Inter-American Watch
Tuesday 7/5/2022
Analysis
For the first time in more than a decade, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) renewed its strategic concept, a document that sets out the direction that will guide the transatlantic alliance in the future. The renovation, which Bloomberg Opinion columnist and professor Hal Brands called the most significant in a generation, came after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and at a time when China is gaining more influence in regions such as Latin America and Asia. Pacific.…Read more >>
Source: bloomberglinea.com
Since the end of the last century, Latin America has been a prominent area in which Iran has sought to expand its influence and scope of action. From drug smuggling to money laundering, from fundraising to recruitment and proselytism, even terrorist attacks, Iran-related activities in Latin America have been in motion from the Bolivarian Venezuela in the north to Argentina in the south, from the Chile in the west to Brazil in the east.…Read more >>
Source: ict.org.il
Argentina
Argentina’s peso fell and stock prices dipped Monday after left-leaning Silvina Batakis was named economy minister following the surprise resignation of her more moderate predecessor over the weekend as the country struggles with economic woes.…Read more >>
Source: abcnews.go.com
A court in Argentina installed a work table in conjunction with the main federal agency of the United States, the FBI, to analyze the electronic elements and the documentation seized in the case in which alleged irregularities are being investigated around the arrival of the Venezuelan firm’s plane. Emtrasur to that country on June 6.…Read more >>
Source: elcooperante.com
Bolivia
For the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, the invasion of their territories, known as subjugation, is a latent threat that seems to have no end. Tomás Candia Yusupi, a Chiquitano indigenous leader, assures that the State has conveniently distributed lands that are indigenous property to people allied with the government in power, in order to continue with the exploitation of natural resources without opposition.…Read more >>
Source: es.mongabay.com
Before leaving the country, González was held for an hour in an airport room for criminals, without being able to make calls, in what he has described as “a habitual practice of intimidation” against those who denounce the situation of the Bolivian opposition.…Read more >>
Source: tv.libertaddigital.com
Bolivian opponents have asked Bolivia’s electoral body to investigate a complaint that the ruling party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), allegedly received money from a drug trafficker between 2014 and 2017.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The MAS legislator Froilán Mamani was captured on Friday night and the forensic doctor determined eight days of incapacity for the victim. The Bolivian deputy of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) Froilán Mamani was arrested on Friday night for punching his advisor 39 years old, but, after his capture, he claimed not to remember what happened, the Police reported this Saturday.…Read more >>
Source: ellitoral.com
Colombia
The election of Gustavo Petro as the next president of Colombia has generated more uncertainties than certainties, being the first time that a leftist vision reaches the maximum position in the country. The victory has generated special anxiety due to the transformation that the Public Force may have during the incoming administration.…Read more >>
Source: semana.com
Little and nothing liked President Iván Duque the rumor that Nicolás Maduro could attend the inauguration of his successor, Gustavo Petro. In a recent interview, the current president announced that as long as he is in power he will not allow the head of the Venezuelan regime to enter Colombia.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Cuba
The death of General Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja is, in the architecture of Castroism, a much greater collapse than that of the Saratoga Hotel. The strong man of neo-Castroism, the architect of corporate and authoritarian capitalism, who was in charge of building luxury hotels in Cuba while the population dies without medication and medical neglect, no longer has any future.…Read more >>
Source: diariodecuba.com
Yosvany Batista, father of Zinadine Zidan Batista Álvarez, the 17-year-old minor who died on Friday in Santa Clara after being shot by the Police, demanded justice and denied the official version of what happened, released by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT). .…Read more >>
Source: diariolasamericas.com
Ecuador
The Venezuelan cargo plane with an Iranian crew that remains stranded at the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires continues to add concern to the governments of the continent. Now it is the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Juan Carlos Holguín, who revealed to Infobae that some of the crew members also passed through his country before and his government is conducting an investigation to find out what they did there…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The members of the Sao Paulo Forum, the Puebla Group and the Progressive International have used all forms of violence to force a change of government in Ecuador; such as sending false Human Rights (HR) missions to overthrow the Lasso Executive.…Read more >>
Source: gaceta.es
Human Rights
Alberto Fernández gave a television interview in which he assured that “there are no more” complaints about human rights violations in Venezuela. This provoked the almost immediate response of Human Rights Watch (HRW), from where they repudiated his statements and, in counterpoint, warned about the serious situation that the country governed by Nicolás Maduro is going through… However, for Tamara Taraciuk, director of HRW For the Americas, the reality that the Venezuelan people are experiencing is completely opposite to that described by the president, and he made it known through his Twitter account. “President Fernández today said that the complaints of human rights violations in Venezuela “no longer exist”. This morning in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet presented her report on Vzla and described a bleak picture. Ignorance or selectivity? ”, Says Taraciuk’s tweet, who also shared the words that the former Chilean president exposed yesterday during the presentation of her report regarding the repeated complaints about human rights violations in the Caribbean country.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Post-democracy attacks one of the greatest riches of traditional democracy, which is the peaceful resolution of the natural conflicts of any society through the search for consensus and agreements, since here it falls into self-censorship and mono discourse, from the moment that many fear cancellation due to its effects on the personal and professional lives of those who are “cancelled” by mobs on social networks, including many comedians, since, as in the dictatorial experiences of the 20th century, to humor may be unwelcome.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
The socialism of the 21st century has just repeated in Ecuador its method to overthrow democratic governments executed throughout this century, consisting of the exacerbation of social and economic demands with mobilized sectors that go from protest to violence, paralyze the country and seek fatalities to overthrow the president. Complaining about the “increase in the cost of living”, leaders who control indigenism carried out 18 days of violence with a balance of 6 deaths, nearly 500 wounded, accompanied by the failed removal of the President of the Republic in the Legislative Assembly. Castrochavism’s coup in Ecuador has failed, but the conspiracy continues.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
In simple words, the clerks are the ones in charge of building stories. They are the ones behind the myths about Cuban education and health, or the Bolivian economic “miracle.” They are the ones who turn lies into truth. Ultimately, your job is for a tyrant to seize and hold power.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
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The War in Ukraine has eliminated the post-cold war illusion that wars can be avoidable in the future and that the danger of another world war does not exist.…Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
This Friday, July 1, it became known that the regime of President Daniel Ortega ordered the Missionaries of Charity to leave Nicaragua, an order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta…Read more >>
Source: prensa.com
The Nicaraguan police took over the only five mayoralties that were in the hands of the opposition, their mayors were dismissed and replaced by supporters of Ortega’s party, opposition organizations denounced on Monday.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
With the approval of 75 Sandinista deputies and their allies from the Ministry of the Interior, this measure was carried out on an “urgent basis”…Read more >>
Source: independentespanol.com
Paraguay
The president of Paraguay stressed that part of the aircraft’s personnel held in Argentina has links to international terrorism and that there will be more revelations: “It looks like a movie,” he assured…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Regional Security
Nicolás Maduro’s regime reiterated its support for Russia on Monday regarding the invasion of Ukraine, at a meeting of foreign ministers in Moscow that sought to strengthen the relationship between Chavismo and the government of Vladimir Putin.…Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
