Inter-American Watch
Thursday 9/22/2022
Analysis
DURING the electoral campaign, Gustavo Petro deceived the Colombian electorate, pretending to keep his distance from the Venezuelan regime. In February 2022, for example, the now president of Colombia asked Nicolás Maduro to “step aside” and even called him a coward for not embracing democracy.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
It is good news that two-thirds of Chile’s voters have rejected the new constitution proposed by a convention made up mostly of loonies. That result seems to have given hope to some who had begun to write off Latin America, a region that has placed the extreme populist Left at the top of numerous governments (not counting the outright dictatorships of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua).…Read more >>
Source: independent.org
Mexican drug cartels have extended their networks in Latin America. However, instead of having cells in other countries, they have opted for a more practical strategy: forge alliances with local groups. In this way, they gain invisibility and speed. In some cases, such as in Colombia and Venezuela, these alliances are more deeply rooted, the business is more delimited and even, according to the investigation by Grupo de Diarios América (GDA), reaches the security and government apparatus. The groups with which they are linked have names and surnames: from the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to the Clan del Golfo, through the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN). On Venezuelan soil, the league is with the so-called Cartel de los Soles.…Read more >>
Source: elcomercio.pe
Argentina
Alberto Fernández ratified the sovereignty of Argentina in the Malvinas Islands and demanded that Iran collaborate with the justice system to find those responsible for the attacks on the Israeli embassy and the AMIA…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Brazil
The specter of Lava Jato hangs over the Brazilian elections in October and resurrects as candidates several politicians who had been investigated or not definitively convicted, first of all former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The operation of the Brazilian Federal Police, triggered in 2014 by the discovery of a million-dollar bribery scheme involving the state oil company Petrobras and the construction company Odebrecht, uncovered the “Pandora’s box” of corruption in Brazil. The team of judges led by Sérgio Moro, from the Curitiba prosecutor’s office, uncovered bribes worth some 10 billion reais, in the largest anti-corruption operation in the country’s history.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Once again an Ecuadorian prosecutor was assassinated. The new victim has been identified as Edgar Escobar Zambrano, who was shot on the morning of September 19, outside the Guayas Provincial Prosecutor’s Office building, in downtown Guayaquil. Escobar, 43, worked in the Persons and Criminal Guarantees Unit and investigated cases related to violent deaths.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Haiti
Santo Domingo, DR There was an attack and robbery at an American school with a Christian profile. Yesterday, Monday, Haiti entered into a new day of protests and mobilizations against the government in the capital and neighboring districts. However, it is expected that they could quickly spread to the rest of the country, foreseeing a worsening climate of instability due to increased political and social tensions there. The protests are resuming after a week characterized by mobilizations, attacks, and looting, which gained momentum after the Prime Minister, Ariel Hery, announced on Thursday 18 an increase in fuel prices. In summary, vehicle fires, thefts from offices, blocking streets and highways, barricades, and burning of tires. A report by Alfred Michner of the Gazette Haiti News digital portal informs that this new […]…Read more >>
Source: dominicantoday.com
Human Rights
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, denounced this Tuesday before the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) the persecution of the religious in Nicaragua by the Daniel Ortega regime, whom he invited to take refuge in his country.…Read more >>
Source: panampost.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
There is no good answer about the origins of Jew-hatred, nor about its persistence. We only know that it is the oldest phobia in the world, and that it has been mutating with characteristics that are sometimes religious, others racial, others it is only the presence of Jews that bothers those who hate them.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The once venerable American integration bank became the epicenter of a very frequent controversy in these times when abuses are revealed, denounced and exposed but very rarely in the financial media. It so happens that apparently the current president of the IDB developed a close friendship with an employee, which is prohibited by the institution’s code of ethics, which requires the departure of one of the two protagonists and the disclosure of the matter to the human resources department .…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Cuba’s dictatorship has expanded in this 21st century establishing its system of State-terrorism and the institutionalized violation of human rights in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua. Twenty-century Castroism converted into Castrochavism, or 21st Century Socialism, now controls several Heads of State in democratic countries of the Americas, a situation corroborated by internal acts and those of foreign policy. The most recent evidence is Chile’s subordination -by direct actions of President Gabriel Boric- to the Castrochavist foreign policy against Israel.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The Catholic Church of Pope Francis is well characterized by the gift that the Bolivian satrap Evo Morales gave him back in 2015 of a crucifix set with a hammer and sickle, on the occasion of a papal visit to Bolivia, a gift that the Supreme Pontiff accepted with a complicit smile on his lips, expressing “I understand this work, for me it is not an offense.” The political harmony was thus more than evident, the friendship that unites them even today. It is the same ideological harmony that unites him with the satraps of our continent, be they Raúl Castro, Nicolás Maduro, the evil Ortega-Murillo duo, Cristina Kirchner, Lula da Silva, Gustavo Petro. . . and some unpresentable more of our political environment.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The Cuban writer, essayist and journalist Carlos Alberto Montaner, one of the most relevant critical voices in exile, received recognition this Tuesday in Miami (Florida, USA) for his defense of democracy and freedom, a tribute that the The author himself humorously described Efe as a “coven”. Montaner was very grateful to the Inter-American Institute for Democracy, to its executive director, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, and to Beatrice Rangel, the people who “planned” this tribute and award, although they did not request, ironically, their agreement.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
An intellectual contribution of high carats, the commitment to democracy in the Americas and honor always ahead define Carlos Alberto Montaner. The Cuban writer and journalist was honored during an event of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy (IID), on Tuesday, September 20, at the Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, in Miami.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Nicaragua
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega expelled the congregation of the Religious of the Cross of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, thus continuing its attacks against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.…Read more >>
Source: aciprensa.com
The repressive siege maintained by the Daniel Ortega regime against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua reached this time the Evangelical Church.…Read more >>
Source: 100noticias.com.ni
Regional Security
Vladimir Putin praised the new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, argued that that country could become an ally for Russia, and stressed that he wants to maintain a friendly relationship with his government.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
A Russian TV presenter, Vladimir Solovyov, proposed that his country create an international coalition to confront the Ukrainian offensive that is made up of the armies of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
The United States issued some warnings about China to Latin American countries and especially South America during the start of the South American Defense Conference “SOUTHDEC 2022” held for the first time in Quito with the presence of defense chiefs from 11 countries in the region…Read more >>
Source: cnnespanol.cnn.com
Venezuela
In its third annual report, to which Infobae had access, the Mission on Venezuela revealed that the torture perpetrated by the DGCIM and SEBIN were part of “an orchestrated plan” by the Chavista dictator “to repress dissent.” The working group also focused on human rights violations in the Orinoco Mining Arc region…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict, the decrease in purchasing power, the devaluation of the bolivar as the local currency, the high cost of food, medicine, products and services characterize the current context of the country… From January to August, 5,037 were counted. demonstrations, while in the first 8 months of 2021 the organization documented 4,630 street protests throughout the country.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
“The United Nations Human Rights Council must renew the mandate of its Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela,” said 125 national and international organizations working on Venezuela issues.…Read more >>
Source: radiotelevisionmarti.com
Heads of civilian and military intelligence services in Venezuela have committed crimes against humanity to repress the opposition, led by President Nicolás Maduro and his collaborators, the UN denounced.…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
