Inter-American Watch
Thursday 8/25/2022
Analysis
It is one of the fashionable terms in the political language of the extreme left. And it has no borders. It is used regularly in any part of the world, although its use has multiplied in recent years, especially in Spain and Latin America. They have done it in the heat of the new wave of extremist populism brought about by the global economic crisis of 2008. They use it to try to sanctify themselves and hide their sins.…Read more >>
Source: libertaddigital.com
Argentina
Federal prosecutor Diego Luciani, who requested 12 years in prison for Cristina Kirchner in the Vialidad case, today considered what President Alberto Fernández said about him last night “worrying”, criticizing his actions, comparing him to Alberto Nisman and stating that he hoped that Luciani did not commit suicide.…Read more >>
Source: lanacion.com.ar
The phrase, shocking and loaded with meanings, was pronounced last night by Alberto Fernández on television and generated a massive and immediate political impact. The president said it while trying to defend Cristina Kirchner from the accusation of corruption that this judicial official made in his plea prior to the request for 12 years in prison for illicit association and fraud against the State.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
“So far, Nisman committed suicide; I hope that prosecutor Luciani does not do something like that,” said Alberto Fernández, generating controversy and immediate repercussions in the opposition. One of the first responses came from the party founded by Elisa Carrió. The Civic Coalition will denounce him for “instigation of suicide and mafia murder threat,” according to Maximiliano Ferraro, national deputy and party president.…Read more >>
Source: clarin.com
Bolivia
Bolivia scores the highest debt in its economic history. The first official record of the external debt balance -extracted from the Unit for the Analysis of Social and Economic Policies (Udape)- is from 1970 and was $524 million; 51 years later, it reaches $12,697 million, according to the Foreign Public Debt Report as of December 31, 2021, published days ago by the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB).…Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
The complaint by the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) about the campaign of economic suffocation and political pressure against Editorial Canelas S.A., parent company of the morning newspaper Los Tiempos, highlighted the violations of freedom of expression and the intention to take over this morning.…Read more >>
Source: lostiempos.com
Chile
According to the Pulso Ciudadano survey by the Activa pollster, in the first fortnight of April Boric obtained a rejection of 51%, reflecting an increase of 10 points, while approval reached 27.8%, a drop of 6.2 points in relation to the previous survey.…Read more >>
Source: americaeconomia.com
Colombia
“A drug trafficker who negotiates with the State and reoffends will be extradited without any type of negotiation in the United States, a drug trafficker who negotiates legal benefits with the Colombian State and definitively ceases to be a drug trafficker will not be extradited,” said President Petro.…Read more >>
Source: wradio.com.co
Cuba
Although everything indicates that it will maintain the same repressive scheme as last year, the Cuban regime will put into practice in 2020 a “crony economy” to face the sanctions of the United States, Cuban opponent Antonio G. Rodiles predicted on Friday in Miami.…Read more >>
Source: radiotelevisionmarti.com
For decades, the Cuban dictatorship redoubled efforts to present the country as a world medical power. However, behind this alleged feat lies a dark system of human trafficking and exploitation driven by the medical missions that the regime sends to dozens of countries around the world. The NGO Human Rights Foundation (HRF) produced a report in which it reveals details of how this complex scheme is developed, which has provided billions of dollars to the dictatorship.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
In an unprecedented decision that could reach diplomatic significance, the Angolan government rejected the sending of 189 Cuban collaborators prepared to travel and join the Cuban medical mission in the African country.…Read more >>
Source: radiotelevisionmarti.com
Ecuador
The route of the money begins to clarify. A criminal assistance from the United States delivered to the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office established the path followed by a payment of $1.3 million made by China CAMC Engineering Co. Ltd., a major contractor of the Ecuadorian Government, to a foreign company that would be linked to Esteban Celi De la Torre, brother of former deputy comptroller Pablo Celi De la Torre. Documents from the United States showed that most of those funds, $990,000, were transferred to two Panamanian companies related to Ecuadorian politician Xavier Neira Menéndez. These companies, Ranvill Investment S.A. and Forban Holding S.A., also appear in the case of the Police Social Security Institute (Isspol).…Read more >>
Source: eluniverso.com
One of the most benefited Chinese contractors during the Citizen Revolution would have paid 1.3 million dollars in bribes for the disappearance of glosses in the administration of former comptroller Pablo Celi.…Read more >>
Source: teleamazonas.com
Spain
Pablo Iglesias, former second vice president of the Spanish government, expressed his solidarity with Cristina Fernández, who is facing a court case for corruption, where a 12-year prison sentence is requested.…Read more >>
Source: eldinamo.cl
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Latin America and the Caribbean is the region to which the security and prosperity of the United States is most directly linked through geographic, commercial, and family ties. It is experiencing a “perfect storm” without historical precedent, with reinforcing economic, criminal, and political stresses, eroding its institutions and economic prospects, radicalizing its people, and undermining its commitment to democracy and the rule of law. …This article is derived from a presentation by Dr. Ellis on the same topic at the “Quo Vadis Latin America” conference by the Inter-American Institute of Democracy, in Miami, Florida, on August 17, 2022.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The Castro dictatorship politicizes everything that happens in Cuba, as reflected in a headline in the Granma newspaper, corresponding to the day the regime officially declared the extinction of the fire at the Supertanker base in Matanzas, a devastating human and material tragedy, which adds to the daily vicissitudes of the insular citizen, a particularly painful regret.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Between April 27 and 30, 1992, in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the X International Conference for Drug Control (IDEC) was held. The event was important for Bolivia, since a year earlier the country had managed to enter the Alternative Development program.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
This is how we perceive it on our TV and computer screens when we see the images of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner parade, responding haughtily to the accusation of prosecutor Luciani of being involved in aggravated corruption. According to her, she is being stoned because she chose to make history. And reason is not lacking. Argentina exhibited in the year of 1999 at 6% of poverty. Today, after 15 years of Kirchner government, it exhibits 20%.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The faith of millions of Roman Catholics makes this Spiritual Leader the supreme power over those who were ordained and those who are loyal to the Pontiff and he is the Absolute Monarch of the Vatican. The Pope is involved in politics because he governs over public matters of global reach and in that context, his relations, actions, and omissions with the dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua make Francisco “the Pope of the 21st Century Socialism dictatorships .”…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The title of this text reflects the analytical framework of the debate organized by the Interamerican Institute for Democracy in Miami: Quo vadis, where is Latin America going? A good part of the answer to that question requires first understanding where we came from. And so the organizers raised it based on four themes. This is the first of four exercises motivated by the agenda of said meeting.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Mexico – Opinion
In Mexico, a capricious and authoritarian centralist regime is consolidating, determined to destroy the advances of the now defunct transition process and consolidate a long-term quasi-dictatorship, where lives and property are subject to the more or less generous whim of the president and his party. …More than four years after their defeat in the 2018 elections, the opposition parties continue without acknowledging receipt, without understanding why people reject them, without correcting their mistakes and, worse still, without developing competitive leadership…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Nicaragua
The priests of the Diocese of Estelí in Nicaragua called on the authorities of the dictatorial regime of Daniel Ortega to convert, to allow them to work in peace, and to release their apostolic administrator and bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, who is being held under house arrest.…Read more >>
Source: catholicnewsagency.com
The National Assembly (Parliament) of Nicaragua, with an official majority, canceled this Wednesday the legal status of another 100 NGOs, bringing the total number of organizations of this type outlawed to 1,468 after the popular revolt of April 2018, described as a coup attempt. State by the regime of dictator Daniel Ortega.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The arrest of the bishop of Matagalpa is the latest episode in a growing persecution in the Central American country, which has intensified especially since May, but which began much earlier. “Starting with the social protests of 2018, Daniel Ortega practically declared war on the Catholic Church,” Marling Balmaceda, press officer for Article 66, a reference newspaper for opposition Nicaraguans, told El Debate…Read more >>
Source: eldebate.com
After the allegations of persecution against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua by the Government of Daniel Ortega were revealed, there have also been cases of priests arrested in that country while pastoral work is interrupted.…Read more >>
Source: wradio.com.co
