Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 432
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Inter-American Watch
Monday 06/10/2025Analysis
If Americans want to see how badly socialism works, they don't have to go far. Beginning with Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1959, socialism has a dismal history of failure throughout this hemisphere. While socialist revolutionaries came to power by focusing on real problems of poverty and corruption, they often hid their goal of completely taking over the economy. ...Read more >>Source: foxbusiness.com
Colombia
The proposal for a National Constituent Assembly became the central focus of the political discourse of President Gustavo Petro, who on October 3, 2025, before a crowd in Ibagué, outlined his vision for Colombia's immediate future. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
During the Rally for Democracy, Dignity, and National Independence, held on October 3, 2025, in Ibagué, Tolima, President Gustavo Petro brought up a former M-19 fighter he met in prison. The man the head of state identified as Tirzo. ...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The investigation, which involves uniformed officers with extensive experience and privileged access to military equipment, uncovered a web of corruption and alliances between members of the Army and organizations such as the Pachenca, the ELN, and FARC dissidents....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Alias 'Fede', a fugitive from Ecuadorian justice, was arrested on Thursday, October 2, in an international operation called "Furia," carried out jointly by the Ecuadorian National Police, the Colombian Police, and the Colombian Navy. The arrest took place at the Koral 76-24 building in Medellín, where the ringleader presented a false identification card to confuse agents... For his part, Interior Minister John Reimberg announced that the extradition process to the United States will be pursued, where alias "Fede" is wanted for drug trafficking and transnational organized crime. ...Read more >>Source: vistazo.com
Guyana
Guyana's President Irfaan Ali announced the acceptance of technological assistance from France, including land and maritime radars, as part of an effort to confront potential threats arising from the political and military crisis in Venezuela and its tensions with the United States. This announcement was made during the inauguration of the French embassy in Georgetown, where Ali underscored the value of security cooperation in the face of growing regional instability. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
The Interamerican Institute for Democracy, Universidad Austral, Florida International University (FIU), and Infobae will host the forum “Organized Crime and Democracy in Latin America” at the U.S. Congress on October 9, with the aim of analyzing the increasing threat posed by transnational criminal networks to regional governments. The event will be held in Room 200 of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington D.C., from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (EST), and will be broadcast live in English, with simultaneous Spanish translation....Read more >>Source: intdemocratic.org
Washington will host an international forum on October 9th that seeks to put the growing link between organized crime and the erosion of Latin American democracies at the center of the debate. The event, titled "Organized Crime and Democracy in Latin America," will be held at the U.S. Congress, with live broadcast and simultaneous translation into Spanish. Organized by the Interamerican Institute for Democracy, the forum will feature Republican Congressman Carlos Giménez as its opening address and will bring together a broad panel of voices from the United States and Latin America for three hours. The event will take place in Room 200 of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. (local time)....Read more >>
Source: infoveloz.com
Nicaragua
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has crossed a threshold in its repressive methods. Now, the raids target entire families. Men, women, children, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law are arrested simultaneously, without a warrant, without explanation, and, in most cases, disappeared without a trace. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
United Nations (UN) experts urged Daniel Ortega's regime on Friday to clarify the whereabouts of more than 120 people who were victims of enforced disappearance in Nicaragua since the repression of opposition protests in 2018. The demonstrations, which left around 350 dead, more than 2,000 injured, and hundreds of thousands displaced, were brutally repressed by police forces and paramilitary groups, according to data provided by international human rights organizations and collected by Reuters....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
As of August 2025, at least 73 political prisoners were registered in Nicaraguan jails, according to a report prepared by the independent group Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners. An estimated 31% are elderly, some of whom suffer from chronic illnesses. This is the unfortunate situation of those who end up behind bars for protesting against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his "co-president," Rosario Murillo....Read more >>
Source: panampost.com
United States
A vessel suspected of transporting illegal drugs was attacked this Friday by United States forces in international waters off the coast of Venezuela, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. As a result of the operation, four people accused by US authorities of belonging to drug trafficking organizations were killed. Hegseth noted on the social media platform X that this is the fourth such operation in recent weeks within the framework of the "non-international armed conflict" against drug trafficking in the Caribbean....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
US President Donald Trump called the drug cartels operating in the Caribbean unlawful combatants and announced that the United States is engaged in a "non-international armed conflict."...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
The Nicolás Maduro dictatorship used El Helicoide, Venezuela's main detention and torture center, as a setting to launch fireworks to mark the early start of Christmas. The celebration took place on Wednesday night, after the Chavista regime declared October 1st as the official date for the start of the festivities....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The FBI announced the indictment of two men linked to an alleged money laundering network associated with the sons of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. The investigation, which began in 2019 from the Miami field office, focused on Arick Komarczyk, who the agency said opened bank accounts in the United States for Maduro's children and their American associates. Suspicious Activity Reports pointed to bank transfers from Venezuelan individuals and companies to Komarczyk....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
World
"The Russian side has confirmed its full support and solidarity with the leadership and people of Venezuela in the current context," the Russian ministry said. ...Read more >>Source: es-us.noticias.yahoo.com