July 8, 2021 The human rights commission of the Organization of American States (OAS) put Colombia’s increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque on its list of suspected despots on Wednesday. Until Wednesday, the “Special Monitoring Mechanism for Human Rights Issues” of the OAS’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) only applied to Nicaragua and Venezuela. The government of Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro was put on the monitoring list in 2019 after winning elections that were widely considered fraudulent. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, whose government arrested six presidential candidates this week, has been monitored by the IACHR since 2018 already. The far-right regime of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque will now also be monitored whether it likes it or not.