Inter-American Watch
Thursday 10/6/2022
Analysis
“Chile represents a political paradigm for the left around the world,” the founder of Podemos said on Friday during his visit to the country. His interventions on internal politics are constant, which increased after the arrival of the FA in La Moneda. In his Twitter account he has more than 100 references to Chile in the last six months. “Pablo Iglesias is trying to gain space and the Broad Front needs someone to give them a new epic after the defeat in September,” explains UAI academic Fernando Wilson.…Read more >>
Source: ellibero.cl
Argentina
The Argentine Justice yesterday launched a criminal investigation against the dictator Daniel Ortega and other authorities of the Nicaraguan regime to determine if they committed crimes against humanity. Federal judge Ariel Lijo ordered to send an appeal to the Justice of that country to report if there are open cases investigating extrajudicial executions, illegal detentions, forced disappearance of people, or torture.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Bolivia
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concluded that the State of Bolivia is responsible for “serious violations of the rights” of three foreigners and two Bolivians who were accused in the country in a controversial case of alleged terrorism that dates back to 2009 and that it was closed in 2020.…Read more >>
Source: jornada.com.bo
A State Department report sent to the United States Congress accredits the “irregularities” detailed by the Organization of American States (OAE) and the European Union (EU) regarding the 2019 general elections in Bolivia.…Read more >>
Source: paginasiete.bo
Brazil – Opinion
The result of this Sunday in Brazil will have a clear impact on the political character of the Ibero-American continent. For this reason, now may be a good time to see Democracy in Danger, available on Netflix… The documentary is recommended for those who want to form their own opinion about the political context in Brazil. It is difficult to understand that someone who, like Lula, got involved in the most reprehensible political practices can now present himself as a savior. The political resurrection of Lula and his eventual electoral victory could confirm Petra Costa’s thesis. Indeed, Brazil could be a country without memory. A democracy founded on oblivion.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Chile
Chileans overwhelmingly rejected a progressive new constitution to replace their dictatorship-era statute, dealing a blow to Boric, who made clear the process to amend it would not end with Sunday’s vote…Citizen approval of Chile’s president , Gabriel Boric, fell to a scant 35 percent, while 59 percent of the population rejects the president’s management, according to the latest survey by Cadem.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Colombia
Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, overstepping his legal authority, has questioned the policy of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, in a thread on his Twitter account where he goes on a rampage against Colombia’s interest rate hikes.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
Cuba
Fourteen NGOs expressed this Wednesday their “concern about the growing climate of hostility, abuse and arbitrary arrests” in Cuba, which has lived several days with peaceful protests as a result of a widespread blackout resulting from the passage of Hurricane Ian…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
The authorities of Ecuador confirmed on Tuesday the death in a prison of the drug lord Leandro Norero, known as “El Patron” and who evaded Peruvian justice by faking his death during the pandemic, while the number of deaths during the riot in that prison rose to 16.…Read more >>
Source: telemundoutah.com
United States – Venezuela
US President Joe Biden announced this Saturday the release of seven US citizens imprisoned in Venezuela. The Americans have been released in exchange for two nephews of Cilia Flores, the wife of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, convicted of drug trafficking.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Human Rights
Authorities deliberately abuse “terrorism” and “extremism” laws to arbitrarily detain individuals for behavior such as having “patchy beards,” “too many children,” or “resisting… sports activities such as soccer.” Practicing Islam can also lead to punishment. Within China there are no courts or other forums that can hear appeals filed after suffering such abuses.…Read more >>
Source: elnacional.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
The inhabitants of Aomori were preparing for rest when the authorities sounded the alarm signal that should be collected in solid concrete buildings in case they were affected by a nuclear missile from North Korea. And even when the missile sank in the Pacific, the terrified population only regained calm a day later.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Every two years, on the second Tuesday of November, the 435 members of the United States House of Representatives are elected or re-elected, which is the one that delivers (and not the other way around) the resources for the functioning of the federal government and that can constitutionally accuse the president. Also, and in his role of him as spokesperson, the leader of the winning party is only surpassed by the president and vice president in terms of formal power.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
It is heard that languages are language mechanisms that help us to know ourselves as biological and symbolic beings, which means that it is a methodology fueled by dynamism and inventiveness. In the permanent struggle between one and the other, imagery feeds the “vocabulary”, with commendable ease and speed.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
Within the framework of the 52nd General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), the international community “must demonstrate” its democratic vocation by applying more pressure to the Nicaraguan dictatorship through disqualifying sanctions, said international analyst Carlos Sánchez Berzaín…Read more >>
Source: cafeconvoz.com
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CourtIDH) ordered this Tuesday the State of Nicaragua to release 45 people detained during the socio-political crisis that the country is going through and whom non-governmental organizations identify as political prisoners.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ortega’s government has stepped up its persecution of political opponents. Apparently no longer satisfied by driving them into exile, it is now pursuing their relatives criminally. Human rights organizations have accused the government of making relatives “hostages.” Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country in the crackdown that followed massive street protests in April 2018. Dozens of others have been arrested and given lengthy prison sentences.…Read more >>
Source: apnews.com
On July 6, the Nicaraguan dictatorship expelled the Missionaries of Charity from the country. The coverage of the event by the newspaper La Prensa was considered by the regime a “conspiracy against national sovereignty” and unleashed a hunt by journalists …Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
The government of Pedro Castillo strengthens its ties of friendship with the dictatorial regime of Cuba, and it is that just days ago, the questioned Minister of the Interior, Willy Huerta, met with the Cuban ambassador to Peru, Carlos Zamora, a well-known spy of the country Caribbean who has great interference in the Cuban Intelligence Directorate.…Read more >>
Source: panamericana.pe
Regional Security
“Illegal, unreported, and unregulated [IUU] fishing poses a potentially enduring threat to the security and well-being of the United States and its neighbors in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the August report IUU Fishing Crimes in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Center for Latin American & Latino Studies (CLALS) at American University in Washington, D,C., and investigative journalism organization InSight Crime, indicated…Hundreds of Chinese vessels operate in Latin America’s oceans year-round and have long been accused of plundering two main fishing grounds — the waters near Argentina in the South Atlantic and those near Chile, Peru, and Ecuador in the South Pacific, InSight Crime says. The number of Chinese vessels that plunder the waters off the coast of Latin America can be anywhere from 300 to more than 700, several international news media and organizations indicated.…Read more >>
Source: dialogo-americas.com
Venezuela
The well-known Venezuelan island of Margarita received 456 alleged Russian and Cuban tourists as an alleged plan by the Nicolás Maduro regime to promote tourism; however, sources assure that within that group there are also soldiers.…Read more >>
Source: elamerican.com
