Inter-American Watch
Thursday 9/29/2022
Analysis
The Sao Paulo Forum announced on its website a new interference in a democratic process. The organization announces that, starting this Monday, it has officially joined the presidential campaign of candidate Lula de Silva, with a day of international mobilization identified with the hashtag #LulaPresidente.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Argentina
Federal judge Julián Ercolini summoned 30 people linked to Daniel Muñoz, the former private secretary of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner who acquired assets for some 70 million dollars, as part of the money laundering case linked to the case file to give an investigative statement. of the notebooks of bribery that is still in the first instance.…Read more >>
Source: lanacion.com.ar
Bolivia
Evo Morales is once again implicated in accusations of human rights violations in Bolivia during his mandate (2006-2019). A forceful report prepared by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concluded that in 2009 the security forces that responded to the coca grower leader extrajudicially executed and tortured three foreigners and two Bolivians, who were accused at that time of alleged acts of terrorism. …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
On three occasions, legislators from the Citizen Community (CC) and We Believe facilitated decisions in favor of the interests of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS). Experts point out that these actions gave way to measures that were «to the detriment of the people».…Read more >>
Source: paginasiete.bo
What we Bolivians already knew was now said by the authoritative, strong, institutional and international voice of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the United Nations system: In 2009 at the Hotel Las Américas there were extrajudicial executions and torture ordered by the Government of that time, that is, Evo Morales, against five members of an alleged armed group.…Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
Brazil
The Brazilian Federal Police and the Rio de Janeiro Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the presence of at least eight candidates for Sunday’s elections made up of people related to organized crime and they suspect that they can start with an advantage by having free access to areas of the state carioca under the control of these groups, as well as by the economic power related to their activities.…Read more >>
Source: grupormultimedio.com
Chile
CHILE is on alert after a massive hacking of the armed forces’ servers in an operation in which around 400,000 e-mails were stolen from the security agency…Some of the leaked emails indicate that the Chilean left would have orchestrated the social outburst and demonstrations of 2019. Other emails also point to the involvement of the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez, with several actors of the Chilean left-wing parties.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Ecuador
The Ministry of the Interior and the National Police have registered 145 attacks with explosives in Ecuador between January and August of this year, a record in the country’s history. 72 of them, almost half, have occurred in Guayaquil.…Read more >>
Source: bbc.com
The Albanian mafia that operates in Ecuador recruits young people and children to become traffickers and hit men. Albanian gangsters, described as «cocaine export masters», are fighting with local gangs for routes to ship drugs to Europe, as revealed by a journalistic investigation by the British media outlet The Telegraph.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Haiti
The most influential employer institutions in Haiti assure that access to the North and South departments of that country is «impossible» due to the presence and attacks of armed gangs, violent protests and blockades of streets and highways.…Read more >>
Source: listindiario.com
Human Rights
The UN mission to Venezuela, which today presented its report on abuses in Venezuelan intelligence prisons, stressed to the EFE agency that if the Justice of that country does not investigate the leaders indicated by the document, that role could fall to instruments such as the International Criminal Court (ICC).…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
The deceased Olavo de Carvalho concluded that many of the Marxist theories were nothing more than fallacies and lies. For example, assuming that the class struggle is the builder of history has no basis in real life. Since people have more progress and better living conditions when they collaborate with each other. The class struggle would destroy everything, but they would not build anything.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
In a conference at the Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami, he was praised for «having received a dictatorship and handed over a democracy» to his successor (Guillermo Lasso), in the words of one of the event’s presenters. The conference, -reports Efe- organized by the Inter-American Institute for Democracy, dealt with how Moreno, once he came to power, deviated from the policy applied by his predecessor.…Read more >>
Source: eldebate.com
Lenin Moreno is pointed out by many as the person responsible for putting an end to the Socialism of the 21st Century that Rafael Correa led in Ecuador. He detaches himself from such an achievement, although he says that his administration put the country’s finances in order and revived democracy, returning to the division of powers and eliminating indefinite reelection. Which is no small thing…Moreno spoke in the city of Miami, in southern Florida, from the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, as the main speaker at the conference Transition and Defense of Democracy in Ecuador, organized by the Institute Inter-American for Democracy.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
I settled in the United States definitively at the beginning of the 90s, a decision that has allowed me to value the great contributions of this country to humanity, which, although far from perfect, is the nation that provides the most assistance to those in need . framework in which we Cubans have been particularly favored…They called this aristocracy of totalitarianism the “quedaditos”, they were characters who usually did not defend the dictatorship, nor did they attack it, they remained in the shadows to make the once despised greenback.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The excellent contribution of the Bolivian intellectual Dr. Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, with his remarkable presentation at the Forum “Chile after the rejection of the Constituent Assembly” held on September 14, 2022 at the headquarters of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy: Dr. Sánchez Barzaín advises “Chilean democracy must defend itself from a soft coup by the government and some parties by ignoring the resounding result of 4/9 and avoiding becoming a functional opposition as is the case in Venezuela. Castrochavis does not give up in Chile and does not respect art. 142 of CP….”…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
The «family dictatorship» of Ortega and Murillo keeps 190 political prisoners in jail and persecutes critics, journalists and Christians…» The Ortega-Murillo system has monopolized all the power of the State, all the institutions. Everything, everything , is monopolized by them». These are the words of one of the officials of the regime who has managed to leave the country leaving behind her life, her work and her family; the main reason why she has strongly asked us to maintain her anonymity. …Read more >>
Source: libertaddigital.com
The Public Ministry of Nicaragua accused the priest Óscar Danilo Benavidez Dávila, the fifth priest to be sued this month, without specifying the crime he is accused of, judicial sources reported this Monday.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada described this Tuesday as «fruitful» a meeting with a delegation from the Communist Party of China, which today concluded a three-day visit to the Central American country.…Read more >>
Source: swissinfo.ch
The dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, attacked this Wednesday against the Catholic Church, which he accused of not practicing democracy, and of being a «perfect dictatorship».…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
On Wednesday, the Nicaraguan dictatorship declared Bettina Muscheidt, ambassador of the European Union, personan non grata and ordered her expulsion from the Central American country…Last week at the United Nations Assembly, the European Union delegation demanded that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega that released all political prisoners. «The Nicaraguan authorities must end the repression, including the repression against political opponents, the clergy, the independent media, civil society and human rights defenders,» the EU said in its speech at the United Nations. .…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
After a journalistic report from the Centro Liber portal revealed that an unknown person accompanied the communist Pedro Castillo on an official trip on the presidential plane, all suspicions point to the fact that the mysterious crew member would have been Fray Vásquez Castillo, nephew of the Peruvian president and a fugitive from justice since March.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
United States
Members of the “Tren de Aragua,” a Venezuelan criminal organization that has expanded throughout Latin America, managed to enter the US across the border by changing their identity…The source, who gave the real names and showed photos to El American of the criminals on US land, said that the members of the criminal organization currently reside in Orlando, Florida, and one of them managed to acquire a vehicle with his fake ID and subsequently applied for Florida license plates.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
