(Even more here)

Colombia

• Alicia Liliana Mendez, “Cumplimiento de Meta de Erradicacion Forzada de Coca No Va Ni en la Mitad” (El Tiempo (Colombia), October 12, 2021).

De las 130.000 hectáreas fijadas, hasta el 4 de octubre solo fueron arrancadas 58.000

• Santiago Torrado, “El Asesinato de Dos Adolescentes Venezolanos Acusados de un Robo Agita el Fantasma del Paramilitarismo en Colombia” (El Pais (Spain), October 12, 2021).

La ONU condena el crimen ocurrido en Tibú, en la convulsa región fronteriza del Catatumbo, y pide investigaciones de las autoridades colombianas

• Vivian Salama, Juan Forero, “U.S. Embassy Staff in Colombia Struck With Havana Syndrome Ahead of Antony Blinken Visit” (The Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2021).

At least five American families have come down with ailments, said people familiar with the matter in Bogotá

Guatemala

• “Guatemala Transfers Prosecutor Who Pursued Former Dictator” (Associated Press, The Washington Post, October 12, 2021).

Guatemala’s attorney general has transferred the prosecutor leading the office that took former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and other former military officers to trial for crimes against humanity

Haiti, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border

• Alfredo Corchado, “How Could the Mass Migration of Haitians to the U.S. Border Have Been a Surprise?” (The Dallas Morning News, October 12, 2021).

Some say their arrival seemed more like a coordinated effort to ease the overwhelming number of migrants stuck at Mexico’s southern border