Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 425
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Inter-American Watch
Thursday 9/11/2025Analysis
It found that Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are the countries from which the most journalists flee, accounting for 92 percent of displacement in the region. Meanwhile, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States, Spain, and Mexico are the countries that receive the most displaced journalists. Furthermore, the report finds the two main reasons for the international displacement of journalists are political persecution and threats from organized crime or corrupt actors....Read more >>Source: latamjournalismreview.org
Argentina
It was a provincial election, similar to the one that took place in the city of Buenos Aires. They were elections that were held early. In principle, it was something completely unremarkable. Positions were being elected, above all, for the provincial legislature, a mysterious area of politics. There has to be a "Chocolate" Rigau-style scandal for it to make the news... That's not the only important fact. There's another eminent indication of the national significance of this election, and that is the government's recognition of that dimension. Milei said this Sunday, shortly after the results were announced, that work was needed to reverse the defeat in October. This means the President sees a direct link between the provincial and national elections. Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni announced that the Executive Branch, in response to what happened, will set up a political committee. As we will see, quite curious....Read more >>Source: lanacion.com.ar
Bolivia
A journalistic investigation by the Globo network in Brazil revealed this Sunday that one of the main leaders of the First Capital Command (PCC) has been living in Bolivia for more than ten years, where he leads a privileged life protected by a false identity....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Costa Rica
Costa Rica's Minister of Public Security, Mario Zamora, affirmed this Tuesday that a "narco-government" exists in Venezuela and issued a warning to Costa Rican "political groups" and "union organizations" that are "linked" to the cartel. South American country....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Cuba
Cuba faced one of its worst electricity crises this Wednesday, generating less than 10% of the energy needed during a seven-hour national blackout....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
By our Director: Carlos Sánchez BerzaínThere are political prisoners and exiles because 21st-century socialism has institutionalized judicial persecution to suppress defenders of freedom and democracy, instill fear in the population, and grant impunity to organized crime....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Ricardo Israel
We have an obligation to look to the future with optimism. We have made enormous progress since the last Ice Age, twelve to fifteen thousand years that constitute the civilizing record of our species, and our generation lives more safely and securely than any other in the past, so we should not allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the false sense of an unmanageable crisis....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín
It's not just about governments protecting crime; it's about governments whose leaders commit crimes. There are countries completely controlled by narco-terrorist criminal groups, such as Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Francisco Santos
President Gustavo Petro used all sorts of epithets against Miguel Uribe. He used his grandfather, the former liberal president Julio César Turbay, as an excuse to attack his grandson with all sorts of insults, which ultimately created the political conditions that led to his assassination. His hate-mongering narrative bears no resemblance to the reality of the real M-19, which bore no resemblance to what Petro is, what he says, and even less so how he acts....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
This is revealed in a report by the human rights NGO Colectivo Nicaragua Nunca Más. The list includes the president of the Episcopal Conference, Monsignor Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, along with Bishops Silvio José Báez Ortega, Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, and Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega. The document also notes the closure of more than 5,600 associations, as well as television and radio stations, between 2018 and 2025. ...Read more >>Source: vaticannews.va
The United States denounced this Wednesday the disappearance in Nicaragua of a doctor with dual Nicaraguan and Costa Rican nationality, for which it held co-presidents and husband and wife Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo responsible. The "forced disappearance" of 30-year-old doctor Yerri Estrada had been reported to the Costa Rican Congress last week by leftist Costa Rican representative Priscilla Vindas....Read more >>
Source: barrons.com
United States
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated this Tuesday that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro "has many decisions to make" regarding the US military operation in the southern Caribbean....Read more >>Source: infobae.com