them even attempted to swim to shore but were taken into custody.…Read more >>
Source: cbsnews.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Invertebrate Spain (as in without backbone), and The Revolt of the Masses are two of José Ortega y Gasset’s best known works. Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), a Spanish philosopher and essayist, wrote during the first half of the 20th century when Spain wavered between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. For him, the Basque and Catalan separatisms of his day were manifestations of the existential ordinariness of societal values, and of the mediocrity of Spanish institutions.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Japan was the last leg of her tour of Asia, and Nancy Pelosi is not just any representative of her. She, at 82 years old, is the spokeswoman for the Chamber and in that capacity, the third in line of command in the country. Her trip by Ella should have been a state trip and it was just a political trip. It was not only discouraged by the White House and publicly by Biden himself, but also by the State Department and the Pentagon, a trip where he could not commit or sign anything and where Taiwan was left in a worse position than before.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Beatrice Rangel handed it to me. I met her when she was Minister in Carlos Andrés Pérez’s second government. In fact, she was more than a minister. She was a “problem solver,” someone that any self-respecting Latin American government should have. Because she was devilishly smart, she spoke English and French as well as Spanish, and she was highly educated, she was perfect for the job.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
Bishops of the Catholic Church in Latin America reacted to the siege by the authorities on their counterpart from the Diocese of Matagalpa in Nicaragua, Rolando Álvarez, confined in “house by jail”, while Pope Francis refrained from mentioning the subject in his homily from this sunday.…Read more >>
Source: france24.com
European Union diplomatic spokesman Peter Stano denounced that the government of Daniel Ortega “has unleashed unprecedented levels of violence” against the Nicaraguan people. …Read more >>
Source: dw.com
The difficult situation of harassment and repression suffered by the Nicaraguan Church continues to worsen and by far. After unjustifiably ordering the withdrawal of various religious congregations from the country, the national police have launched a wave of persecution against several Catholic priests.…Read more >>
Source: infocatolica.com
In recent months, the Sandinista regime closed Catholic radio and TV stations, besieged churches, imprisoned a priest, and forced religious into exile after accusing them of conspiracy …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
Julio César Bravo Sánchez, a former soldier who was discharged from the Army for his alleged links to drug trafficking and who was in prison, met with Pedro Castillo at the Government Palace, revealed a report by Cuarto Poder. The Sunday detailed that Bravo also visited former fugitive minister Juan Silva when he was still in charge of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC). Bravo visited the president twice at the Government Palace. The first time was on August 20, 2021 and on that occasion they were together for more than two hours. In addition, on his second visit he spent four hours in the Palace.…Read more >>
Source: gestion.pe
A survey published in Peru 21 indicates that, in Lima and Callao, presidential disapproval reaches 81%. In addition, 77% of Peruvians consider that Congress engages in “political populism” …Read more >>
Source: rpp.pe
Regional Security
In the last few hours, the military from a dozen countries that will participate in The International Army Games 2022, “military games and exercises” organized by Russia, from August 13 to 27, have arrived at the Jacinto Lara airport in Barquisimeto.…Read more >>
Source: evtv.online
According to studies by the United Nations (UN), Honduras and El Salvador are the countries with the highest homicide rates. In this case, Honduras registers a homicide rate of 86.5 per hundred thousand inhabitants and El Salvador, a rate of 76.3 per hundred thousand inhabitants.…Read more >>
Source: americaeconomia.com
Venezuela
“I cannot forget the day of my arrest, nor my torturers, and I am not afraid,” said the soldier accused of the drone episode…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Almost two months after the Venezuelan plane of Iranian origin landed in Ezeiza, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused the United States of trying to steal it. He asked Argentina for support to recover it.…Read more >>
Source: perfil.com
The Secretary General of the OAS affirmed that all the denunciations that he has been making for the last 6 years were endorsed by reports from other specialized organizations. He points against those who “sheltered that regime in those various phases of deterioration, crisis, collapse or breakdown of the constitutional order that the country is experiencing today”…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
He sold underwear and cosmetics and did not know the word “assassination”. She was arrested by chance when she was traveling by car with her boyfriend and accused of being part of a plot to assassinate the Chavista dictator with drones. Since then, her life became a nightmare…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
