Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 409
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Inter-American Watch
Thursday 7/17/2025Bolivia
The president of Pan-Bol, Ruth Nina, has threatened to disqualify Evo Morales as a presidential candidate. She asserted that on election day, dead people will be counted, not the number of votes... She also asserted that there can be no election without the participation of the working class and a "candidate that the Bolivian people have chosen," Evo Morales. ...Read more >>Source: urgente.bo
An EFE journalist enters Evo Morales's "Headquarters." The former leader of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) has not left that area since October 2024, when an arrest warrant was issued against him for aggravated human trafficking. From his redoubt, he repeatedly insists on his presidential candidacy, despite the Constitution's prohibition...Read more >>
Source: eldeber.com.bo
Chile
The Chilean justice system handed down the maximum sentence on Monday against Carlos Leonardo González Vaca, alias "Estrella," identified as the leader of one of the Aragua Train cells in Chile....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Colombia
The lack of transparency regarding President Gustavo Petro's international travel is becoming the rule, not the exception. In response to reports that the president met with drug lord José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, in the coastal city of Manta (Ecuador) at the end of May, the Presidency published a statement on Tuesday describing the meeting as "absolutely false": "The president's visit to that country had the sole purpose of attending the inauguration ceremony of President Daniel Noboa, always with coordinated accompaniment and security between both states," says the document signed by Angie Rodríguez, director of Dapre. ...Read more >>Source: elcolombiano.com
Costa Rica
Costa Rican authorities dismantled a ring dedicated to the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Venezuelan women, linked to the Tren de Aragua criminal organization, originally from Venezuela....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Cuba
Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel found himself at the center of a national controversy following statements by Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, his Minister of Labor and Social Security. In the National Assembly, Feitó denied the existence of beggars in Cuba, arguing that those who ask for beggars on the streets are "disguised" as such and that window cleaners lead an "easy" life....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Ecuador's Interior Ministry said on Sunday it is searching for lawmaker Santiago Díaz Asque, accused of allegedly raping a minor, and offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to his location, despite the fact that neither the Attorney General's Office nor the courts have publicly clarified his legal status. The case of Assemblyman Díaz Asque, who came to office through the opposition political movement Revolución Ciudadana, led by former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and one of the largest factions in the Assembly, became known on Tuesday when he was expelled from that political organization....Read more >>Source: es-us.noticias.yahoo.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
By our Director: Luis Gonzales PosadaThe Nicaraguan Human Rights Association has denounced the murder (with eight gunshots) of retired Army Major Roberto Samcam, an opponent of Daniel Ortega's government. Samcam survived as a refugee in Costa Rica for seven years, hoping to avoid being kidnapped, imprisoned, or killed by the Sandinista police....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Guest Columnist | Pedro Corzo
If there's one adjective that perfectly fits the servants of dictatorships, regardless of their color, it's the title of this novel by Victor Hugo, which has forever guaranteed him a prominent place in world literature for his solid defense of the persecuted and merciless condemnation of henchmen....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Ricardo Israel
I'm still surprised by the passion his name continues to inspire, especially among people who haven't read him....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín
When the dictatorship in Cuba ends, the epicenter of aggression against the freedom and security of the peoples of the Americas will have ceased.....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Mexico
During the signing of the Anti-Fentanyl Trafficking Act, the president noted that drug cartels have “a lot of say” over the country because Mexican authorities are terrified to go to work because criminal organizations “have control over” Mexico”....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Nicaragua
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed its concern over the increase in repression carried out by the Nicaraguan regime, which, according to the organization, extends beyond Nicaragua's borders and affects people in situations of human mobility and opponents of the regime, led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
At least 54 opponents and critics of the Nicaraguan government, led by husband and wife and "co-presidents" Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, remain in the country's prisons, including 18 elderly adults, according to the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners....Read more >>
Source: confidencial.digital
At least fourteen people accused of political dissidence are currently in a state of "enforced disappearance" in Nicaragua, according to reports from family members and human rights organizations that monitor the prison situation. Nicaraguans....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Uruguay
The Uruguayan government's decision to suspend live cattle exports for immediate slaughter generated strong criticism from the Uruguayan production sector and the political system. Livestock Minister Alfredo Fratti called a press conference for this Monday to explain the decision, stating that the goal is to protect the meatpacking industry, which is going through a crisis....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
The NGO Penal Forum raised the number of political prisoners in Venezuela to 948 after recording eight new arrests since June 30, according to an update released this Tuesday....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The Human Rights Committee of Vente Venezuela denounced this Monday the arrest of opposition leader Yandir Loggiodice, secretary general of the Democratic Center Party, by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN). The arrest was carried out in Bolívar state, in the south of the country, in an operation involving at least 30 armed agents, according to the political organization led by María Corina Machado....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Amnesty International (AI) denounced that the authorities of the Venezuelan regime committed, and continue to commit, forced disappearances as part of their policy of repression against dissidents and those they perceive as such....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com