Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský awarded the Gratias Agit Prize to prominent personalities and organisations that have contributed to spreading the good name of Czechia abroad. The ceremony took place in the Czernin Palace on October 17, 2024.
ReadAfter Panama’s May 5 presidential election, the country’s next president must prioritize a long-term strategy with China that puts Panama’s development at the forefront.
By Carlos Eduardo Piña
Menéndez, who flew in from Buenos Aires to accompany Lee during her whirlwind, two-day tour to Mexico, said that it is crucial that governments around the world take a solid position against human rights abuses in North Korea, noting that Mexico is only one of three Latin American countries, along with Cuba and Venezuela, that has a North Korean diplomatic mission in its territory.
ReadJuan Pablo Cardenal, Editor for Análisis Sínico — Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (CADAL), marshaled his experience conducting fieldwork on PRC companies in 40 countries over eight years to deliver a coruscating assessment of how the lack of a free press in the PRC exacerbates poor corporate conduct overseas.
ReadOf the companies that China bought, in whole or in part, in Latin America between 2017 and 2021 (for USD 44.4 billion), 71% are from the electricity sector
By Paolo Benza
What are the chances that human rights will prevail and flourish in a global context still dominated by the power of sovereign states, jealous of external interference and holders of interests that are often far from coinciding with the promotion of human dignity? ask Alejandro Anaya Muñoz and Gabriel C. Salvia, the co-editors of a recent book
ReadEngelhard, deputy chief of mission of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Havana, was widely chosen among the diplomats nominated by a group of activists summoned by Cadal as a jury.
ReadThe preliminary findings of a study of disinformation and propaganda in the Spanish-language outlets of Chinese state media, currently being undertaken by Global Americans and CADAL, shed light on how China takes advantage of the development of its COVID-19 vaccine and its perceived economic success. These advances fuel the narrative of China as an emergent scientific and technological power and present China’s autocratic system as a suitable development model for the developing world.
By Juan Pablo Cardenal
CIVICUS speaks with Brian Schapira, Director of Institutional Relations at the Center for Latin America´s Opening and Development (Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina, CADAL), a foundation based in Argentina that works to defend and promote human rights. With a focus on supporting those who suffer severe restrictions to their civil and political liberties, CADAL promotes international democratic solidarity in collaboration with activists and civil society organisations (CSOs) around the world.
ReadFor most Paraguayans, however, the Chaco remains as foreign as another country, and the Bioceanic Corridor an afterthought in daily Asunción politics. Corruption and inequality are the concerns of the day, and it is Brazil, rather than the Chaco or Bolivia, that figures most prominently in Paraguayan regional affairs.
By Greg Ross
(Global Americans) Under Argentina’s new government, foreign policy decisions based more on ideological affinity than on greater pragmatism could bare serious consequences for the country, more so when dealing with non-democratic countries.
By Alejandro Di Franco
When the demonstrations increased in magnitude, Duque responded by calling on elected mayors and leaders defined in the October elections, to establish a “National Conversation” roundtable to discuss measures aimed at satisfying the agitation on the streets.
By Lorenzo Agüero
As corruption goes in Latin America, it amounted to small beans, but the excess that ended the Uruguayan vice-president's career this month shows the region's politics are still locked in a cycle of sleaze.
ReadA human rights figure cannot be indifferent towards human rights violations that take place in the remaining dictatorships nor they can ignore such evident facts to defend the indefensible. Argentine human rights entities should have been more critical of the Cuban government and express more solidarity towards democratic activists and political prisoners in the island.
By Gabriel Salvia
Recently, a third of the members of the UN Human Rights Council were renewed with China, the biggest dictatorship in the world, accumulating no less than 180 votes which gives proof to the assumption that several developed democracies voted in China's favour. The same applies to Cuba and Saudi-Arabia which have received 160 and 152 votes, respectively.
By Gabriel C. Salvia
If Cuba is opening itself to the rest of the world, it should also open up to its own people, according to a statement signed by regional political leaders, academics, diplomats, journalists and activists convened by the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL).
ReadThose developments have fueled optimism in Washington “that Latin America is moving toward more rational economic and political policies,” said Gabriel Salvia of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America, an Argentina-based think tank.
ReadSalvia reported by Twitter that Cuban immigration authorities had told him he was “inadmissible” and would deport him on a flight to El Salvador.
ReadSalvia reported by Twitter that Cuban immigration authorities had told him he was «inadmissible» and would deport him on a flight to El Salvador.
ReadImmediately one can listen to the optimistic readings on political changes in Cuba, as if ignoring the repressive regime's skill to hold in power for more than half a century. However, so long as first generation human rights are considered a crime, nothing will change in that country and those who are being released can be sent back to prison anytime.
ReadNéstor Kirchner would easily win re-election as Argentina’s president. What was the thinking behind the decision to have his wife run instead?
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