Interamerican Watch Newsletter – Issue 164
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martes 21/02/2023Analysis
The company persecutes media and journalists and even manipulates the results that appear on the first page of Google with various strategies that it sells for thousands of dollars to clients around the world with a past they prefer to hide...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Bolivia
According to the most recent statistical report from the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB), corresponding to February 8, cash reserves have plummeted to 372 million dollars, well below the 620 million dollars that existed in the report of the Jan 24...Read more >>Source: paginasiete.bo
Brazil
Despite the good intentions of the speech he delivered during his inauguration as "everyone's president", in recent weeks Lula has radicalized his statements, has created confusion in the more moderate wing of his party and his allies, and has publicly celebrated José “Zé” Dirceu several times. Lula's former minister, sentenced in the Lava Jato operation to eight years in prison but with an appeal pending before the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to annul his sentence, Dirceu lived in Cuba where he was protected and trained by the Fidel Castro regime during his exile in the years of the dictatorship in Brazil....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Cuba
The state group Azcuba acknowledged on Monday that the current sugar harvest campaign reports a deficit of 95,000 tons -out of a total of 400,000 planned- due to "financial difficulties" and lack of personnel....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights, Justice 11J and Cubalex pointed out that "no person can be forced to leave the country" as a condition to achieve his release...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
As president of the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy, together with Marcel Feraud, we made a work trip to Argentina from January 18 to 25 of this year with the purpose of verifying in situ the complaints received about the violation of human rights to citizens of Santiago del Estero, who would have been stripped of their lands by officials who exercise political and judicial power with the most notorious case of Manuel Asencio Ardiles and his family....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Chile continues to stumble over the constitutional stone
In October 2018, extreme street violence took place, totally overwhelming the police, so much so that it was feared that the government would not survive. Despite three decades of progress on virtually all indicators, including poverty reduction, there was much dissatisfaction and the narrative that Chile was the kingdom of “neoliberal inequality” prevailed....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Exposed in this way some of the nuances of the particular Chinese society, perhaps it is worth asking if the balloons brought some "Chinese games", almost institutional, because as it is heard, "the little Chinese" like money a lot, to the extreme of that the authorities have seen the need to ban a few entertainments....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
When the Motherland is truly a mother
Now it is the Nicas' turn. Two hundred twenty-two people have been granted citizenship at the stroke of a pen. That's what a mother does....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
We often read about that particularly predatory human subspecies we call “coyotes,” unscrupulous subjects who live off the desperation of those who seek to have a better life for themselves and their loved ones....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
At least 22 Nicaraguan journalists, critics of the Daniel Ortega regime, were declared "traitors to the homeland" and stripped of their nationality, the Independent Journalists and Communicators of Nicaragua (PCIN) denounced this Thursday....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The European Union on Thursday called on the Daniel Ortega regime to reverse the "unjustifiable" decision to withdraw the nationality of 94 other dissidents accused by the Prosecutor's Office of committing the crime of "treason against the homeland"....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The Daniel Ortega regime has stripped another 94 people of Nicaraguan nationality this Wednesday. Among those affected are the writers Sergio Ramírez, Cervantes Prize winner, and Gioconda Belli, both in exile; the Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro; the writer and feminist Sofía Montenegro; the activist Azahalea Solís; Bishop Silvio Báez, one of the most critical voices of the Church, and the activist Vilma Núñez, president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CIDH)....Read more >>
Source: elpais.com
Opinion
The war is now one year old and is going through a phase of equilibrium. Ukraine carried out important counteroffensives, but failed to recover all the territories that belong to it, including those occupied since 2014, the Donbas and Crimea. Russia, for its part, unable to advance territorially, limited itself to maintaining its positions and continuing with war crimes, destroying electrical infrastructure and water dams in recent months....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Peru
The Peruvian president rejected the interference of the Colombian president, who was declared persona "non grata" by the Congress of the Republic for his statements against the Police....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The plenary session of the Peruvian Congress approved a constitutional complaint filed by the Prosecutor's Office against former President Pedro Castillo and two of his former ministers, for alleged corruption during his government (2021-2022) ....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
Abuses, arbitrariness, violations of due process, prisoners without trial, this is how what is happening in the National Center for Military Prosecutors (Cenapromil) of Ramo Verde, the military prison that is a few kilometers from Caracas and that houses political prisoners and common criminals....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Venezuela's organized crime groups and networks have evolved rapidly over the last decade, exploiting social and political crises that have wracked the country while benefiting from a criminally corrupt government that has turned Venezuela into a mafia state....Read more >>
Source: insightcrime.org