Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 8/23/2022
Analysis
Daniel Ortega advances rapidly in the process of radicalization of his dictatorship, establishing the Cuban repressive model to control the lives of Nicaraguans through the policy of terror. His tools are the security, intelligence and surveillance apparatus in the neighborhoods through the so-called Councils of Citizen Power.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Economic and political liberalism must disappear from Ibero-America. It doesn’t matter if that supposes a burden for the development of the continent, that millions of families lose part of the standard of living earned with the sweat of their brow or that poverty punishes the population again. The objective is to implement populist policies, a new kind of neo-communism, in the image and likeness of what was established in the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro or in the Bolivia of Evo Morales.…Read more >>
Source: libertaddigital.com
Argentina
Federal prosecutor Sergio Mola said today that the fraud against the state in public works received by businessman Lázaro Báez was 5,321 million pesos, equivalent to 926 million dollars. This was stated in a section of the ninth and last hearing of allegations of the Prosecutor’s Office in which they will make the request for the conviction of the Vice President of the Nation, Cristina Kichner, and the rest of the 12 accused.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Bolivia
The bidding process for the “direct exploitation of lithium” that the Bolivian government had called has stalled since Putin’s mining minister, his namesake Vladimir Demidov, made it known last June that Russia is interested in controlling that business in Bolivia. …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
With the harangue “now yes, civil war”, a group of children, dressed as armed and hooded red ponchos, participated in a parade in El Alto for the Bolivian Flag Day that is celebrated every August 17. The video of this act caused controversy and went viral on social networks… In some public acts during the government of Evo Morales, a block from this sector appeared armed and hooded and for that fact was classified as a militia. At the time, he was at the center of controversy due to his “terrible deeds”, including slaughtering dogs as an affront to opposition sectors.…Read more >>
Source: paginasiete.bo
Chile
The Chilean government expressed its permanent commitment to the principle of “one China” proposed by Beijing and that considers that the island of Formosa is part of its territory, according to what Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola told the Minister of Foreign Relations. Chinese.…Read more >>
Source: radio.uchile.cl
Colombia
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro authorized the suspension of arrest warrants against ELN commanders in order to facilitate peace talks with the guerrilla group.…Read more >>
Source: colombiareports.com
Cuba
The Military Conscientious Objectors movement made this Sunday a call to the Revolutionary Armed Forces to avoid the repression ordered by the Castro regime, and not to act “as mercenaries of the new Cuban oligarchy”.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Cuban doctors worked in 62 countries at the end of 2016, in 35 of which the government charged for their services, according to official statistics published this Monday. The sale of professional services, mainly medical, is the main source of foreign exchange for the island, above tourism. Former Economy Minister José Luis Rodríguez calculated that this activity contributed “an estimated 11,543 million dollars as an annual average between 2011 and 2015.” …Read more >>
Source: radiotelevisionmarti.com
Cuba – Italy
The president of Calabria (southern Italy), Roberto Occhiuto, announced the agreement with the Cuban government to send some 500 doctors to the region in the coming months..…Read more >>
Source: swissinfo.ch
Ecuador
Although there are bureaucratic obstacles that delay the process of eliminating narcotic and psychotropic substances seized by the National Police, so far in 2022 more drugs have been destroyed than in the last 20 years.…Read more >>
Source: eluniverso.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua’s regimes have a unique feature; to legitimize narcotics’ trafficking that they present as “anti-imperialism” and “the need to end the failed war on drugs”, a flawed strategy with which they pretend to coverup the narco-States they have converted the countries they control.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
During the presentation of the “Quo Vadis América Latina” forum of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy, our co-editor-in-chief, Vanessa Vallejo, gave a presentation on the responsibility of the media and the role of independent journalism in shaping public opinion. , the interpretation of reality and freedom in countries.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Mexico
With some 150 journalists murdered since 2000, Mexico is considered one of the most dangerous countries for the press. A journalist was murdered this Monday afternoon in the state of Guerrero, in southern Mexico, where a dozen homicides of communicators have been reported throughout the country so far this year.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Nicaragua
The arrest of Nicaraguan bishop Rolando Álvarez is the most recent chapter in a particularly convulsive last year for the Catholic Church in Nicaragua with the regime of dictator Daniel Ortega, who has branded the leaders as “coup plotters” and “terrorists.”…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua said this Friday that it felt “with deep pain” the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was abducted this morning by police officers from the episcopal curia of the Diocese of Matagalpa (north), where he had been confined for 15 days. …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The newspaper La Prensa, the oldest in Nicaragua and critical of the Government of Daniel Ortega, denounced this Monday that the Nicaraguan authorities carried out a “de facto confiscation” of his assets, a year after the National Police forcibly occupied his facilities and arrest its general manager, Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro.…Read more >>
Source: eluniverso.com
The auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Managua, Silvio Báez, urged this Sunday to “ask for the freedom” of his Nicaraguan colleague Rolando Álvarez, arrested on Friday by the Police of the Daniel Ortega regime, who accuses him, without offering evidence, of trying “organize violent groups”.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
The Special Team against the Corruption of Power prepared and presented an organization chart of the alleged criminal organization that would be led by the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo Terrones, the same one that would be dedicated to directing public tenders by “finger” in local governments ( municipal) in order to benefit his family environment with State money, according to the investigation formalized by the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office, Hans Aguirre.…Read more >>
Source: larepublica.pe
Regional Security
While not directly naming a specific nation in his speech, Putin has continuously provided his ideological allies in Latin America — Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua — with both firearms and military “cooperation,” strengthening the power of these authoritarian regimes and ensuring an ever-growing military influence of Russia in the region.…Read more >>
Source: breitbart.com
