Inter-American Watch
Thursday 8/18/2022
Analysis
With inflation at a record level, millions of its citizens fleeing the country, and a political opposition recognized by most Western democracies as the legitimate government of Venezuela, the regime of Nicolás Maduro seemed to be on the verge of collapse in 2019. But The Maduro regime survived, thanks to a number of factors – among them the external support it received from malign state actors like Russia and China. …Read more >>
Source: es.theepochtimes.com
The tentacles of drug trafficking, which include corruption and general insecurity, have been spreading throughout the region. Drug seizures are on the rise and the governments do not seem interested in working together…These amounts of money increase the risk that drug traffickers infiltrate the State and corrupt its institutions. “Narco infiltration is a constant in the countries with the most powerful criminal organizations, and in those cases the narco is now more powerful than before,” Ricardo Márquez Blas, a security and crime-fighting specialist, tells DW from Mexico. The bad thing, adds the expert, is that “such infiltration has not only been unable to be eliminated, but has also registered an expansion process.” …Read more >>
Source: dw.com
Bolivia
At the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Government joined. The former president’s defense insisted on the political nature of the process. A Bolivian judge extended this Tuesday the preventive detention for three months to the former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez for the “coup d’état I” case, a process in which she is accused of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy along with two other former your government officials.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Añez recalled that when Morales took office as general secretary of the Chapare coca growers’ union (1985) and during his time as a deputy he organized blockades every September, so that they could plant coca without control by the forces of order. She added that he closed roads for weeks, causing “great economic losses to the country.” “He (Morales) says no to the strikes, when he started the strikes and blockades with emphasis, he institutionalized the culture of the blockades, he was the master of the strikes and blockades, something that no politician had done before in the history of the country . Let us remember that during the transitional government, regardless of the pandemic, he organized blockades from his asylum in Argentina, ”he said.…Read more >>
Source: paginasiete.bo
Chile
But if any data is important, it is the following: in 2006 both Chile and Argentina had 29% poverty; in 2018, Argentina’s had risen to 32%, while Chile’s fell to 8%. Is there any question as to which country should imitate the other? …Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Ecuador
The Andean country, which is used as a cocaine smuggling route from neighboring Peru and Colombia, has seen a sharp rise in murders and gang-related crime recently.…Read more >>
Source: bbc.com
The explosion of a bomb left five dead and more than 20 wounded in Guayaquil. In recent months, Ecuador has experienced a wave of violence, with drug trafficking as the main protagonist. …Read more >>
Source: dw.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Gathered at the Coral Gables museum, a historic building in South Florida, more than two dozen academics, politicians and journalists from various Latin American countries and the United States were convened by the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy, chaired by the former mayor of Miami Tomás Regalado, and under the executive direction of Dr. Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, to analyze the current situation in the region.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Today, however, the Pope, who has adopted the name of the most charitable saint in the Catholic Church, together with all the orders and hierarchies of the Catholic Church, remain rigorously silent in the face of the greatest attack by a regime on the institution of the Catholic Church.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
In several previous writings I have already explained that indigenismo is nothing more than a reheated Marxist discourse. But that does not pit the poor against the rich, but whites against indigenous people. Although indigenism is a discourse full of sophisms and fallacies, its real danger lies in the crimes committed in its name. Let’s see.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Mexico
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) asked Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday to take urgent measures against the growing violence suffered by the media in the country, after the murder of four Mega Radio Networks workers in Ciudad Juárez.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
United States authorities launched alerts for American travelers due to the growing wave of violence during the last week in Mexico. The multiple roadblocks, burned vehicles and shootouts between Mexican security forces and unspecified criminal elements in various parts of the metropolitan area of states such as Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Baja California, are worrying events both for tourists and for the Mexicans themselves who reside in those areas.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez, a critic of dictator Daniel Ortega, who served 11 days this Sunday in an Episcopal Palace by the National Police, asked the Catholic faithful to pray for his release.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The northern Nicaraguan city of Matagalpa is experiencing an unusual police operation. The main streets of the city are taken over by policemen with weapons of war and anti-riot agents. Patrols block the entrances to a corner building painted in dark orange, while drones occasionally monitor what happens inside that old house from the sky.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Miami, Aug 17 (EFE) .- Twenty-six former heads of state and government of Spain and Latin America expressed their concern this Wednesday about the “religious persecution unleashed by the dictatorship” of the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and urged Pope Francis to come out in defense of the Nicaraguan people and their religious freedom.…Read more >>
Source: swissinfo.ch
The dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, charged against the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, whom he demanded to release the 14 Venezuelans detained in Argentina and return the Venezuelan-Iranian plane held in that South American country for links to international terrorism.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega placed a heavy cross on the shoulders of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua. Arrests, suspensions of religious celebrations, raids and accusations against members of the religious community have become the daily bread in the Central American country.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
Peru
According to an investigation published by Perú21, the president used Army helicopters during weekends, between February and June, to make personal visits to San Luis de Puña, Tacabamba, Chota, Cajamarca. If the information collected is confirmed, President Castillo would have violated the law and caused the Army ships to lose around 10 hours of flight time. In addition, an expense of at least S/20,000 soles would have been incurred per transfer, to which must also be added the cost of taking the president to the city of Chiclayo.…Read more >>
Source: caretas.pe
Regional Security
Venezuelan national security expert José Gustavo Arocha said this week that Russia, Iran and China are seeking an asymmetric war against the US through Venezuela, after sponsored “war games” began last weekend. by Russia in the South American country. Source: The Epoch Times in Spanish…Read more >>
Source: es.theepochtimes.com
Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed the information published by ABC about the launch of a ‘Persian market’ for the sale of arms as a result of the simultaneous military maneuvers in Venezuela and Moscow held from August 13 to 27…Putin He claims that “Russia has exported $5.4 billion worth of weapons so far this year and plans to sell a similar amount in the second half of 2022.”…Read more >>
Source: abc.es
