Central America
- Michael Paarlberg, “Gang Membership in Central America: More Complex Than Meets the Eye” (Migration Policy Institute, August 27, 2021).
Central America’s maras contradict nearly all these stereotypes, however. A more accurate assessment would reveal them to be far smaller, less organized, and less active than much government and popular rhetoric suggests
Colombia
- “Presidente Duque Encargo a Mininterior Promulgar las Curules de Paz” (El Espectador (Colombia), August 27, 2021).
Desde Corea, el primer mandatario informó que entre este jueves y viernes se dará la promulgación del acto legislativo
Mexico
- “Fuerzas Armadas Tienen Como “Principal Objetivo Detener Toda la Migracion”: Sedena” (EFE, SinEmbargo (Mexico), August 27, 2021).
Las Fuerzas Armadas mexicanas han completado “una serie de actividades operativas” en la frontera sur que tienen como “principal objetivo detener toda la migración“, afirmó este viernes el General Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Secretario de la Defensa Nacional
- Vanda Felbab-Brown, “A Hotspot Anti-Crime Strategy in Mexico?” (The Brookings Institution, Mexico Today, August 27, 2021).
Prior versions of a hotspot approach in Mexico suffered from several sets of problems
U.S.-Mexico Border
- “Editorial: Abbott’s Latest Border Grandstanding Could Cost Texans Nearly $2 Billion” (The Houston Chronicle, August 27, 2021).
What’s a chain-link fence to a person who just crossed a parched desert to escape the threat of violence at home?