Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 410
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Inter-American Watch
Monday 7/21/2025Bolivia
Government Minister Roberto Ríos stated this Monday that former President Evo Morales remains guarded in the Cochabamba Tropics by three security cordons, armed foreigners, and people ready to give their lives for the coca grower leader. ...Read more >>Source: vision360.bo
Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) requested the intervention of the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate the statements of the head of the Bolivian National Action Party (PANBOL), an organization that supports former President Evo Morales. Leader Ruth Nina threatened to prevent the vote from proceeding if he is not included on the ballot and said they are willing to "give their lives." ...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Cuba
Cuba received 981,856 international tourists between January and June 2025, a figure that represents a 25% drop compared to the same period last year, according to data released this Monday by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI)....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
The Ecuadorian Ministry of the Interior confirmed this Sunday that it is intensively searching for legislator Santiago Díaz Asque, accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. The government activated the so-called Security Bloc—made up of the National Police and the Armed Forces—and offered a $100,000 reward for "true and verifiable" information leading to his whereabouts. So far, authorities have not specified whether he is in the country, although they assure that there is no record of him leaving through official border crossings. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
By our Director: Luis Gonzales PosadaPresident Javier Milei has laid off 50,000 public employees, most of whom are parasitic bureaucracies, while also demonstrating excellent management indicators in his first year and seven months in office, during which he reduced poverty from 53% to 34.7%; monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.5%, a figure that contrasts with the 12.8% rate under the Peronist regime....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Francisco Santos
My good friend Ramón Pérez-Maura, a great Spanish journalist formerly with the newspaper ABC and now with the most successful digital portal in Spain, El Debate, wrote after a long conversation we had about the two heads of government of his country, Spain, and mine, Colombia. His conclusion: they're the same. I don't think so; Gustavo Petro is far worse than Pedro Sánchez, although the two, as they say in my country, are not exactly the same....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Guest Columnist | Hugo Marcelo Balderrama
This cocktail of corruption, poverty, informality, Castro-Chavism, and Islamic radicalism has turned Bolivia into a very dangerous threat to the entire region....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Nicaraguan husband and wife and co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, on the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista popular revolution. He stressed that "Nicaragua is a reliable ally of Russia in Latin America."...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
United States
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this Friday the release of ten American citizens detained in Venezuela, as part of an agreement brokered by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
José Bladimir Bigott Portela, alias El Mecha, who for years has established himself as the leader of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the town of Elorza, Apure state, is the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidate for the town's Municipal Council. Meanwhile, one of the ELN's gunmen, Andrés Daniel Brito Ramos, alias El Ojón, was arrested by the DGCIM (General Directorate of Investigation) during a reshuffle of guerrilla groups on Venezuelan territory. Andrés Daniel Brito Ramos, alias El Ojón, called himself "Daniel Ramos," is one of the well-known gunmen of the Domingo Lain Sánz Eastern Front of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the border state of Apure, specifically in Elorza, Rómulo Gallegos municipality....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Alfredo Romero, director of the Venezuelan NGO Foro Penal, reported this Friday on the release of political prisoners at the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, located in Aragua state, Venezuela. "We are verifying who," Romero said, referring to the identification process for those released....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Two young women were hired by plainclothes police officers, after the June 28 elections, to print T-shirts with a photo of the toppling of a statue of Hugo Chávez. It was a false positive to receive promotions and lead to their being charged. Twelve of those officers are currently in prison for the escape of a former mayor. Now, a court has just sentenced the two girls to 10 years in prison....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Venezuela and Colombia signed a memorandum of understanding this Thursday to create the first binational economic zone on the border shared by both countries, reported the executive vice president of the Caribbean dictatorship, Delcy Rodríguez....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
World
The United States ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, stated this Thursday in Brussels that China, India, and Brazil bear "much of the responsibility" for civilian deaths in Ukraine due to their purchases of Russian oil and gas....Read more >>Source: infobae.com