Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 8/30/2022
Analysis
The persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua by the Government of Daniel Ortega reached its peak last Friday (08.19.2022), when Bishop Rolando Álvarez, five priests and three lay people were arrested in the diocese of Matagalpa, in the North of the country. But in the face of this new act of repression, what has been the position of Latin American governments?…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
On June 9, 2022, the Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) government renewed the authorization for Russian military forces to operate in the country. In doing so, he reminded the United States and the hemisphere that the dictatorial regime of Daniel Ortega not only continues to abrogate the rights of his own people to democratic election, free expression, and other fundamental human rights, but also serves as an entry point for the projection of threats in the region by the United States’ extra-hemispheric rivals, such as Russia, Iran, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The ideological/political alignment of Pope Francis causes many doubts and warning signs for democracy in Latin America, with its notable attachment to the socialist dictatorships of the 21st century of Castro’s in Cuba, Maduro in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua,…Read more >>
Source: lahora.com.ec
Argentina
President Alberto Fernández was exposed and was involved in a controversy by expressing “the hope” that the prosecutor who is leading a corruption case against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner does not commit suicide. Prosecutor Alberto Nisman died of a gunshot wound in January 2015 on the eve of the hearing in which he was to present evidence against then-president Cristina Fernández, whom he had accused of conspiring with Iran to cover up his alleged involvement in the bomb that destroyed a Jewish community center in 1994.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Bolivia
After the theft of Evo Morales’s cell phone on Sunday, a deputy from the Movement for Socialism (MAS) clarified that the former Bolivian president’s phone does not have information related to drug trafficking… around 8:30 p.m. he reported the theft of the equipment, for what ordered the deployment of the police. The newspaper detailed that the national commander of the Police, Orlando Ponce, gave the instruction for intelligence agents, from the Department of Criminal Analysis and Intelligence (DACI) and all the units to carry out “a desperate search.” The mobilization was such that they forced agents who were on break to participate, according to officials on condition of anonymity who expressed their discomfort with the order.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
On Labor Day in May of this year, President Luis Arce celebrated a salary increase of 3% in the basic salary and 4% in the national minimum wage. This implies that the minimum wage for Bolivians rose from $310.92 to $323.27. The measure seems positive at first glance for the general population. However, in the country only 10% of the population has a formal job that complies with this measure. The rest of the population lives on informal jobs and lacks benefits such as health insurance or retirement savings.…Read more >>
Source: bloomberglinea.com
Once again, former Bolivian President Evo Morales attacked the Republican Senator from the United States, Marco Rubio, whom he accused of being the alleged perpetrator of the attack suffered this week by Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s security team.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Brazil
Bolsonaro also had words for the rest of the countries in the nation: “Look at where Argentina’s economy is going. The president of Argentina, before assuming the presidency, visited Lula in Curitiba, in prison, and Lula supported him in Argentina. Today, 40% of the Argentinean population is on the poverty line. Lula also supported the president of Chile, the same president who used to practice Arson in the subway. Where is our Chile going? Lula also supported Petro in Colombia. His measures by him: release of narcotics, release of prisoners, where is our Colombia heading? ”.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Colombia
It’s the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to the largest Drug Enforcement Administration office overseas. And for decades, it’s been a key partner in Washington’s never-ending “war on drugs.”…Read more >>
Source: washingtonpost.com
The philosopher Manuel Alberto Casanova, former comrade-in-arms of President Gustavo Petro in the dissolved M-19 guerrilla, will be the new director of intelligence in Colombia, the first in that position without ties to the military.…Read more >>
Source: eluniverso.com
Cuba
The organization in exile Cuban Democratic Directorate and opponents and activists on the island demanded this Monday from the Cuban dictatorship a life certificate for the opposition prisoner José Daniel Ferrer, of whom they have not heard, they said, for 47 days…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Autonomism was defeated by the independentism promoted by José Martí, but, as the most reliable historians recognize today, the best Cuban minds were autonomists: Rafael Montoro, Antonio Govín, José María Gálvez, Eduardo Dolz, Figueroa himself and a very long etcetera. Unfortunately, the experiment only lasted 20 years (from 1878 to 1898,) the same period that the “Liberal Autonomist Party” lasted, the first political entity that emerged in a totally independent Cuba……Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
For Bolivians, especially for those of us who maintain decency, it is very uncomfortable to be associated with Evo Morales and his falsehoods about him. It is very annoying to listen to any foreigner repeating the myths – among them, the economic “miracle” – of the first Bolivian “indigenous” government.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
On the 23rd the corojo is broken, a mambisa expression that meant the end of the truth between the insurgents and the Spanish hosts, who refused to leave the “always faithful island of Cuba”, a phrase that, over time, became synonymous that there is no possible conciliation when the victims of the abuses assume that they have no other alternative than to defeat their perpetrators.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Mexico
The specialist doctors that Cuba sent to Mexico are actually military, Javier Larrondo, president of Prisoners Defenders International, assured, because the dictatorship of Miguel Díaz-Canel fears that the real doctors will try to defect to the United States to request asylum… According to testimonies from dissident doctors, collected by Prisoners Defenders, the Cuban government does not send its real specialists to the brigades for fear of losing them and instead chooses general practitioners, who are usually dedicated to primary care on the island. He added that this new brigade is a cover to justify the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sending economic resources to the Castro regime.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Nicaragua
The newspaper’s board of directors denounces the “theft” of its facilities and warns: “They will not be able to against the values that sustain our work” …Read more >>
Source: elpais.com
Less than a week after abducting the bishop of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of Estelí, Rolando Álvarez, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua has silenced another Catholic radio station.…Read more >>
Source: catholicnewsagency.com
Property confiscations, a long-standing practice of Sandinismo, are prohibited by the Nicaraguan Constitution, but Daniel Ortega ignores the Law …Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
In Nicaragua they opened “El Chipote” in February 2019, these facilities have been known since then as a torture prison. Currently, the Nicaraguan government has several priests detained there.…Read more >>
Source: infocatolica.com
Peru
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the president’s sister-in-law risks a 23-year prison sentence. Meanwhile, the First Lady will have to appear before a court in which her prohibition to leave the country for three years could be ruled. The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, and his family faced a marathon of judicial hearings this Friday, after the prosecution’s accusations of directing a network of corruption that operated from the government palace itself.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
United States
Almost five million migrants have entered the United States illegally through the southern border in a period of 18 months, since President Joe Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021. It is an unprecedented number whose trend is increasing, due to to current policies, which would increase the number of people without legal status in the country, currently estimated at about 11 million. A real challenge for national security.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
In April 2017, an ambitious New York waitress announced her candidacy for the House of Representatives. Her name de ella was Alexandria Ocasio Cortéz, and her improbable run de ella began with another unlikely victory over Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th district. Since then, the story is already known: she became an icon of progressivism and socialism in the United States. Likewise, another version of AOC is approaching Congress directly from Florida.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil production, which fell 28% since last December after a fleeting increase in the last months of 2021, is increasingly moving away from the goal set by President Nicolás Maduro of pumping 2 million barrels per day (bpd). at the end of the year, which requires a 218% increase, compared to 629,000 bpd in July.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
A total of 69 economists, journalists, professors and other members of Venezuelan civil society demanded that the institutions run by the Nicolás Maduro regime publish updated figures on the country’s economic and social situation.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Reuters news agency published a report this Friday stating that China would have assigned to a state-owned company focused on defense, the shipment of millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil, despite the U.S. sanctions. The decision would be taken as part of an agreement to compensate the debt of billions of dollars that Nicolás Maduro’s regime has with Beijing.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
The “attacks and threats” against activists and human rights defenders, considered the organization, are “an element of the policy of repression implemented by the authorities under the command of Nicolás Maduro”, a reality “that has been worsening in recent years ”.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
