Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 511
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Inter-American Watch
Thursday 16/07/2026Argentina
The Second Chamber of the Federal Court ordered the reopening of the judicial cooperation process requested by Bolivia in relation to the case against former President Juan Evo Morales Ayma, Idelsa Pozo Saavedra, and her husband Emeterio Vargas Mamani for the crime of aggravated human trafficking. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
During the last few months, federal prosecutors and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) contacted former high-ranking employees of the Argentine Football Association (AFA). The objective? Reconstructing from within—and under seal—how the decision-making structure and financial circuits of the entity led by Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia and Pablo Toviggino operated, as reconstructed by LA NACION from two sources with direct knowledge of these movements. ...Read more >>
Source: lanacion.com.ar
Bolivia
Bolivia's Attorney General, Róger Mariaca, announced that he is investigating the presence of Bolivians in the war between Russia and Ukraine, after relatives of two men allegedly recruited to travel to Russia and join the invading troops reported this pattern. ...Read more >>Source: diariodecuba.com
Evo Morales asserted that he has informants within the Armed Forces and the Police who inform him in advance about alleged operations to capture him. ...Read more >>
Source: larazon.bo
Brazil
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday barred presidential hopeful Senator Flavio Bolsonaro from visiting his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, for 90 days, citing a breach of the elder politician's house arrest terms. ...Read more >>Source: reuters.com
Colombia
Colombia's incoming foreign minister informed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar that his country will open an embassy in Jerusalem, Sa'ar's office said Wednesday, after President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella vowed his country would have a relationship “like never before” with Israel once he takes office. ...Read more >>Source: timesofisrael.com
On August 7, Colombians will not be able to witness the traditional republican image of the transfer of presidential power. On that day, when for decades the outgoing president has greeted his successor after the constitutional oath before the Congress of the Republic, the current president, Gustavo Petro, will be absent. The leftist politician has confirmed that he will not attend. ...Read more >>
Source: elpais.com
Cuba
A total of 615 human rights violations were documented in Cuba during June 2026, affecting 321 people, according to a report released by the Defense Complaints Center (CD). ...Read more >>Source: martinoticias.com
“The regime is demonstrating that it is not setting any limits and its repression is horizontal,” warned Javier Larrondo, president of the NGO Prisoners Defenders, in statements to the program De buena fuente, hosted by Marian De La Fuente. ...Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Ecuador
Fourteen months before Fernando Villavicencio was murdered after leaving a political rally in Quito, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor's Office maintains that conversations were already underway to organize an attack against him... Also implicated in the same case are former assemblyman Ronny Aleaga, former Interior Minister José Serrano, Daniel Salcedo, Wilmer Chavarría, Luis Arboleda, and Esteban Aguilar. The Prosecutor's Office maintains that each of them played a specific role within the structure that, according to their theory of the case, organized the crime. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Haiti
When Davensky was eight years old, he was kidnapped from school. An armed gang pulled a black bag over his head, dragged him from class and threw him into a truck. He was taken to an unknown location, stripped and locked inside a refrigerated room. Some time later, his captors handed him a gun. "They pointed to another child and said I had to kill him. It was a test. They said if I didn't pull the trigger, they would cut off my fingers," he says, speaking in quick bursts. “I did it.” For the next two years, Davensky, a Haitian orphan whose name has been changed to protect his identity, was forced to work for the gang. He was sent to rob people at gunpoint and took part in kidnappings. He was forced to kill a baby once, he says. “I didn't have a choice.” ...Read more >>Source: theguardian.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
By our Director: Carlos Sánchez BerzaínWith the Cuban dictatorship and in Cuba, the dictatorships of Iran, China, and Russia “maintain threatening forces and other capabilities and possess and control strategically important assets in our hemisphere,” defying the Trump Corollary and maintaining aggression against the US. ...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Luis Beltrán Guerra G.
Many would say that the defining characteristic of a civilized society is its capacity to defend the rights of its citizens: protecting them from arbitrary treatment and harm by the state or other individuals, allowing them full political expression, and guaranteeing freedom of speech and movement. ...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Beatrice E. Rangel
Beyond the brutal attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, the Kremlin is pursuing geopolitical objectives that transcend the battlefield and seek to disrupt the Western security architecture. ...Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Nicaragua
A video circulating on TikTok shows a Nicaraguan woman, in exile and visibly distraught, asking for help to find her daughter and two granddaughters. She identifies herself as Elpidia Castillo and recounts that she lost all contact with Elvia Junieth Flores Castillo and the two girls, Camila and Melissa, on the night of March 21, 2025. ...Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Spain
The judge of Spain's National Court, José Luis Calama, has decided to expand the investigation into former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for the alleged receipt of 200,000 euros from the Peruvian group Gloria, within the framework of a transaction related to Bolivia. According to the court ruling, the investigation focuses on a payment that Zapatero allegedly received for acting as an intermediary with Bolivian authorities to manage an outstanding compensation payment owed to a company within the Peruvian conglomerate. ...Read more >>Source: larazon.bo