Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 01/11/2022
Analysis
The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) expanding engagement and presence in Latin America and the Caribbean has captured the attention of political and business leaders and the people of the region, as well as the United States. Although the PRC’s engagement and use of “soft power” has political, cultural, security and other dimensions, the attention that the PRC commands in the region is arguably driven primarily by the pace of China’s rise, and the lure of benefiting from China through engagement. and business. For Latin America and the Caribbean, the PRC’s rise has been most directly felt through the PRC’s increasing importance as a partner in trade, loans, and investment for the region over the past two decades. Since the acceptance of the PRC into the World Trade Organization in 2001, the PRC-Latin America trade has expanded 17-fold, from $18.5 billion in 2002, to $312 billion in 2020.1…Read more >>
Source: dialogo-americas.com
Bolivia
The Civic Committee of Bolivia again rejected the proposal of the Luis Arce government to set up technical tables to set the date on which the Census is held, so the strike will remain active on the eighth day of protests in Santa Cruz.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The sectors related to the Bolivian ruling party completed this Thursday the so-called «fence» to Santa Cruz, the largest region and the country’s economic engine, with blockades on all the routes that connect it with the rest of Bolivia, in an attempt to counteract the strike which has been held there for six days by the population census. The region woke up isolated from the rest of the country due to the blockades that those related to the Luis Arce government have installed on the four main highways to the other Bolivian regions and that also go to Brazil and Argentina.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The Sogima company, from the agricultural sector, was occupied by the “interculturalists”, in charge of expanding coca crops by order of Evo Morales, and now they accuse the businessmen of financing the Santa Cruz protest strike.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Brazil
Officials of Daniel Ortega, dictator of Nicaragua, were part of the special guests of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s Workers’ Party of Brazil (PT) at the closing of the leftist’s campaign in the second round of the presidential elections.…Read more >>
Source: articulo66.com
Cuba
At least five Cubans, including a minor, died this Saturday after the collision of a Cuban Border Guard vessel with a speedboat from Miami, in which more than twenty people were trying to leave the island. This was reported by the regime’s Ministry of the Interior in a note broadcast on Cuban television.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The Cuban press suffers from «constant repression», the «control of telecommunications» and is experiencing «the largest exodus in history», according to a report approved this Sunday during the 78th General Assembly of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA). The document denounces that the island’s journalists are the object of constant «harassment» and «threats» by a «repressive scaffolding against press freedom» by the Miguel Díaz Canel regime.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Esmeraldas, a province in northern Ecuador, has seen a sharp rise in homicides this year as the city becomes a major drug trafficking hotspot and the epicenter of an ongoing gang war. Over 325 people were murdered in Esmeraldas during the first eight months of 2022, more than double all the homicides recorded in 2021, Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio reported on October 21.…Read more >>
Source: insightcrime.org
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
It is true that it was requested by the Peruvian government itself and is among the least intrusive applications, but nothing alters the fact that it is manifestly surprising that an organization that has not been able to initiate processes of questioning and intervention in the face of dictatorships such as Venezuela or Nicaragua does so in Peru. , a country that has lived in a political crisis for years, that despite this lives in a democracy and there is no evidence that it is in danger. For the rest, the current crisis is related to accusations of corruption of the Attorney General’s Office, investigated and presented before Parliament itself.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
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t was an excess of discordant voices. I was really alarmed to hear the group of speakers from the International Foundation for Freedom (Fundación Internacional para la Libertad, FIL) that recently brought us together, under the worthy presidency of Mario Vargas Llosa, in Madrid. I think some of my liberal friends exaggerate. At least, my most pessimistic liberal friends.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Evo Morales squandered the gas rent on inefficient public companies, on weakening democratic institutions, on corrupting the consciences of prosecutors and judges to imprison his opponents, and on positioning his image of him as the «liberator» of the indigenous and humble people of the world . Morales was never interested in political management, his only motivation was to sustain his dictatorship at any cost. It is time to stop treating a simple group of thugs as statesmen.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
On August 28, the Nicaraguan political prisoners who remain in the prison known as El Chipote received their last visits from their relatives. On that occasion, a group of inmates told their relatives that they would begin a hunger strike in the prison to demand an end to isolation, that they be allowed to see their minor children, and that medical and prison conditions improve.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
At the beginning of the Sunday mass in the Santa Agatha church, in Miami, Florida, United States, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio Báez, remembered with “affection, pain and nostalgia” Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, unjustly detained by the Nicaraguan dictatorship since last August 5. «Monsignor Rolando is innocent and deserves to be released,» he said.…Read more >>
Source: laprensani.com
Peru
The Popular Renovation congressman, Jorge Montoya, warned that the Sao Paulo Forum, as well as other regimes, have been influencing the decisions of the Executive Branch, headed by President Pedro Castillo.…Read more >>
Source: expreso.com.pe
The latest survey by the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP), revealed that 62% of Peruvians disapprove of the government of the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, and only 28% approve of his administration.…Read more >>
Source: caretas.pe
In October, the president attacked the media up to three times and obstacles were placed on the coverage of a conference. The IAPA has designated the government as an “enemy of freedom of expression”.…Read more >>
Source: elcomercio.pe
Peru – Opinion
Peru is going through a very serious crisis of management and corruption, which has been developed within the executive itself from where, as the National Prosecutor’s Office has concluded, a criminal organization operates whose leader is allegedly President Castillo. We are witnessing the tantrum of the official Marxist-Leninist party Peru Libre, which brought this character to power and has no intention of retiring. In fact, they have not stopped infiltrating all State institutions, with the sole objective of establishing a Constituent Assembly as soon as possible with the intention of perpetuating themselves in power.…Read more >>
Source: libertaddigital.com
Spain
One of the protected witnesses that he testified in the open case against Podemos revealed that Juan Carlos Monedero received payments from Venezuela in 2017, two years after leaving the party leadership. The witness in question said that he channeled these funds between the months of June and July of that year and that they came from the sale of oil to Cuba on the black market.…Read more >>
Source: vozpopuli.com
Venezuela
Dozens of media outlets have been closed or blocked in Venezuela by the regime in the last year, while multiple risks remain for those who practice journalism in the country, according to a report approved this Sunday by the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) in its 78th General Assembly.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
