Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 497
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Inter-American Watch
Thursday 5/28/2026Argentina
A high-ranking official of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation faces a request for administrative and disciplinary investigation for alleged lack of impartiality and functional independence. The official in question is Elena Cristina Nolasco Highton, the court's legal secretary, who has become the center of controversy due to a trip she took in 2021. ...Read more >>Source: lavoz.com.ar
The Attorney General before the Federal Criminal Economic Court, Gabriel Pérez Barberá, requested that the case concerning the Pilar mansion attributed to Pablo Toviggino, Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia's right-hand man, be re-investigated in the courts of the City of Buenos Aires. ...Read more >>
Source: tn.com.ar
Bolivia
A report by Globo network states that Santa Cruz de la Sierra has become a strategic refuge for leaders of the PCC and other criminal organizations in the region. The arrests of these 'big fish' confirm this assertion. ...Read more >>Source: eldeber.com.bo
At Viru Viru Airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivian authorities handed over Gerson Palermo to Brazil. He was identified as one of the most wanted leaders of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) criminal group. The extradition was carried out under heavy security and concluded an international manhunt involving police forces from both countries. ...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Argentine Congresswoman Mercedes Trimarchi, representative of the Socialist Left in the Left Front of Argentina, arrived in the city of La Paz and participated in the demonstrations demanding the resignation of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz. She revealed that she was invited by an international socialist organization. “I come from Argentina, I am a congresswoman. I was elected by the Socialist Left, in the Left Front. I came at the invitation of the International Workers' Unity of the Fourth International and by my comrades from the PT (Workers' Party) here in Bolivia,” said the Argentine legislator in the city of El Alto. ...Read more >>
Source: noticiasfides.com
Brazil
Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro asked US President Donald Trump to include the country's two largest criminal gangs, the First Command of the Capital (PCC) and the Red Command (CV), on the list of terrorist organizations. This would have new legal consequences in the fight against these organized crime structures. ...Read more >>Source: diariolasamericas.com
Chile
A new legal case is gaining momentum, this time before international bodies, against Raúl Castro and other high-ranking leaders of the Cuban dictatorship for alleged crimes and human rights violations...On this occasion, the Chilean Parliament received a proposal to create an international tribunal tasked with investigating and judging the serious crimes attributed to the leadership of the Castro-communist regime during almost seven decades of repression against the Cuban people. ...Read more >>Source: ntn24.com
Cuba
A report published this month by the organization UN Watch includes multiple references to Cuba among its criticisms of the functioning of the UN Human Rights Council's system of special rapporteurs. The report, titled From Watchdogs to Ideologues: How Politicized UN Rapporteurs are Subverting Human Rights, does not focus exclusively on the island, but includes it to argue how some independent experts have adopted positions that coincide with the narratives of governments considered authoritarian, as is the case with regimes singled out by the organization. ...Read more >>Source: martinoticias.com
Only two political prisoners recognized by human rights organizations appear among the 2,010 sanctioned individuals who benefited from the pardon signed by Miguel Díaz-Canel on April 3, according to a comparison of the list published in the Official Gazette with the databases of Prisoners Defenders and the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH). ...Read more >>
Source: cibercuba.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
By our Director: Beatrice E. Rangel...the challenge lies in bringing the genie that escaped the bottle of human creativity back into the channels of ethical, political, and civilizational control. ...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Ricardo Israel
Today, with Kast, the problem lies in the design, with a "second floor" of advisors who have ended up harming the government by being given control and political direction functions that simply have no legal or constitutional backing, and who instead of bringing order to the government have created disorder by causing internal fractures. ...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín
21st-century socialism has shattered freedom throughout Latin America by changing constitutions, laws, economies, and social behavior, with terrorism, narco-states, impunity, manipulation of crime, hybrid warfare, and more. The dismantling of dictatorships is underway, but the criminals try to relinquish power rather than government. ...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo broke a nearly three-year silence on Wednesday to address for the first time the case of political prisoner Brooklyn Rivera Bryan, the historic Miskito indigenous leader detained on September 29, 2023, whose situation had been classified by human rights organizations as an “enforced disappearance.” ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Spain
In another scandal involving the Spanish government, the National Police raided the headquarters of the Socialist Party (PSOE) in Madrid this Wednesday, on the orders of a judge of the National Court investigating a plot to interfere with and "obstruct" legal cases affecting Pedro Sánchez's administration. ...Read more >>Source: diariolasamericas.com
United States
For almost 10 years, a retired Cuban Air Force pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Raúl González-Pardo, traveled between Cuba and Florida, entering the United States without disclosing his military record and going unnoticed. ...Read more >>Source: nytimes.com
Donald Trump received Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, in a gesture that the Bolsonaro family presented as an explicit endorsement of his presidential candidacy ahead of the October elections in Brazil. The meeting, not on Trump's official agenda and closed to the press, took place less than three weeks after the US president received President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the same office. ...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) confirmed the execution of a “lethal kinetic strike” against a vessel involved in drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific, an action that resulted in the death of a drug trafficker. ...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com