Paolo Manzo

Latin America is no longer a regional story. It’s a strategic arena where courts, security, energy, and great-power competition intersect. Latin American Insider covers it at that level.

“Que Laura vea”… la referencia que hace un venezolano a la embajadora Laura Dogu para que observe cómo el régimen actúa siempre de la misma manera. Reprimiendo e impidiendo una manifestación pacífica…

Latin America Is Splitting in Two: Reform Winners, Populist Drags, and the New Geopolitics of Capital, by @pmanzo70 open.substack.com/pub/paolomanzo…

🫓 Chris Christie on 🇻🇪 (Trump critic in the GOP): ▪️ "The system is still corrupt, the economy is still as bad, freedoms are non-existent (...) Is that a success?" ▪️ "The military success was extraordinary. But he (Trump) had nothing to do with that except to order it."

Ayer Delcy Rodríguez anunció que hoy haría un anuncio. Hoy anunció que el 1 de mayo hará otro anuncio sobre el salario. Lo único que queremos los venezolanos es que se vayan.

"Fue un gran gusto por fin conocer a Anna Sofía Benítez @_annabensi y su Mamá. Me contaron sobre su situación y que se encuentran bajo reclusión domiciliaria. Sofía me dijo que lo único que ha hecho es expresar sus ideas, su fe, y sus aspiraciones como Cubana que ama su patria. Es una joven valiente que dice las cosas como son. Es de admirar.” Mike 🔨

Latin America’s real crisis is no longer just economic. It is institutional. From YPF to Petrobras, USMCA to remittances, the region’s new risk premium is governability. New for Latin American Insider

From Argentina’s YPF reprieve to Brazil’s creeping interventionism, Mexico’s treaty uncertainty and Colombia’s remittance dependence, the region is entering a more dangerous phase 👇, by @pmanzo70 open.substack.com/pub/paolomanzo…

📢Salir a la calle a protestar de forma pacífica en #Cuba es un “delito contra la autoridad”. Durante las protestas del #11J, miles de personas fueron golpeadas con bates y palos por las autoridades. Después, el régimen hizo lo de siempre: convertir a las víctimas en culpables. Les imputaron desacato, desobediencia, resistencia… delitos fabricados para ocultar la realidad. No son criminales. Son ciudadanos. Personas, en su mayoría pobres, condenadas por ejercer un derecho básico: manifestarse. @jlarron en @CNN :::: 📢Taking to the streets to protest peacefully in Cuba is a “crime against authority” During the 11 July protests, thousands of people were beaten with bats and sticks by the authorities. Afterwards, the regime did what it always does: it turned the victims into the guilty parties. They were charged with contempt, disobedience, resisting arrest… fabricated offences designed to hide the truth. They are not criminals. They are citizens. People, mostly poor, condemned for exercising a basic right: to demonstrate. #Cuba #PresosPolíticos #11J #DerechosHumanos

"Mi hijo ha sido trasladado a 6 penales y tiene 15 meses preso". Desde el Palacio de Justicia en Caracas, Francisco Agüero, padre del preso político Marcos Agüero, exige su libertad inmediata. Su padre es un paciente oncológico. A pesar de su condición, se encuentra alzando la voz y solicitando la amnistía para lograr la libertad de su hijo, pero no ha obtenido respuestas. Basta de tanta injusticia. ¡Liberenlo ya!

Heartbreaking 💔 This morning, right after President Trump’s speech, the Iranian regime moved fast and hanged 18-year-old protester. Yes, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, there are no “less radical” leaders in Iran. From the courtroom to the prison cell, from the interrogator to the judge, this is a unified system of terror. So this is the Islamic Republic: a system with a Stone Age approach to dissent, executing its own young people to stay in power. This is not about left or right. This is about life, dignity, and the future of a nation. His name is Amirhossein Hatami. 18 years old. His “crime”? Demanding Freedom, dignity, and a normal life. No lawyer. No independent media to be his voice, No fair trial. No final goodbye to his family. But of course a forced confession on State TV after being tortured to admit a crime that he has committed never committed. And his friends may be next. By the way, where are the anti-war activists? Why don’t we hear you campaigning against mass arrests, and executions in Iran ? Would you demand that the Iranian regime stop its war on unarmed people? Stop the executions. Stop the torture. End the total #DigitalBlackOut imposed on Iran. This is about standing with the people of Iran against a regime that has massacred more than 40,000 of its own citizens and is now killing those arrested in the same uprising

The Next Latin American Crisis May Begin in the Fields, by @pmanzo70 open.substack.com/pub/paolomanzo…

Milei’s Argentina Is Beginning to Look Governable Again, by @pmanzo70 open.substack.com/pub/paolomanzo…

Lula Wants a Green Brazil. He’s Governing a Fragile One, by @pmanzo70 open.substack.com/pub/paolomanzo…

A 4 mesi da fine mandato Petro ha riaperto il conflitto con la quasi totalità dell’architettura istituzionale colombiana, dalla Procura alla Banca centrale, dall'Autorità elettorale alle massime corti, by @pmanzo70 open.substack.com/pub/paolomanzo…

🫓 María Corina’s patience with the guy might prove the bigger feat than July 28.

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