Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 9/13/2022
Argentina
The country ranked 161 out of 165, according to the index prepared by the Fraser Institute that measured the response of governments to the pandemic crisis; only beats Syria, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Venezuela…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Bolivia
Something very strange happens to Evo Morales, who every day blames Luis Arce – his pupil of his – for leading a corrupt government and has gone so far as to accuse him of extorting money from drug traffickers. The coca grower’s tantrum was triggered by the defeat of the socialist constitution in Chile, where he and his party had contributed so much in the 2019 riots and then in the drafting of the project that was rejected in the plebiscite.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
One of the two Bolivian planes that were hijacked with 440 kilos of cocaine in Paraguay was seized in 2021 and was in the possession of the National Council Against Illicit Drug Trafficking (Conaltid), because it was involved in other drug shipments to Brazil and Peru. since 2016, as denounced by the deputy of the Citizen Community (CC), Jairo Jesús Guiteras.…Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
“Hemispheric shame”, is how Secretary Luis Almagro described the hundreds of electoral irregularities found by OAS observers in the 2019 Bolivian elections, Bolivians certify this statement, and present thousands of evidence to support it.…Read more >>
Source: elorientalbo.com
Public debt reaches US$26,274 million and the balance for the second half of 2021 still needs to be added, plus what is contracted in 2022. Analysts are beginning to warn of signs of unsustainability…Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
Chile – Opinion
After the constitutional referendum, the challenge now is the governability of the country. For the president, it is not just about an electoral defeat, as it could be a mid-term election that produces a change in the Legislative. This is not uncommon in presidential systems—the much debated “divided government”—where, even so, governability is assured if the rules are clear to all.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Colombia
Gustavo Petro as president proposes “to end the failed war on drugs in the world and move to a policy of strong prevention of consumption in developed countries”…Read more >>
Source: eldebate.com
Cuba
OVER 177,000 Cubans have arrived by land in the U.S. and more than 5,000 by sea since October 2021 in a new migratory wave from the island to the North, which already exceeds that of the “Mariel Exodus” (1980) and is widening “the generational gap” on the island, experts say.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
The wife and other relatives of Cuban political prisoner Oscar Peña Rodríguez asked for help for the octogenarian, who suffers from skin cancer and is sentenced to six years in prison in Santiago de Cuba. Dulce María Perdomo, wife of the political prisoner, considers her sentence unfair and asked for international support so that her spouse does not die in prison, according to a video published by Ana Belkis Ferrer García on the Facebook account of her brother José Daniel, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU).…Read more >>
Source: cibercuba.com
A new episode of censorship took place this weekend in Cuba. A concert in Havana by popular Cuban singer Emilio Frías, director of the El Niño y la Verdad orchestra, was abruptly interrupted on Saturday night by regime security personnel.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Haiti
According to the local press, the reporters were part of a group of seven journalists who were working in the area when unknown individuals, after murdering them, set them on fire.…Read more >>
Source: ntn24.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Due to the lack of resources, the transmission has been reduced to 12 hours a day and it is unknown to what levels it will drop after a process called RIF has been implemented, which would drastically affect the already reduced staff of just over 60 people, in another 23.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Let’s go back for a moment to February 12, 2003. That day the National Police rioted in protest against a measure known as: The taxation. The taxation consisted of the elimination of the fiscal credit of the salary of the workers. At that time – until now it can be done – wage earners could present invoices for an amount equal to their tax obligations, and thus maintain the purchasing power of their salary. With this they avoided transferring part of their income to the State.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The crisis begins when a panel of experts modifies the public transport rate in Santiago, reducing the price of the ticket in some sections and raising it to $1 in other cases. 07.Encouraged by extremist agitators and social networks, thousands of citizens went out to protest for everything and against everything.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Manual to Sink a Country, assures Israel Mérida Martínez, is a chronological narration of the presidential succession of Jeanine Añez, who held the position of Vice President of the Senate Chamber when Evo Morales resigned from the presidency of Bolivia on November 12, 2019, after 21 days of civil resistance and the annulment of the presidential elections.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
“Latin American Matters”. Thomas Shanon in “Quo Vadis Latin America” Forum.…Read more >>
Source: youtu.be
Nicaragua
Relatives of more than 200 Nicaraguan opponents considered “political prisoners” called on the international community this Wednesday to be “more belligerent” in the defense of human rights in the country, and warned that the “impunity” of President Daniel Ortega could feed authoritarianism in America.…Read more >>
Source: swissinfo.ch
Peru
Peru’s foreign minister, Miguel Rodriguez, has resigned after just one month in office, the country’s foreign ministry said on Friday, after public clashes between the official and leftist president Pedro Castillo.…Read more >>
Source: reuters.com
22.2% of Peruvians approve of the management of the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, while 70.9% disapprove of his work as head of the Executive, thirteen months after assuming that position, according to the most recent CPI survey, which was presented exclusively by RPP Noticias.…Read more >>
Source: rpp.pe
Regional Security
Foro Madrid, Fundación Disenso and The Heritage Foundation held this Friday a conference on terrorism and freedom that included the participation of victims, relatives and representatives of victims of European and Latin American terrorism…According to MEP Hermann Tertsch, “a response by the democratic forces to the unprecedented challenge posed by the colossal network of drug trafficking and organized crime interests with the international communist movement, which have found their way of penetrating institutions throughout Ibero-America, Europe and also in the United States. The victims are the vault key of the discourse of freedom in the face of the left’s strategy of ignoring them as a path to impunity for their terrorist allies”.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Venezuela
A report by the NGO Clima21 indicated that, in the 2016-2020 period, forest cover suffered a decrease of 157,307 hectares, which is equivalent to more than three times the area of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
