Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 9/6/2022
Analysis
After the victory of the rejection this Sunday in the plebiscite on the text of the new political constitution of Chile, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, reacted through his Twitter account that “Pinochet revived”. This statement provoked criticism from various sectors, since it has remained silent in the case of Nicaragua and Venezuela.…Read more >>
Source: 100noticias.com.ni
The case of an oil tanker that hid its passage through Venezuela has caused investigators and officials to begin to detect the proliferation of a method that allows the transmission of false locations.…Read more >>
Source: nytimes.com
Argentina
Although it remains to be formally stated in the file, there does not seem to be any doubt about Fernando Sabag Montiel’s responsibility for the assassination attempt on Cristina Kirchner. They saw him shooting in the face of the Vice President, they saw him drop the weapon, Kirchnerist militants caught him a few meters away when he was trying to leave. What is not so clear is why he made that decision. And that is what Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and Prosecutor Carlos Rívolo, in charge of the investigation, are working on at this time; waiting for those answers to emerge from the analysis of the Samsung cell phone that was kidnapped, which still could not be opened because it was blocked. A disconcerting fact: the message “factory reset” appeared. …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
a former CIA agent spoke with Eduardo Feinmann and his team. This is Guillermo Cueto, who gave his point of view on the case: “I would rule out that the bullet missed. What went wrong is that Montiel didn’t load the gun. It strikes me because a person with the trajectory of this man who is not a saint, can forget to load or activate the pistol in order to carry out the assassination”…In this way, the former CIA agent He doubled the bet and added that it was a deliberate plan to raise the popularity of Cristina Kirchner: “It was to raise the awareness of the people in favor of sympathy towards Cristina and mitigate the charges quite a bit. The appearance that she has in October for the charges that are alleged against her. It was a setup, it was not an act of aggression but an appearance of aggression. A political montage with political motives.”…Read more >>
Source: radiomitre.cienradios.com
Chile
Foro Madrid, the international alliance promoted by the Disenso Foundation in defense of freedom and democracy in the Iberosphere, has warned of the dangers that a victory for “Approve” would entail in the Chilean constitutional plebiscite……Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
With almost 62% of the votes and 96% of the tables counted, the rejection was overwhelmingly imposed, which is a serious blow to the government of Gabriel Boric. Uncertainty is growing because there is no political agreement on how the reform process continues…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
“You have to be ignorant and ill-intentioned to say this nonsense. 13 million Chileans voted and the rejection obtained 62%. It is an offense to our homeland and civic culture, Mr. @petrogustavo. As the President of Colombia, he surely does not interpret his fellow citizens,” said Mariana Aylwin, who was Minister of Education during the government of President Ricardo Lagos and is a well-known figure on the center-left of that country.…Read more >>
Source: eltiempo.com
Chile spent the past two years writing a progressive new constitution, but the document was so soundly spurned by voters on Sunday that the result was clear less than two hours after the polls closed. Nearly 62% of Chileans rejected the draft Magna Carta that was designed to replace the current one written during the country’s military dictatorship while just 38% voted to accept it, according to official returns.…Read more >>
Source: npr.org
Colombia
At 2:30 in the afternoon of Friday, September 2, a massacre took place against agents of the National Police in the village of Corozal, district of San Luis, jurisdiction of the municipality of Neiva (Huila). The balance so far is seven officers killed by attacks with rifle bursts and explosives.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Colombia – Venezuela
Colombian crime took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to consolidate its dominance on the Venezuelan border, with the complicity of Venezuelan security forces. The guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN) along with other smaller criminal groups is taking advantage of the humanitarian emergency in Venezuela to venture into human trafficking and exploitation of minors along the border strip with Colombia. …Read more >>
Source: dialogo-americas.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was recently indicted on corruption charges. The prosecutor, Diego Luciani, charged her with being the head of an illegal association that benefited from kickbacks from the government’s public works contracts. The accused include Ms. Kirchner, cabinet members linked to public works operations, and an individual who served as a front man for Kirchner. The prosecution asked for a 12-year jail sentence for the vice president and a lifetime ban on holding public office…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91 years old. Not that bad. The life expectancy of Russians in 2019, just before the pandemic, was eight years less than the average of people in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). If you decide to be from Korea, a member country of the institution, I advise you to be born in the furiously capitalist south, and not in the gloriously socialist north. On average, you will live 12 more years (80.5 vs. 68.8) and will be three centimeters taller (168.6 vs. 165.6). But I want to write about Gorbachev, “Gorby” for his friends from him, which he did n’t have too many in Russia.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
A few days short of the Constitutional Polling in Chile, or the Exit Polling, it has been shown that this constituent process is a transnational strategy to attack the unity of the Nation, destroy the State, and confront Chilean peoples. Full proof corroborating this fact is the project to replace the constitution in a referendum election that will be voted on the 4th of September to supplant the “Chilean Nation” and replace it with a “plurinational State” of 11 nations, along with the disappearance of ; “equality before the law”, the human right to “private property” and notorious violations of freedom, all of these carbon copies of the texts with which the dictatorships oppress the peoples in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
A Nicaraguan delegation, which includes two of the sons of the country’s president, Daniel Ortega, and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are participating in the VII Russian Eastern Economic Forum, the Nicaraguan government reported on Monday…Read more >>
Source: articulo66.com
The recent public exhibition of 27 opponents imprisoned for more than a year showed that the government of Daniel Ortega applies “white torture” to “kill them slowly”, says a human rights defender.…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
Nearly 135,000 nationals of the Central American country crossed jungles and rivers to reach the United States in a period of 10 months, forced to seek other horizons due to repression and the economic crisis…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
NICARAGUAN Father Uriel Vallejos reported this Sunday that he left Nicaragua a month after police officers forced their way into the parish he directed and where he was held, in order of seizing the equipment of a radio station closed by the authorities.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Peru
They have not been easy weeks for President Pedro Castillo. In addition to the six investigations against him, his non-biological daughter and sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredes, is now serving 30 months in preventive detention. For his part, Congressman Héctor Ventura pointed to the president as the person responsible for the pain that his family is going through and for the difficult political and economic situation that the country is currently facing.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
THE VENEZUELAN regime expects the Biden administration to “get on track” in “a clearer way” the relationship with dictator Nicolás Maduro (after some rapprochement this year amid the energy crisis over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) after the mid-term elections in November. …Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
