Savitri Arvey of the University of California at San Diego’s U.S.-Mexico Center has co-written a series of reports documenting U.S. authorities’ two-year-old practice of “metering” asylum seekers along the Mexico border, forcing them in precarious conditions in dangerous Mexican border towns for weeks or months at a time.
The quarterly reports that Arvey and colleagues at the University of Texas’s Strauss Center produce are an essential source for understanding the number of people waiting, the number whom U.S. Customs and Border Protection allow to cross and petition for asylum, who is running the “waiting lists” on the Mexican side of the border, and what risks asylum-seeking families face wile they wait.
With the current COVID-19 border closure, Arvey says, U.S. authorities aren’t letting anybody cross to ask for asylum, which is a violation of the United States’ international law commitments, and probably of U.S. law.
The Bolsonarista movement had demonstrated its willingness to intimidate Brazil’s existing democratic institutions. It is not clear, however, what Jair Bolsonaro wants to do with them
It is clear that state building from the local level, and with the arrival of the plans of entities responsible for the effective enjoyment of rights, requires joint work with social leaders who know their regions
Fue líder en muchos procesos de derechos humanos en el sur del país, pero su última labor estaba enfocada en transformar el corredor Puerto Vega – Teteyé
Experts warned that the riot could augur future unrest at chronically overcrowded lockups throughout Latin America as the number of coronavirus cases in the region multiplies
El 89,6 por ciento de los venezolanos ocupados en Colombia labora en la informalidad. La cuarentena para evitar la expansión del coronavirus merma sus fuentes de ingresos y los pone en mayor vulnerabilidad
Las Fuerzas Armadas van a controlar la zona y para ello se nombrará a un encargado, que puede ser un general o alto representante de la Armada, quien será la máxima autoridad
La Agencia Técnica de Investigación Criminal (ATIC) y la Fuerza Nacional Anti Maras y Pandillas (FNAMP) iniciaron su búsqueda, que sigue siendo infructuosa
El general Luis Rodríguez Bucio, comandante del cuerpo de seguridad creado en la actual administración, confió en que el próximo año se cumpla con la cantidad de elementos proyectada al inicio de la administración, esto es de 150 mil agentes
Los 52,4 millones de personas que viven en la pobreza y casi el 60% de los que trabajan en la informalidad asumen con terror al hambre las medidas del Gobierno para enfrentar la epidemia
We analyze the steps the Mexican government has taken to address this crisis, the obstacles ahead that may hinder these efforts, as well as how the U.S. government is supporting this undertaking
La lista de los migrantes indocumentados que desde hace más de una semana que se encuentran privados de su libertad, la encabezan de Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Haití, Siri Lanka, Congo, Angola y de otros países africanos
Aunque las muertes violentas en México continúan siendo exasperantemente elevadas y su disminución a partir del primero de diciembre de 2018 es pequeña, el funcionario señaló que cuando menos se ha logrado que dejen de aumentar
Five Border Patrol agents who work in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California told the Washington Examiner that for weeks, the agency’s Washington and regional headquarters had done little to explain how they should protect themselves on the job
Venezuela’s mothers and fathers, determined to find work, food and medicine, are leaving hundreds of thousands of children in the care of grandparents, aunts, uncles and even siblings
This is my most open-scheduled day of the week: Other than recording a podcast mid-afternoon, I am around. I’m just a few footnotes (links, really) and a close edit away from adding the final new feature to the colombiapeace.org website. So expect that and a new podcast about the border today.
I’ll be going back to an interview format for tomorrow’s podcast (if all goes according to plan). Today’s episode, though, is the audio track of a March 20, 2020 WOLA webinar about criminality and corruption in Venezuela, and the viability of a political exit to the crisis. This event is based on a March 11 report by WOLA’s Geoff Ramsey and David Smilde, who look at U.S. data and find that drug trafficking and other criminality and corruption, while big problems, are not so severe as to rule out negotiating a political solution with the Maduro regime.
In this event audio, Ramsey and Smilde are joined by Jeremy McDermott, the co-director of InsightCrime, and investigative journalist Bram Ebus, a consultant to the International Crisis Group.
Walter Benjamin wrote that happiness consists in living without fear. These days, with the state of alarm recently declared, in Spain you cannot live without fear (or at least, without fear for the lives of many people). Nor should it be so: courage does not consist in not being afraid —that is recklessness—but in mastering it, doing what needs to be done and moving on. Right now, that’s what it’s about.
Bolsonaro has continued to downplay the pandemic, despite more than 20 members of a delegation he recently led to the US becoming infected with Covid-19
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has denied the country’s healthcare system will collapse next month, contradicting his own health minister as the number of deaths in the country jumped 39%
Álvaro Amórtegui, teniente coronel del Ejército, asegura que el general ( r) Mario Montoya sí dio órdenes para cometer falsos positivos. También denuncia episodios de corrupción
“Hemos tomado medidas para que las reuniones entre el orden nacional y los municipios se hagan de manera virtual y que no se suspenda el cumplimiento a las comunidades”, dijo Archila
For years, they were referred to in hushed tones simply as “Big Foot” – a mythical creature rumored but never seen – but these days, the narco-submarines used by Colombia’s drug cartels have become almost commonplace
Varios presos de diferentes penitenciarías han pedido que haya excarcelaciones para evitar tragedias en estos lugares que tienen un nivel de hacinamiento en promedio del 53 %
Justice Minister Margarita Cabello described the events at the La Modelo prison in Bogota as an attempted prison escape, but advocates for inmates said officials had cracked down on inmates staging a peaceful protest over conditions they feared would exacerbate infections
Autoridades locales alertaron sobre el confinamiento de al menos 3.083 personas (824 familias) pertenecientes a 23 comunidades indígenas y afrocolombianas en zona rural del municipio del Alto Baudó
Cuba
Coco Fusco, “Love Among the Ruins” (The New York Review of Books, March 23, 2020).
A fetishized version of the Cuban Revolution as a triumphant counterpoint to global capitalism—the state’s most powerful intangible commodity—continues to cast its spell on outsiders
El miedo a la enfermedad se coloca en la balanza con el nivel de desconfianza que ha generado el gobierno del presidente Juan Orlando Hernández a raíz de los diversos casos de corrupción dados en su gobierno
La embajadora Luz Elena Baños Rivas, representante de México ante la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), criticó con vehemencia la reelección “muy lamentable” del uruguayo Luis Almagro
La persecución y la criminalización de los migrantes los hace más vulnerables y en muchas ocasiones se ven obligados a elegir rutas más peligrosas para evadir los controles migratorios
Desde las primeras horas de este sábado, el gobierno de Estados Unidos restringió el cruce fronterizo terrestre a los “viajes no esenciales” –es decir, a los viajes de ocio y turismo–, pero deja que los trabajadores y las mercancías pasen al otro lado
Migrants in a sprawling encampment steps from the U.S. border in Matamoros, Mexico, have begun to isolate as best they can in their closely packed tents in preparation for the arrival of the coronavirus
As medical experts and local officials implore Americans to stay at home and observe social distancing, construction crews at multiple sites continue to work, sleep and eat in close quarters
In practice, the United States will deport anyone caught crossing between official ports of entry, including those hoping to turn themselves in, denying them access to asylum and potentially sending them back into harm’s way
Only 5.3% of asylum-seekers subject to the Migrant Protection Protocols, as the policy is officially known, had lawyers through the end of January, compared with 85% for asylum-seekers nationwide
Venezuela
Nathaniel Popper, Ana Vanessa Herrero, “The Coder and the Dictator” (The New York Times, March 23, 2020).
Gabriel Jiménez hated the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. But he loved cryptocurrency. When he built the regime a digital coin, he nearly paid with his life
Rojas posted several tweets reporting that a group of armed and masked FAES agents had arrived at his home and told him to accompany them to their headquarters, claiming that they received an anonymous call that Rojas might be infected with COVID-19
Tras la orden de cuarentena, que comenzó el lunes en seis estados y 24 horas después se aplicó en todo el país, Efecto Cocuyo ha hecho recorridos en Caracas, donde se han visto a funcionarios de las Faes con armas largas en las calles
Some of the actions have been delayed in part by the coronavirus pandemic. But senior U.S. officials say they are part of a Trump administration effort to double down on its pressure campaign
Other than a staff “meeting” in the morning, I’ve got a relatively open day today. My goal is to add a new and final section, finally, to the Colombia Peace website by end of day.
There’s a need for humor in these times—and not the dark, unintentional kind you see in White House briefings. Here are my favorite seven tweets from the past seven days.
My Quarantine Routine
I just wanted to share what works for me. This is just to give me structure and a sense of stability
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him the trip to discover ice was postponed indefinitely.”
— Covid-19 TobiasKane Fitipaldi (@KaneTobiasT) March 19, 2020
Seeing a lot of people complain of boredom during this time & I will share with you my tip to keep boredom at bay: I think about how I am going to get a horrible virus
The Americas Society / Council of the Americas has been keeping an updated record, using the Johns Hopkins database and other sources, of how coronavirus is affecting 19 Latin American countries plus Puerto Rico, and how governments are responding.
At The New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson interviews Evo Morales, Jeanine Añez, and many others for a detailed report on the complexities of an increasingly tense Bolivia.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office put out a report on family separations at the border that, under normal circumstances, would have been a bombshell: even now, “it is unclear whether Border Patrol has accurate records of all separated parents and children in its automated data system.”
At Nicaragua’s La Prensa, Eduardo Cruz recounts the history of the country’s national police force, which underwent post-conflict reforms that the current government has almost fully reversed. Today, the police are “the guardians of the Ortega-Murillo dynasty.”
At Oxford American, Emily Gogolak spends time in Dilley, Texas, home to one of two large ICE-managed, privately-run detention centers for migrant families.
Reuters/Jorge Cabrera photo at Committee to Protect Journalists. Caption: “Soldiers wearing face masks are seen in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on March 17, 2020. The Honduran government recently declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 outbreak, and suspended the right to free expression.”
While many countries around Latin America and the world have quarantined millions, canceled international flights and shut down schools, Brazil has done none of these things
Bolsonaro’s influential politician son Eduardo – who many regard as Brazil’s de facto foreign minister and has close ties to Steve Bannon – enraged Beijing with an incendiary tweet about its role in the pandemic
Favelas have high population densities, houses in very close proximity to one another, and structural limitations to guaranteeing adequate isolation in case of contamination by the virus
Además, el informe de la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios asegura que 3.437 personas fueron confinadas por el conflicto en los dos primeros meses del año
Let’s us take advantage of COVID – 19 to think about the life of each one of you, in the life of each of us, in the life of the country, assume the reflection in your crews, fronts, brigades, battalions, commanders
Over the last decade, Honduras has seen a proliferation of laboratories capable of transforming coca leaf into cocaine hydrochloride. This means that Honduras, once only a transit point for drugs, is becoming a cocaine producer
Honduras’ law on freedom of expression, which operates under Article 72, protects journalists’ right to work without “any persecution,” even under martial law
Almost one in three attacks since 2012 targeted defenders opposing energy projects, especially wind and hydroelectric power, according to the Mexican Centre for Environmental Rights
Sinaloa cartel operatives in Mexico told VICE this week that importing the chemical precursors they need to make methamphetamine and illicit fentanyl has become harder and more complicated
En el centro de adiestramiento especializado de la policía militar, en el campo militar número 37-C, hubo 5 mil 400 asistentes, entre 2 mil 740 egresados, familiares –2 mil de ellos en las gradas–, invitados especiales y prensa
Cese de las detenciones por razones migratoria, liberacion de todas las personas detenidas en Estaciones Migratorias y Estancias Provisionales y proteccion de personas en situacion de calle
Ebrard, reacting to reports that the U.S. planned to send people from elsewhere into his country, including asylum seekers, said Mexico would only accept the return of migrants from his country and Central America
Creo que no exagero en decir que el Perú ha sido el país que más rápido ha reaccionado ante la pandemia en el mundo
U.S.-Mexico Border
“Responding to the Covid-19 Crisis While Protecting Asylum Seekers” (Amnesty International USA, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA, Human Rights First, Physicians for Human Rights, Refugees International, Women’s Refugee Commission, Refugees International, March 20, 2020).
Turning back men, women and children seeking refuge is not in accordance with public health guidance and will only endanger more lives and will make all of us less safe
CBP and ICE are law enforcement—not humanitarian—agencies. They lack the institutional orientation necessary for providing long-term, adequate medical care to the adults and families in their custody
The hardliners have a problem. There is no evidence that sanctions alone will get rid of Mr Maduro. That means having to deal with him, one way or another
Four podcasts in four days. I don’t know if I’ll keep up the pace, but I’ll stay close. Hopefully these are making life a bit more tolerable for some people out there.
In today’s conversation, Cynthia McClintock of George Washington University gives an overview of the current political moment in Peru, where an ongoing anti-corruption drive, spurred by the good work of investigative reporters and prosecutors, has been a relative good news story. The discussion also covers recent legislative elections, voters’ move, and the possible impact of COVID-19.
This morning I’ll be listening in to (and recording) WOLA’s event on Venezuela. I’m recording a podcast about Peru mid-day. Otherwise I’ll be writing my part of a report on Colombia on which we’re collaborating with a few organizations.
Here, at the WOLA Podcast, is a conversation with Alex Fattal, whose 2018 book “Guerrilla Marketing” tells the story of the Colombian military’s employment of advertising campaigns to convince guerrillas to demobilize during the country’s armed conflict. His work explores the overlap between national security, global capitalism, and “branding.”
América Latina y el Caribe cuenta actualmente con tres problemas de muy diferentes características políticas que requieren diálogo político y diplomacia, tanto de la tradicional como de la de segunda vía
Brazil’s National Security Advisor Augusto Helano confirmed that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, marking 15 Brazilian delegates to the U.S. with positive tests
Se trata de 13.046 personas en el territorio nacional, de las cuales 2.893 habitan en los 24 antiguos Espacios de Territoriales de Capacitación y Reincorporación (ETCR), junto con sus familiares y miembros de la comunidad
Colombia’s President Iván Duque is trying to stabilize the country’s marginalized, conflict-wracked regions while avoiding a full implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement. The murder of social leaders underscores the limitations
Más de 50 organizaciones entre cabildos indígenas, zonas humanitarias, zonas de biodiversidad, organizaciones campesinas y asociaciones de desplazados de ocho departamentos enviaron una carta abierta
En las últimas horas, la guerrilla del Eln, por medio del Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR) entregó a un menor de edad en zona rural de Arauca
Investigations are ongoing, but one thing is certain — this was a sophisticated network trusted by Colombian traffickers to handle enormous quantities of product
Dejar de trabajar y encerrarse en casa durante el estado de excepción por Coronavirus es un lujo que quienes trabajan en el sector informal de El Salvador difícilmente pueden darse
After a bitterly contested — and still unresolved — election on March 2, many Guyanese are questioning whether the oil giant’s deal with their country, struck under the current government, is fair, and whether the oil proceeds will be equitably shared
The conviction of former first lady Bonilla was arguably the most emblematic conviction that MACCIH secured before being shut down in Honduras. Its reversal should serve as a real warning sign
Tomas Zerón and five other former officials face charges including torture, forced disappearance and judicial misconduct. Three have been arrested and three, including Zerón, are still at large
El alto funcionario, Ezequiel Peña Cerda, ha sido aprehendido por maniatar a uno de los detenidos en 2014 por la desaparición de los 43 normalistas en el Estado de Guerrero
Tomás Zerón de Lucio, el hombre que condujo la “investigación” que arrojó la “verdad histórica” sobre el destino de los 43 normalistas de Ayotzinapa, tiene orden de arresto de un Juez a petición de la Fiscalía General de la República
Mexican officials said they were blindsided by the Trump administration’s plans, and have pointed out that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States is far higher than Mexico’s total
The number of Mexicans crossing illegally into the United States has risen over the past week, migrant shelters said, in part driven by rumors the United States will seal the border
Although COVID-19 was initially slower to take hold in Latin America than other parts of the world, Brazil, Chile and Peru are now reporting hundreds of cases as daily life in towns and cities halts
U.S.-Mexico Border
Shaw Drake, Astrid Dominguez, “Aclu News & Commentary” (American Civil Liberties Union, March 19, 2020).
The military should not be searching cars or checking documents at ports of entry. These are potentially unlawful actions, and both the Defense Department and CBP must provide answers
Operation Streamline has become an unparalleled pipeline for the criminalized gathering of human bodies on the border — an obvious problem as the highly contagious coronavirus continues to spread
La mención al llamado Cartel de los Soles en el último informe de la Junta Internacional para la Fiscalización de Estupefacientes (JIFE), como era de esperarse, ocasionó enorme revuelo
Foro Penal calcula que había en el país 320 presos políticos hasta el 9 de marzo de este año. Ramo Verde y El Helicoide son las cárceles con mayor número de presos por motivos políticos
Nicolás Maduro pasó al primer plano dictando las medidas a tomar por su gobierno ante la situación, valiéndose como brazo ejecutor de la Fuerza Armada Nacional y anunciando la orden de colocar en cuarentena a la población
I’m most reachable in the morning and the end of the day. (How to contact me)
I’m not sure how useful these daily posts are in the current context: I’m working at home, and so is everyone else. But I’ll keep them up because routine is good.
I have a mid-day interview with a team evaluating a U.S. assistance program in Colombia, and will be recording a podcast about Colombia with an author during the mid-afternoon. Otherwise I expect to keep writing for the Colombia website (I’ve got two “explainer pages” done, and hope to have three, and launch this new and final site feature, by tomorrow morning), and do some border research.
Here’s today’s WOLA Podcast. We should have some going up tomorrow and Friday as well.
Toby Muse spent almost two decades as a foreign correspondent in Colombia, where he traveled to dozens of places affected by the war on drugs and recorded innumerable conversations with people—participants in the drug trade, officials, reformers, and victims caught in the middle. His new book, Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels – From the Jungles to the Streets, draws heavily from all of his conversations. It comes out on March 24, 2020.
Ariana Cubillos photo at Associated Press. Caption: “People wearing protective masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus travel on a bus in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. President Nicolas Maduro ordered citizens to stay home, and to wear a mask in public under a quarantine in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus.”
El desafío es mayúsculo por la debilidad de la mayoría de los sistemas de salud, con un gasto por habitante muy por debajo del de los países más industrializados
DHS’s Office of the Inspector General is on pace to publish fewer than 40 audits and reports this fiscal year, the smallest number since 2003 and one-quarter of the agency’s output in 2016
“We should take steps, the virus could turn into a fairly serious issue. But the economy has to function because we can’t have a wave of unemployment,” he added
More than 445 people have suffered eye injuries in the nearly five months of unrest in Chile over social inequality. More than 34 have either lost an eye or their eyeball burst from an impact. Others have been completely blinded
La funcionaria responde a los cuestionamientos hechos por las organizaciones sociales al PAO y dice que no se trata de medidas reactivas sino de prevención
Para hacerse una idea de la magnitud de la tarea, se calcula que cerca el 66 % del territorio nacional cuenta con información catastral desactualizada, solo el 5,68 % la tiene actualizada y el 28,32 % ni siquiera tiene formación catastral
El presidente salvadoreño cerró las pistas del aeropuerto tras acusar al Gobierno mexicano de irresponsable por mandar a 12 salvadoreños con el virus COVID-19. El canciller mexicano lo desmintió
Supporters of the Guatemala-United States deal point to the large number of transferees who have left Guatemala as evidence that their asylum cases likely had little merit. Migrants and their advocates, however, say it instead reflects the dangers vulnerable people face
Guatemala’s ministry of foreign affairs announced that all deportation flights would be paused “as a precautionary measure” to establish additional health checks
El Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Cemda) alertó sobre el persistente riesgo en que desarrollan su labor los defensores del medio ambiente en México, 83 de los cuales perdieron la vida de enero de 2012 a diciembre de 2019, 15 de ellos sólo el año pasado
La CNDH fue insistente en la petición de “acciones urgentes” para evitar hacinamiento, contagios masivos y dar informes sobre las acciones que sean tomadas de acuerdo con la evolución de la contingencia
Jalisco so likes violence and heavy armament that U.S. prosecutors said its operatives tried to buy belt-fed M-60 machine guns in the United States, and once brought down a Mexican military helicopter
Las primeras 11 semanas de este año han sido de terror para los guanajuatenses. El martes 10 la delincuencia organizada mostró su poder táctico al bloquear e inmovilizar durante horas a Celaya y varias ciudades aledañas
Girón Luna’s story was swallowed by news of the quickly-spreading global pandemic, but her death matters and it’s important to understand the deadly immigration policies and practices subjecting migrants to incredible harm
Under the policy, asylum seekers would not be held for any length of time in an American facility nor would they be given due process. Once caught, they would be driven to the nearest port of entry and returned to Mexico without further detention
La Fuerza Armada Nacional (FAN) tiene una función protagónica en medio de la cuarentena social que vive el país por el covid-19, pero la institución está llamada a acatar órdenes sin caer en arbitrariedades, enfatizan analistas castrenses
The International Monetary Fund has quickly rejected a surprise request Tuesday by Venezuela for an emergency $5 billion loan to fight the new coronavirus, which threatens to push its already battered economy over the edge
This is my lightest day of the week, meeting-wise: just a conference call with several staff and a foundation. I’ll otherwise be here at the computer; if time is on my side and I finish before the end of the day, I’ll be launching the last new feature on our Colombia Peace website. I’ll also be setting up next week’s podcasts and posting one that’s already recorded.
Everybody we know is home and on the internet, being “socially distant” for the good of society. Why not start recording conversations with them?
I usually put WOLA’s podcast out 1-2 times per month because my schedule is full and so are those of anyone I’d want to interview. I often spend as much time on the e-mail back-and-forth arranging the episodes as I do recording them.
Not so now. I recorded two today, and have two more scheduled just this week. Here’s the first one:
The roles played by women in coca and opium poppy producing zones get little attention: they’re often portrayed as passive victims. As Youngers and García Castro explain, women who grow these crops are in fact subjects who lead community organizing, fight for access to land titles, carry out much unpaid labor, and must contend with violence. Development won’t happen without them as partners.
Listen up top, download the mp3 here, and subscribe to the WOLA Podcast wherever you find your podcasts.
Cedar Attanasio photo at Associated Press. Caption: “A woman carries a property bag issued by Customs and Border Protection while holding the hand of a girl wearing a mask as they arrive at a mandatory immigration court hearing on Monday, March 16, 2020, in El Paso, Texas. The migrants, who must wait in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, wore masks following the first reported cases of COVID-19 in El Paso. The migrants are not suspected to be carrying the virus.”
Few countries are as poorly prepared to handle an onslaught of cases as Venezuela, which reported its first two cases Friday and 15 more over the weekend
Other security specialists said anger over the treatment of leaders of Brazil’s biggest drug gang, the São Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC), was also a factor
While Brazil and Mexico ranked among the most prepared according to the researchers who did the study, that ranking system did not take into account the idiosyncrasies of the new leadership in each country
La figura de traslados por protección, una forma de detención que le permite a la Policía privar a alguien de su libertad hasta por 12 horas, han tenido un aumento drástico en las recientes protestas
El hallazgo de ocho cuerpos en el corregimiento de Palmarito, en Cúcuta, dejó al descubierto una guerra a muerte entre el ELN y los Rastrojos en la frontera. Esto es lo que hay detrás del múltiple homicidio
La JEP devolvió a la Fiscalía el expediente del general Mauricio Santoyo con la orden de que agote la investigación y defina si acusa o precluye. Como ese hay cientos de procesos indefinidos de altos oficiales, empezando por el del general Mario Montoya. ¿Qué ocurrirá?
El control de la frontera, y a su vez de detección de posibles casos de contagio, está empeorando con el cierre, porque el movimiento ilegal desde el vecino país ahora se recrudecerá
En una tarjeta informativa, la Cancillería informó sobre los supuestos doce casos de pacientes contagiados de COVID-19, explicando que ninguno de ellos tenía síntomas asociados con el padecimiento
Era cómplice del Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva y, simultáneamente, titular de la Unidad de Investigaciones Sensibles (SIU) de la Policía Federal de México
El asedio de la Policía Orteguista contra miembros del Movimiento Campesino anticanal, opositor a la dictadura de Daniel Ortega, continuó este fin de semana en Río San Juan donde secuestraron por 24 horas al campesino Mauricio Sequeira Ramírez
Thousands of asylum seekers crammed in border towns near the Texas-Mexico border awaiting U.S. immigration hearings are at risk of dying from coronavirus because of poor health access and unsafe conditions
Wearing face masks, about 30 asylum seekers who had been waiting in Mexico were escorted by authorities into a federal building in El Paso, Texas, some carrying children
Despite opposition from judges, government attorneys and immigration lawyers, 31 migrants were brought from Mexico on Monday for court hearings in El Paso, a city with two presumptive coronavirus cases
Las colas para comprar pollo y carne se repitieron por diferentes puntos del centro y oeste de Caracas. Los comerciantes no garantizan que puedan reponer rápido la mercancía
I’ll be most reachable in the morning and mid-day. (How to contact me)
I’ll be “socially distant” today but still quite social. In addition to an interview with an academic studying the border, I’ll be recording two WOLA podcast episodes with people. Otherwise, making additions to the Colombia website and doing border research.
Morales’s alleged electoral fraud, and his party’s acceptance of new elections without him, makes it difficult to call his ouster a coup. Añez’s behavior makes it hard not to
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday announced that he has tested negative for the coronavirus, contradicting earlier reports — including from his son — that he’d tested positive
They accused him of lighting the fires to raise money, as part of a web of international collusion that encompassed not only local organizations, but also the influential World Wildlife Fund and even actor Leonardo DiCaprio
The raids are part of a disastrous policy to combat drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro. The state’s security forces have always been violent and unaccountable for their actions in the favelas, but things have gotten even worse
In recent days both Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador – nationalists from opposite ends of the political spectrum – have enraged opponents and observers by making high-profile public appearances
El excomandante del Ejército invirtió en un fallido proyecto hotelero en la zona más lujosa de Miami, en bancarrota desde 2018. Él asegura que puso US$390.000, pero papeles dicen que fue casi US$1 millón
La lista de opositores publicada por el Ejército en Twitter es apenas otra muestra de los problemas de fondo que aquejan a la inteligencia militar –y al ejército- de Colombia
La Inspección de la Policía empezó a revisar el historial de estos pilotos por sospecha de trampas en las horas de vuelo que reportaron, cuyo costo podría superar fácilmente los 100.000 millones de pesos
En el manejo de esta crisis, el Presidente ha demostrado que cree en la evidencia científica, que escogió un equipo técnico y que confía en ellos, que se preocupa por la estabilidad económica y es responsable en lo fiscal
The prosecution has been lauded by both the U.S. government and the relatives of victims. Now the Trump administration will have to decide what to hand over. So far, it has offered nothing
Electoral officials appear ready to give its president, David E. Granger, another term and control over the country’s new oil riches. Observers cry foul
Haiti, one of the few Caribbean nations with no recorded cases of the new coronavirus, announced Sunday a shutdown of its border with the Dominican Republic, a ban on travel for government officials, and a suspension of flights
Touring the Mexican countryside this weekend, López Obrador gave a series of campaign-style speeches to crowds of townspeople touting his administration and barely mentioning the pandemic
The López Obrador government’s measured approach to battling the coronavirus played out this weekend in a full soccer schedule and a crowded music festival
La Administración para el Control de Drogas? (DEA, por sus siglas en inglés), del Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos, colocó al michoacano Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, presunto líder del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), como su objetivo número uno
As many as 3,000 Mexican migrants packed into shelters and temporary lodging in Juarez last fall. By year’s end, it was difficult to find the Mexicans. Reasons varied
La Policía nació sandinista pero sufrió un complejo proceso de profesionalización en los años noventa. Hoy no se puede decir que regresó a los ochenta, pero está prisionera de la dictadura Ortega Murillo
Las autoridades en el estado Zulia ordenaron la noche del domingo a las personas que esperaban por gasolina, que desalojaran las estaciones de servicio debido a la «cuarentena social» establecida por el Ejecutivo
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