Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 346
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Inter-American Watch
Thursday 12/5/2024Bolivia
The executive director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy and former Minister of Government of Bolivia, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, repudiated the conviction of former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada by the Justice Department on Monday for the “Petrocontratos” case and described it as “an infamous sentence”....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Fuel is rapidly becoming one of Bolivia's scarcest commodities. Long lines of vehicles snake for several kilometers outside gas stations all over Bolivia, once South America's second-largest producer of natural gas. Some of the queues don't budge for days. While frustration builds, drivers like Victor García now eat, sleep and socialize around their stationary trucks, waiting to buy just a few gallons of diesel — unless the station runs dry. “We don't know what's going to happen, but we're going to be worse off,” said García, 66, who inched closer to the pump Tuesday as the hours ticked by in El Alto, a bare-bones sprawl beside Bolivia's capital in the Andean altiplano....Read more >>
Source: apnews.com
Chile
The regional prosecutor of Magallanes, Cristian Crisosto, confirmed that Chilean President Gabriel Boric has been charged with a possible crime of “improper dissemination of intimate images”, within the framework of an investigation following a complaint filed by a woman for events that occurred ten years ago....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Colombia
The latest five massacres in the Ecuadorian province of Orellana, near the border with the department of Putumayo, have been attributed to disputes between the Comandos de la Frontera, the Colombian armed group with a seat at the negotiating tables of the Petro government, and Los Choneros, the Ecuadorian criminal gang with roots in the Sinaloa cartel. The war between the two armed groups, which control the income from drug trafficking and illegal mining in that area of the Amazon, has worsened since last July, when a truce between the two actors was broken. A coca farmer from the region says, via WhatsApp, that before he had to pay a “tax” for the sale of each kilo of cocaine paste of 150,000 pesos (about 35 dollars). “Now we have to pay the two gentlemen, who come to charge twice for the same product,” he says. Minutes later he deletes the message, so as not to leave any trace of his words. ...Read more >>Source: elpais.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
The Interamerican Institute for Democracy (IID) held its Honor Session this Wednesday at the American Museum for the Cuban Diaspora in Miami, Florida, where the “2024 Democracy Awards” were presented. During the ceremony, the prestigious Carlos Alberto Montaner and George Washington awards were presented, along with the “Dr. Horacio Aguirre” and Premios República, to outstanding leaders in the defense of democracy and freedom in the region....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
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Source: infobae.com
On a night that honored the commitment to democratic values, the Interamerican Institute for Democracy (IID), an organization for the promotion and defense of democratic freedoms in Latin America, held its Honor Session this Wednesday at the American Museum for the Cuban Diaspora, in Miami, Florida, where it presented the Democracy Awards 2024. These recognitions highlighted personalities who, in different areas, have worked tirelessly to defend human rights and freedom in the Americas....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
By our Director: Ricardo Israel
However, to the extent that Rubio understands this well, it is a world that offers him an opportunity, a great opportunity....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín
Under current conditions the foreign policy of the United States can slow down and end the attacks of narcotics' trafficking, forcible migrations, and several other forms of crime it endures in its territory, only with the return of democracy to the countries occupied by dictatorships....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
United States
The United States Embassy in Venezuela made a strong call to the Nicolás Maduro regime to respect the rights of the six Venezuelan opponents who remain refugees in the Argentine embassy in Caracas. Through a statement posted on social media, the US government denounced the intimidation and harassment tactics faced by asylum seekers....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Uruguay
Former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica believes that change will come “from within” in Venezuela “at some point,” he said in an interview with the AFP news agency. “I have deep disagreement with authoritarian regimes. What I do not support is intervention from outside. Venezuela's problems must be resolved by Venezuelans. And in any case, they must be helped. But not interfere,” said the former president (2010-2015)....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
The NGO FundaRedes denounced this Wednesday that more than 200 political prisoners in Venezuela suffer “deplorable” conditions of confinement and “violence” in prisons, where there are currently, according to calculations by the organization Foro Penal, 1,903 people imprisoned for “dissenting” from the regime, among whom are 245 women....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado launched a powerful video message addressed to the nation, in a context of growing political tension with the Chavista regime of Nicolás Maduro. In her spot, released with the slogan #HastaElFinal, the former deputy challenged accusations of “treason” by Chavismo, warning that such terms should only be applied when citizens sit idly by in the face of oppression....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
A teacher in Venezuela needs the equivalent of 29.76 times his salary to pay for the basic food basket, valued at 539.79 dollars for a representative family of five people, according to data from the Documentation and Social Analysis Center of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (Cendas-FVM)....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com