Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 16/08/2022
Analysis
Nearly 200 burly soldiers began the ‘Army Games 2022’ meeting in Venezuela yesterday in Barquisimeto. The delegations from Russia, China, Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Myanmar, among others, started the military exercises together with the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to exhibit their techniques and capabilities in the use of armored vehicles, AK-47 assault rifles, ammunition, long distance shooting with snipers and drones.…Read more >>
Source: abc.es
Argentina
Federal judge Federico Villena, from the Buenos Aires town of Lomas de Zamora, had ordered last week to release 12 of the 19 crew members of the plane, which is under judicial investigation for possible links to international terrorism.…Read more >>
Source: aurora-israel.co.il
Bolivia
Afghanistan is clearly under the domination of drugs. Bolivia is going in that direction now, when coca production is expanding uncontrollably and drug manufacturers even have the support of the government.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Residents of a neighborhood in La Paz set up barricades on street corners on Monday to prevent their streets from becoming a battlefield between coca growers and police, as happened recently due to a conflict between rival unions over the legal coca trade.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) denounced through his social networks that US Senator Ted Cruz promotes destabilizing actions against the recently inaugurated President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro.…Read more >>
Source: la-razon.com
The desire of dictatorships has always been to silence independent journalism. The dictator who acted the fastest was Vladimir Lenin: two days after assuming the government of Russia, in October 1917, he closed all the “bourgeois” newspapers on the grounds that they were only dedicated to lying.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Chile
The great promise of Gabriel Boric has been the promulgation of a new political constitution. After much controversy, the country is getting ready to approve the text of 388 articles and 178 pages in a referendum. However, three weeks before the plebiscite with a mandatory vote on September 4, the Rejection option leads the polls against the Approval of a new Constitution, a draft that buries the ultraliberal model imposed under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) and that allowed education, health and pensions to be governed by the laws of the market.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
Colombia
From his perspective, in the case of the city it is already clear, well, “having a fattening lot is not the same as having a house. The lot must pay more, because the house has a social purpose, and it is to provide a roof for those who inhabit it”. On the other hand, added the president, the fattening lot, and even more so, if it is in the city, where there are locative needs to make offices or apartments, “the owner of that unproductive land is not letting that area have a social purpose with respect to to the city”.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
The new Government of Colombia rejected this Thursday from Havana the decision of the United States to keep Cuba on its list of State sponsors of terrorism.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
..Never before in the country’s history has there been such a sweep of generals as the one just carried out by the President and his Defense Minister, Iván Velásquez. The first calculations indicate that 24 generals came out of the Police; in the Army, 16 have to hang up their uniform; 6 in the Air Force and the same number in the Navy.…Read more >>
Source: elcolombiano.com
Ecuador
The explosion of a bomb in Guayaquil also left 16 injured. The Minister of the Interior speaks of a “declaration of war on the State” by organized crime linked to drug trafficking.…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Manuel C. Díaz is an excellent Cuban storyteller. He has just demonstrated it with the publication of a book, Cuban Tales: Island and Exilio (Cuban Tales: Island and Exile, although almost all the tales take place in Cuba), through Amazon Books, which he has accessed through Ernesto Valdés, Design and Layout of enzoftdesigns.com. We’ll get to it soon.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Plurinationality does not mean the same thing in mestizo societies like many Latin American countries, including Chile. In a way, it was also a consequence of the good and the bad of the Spanish and Portuguese conquests, so different from the English on various issues, including ethnicity and race.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
China reflects due to its numerous disputes territorial relations with its neighbors, among which Taiwan is by far the most important objective because regardless of the geographical claim, it is a challenge to the Chinese Communist Party for being an example of economic progress in freedom and pluralist democracy.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Mexico
At least 12 vehicles, including private cars, public transport and cargo units, were allegedly set on fire by organized crime groups, this Friday, August 12, in the Mexican state of Baja California, bordering the United States, giving way to the wave of violence that hit several states in Mexico this week.…Read more >>
Source: ecuavisa.com
Nicaragua
The Diocese of Siuna denounced this Monday the arrest and disappearance of one of its priests, amid tensions between the Government of Daniel Ortega and the Catholic Church of Nicaragua. “On the afternoon of Sunday, August 14, the priest Óscar Benavidez, pastor of the Holy Spirit Parish, was arrested in the municipality of Mulukuku, in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region of Nicaragua, the Diocese of Siuna reported in a statement.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
A video went viral on social networks in which the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, is seen having his shoe laces tied with two members of the National Police (PNP), during his visit to the San Martín region last weekend. of the week.…Read more >>
Source: la-razon.com
The capture of Abimael Guzmán Reynoso in 1992 meant a severe blow to Sendero Luminoso, a terrorist group that for years had claimed the lives of thousands of Peruvians in rural areas and later in urban areas. However, it was not the end of the terror, but the remnants have survived in the Valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers (Vraem) thanks to a crucial ally: drug trafficking.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Regional Security
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered his allies in Latin America, Asia and Africa modern weapons to ensure peace and security in a multipolar world. “Russia is ready to offer its allies and partners the most modern weaponry, from firearms to armored vehicles, artillery, military aviation and assault drones,” Putin said at the opening of the “Armia-2022” military forum outside Moscow. .…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
United States
The attempted killing of author Salman Rushdie is the latest in a list of crimes committed (or planned but thwarted) in the United States that have a connection with the government of Iran. In less than two years, federal authorities have uncovered and thwarted at least three Iran-backed plans to either kill or kidnap high-profile opponents of the Iranian regime who are living in the U.S.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
More than 155,000 Cubans have arrived in the US through the border with Mexico so far this fiscal year, according to official figures from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Venezuela
Education and health workers from Venezuela, whose salaries have deteriorated due to inflation and adjustments in public spending, marched this Thursday to protest the delay in bonus payments and salary increases.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has reproached the new Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, for having withdrawn his recognition as president of Venezuela in favor of Nicolás Maduro, who considers that he “protects world terrorism”.…Read more >>
Source: elnuevosiglo.com.co
