Inter-American Watch
lunes 26/09/2022
Analysis
SEMANA consulted with security and drug experts about the comparison made by the president. Everyone agrees that she was unlucky. “It is nonsense to make that comparison,” said Daniel Mejía, an expert in security and drugs, and a professor at the Universidad de los Andes. Regarding the call to change the focus of the fight against drugs, the economist Hernando Zuleta, an expert in drug policy, said that it is not a new debate. “It’s no different from what other leaders have done before,” he added.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
The presence of China in the last 10 years has grown exponentially in Latin America and for some countries it has represented a notable opportunity to diversify markets and give them more export power. However, for other countries such as Bolivia and Ecuador, and of course Venezuela, involvement with China has left a legacy of massive debt and losses of tens of billions of dollars. The relationship of these countries with China ended up favoring corrupt and abusive elites who ended up bringing these countries to their knees before China. In Central America, the Chinese presence could be more of an issue that exacerbates abuses of power, corruption, and anti-American narrative and less of an option that creates prosperity.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Drug trafficking can exist for purposes other than profit. That is especially true when we consider Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution that from the outset was dedicated to the development and deployment of illicit drugs for purposes of asymmetric warfare against the United States. 3 Years of training in counterintelligence by Cuba, Russia, Iran, and China, gives members of the Maduro regime advanced ability to connect illicit drug networks to regime defectors and use deception in many of their operations to penetrate adversarial governments, namely in Colombia and the United States.…Read more >>
Source: securefreesociety.org
Bolivia
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) determined, in a substantive report to which this media had access, that in the Las Américas hotel there were extrajudicial executions and torture ordered by the Government against five members of an alleged armed group, and To avoid an international trial, he urged that those responsible be prosecuted and punished within Bolivian territory.…Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
Cuba
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch demanded this Friday, September 23, that the rights of the political prisoners and sisters María Cristina and Angélica Garrido Rodríguez, unjustly imprisoned for their participation in the peaceful protests of 11J 2021, be respected. …Read more >>
Source: cubanosporelmundo.com
Ecuador
Since the Ecuadorian government confirmed the femicide of María Belén Bernal Otavalo, who had been missing since September 11, the chants and proclamations demanding truth, justice and reparation from the State have not ceased. The unexpected disappearance and then the terrible murder have shocked Ecuadorian society and have put the National Police and government authorities against the wall.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
An Ecuadorian prosecutor who was investigating cases of violence in the country was shot dead on Monday in the middle of the street in Guayaquil. Édgar Escobar, 43, “was shot this morning in front of the La Merced building of the Prosecutor’s Office” in the southwestern Ecuadorian city, reported the state institution.…Read more >>
Source: bbc.com
El Salvador
It was back in 2012 when, hand in hand with a former guerrilla commander with pockets full of Venezuelan petrodollars and after a political operator accused of links to drug trafficking, Bukele began to build his character.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Everything seems to indicate that the referendums in the Donestsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia territories are the beginning of the Russian attempt to divide Ukraine. In the first two there are self-declared “autonomous republics” since 2014 and not recognized by anyone else, in Zaporizhia there is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and Kherson (or Kherson) is an important city-port of the Black Sea, and as well as The annexation of Crimea has not been recognized, nor does it seem that it will happen in this annexation.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
After a dignified and orderly monarchy of more than 70 years, the English queen chose to die at 96 years old. She did not want to risk herself to another interview like Oprah’s. Her son de ella will reign with the name of Charles III, but it will not be the same. Elizabeth II takes with her the affection and respect of most of her subjects.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
An opponent affirms that the Nicaraguan Police offered to free his family in exchange for his delivery. “The Ortega Murillo tyranny is the sum and summary of all the evils and they always surprise us,” says human rights defender…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Panama
A total of 134,178 migrants in transit to North America have arrived in Panama this year after crossing the Darién, the dangerous border jungle with Colombia, above the historical figure of 133,726 in 2021, the Government reported this Friday.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Regional Security
Venezuela has become a conduct for Russian Spanish-language propaganda in Latin America, according to a media watchdog that is releasing a new tool that seeks to dispel misinformation in the country and region.…Read more >>
Source: miamiherald.com
Chinese state-owned companies are involved in the construction of roughly 40 ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, according to the report. The Chinese military has already been running a space tracking station in Argentina.…Read more >>
Source: foxnews.com
As reported by OKDIARIO, Pablo Iglesias and his closest collaborators received “between 600,000 and 700,000 euros per year” from the dictatorship of Iran since 2013, according to a report from the Central Unit for Economic and Fiscal Crime (Udef) of the National Police to which he has had access to this newspaper… the Government of Iran injected 9.3 million euros into the Spanish subsidiary of Hispan TV through the company 360 Global Media over three years. The police report puts the contribution made by the Iranian government for the “operation, enhancement, publicity and maintenance of Podemos” at close to one million euros per year. The payments, accounted for since 2013, would have served to launch the public image of Pablo Iglesias and promote his party, Podemos…. Of the 9.3 million euros injected through this mechanism, 2 million euros would have gone to Pablo Iglesias, his two production companies (Con Mano Izquierda and Producciones La Barraca) and his closest circle of collaborators over the last three years, always according to the same document.…Read more >>
Source: okdiario.com
Venezuela
“The regime of Nicolás Maduro proposes that there be no room for any type of dissidence or opposition,” said the Argentine researcher, who also noted that the level of torture used by state agencies “is impressive”.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The first pattern that can be observed in the Mission’s reports is that of acts of violence committed against female relatives of detainees for political reasons. According to the Mission’s investigation, female relatives of detainees were threatened with sexual or other violence against women, including rape, subjected to improper body searches, and insulted for being wives or mothers of “criminals.” The documentation carried out shows that the attacks against female relatives also materialized during security operations.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana affirmed that there is a new drug trafficking route that connects South America with North Africa …Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Russia announced that it plans to install a GLONASS ground station for satellite navigation in Venezuela. The GLONASS system is analogous to the American GPS and the European Galileo. The Russian space agency Roscosmos notes that the deployment of the station is part of the agreement between Moscow and Caracas on cooperation in the exploitation and use of outer space, ratified in June 2022.…Read more >>
Source: dialogo-americas.com
A report by the Center for a Free and Secure Society reveals that the Cartel of the Suns, led by the regime of Nicolás Maduro, now controls 25% of the global cocaine trade thanks to the help of Cuba, Russia, Iran and China…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
According to Cristopher Figuera, Maduro himself decides who will be tortured, who will remain in detention, and who will be released..…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
