Inter-American Watch
tuesday 18/10/2022
Analysis
A large part of the problems that Arce Catacora faces in exercising power is explained by the difficulty in obtaining financing and thus trying to keep afloat the economic model that he designed and that Evo Morales imposed in Bolivia from the first day of May 2006, with the nationalization of Bolivian Fiscal Oil Deposits (YPFB).…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
The former ambassador of Costa Rica to the UN, Eduardo Ulibarri, assures that the “impunity” with which Ortega acts encourages governments that have different authoritarian tendencies or disrespect the rule of law, such as El Salvador or Guatemala. The arrests of opponents , the massive closure of the media and the attacks on the Catholic Church by the government of President Daniel Ortega are taking place “with total impunity,” according to observers consulted by the Voice of America.…Read more >>
Source: vozdeamerica.com
Bolivia
So far this year at least 29 people have been violently executed in the country. Of them, 23 were riddled by cell phones related to drug trafficking, in the rest the reason is unknown but the modus operandi is repeated. Of the registered cases, 16 occurred in Santa Cruz, seven in Cochabamba, five in Pando and one in El Alto.…Read more >>
Source: paginasiete.bo
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Opinion
For the dogmatic left and, often, for the not so dogmatic, the US is the origin of all the ills of Latin America. And, since “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, it is not surprising that the great “anti-imperialists” Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and El Salvador recently refrained at the UN from condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. …Read more >>
Source: dw.com
Cuba
The independent platform Proyecto Inventario reported almost 100 protests in Cuba against the regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel in the last two weeks.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Since the song “Patria y Vida” was released, the Cuban dictatorship has not concealed its fury. It is that the theme interpreted by artists such as Yotuel Romero, Descemer Bueno, Gente de Zona, Maikel Osorbo and El Funky, prompted Cubans to be encouraged as never before to protest against the Castro regime. This week, the authorities arrested a teacher and one of his students for having sung the hit.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Podemos ideologue Juan Carlos Monedero used Ecuador as a springboard to travel to Venezuela while, according to several protected witnesses, he was paid by Chavismo. This is stated in a secret case opened in the Quito Prosecutor’s Office, to which OKDIARIO has had exclusive access, in which the co-founder of the purple formation is being investigated together with several companies and individuals, such as the former Ecuadorian presidential candidate Andrés Arauz , for organized crime, unjustified private enrichment and illicit association. A team from OKDIARIO traveled last August to the capital of Ecuador, Quito, to carry out a complex investigation into the proceedings opened by the country’s attorney general, Diana Salazar , to the former candidate for president supported by Rafael Correa, Andrés Arauz to the Mexican consulting firm Neurona and its subsidiary in Ecuador Consultoría Neurona S.A. and to Monedero himself. A round trip of nearly 19,000 kilometers, lasting several weeks, during which this newspaper has had access to the key documents to unravel this matter, which are under lock and key in the Ecuadorian Public Ministry. In total, the case has 16 bodies –in Spain they are called volumes– with a total of 100 pages each.…Read more >>
Source: okdiario.com
Report Shows How These Construction Megaprojects Are Tainted By Lack Of Transparency, Corruption, Exorbitant Prices, And Structural Failures…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
United States
Adrián José Velásquez Figueroa, former bodyguard of Hugo Chávez, was extradited from Spain to South Florida to face charges related to money laundering and criminal organization in an alleged currency exchange fraud.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Human Rights
Several MEPs denounced in a letter made public this week, the exploitation of Cuban doctors sent to Italy thanks to an agreement between the island’s communist regime and the president of the Calabria region. In the document, politicians recalled the multiple reports from organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and various resolutions of the European Parliament, which “have denounced the violation of human rights and the work of doctors in the context of similar contracts. These institutions describe the Cuban “missions” or medical brigades as a scheme of labor exploitation and human trafficking. The letter is promoted by the Italian MEP Laura Ferrara, and her Spanish colleagues Jordi Cañas, Javier Nart and Leopoldo López Gil.…Read more >>
Source: adnamerica.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
As we know, on Saturday, October 8, two sections of the brand-new Kerch bridge linking Russia to the Crimean peninsula, were destroyed. Crimea was recently incorporated manu militari by Vladimir Putin. (Although – everything must be said – it found a certain support among the ethnic Russians that abound in that tortured region of the planet). What is not known is how they blew up the two sections of the bridge simultaneously. Was it a Ukrainian submarine? Was it a sabotage operation carried out by a truck transporting flammable material? There are eight detainees, presumably subjected to torture sessions, which will end up generating any type of answers induced by the butcher who acts as an interrogator.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Vladimir Putin usually receives the most important figures, including heads of state, at a “table” longer than the word “Vladimirovich, his middle name of him. He does it in “The Kremlin”, in the heart of Moscow, built by the “Rurik Dynasty, in principle, the founders of Russia. The current president was an intelligence officer in the KGB, where, as it is written, they harshly punished the regime’s protesters. A simile of Hitler’s Gestapo. He served as prime minister with Boris Yeltsin, who questions the exercise of power by the Communist Party and proposes that the economy be governed by the market.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
At the beginning of September 2003, the Single Central Union of Peasant Workers of Bolivia, following the orders of Felipe Quispe, kidnapped more than a thousand tourists in the La Paz town of Sorata. Although the subversives used all kinds of populist narratives to justify their actions, they were only crimes committed by third-generation gangs. The final goal of the rebels was not to protect the natural resources of the country, much less to defend the indigenous people, but rather to elevate the drug cartels to power. The defense of Bolivian gas was one of the stories championed by the terrorists. However, nineteen years after those tragic events, Bolivia has lost its status as a gas exporter in the region. reservations are in decline. In addition, several specialists announce that by 2030 Bolivia will be importing more than 70 percent of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, liquefied gas and natural gas. Even now, contradicting its own proposals since 2003, the government is prioritizing the sale of gas to the foreign market.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
Although Europe’s eyes are now on the war in Ukraine, the international community and Europe “must not forget Nicaragua,” human rights defender Bianca Jagger stressed in The DW Interview. She added that Daniel Ortega’s regime “has made arrangements with Russia to have more weapons or even make arrangements on nuclear issues.”…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
The Nicaraguan parliament approved this Thursday a law that requires prior authorization for all types of audiovisual production in the country and gives the regime the ability to prohibit the “development, public exhibition, commercialization of cinematographic and audiovisual products, as well as the confiscation of the same, in case it had been carried out”.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Peru
According to the testimony of the Effective Collaborator CE-03-2022, the head of state personally coordinated the delivery of money to the former secretary general of the Government Palace and would also have coordinated a possible political asylum in Venezuela for him and his nephews, Fray Vásquez and Gianmarco Castillo. …According to the same collaborator of the Prosecutor’s Office, shortly after Bruno Pacheco’s departure from office was made official, on November 23, 2021, the president offered him money so that he would not testify before the Public Ministry. …Read more >>
Source: gestion.pe
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office formally accused, through a constitutional complaint, President Pedro Castillo of leading a criminal organization within his government. According to the Attorney General of the Nation, Patricia Benavides, the investigation has revealed indications that Castillo is the head of a network responsible for the crimes of criminal organization, influence peddling and collusion.…Read more >>
Source: bbc.com
Venezuela
Between July and September, the country produced an average of 673,000 barrels per day, while between April and June it had pumped an average of 745,000 bpd, according to OPEC data…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The National Association of Journalists of Venezuela (CNPVEN) denounced this Saturday that the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro closed 34 radio stations in recent months. Through his account on the social network Twitter, he detailed the number of closures and the states where these abuses occurred.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
