Inter-American Watch
Friday 4/29/2022
Ecuador
Ecuador’s Minister of Defense resigned amid the scourge of drug trafficking
Ecuadorian Defense Minister Luis Hernández announced his resignation on Tuesday amid the onslaught of drug trafficking, which has led to high levels of crime and the worst prison massacres in the country.…Read more >>
Source: france24.com
National Court of Justice requests suspension and investigations of judges who gave “habeas corpus’ to Jorge Glas and the leader of Los Choneros
That judges Javier Moscoso Cedeño and Pedro Moreira Peña, who granted habeas corpus to former Vice President of the Republic Jorge Glas and Júnior Roldán, leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, respectively, be suspended and investigated, requested the president of the National Court of Justice (CNJ), Iván Saquicela.…Read more >>
Source: eluniverso.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Patricia Bullrich in an international Forum: “Peronism has little time left in the Government”
The president of the PRO participated in a Forum on political ideologies and democracy together with Luis Almagro and Álvaro Uribe. The former minister spoke about the political situation in Argentina. Criticism of Peronism for “impoverishing the country”…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Four years after the social outbreak, Nicaragua is hostage to Ortega
The Interamerican Institute for Democracy held a forum to commemorate that date in the city of Miami, with the purpose of helping to highlight the civil resistance of the people of Nicaragua against the Castro-Chavista dictatorship of that country, a regime that continues to carry out acts of terrorism of State, cruelty and violations of human rights and crimes against humanity, said Carlos Sánchez Berzain, director of that body.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Politicians, journalists and academics will participate in the forum “Right and Left in the 21st Century
The Interamerican Institute for Democracy (IID) and the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom are organizing the forum “Right and Left in the 21st Century″, which will take place next Tuesday, April 26, between 9:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. MARC building at Florida International University (FIU).…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Latin America
Latin America in a “pre-explosive” situation, democracy is not delivering, Latin Barometer
Latin America is going through a critical “pre-explosive” moment with traditional democracy in decadence, “one out of two Latin Americans want someone to solve their problems, even ignoring the law” The statement belongs to Marta Lagos, director of Latin Barometer, which regularly polls the political and social mood in the continent. Lagos was the main speaker at a conference in the House of the Americas, in Madrid, in which the subject was “A new social contract. Renewing democracy so nobody is left behind”…Read more >>
Source: en.mercopress.com
Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Ortega regime accuses former priest of treason crimes
The former priest was arrested last November after giving an interview to a local television channel, in which he analyzed Nicaragua’s decision to denounce the OAS Charter, the founding document of 1948, in which he requested his departure from that body. because he rejected the legitimacy of the elections in which Ortega was awarded re-election.…Read more >>
Source: elpais.com.uy
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega leaves the OAS and takes over its headquarters in Managua by force
The occupation of the central building of the organization was justified by Rosario Murillo by saying that the entre presented a “decadence” in its institutionality that was “reduced by the servitude to the yankee”…Read more >>
Source: lanacion.com.ar
Peru
Rubén Vargas: “The Government is encouraging the expansion of illegal coca and drug trafficking”
“What do you think will happen to the peasant in the high jungle of Peru if the government first tells him that we are going to legalize coca, that we are going to eradicate it and that Enaco is going to buy it from you? Well, that peasant is going to dedicate himself to cultivating coca, since there will be a double market that ensures the purchase of that product, one for drug trafficking and another for the Executive. Why would the peasant grow something else and not the coca leaf?”.…Read more >>
Source: titulares.ar
Constituent Assembly | Pedro Castillo breaks his commitments and sends to Congress a bill for a referendum
Despite the fact that in May 2021 he signed the citizen’s proclamation in which he promised that any change -including the Constitution- would be made through the current constitutional mechanisms. Castillo presented a bill for a referendum with a view to changing the Constitution.…Read more >>
Source: gestion.pe
