Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 10/4/2022
Analysis
Venezuelan security forces detain brothers, parents, children or relatives of political prisoners, as a measure of pressure so that they surrender from exile or confess responsibilities. This method of pressure used in the Third Reich by the Nazis was recorded in reports from the UN Mission…Read more >>
Source: elpitazo.net
The contingency unit of the Venezuelan embassy in Bolivia participated in a police operation that included the torture and murder of three citizens in 2009, reveals an IACHR report on these events. The report has fallen like a bomb in the party of Evo Morales, who must be put on trial for having ordered that operation that ended with the death of Eduardo Rózsa Flores, Arpad Magyaroisi and Michael Dwyer at the Las Américas hotel in Santa Cruz…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Argentina
“If they bother, let us know and we kill them all (…) we commit genocide.” The message, disturbing and terrifying, appears on the phone of the pilot Gholamreza Ghasemi, head of the Emtrasur flight to Buenos Aires and one of the five crew members summoned for investigation by the Argentine Justice. The author of the threat is not Ghasemi but another Iranian pilot who participated in the trip to Paraguay in May of this year. The conversation, to which Infobae had access, occurred on Sunday, June 12, a few hours before the raid on the Canning hotel where all the phones were seized…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
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
The US State Department validated the report of the Organization of American States (OAS) on the 2019 elections in Bolivia, in which it detected “serious irregularities” that made it impossible to validate the results of those elections.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Chile
On his second trip to Santiago since Gabriel Boric was in power, the leader of Podemos assured that “Chile is the great political laboratory for the left”… The terrible relationship and perception that the former second vice president of the Spanish government, Pablo Iglesias , keeps the media trying to import it into Chile during the government of Gabriel Boric to promote another front in its absurd “ideological battle” against the press on southern soil.…Read more >>
Source: panampost.com
Cuba
Demonstrators and government officials argue during a protest calling for power to be restored after six days of blackouts due to the devastation of Hurricane Ian in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, October 1, 2022. …Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) asked the Cuban government this Saturday to respect the right to peaceful protest of the island’s citizens. That entity received reports of the most recent protests throughout Cuba, mostly caused by the blackouts, and launched a criticism of the repression.…Read more >>
Source: cibercuba.com
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requested an in-person visit to Cuba this Friday in order to review the situation of the Ladies in White collective, to whom the agency had granted precautionary measures almost ten years ago. As explained by the IACHR in a resolution, the regime has not provided a response that “allows to indicate that it has been adopting measures to protect the rights” of the members of the group.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Shouting “Libertad, Libertad” the Cubans blocked some streets and municipalities in the capital to demand that Internet service and electricity be restored and pushed back the political police of the regime…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
With the ascent of Gustavo Petro to Colombia’s presidency, 21st Century Socialism has reinstated the campaign “to end the war on drugs” previously pushed in the past by narco-States, political leaders identified as having ties to narcotics’ trafficking, and politicians who are suspected to have been financed by such activity. In 21st century’s Latin America, narcotics’ trafficking has penetrated into politics and from the power gained it pretends to decriminalize its criminal activities. The real problem is narcotics’ trafficking penetration into politics and governments, the problem is not the war on drugs.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Although the leadership of the Revolution tried to give the insurrectionary triumph a certain religious and humanistic aspect, very soon the belief in another superior being became the most feared enemy of the triumphant insurrection, along with the proclaimed humanism as green as palms. Fidel Castro attacked religions in Cuba with ferocity, just as he did against homosexuals. He anointed himself as the paradigm to follow, he could not allow another religion that was not embodied in his person because, after all, Castroism is a form of mystical fundamentalism.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Third-generation gangs are the social phenomenon that mark the history of Ibero-America in the last decade of the 20th century and the first two of the 21st. These new actors of transnational crime, using some variant of populist discourse, took power in Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Nicaragua and Bolivia, although Fidel Castro had already managed to do the same in 1959…In the early hours of April 16, 2009, an elite commando of the Bolivian Police entered the Hotel Las Américas in the City of Santa Cruz. According to the first accounts, the policemen faced a terrorist group equipped with military weapons and explosives, the same ones that would have been used against the uniformed men.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Mexico
The Mexican government or military has allegedly continued to use spyware designed to hack cell phones to monitor activists and journalists, despite President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s promise to end such practices.…Read more >>
Source: dallasnews.com
Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan Prosecutor’s Office accused 13 people linked to the opposition, including two citizens of dual Nicaraguan and French nationality, for the crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and/or spread false news to the detriment of the Nicaraguan State and society. , reported this Monday the Judiciary.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Journalist Miguel Mendoza was sentenced to nine years in prison for his critical messages to the Sandinista regime on Twitter and Facebook. He is in solitary confinement. He is in a maximum security prison and his eleven requests to the Justice to allow a visit from his eight-year-old daughter were not answered…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The European Union (EU) denounced Nicaragua’s “unjustified” decision to expel its ambassador and to break relations with the Netherlands, and assured that it will respond “firmly and proportionately” to these “hostile” actions, said Sunday the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Venezuela
The United Nations Independent International Mission on Venezuela presented strong evidence of the systematic plan to persecute, imprison and torture opponents. The report is devastating and exposes those who remain silent in the face of the brutality of the Chavista regime…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
“Venezuela’s pains under the government of Nicolás Maduro and his mentor Hugo Chávez are plain for all to see: years of severe economic decline, breakdown of democracy, and an epic exodus out of the country. Now come the details of how Maduro has personally directed the brutal security services to silence dissent.” Thus, forcefully, begins The Washington Post’s September 29 editorial, showing how Nicolás Maduro has personally directed the brutal security services to silence the opposition.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
A landmark UN report on human rights abuses in Venezuela?s lawless mining arc has found evidence of widespread sex trafficking and violence against vulnerable women and children in the region. Many victims are lured to the mines with promises of work, and then pressured or forced into sex work.…Read more >>
Source: theguardian.com
“The unfinished works have served for the diversion and waste of public funds,” concludes Transparencia in its document, specifying that the equivalent of 316,000 million dollars was used in 153 of them. The figure is seven times the South American country’s estimated Gross Domestic Product last year, he notes, citing figures from private firms.…Read more >>
Source: vozdeamerica.com
