Interamerican Watch Newsletter - Issue 384
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Inter-American Watch
Thursday 17/04/2025Bolivia
A judge ordered the arrest of former Bolivian President Evo Morales this Friday after he failed to appear in court as summoned as a precautionary measure, as part of his investigation into human trafficking, in relation to the alleged abuse of a minor in 2016 when he was head of state....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
According to the latest data from the EMBI (Emerging Markets Bonds Index) Country Risk, prepared by JP Morgan, the largest bank in the United States, as of April 14, 2025, Bolivia is ranked second among the economies with the highest investment risk in the region, reaching an index of 2,190 points....Read more >>
Source: la-razon.com
In September 2024, three Irish citizens arrived in the Bolivian Amazon city of Beni posing as Hindu monks. Dressed in orange robes, they presented themselves as protectors of nature, expressing concern over the wildfires that had destroyed more than 10 million hectares the previous year in the Chiquitanía and the Amazon regions. They settled in the municipality of Exaltación, where they offered free yoga therapy and meditation sessions to both urban and rural residents....Read more >>
Source: english.elpais.com
Colombia
Senator María Fernanda Cabal spoke with SEMANA's El Debate. In the context of the interview to denounce the Colombian government's spending of 50 billion Colombian pesos, nearly $11 million, on the Colombian pavilion at Expo Osaka, held in Japan, the congresswoman revealed more alleged multimillion-dollar expenditures by the head of state, Gustavo Petro....Read more >>Source: semana.com
Ecuador
Metastasis and Purga, along with other cases initiated by prosecutors, have exposed how high-level corruption has facilitated Ecuador's alarming security downturn and the rise of organized crime groups. Other investigations have exposed judicial schemes to secure the release of gang members from prison, the links between Albanian drug traffickers and the highest echelons of Ecuadorian politics, and efforts by a Colombian drug trafficking group called the Border Command to free members captured in Ecuador....Read more >>Source: insightcrime.org
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa said Tuesday that his country “would love to have” the presence of US troops to combat gang violence, which recently led to the redeclaration of a two-month state of emergency in six provinces....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
Interamerican Institute for Democracy
Guest Columnist | Pedro CorzoOver these 66 years, more than half a million men and women have passed through Castro's prisons, those who have had the will to pay the high price of becoming free and full citizens....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Ricardo Israel
Despite some exaggerated opinions, the end of the world is not yet in sight, but rather a change of enormous magnitude, since not even the end of the Cold War produced that economic result, a radical challenge to the post-World War II structure....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
By our Director: Beatrice E. Rangel
Like many towering figures in Latin American history, Vargas Llosa fell prey to the temptation of politics....Read more >>
Source: intdemocratic.org
Peru
A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala to 15 years in prison for money laundering and sentenced his wife, Nadine Heredia, to the same sentence for receiving money from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. finance his 2006 and 2011 election campaigns....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
Venezuela
Erick Ojeda has no money. He returned to land almost empty-handed after a night out shrimping. His sister and newborn are waiting for him to pick them up from the hospital. He hasn't had any luck finding transportation to get there, so he continues to help fishermen pull boats out of the water and weigh the little they caught....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in an article published Tuesday by Time magazine, which included her on its list of the most influential people of 2025. Rubio called Machado "the Venezuelan Iron Lady," highlighting her resilience, tenacity, and patriotism in the fight for a free, just, and democratic Venezuela....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com
World
France's National Counter-Terrorism Office has launched an investigation following a series of apparently coordinated attacks on several of the country's prisons. The incidents, which have raised concerns among authorities, appear to be linked to a recent government crackdown on drug trafficking networks....Read more >>Source: infobae.com
The British Supreme Court, the highest court in the country, ruled on Wednesday that the term "woman" for the purposes of the Equality Act is determined by biological sex, ending a lengthy legal battle initiated by a women's advocacy organization that challenged the definition adopted by the Scottish regional government....Read more >>
Source: infobae.com