Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 431
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Inter-American Watch
Thursday 10/2/2025Colombia
During the Council of Ministers meeting on September 29, 2025, President Gustavo Petro asked the Minister of Defense, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez, to launch the coordination of the Colombian and Venezuelan Armed Forces, which are under the command of dictator Nicolás Maduro. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The impact of the revocation and renunciation of the use of US visas by high-ranking Colombian officials is one of the axes of the strong tension in the bilateral relationship between Colombia and the United States. ...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Dominican Republic
The Government of the Dominican Republic has decided not to include the dictatorships of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela on the list of countries invited to the 10th Summit of the Americas. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an official statement, within the framework of the Caribbean country's pro tempore presidency of the regional forum....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Former Correa administration minister José Serrano coordinated the escape of Fernando Villavicencio's Colombian hitmen after the attack on August 9, 2023. This is stated in the one-hour statement given by Marcelo Lasso, a friend of drug trafficker Leandro Norero, last Thursday. ...Read more >>Source: ecuavisa.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
By our Director: Ricardo IsraelJust as the United States emerged from the Second World War with enemies like Germany and Japan turned into allies, the same can be true, as the Sunni Arab countries can be the necessary key to a lasting peace, as well as to the Palestinian state that was first formally announced on November 15, 1988. ...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín
The crime is out in the open, and even the para-dictatorial governments that owe their power to 21st-century socialism have serious difficulties defending the narco-states of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia…...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Luis Gonzales Posada
We Peruvians know Petro well for interfering in national politics to support failed coup leader Pedro Castillo, who he said was deposed for "being poor and leftist"—a false narrative, just like the brazen version of Mexican Lopez Obrador, who claimed the absurdity that the Chotano was unacceptable to wealthy Lima residents because he could affect their privileges and major economic interests....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Beatrice E. Rangel
This economic flow allows transnational organized crime to penetrate the institutional apparatus of many nations around the world, subverting them and making them work for their benefit. Many United Nations member countries sell their votes to these organizations in exchange for favors and perks for their leaders....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
On October 9, the Interamerican Institute for Democracy will hold the forum "Organized Crime and Democracy in Latin America" in the US Congress. The forum will be broadcast live by Infobae....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Nicaragua
The murder in Costa Rica of retired Nicaraguan major and opposition figure Roberto Samcam has revived allegations of joint operations between the Nicaraguan Army and the Cuban G2 in the espionage and harassment of opponents in exile....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
As of June 2025, at least 75 people remained detained in Nicaragua for political reasons, and at least 16 cases of torture (including sexual violence) and 31 enforced disappearances were documented in 12 months, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Rights. Human Rights....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The United States demanded proof of life from the Nicaraguan regime, led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, for journalist Leo Catalino Cárcamo Herrera, 62, arrested on November 23, 2024, by the National Police of León....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
United States
US President Donald Trump announced this Tuesday that his administration will increase surveillance of drugs entering US territory by land, following attacks against several Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean. These statements come amid growing tension between Washington and Caracas, as Trump has accused the Venezuelan regime of leading the international drug trafficking network known as the Cartel of the Suns....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The United States deported a former judge who sentenced anti-government protesters in Cuba, in a case that tested efforts by Cuban exiles to reveal the identities of former officials accused of human rights violations who have sought refuge in the United States....Read more >>
Source: elnuevoherald.com
World
Pope Leo XIV expressed his expectation on Tuesday that that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas accept "within the established deadlines" the United States peace plan to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip, which has been going on for almost two years since the massacre of October 7, 2023 in southern Israel....Read more >>Source: infobae.com