Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 5/24/2022
Bolivia
The national leadership of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), which is chaired by former President Evo Morales, issued an instruction in which even ministers and other authorities enroll in the courses taught by the recently created Plurinational School for Political and Ideological Strengthening. of that match.…Read more >>
Source: paginasiete.bo
Colombia
The spokesperson for the PP+Ciudadanos group in the Basque Parliament, Carmelo Barrio Baroja, will attend the first round to be held next Sunday in Colombia as an international observer, together with communists, socialists and separatists.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Cuba
At the beginning of 2020, the United Nations Organization (UN), through a letter sent by the special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Urmila Bhoola, and the rapporteur on human trafficking, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, described the work of Cuban doctors abroad of «forced labor»…According to the rapporteurs of the United Nations Organization, the majority of doctors who work abroad are exposed to «exploitative working and living conditions , and inadequate salary payments”…The regime withholds a significant percentage of the salary that countries pay for Cuban professionals. In countries where the government pays the Cuban worker directly, he must return to Cuba a percentage of his salary that would increase to 75 percent or up to 90 percent of his monthly salary.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
This is the former ambassador of Rafael Correa in Russia, Patricio Alberto Chávez Zavala. He created a commercial structure that generated an unprecedented dependence on Russia and that has now caused the fruit sector to suffer millions in losses.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Although the alliance that Russia forged with Rafael Correa during the decade of his mandate had different edges, one of the main axes was cooperation in intelligence, espionage and cyber hacking. In this context, the training of agents and police officers in Russia took place, as well as the support of hackers and Russian media for correism, in its disinformation and propaganda operations, especially since 2019. Correa’s closeness with Putin was reflected after left the government, when he was employed by the RT channel, part of the Russian official media, to maintain an interview program. The personal life of Andrés Arauz, a former presidential candidate anointed by Correa, is marked by his childhood in Russia, since his father worked for several years in that country. …Read more >>
Source: codigovidrio.com
Human Rights
MIAMI.- The organizations Outreach Aid to the Americas (OAA), Prisoners Defenders (PD) and the Free Cuban Medical Association (GMCL) announced in Miami the presentation of a collective request to the United Nations to “immediately abolish” human smuggling, torture psychological and physical crimes committed by the Cuban regime against Cuban doctors, relatives and their minor children. Complaints indicate that members of these ‘missions’ are subject to withholding of their salaries and the confiscation of passports and university degrees. Additionally, they suffer harassment, sexual abuse and endless «despicable» situations that systematically violate their most basic human rights.…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
The Constituent Assembly is the mechanism that the 21st Century Socialism or Castrochavism, uses to wreck the democratic institutionalism in America’s countries and to impose its strategy to install the “Plurinational State” acknowledging the existence of several nations within the one same State and fractioning the “ nation” to destroy its identity and national unity. The concept of Plurinational State is a freakish Castrochavist creation through which it installs divisiveness and permanent confrontation to destroy the nation.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Latin America
Five Democratic and Republican senators from the United States presented this Thursday a bill to «protect» democracy in the American continent, amid controversy over the probable exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas, which will be held in Los Angeles.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Analyzing public information provided by Twitter, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) concluded that Russia is the main promoter of disinformation. Iran, China and Venezuela also feature prominently in the study. The results of the investigation were published in the report Understanding Global Disinformation and Information Operations, published on March 30, 2022…As for Venezuela, a document published by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, of the University of Stanford of the US, by December 2021, what Twitter was describing as politically motivated spam-like operations in support of the Venezuelan regime was drawing attention.…Read more >>
Source: dialogo-americas.com
Nicaragua
The Daniel Ortega regime ordered the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference (CEN) to close its television channel, one day after Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez denounced that he is suffering “persecution” from the government and that he will fast indefinitely in protest. …Read more >>
Source: aciprensa.com
Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who began an «indefinite fast» in protest at a «police siege» against him, denounced that the government of Daniel Ortega intends to «squelch the voice of the Church» against injustices, they reported this Saturday ( 05.21.2022) local media.…Read more >>
Source: dw.com
A critical Nicaraguan bishop of President Daniel Ortega»s government began a hunger strike on Friday after taking refuge in a Catholic church indefinitely in the capital Managua, alleging he had been targeted by the police. Rolando Alvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa and Esteli in the north of the country, said that a police car followed him throughout the day Thursday as other religious order members in his parishes are being harassed.…Read more >>
Source: reuters.com
Ortega has already been in office for five terms and together with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, today governs a police state in which the main public policy is systematic repression. On November 7, 2021, they won a rigged election, after the government jailed seven opposition candidates. On January 10, the former guerrilla assumed his fourth consecutive term in an act where almost no foreign government sent representation.…Read more >>
Source: washingtonpost.com
Paraguay
Paraguayan politician Efraín Alegre publicly denounces the State’s complicity with organized crime in his country. He laughs wryly when he is reminded that the government claims to be at war against the mafia and states that the entire country is contaminated by violence. «There is not a single department of Paraguay free of organized crime,» he tells Infobae almost resigned. The president of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party denounces that the mafias control the main state institutions such as Congress, Justice and the police. “The police guard drug traffickers on their rounds to make collections…”, he is indignant and adds: “The State is an accomplice of organized crime and that is our great tragedy”.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
Iran is one of the main allies of the Government of Nicolás Maduro and their ties became even closer during 2020, when there was a severe shortage of gasoline in Venezuela and the Executive of the Caribbean country went to the Persian nation to buy fuel. Along with Turkey and Russia, Iran is also one of the nations that has offered the most diplomatic support to President Maduro. Last December, former Venezuelan Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia assured that the consolidation of the «strategic alliance» of cooperation that he maintains with Iran in air, trade, food and technology is important for Venezuela.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
