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April 19, 2022

Argentina, Venezuela

• “Argentine President Says “Time to Help Venezuela” (MercoPress, April 19, 2022).

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday stressed all countries needed to resume full diplomatic ties with Venezuela, which cannot survive on its own

Brazil

• “Brazilian Vp Says Torturers of Military Regime Cannot Stand Trial: They’re Dead” (MercoPress, April 19, 2022).

Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao Monday said crimes committed during the country’s military regime (1964-1985) cannot be investigated because “all those people are dead”

Colombia

• Kyle Johnson, Angela Olaya, Juanita Velez, “La Matanza en Putumayo: Cocaleros Ciudadanos y “Operaciones Legitimas”” (Fundación Conflict Responses (Colombia), April 19, 2022).

Es más, realmente tampoco se puede hablar de una “necesidad militar” – que según el DIH permite la afectación de civiles por la importancia del blanco o la ventaja militar de un operación – pues alias Bruno, el blanco de la operación, no figura entre los líderes de los Comandos de la Frontera, según el mismo Ejército

• “El Ultimo Testimonio Que Rendira “Otoniel” Desde Colombia Ante la Jep” (El Espectador (Colombia), April 19, 2022).

Esta semana, Dairo Antonio Úsuga hablará por última vez ante la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), antes de ser extraditado a Estados Unidos

• Jose David Escobar, “El Factor “Ivan Marquez” en los Comandos de la Frontera y la Guerra Que Vive Putumayo” (El Espectador (Colombia), April 19, 2022).

El Espectador conoció detalles de cómo Márquez ganó poder en esa estructura de herencia narcoparamilitar

Cuba

• Matt Spetalnick, “U.S., Cuba to Hold High-Level Migration Talks in Washington” (Reuters, Reuters, April 19, 2022).

Leading the Cuban delegation will be Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, two sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The delegation is expected to meet with senior officials of the U.S. State Department and other agencies

Guatemala

• Ana Maria Mendez Dardon, Julia Aikman Cifuentes, “Guatemala’s Attorney General Elections: Judicial Independence and Democracy at a Crossroads” (Washington Office on Latin America, April 19, 2022).

The Public Prosecutor’s Office’s (MP) commitment to fighting impunity and strengthening the rule of law is an essential component of Guatemala’s return to democracy

Mexico

• Blanca Carmona, “Chihuahua Registra 80 Migrantes Desaparecidos en Dos Anos” (La Verdad, Chiapas Paralelo (Chiapas), April 19, 2022).

Ciudad Juárez es el municipio donde desapareció el mayor número de migrantes, con una cifra de 121 en los últimos dos años. De ese número, 46 fueron localizados

• Drazen Jorgic, “Mexico Shuts Elite Investigations Unit in Blow to U.S. Drugs Cooperation” (Reuters, Reuters, April 19, 2022).

The group was one of the Sensitive Investigative Units (SIU) operating in about 15 countries which U.S. officials tout as invaluable in dismantling powerful smuggling rings and busting countless drug lords around the globe

Nicaragua

• “El Abril Que Marco a Nicaragua” (Expediente Publico (Honduras), April 19, 2022).

Este 19 de abril se cumplen cuatro años de las masivas protestas contra el régimen Ortega-Murillo, que dejaron un saldo de 355 asesinatos y otros crímenes calificados de lesa humanidad que siguen en la impunidad

• “Represion y Muerte: Asi Fue la Masacre de Masaya Bajo las Huestes de Daniel Ortega” (Nicaragua Investiga, April 19, 2022).

La construcción y el análisis de una base de datos, contrastada con familiares de las víctimas e información de organismos de derechos humanos, expone el resultado de la represión sandinista: 34 víctimas mortales

U.S.-Mexico Border

• Alfredo Corchado, “Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Abbott’s Costly Border Checks That Snarled Traffic Were ‘Despicable’” (The Dallas Morning News, April 19, 2022).

López Obrador said Abbott and the governors of four Mexican states who announced they had reached security agreements had no authority to do so

• Catherine E. Shoichet, “We’re Expecting a Big Increase in Migrants at the Us-Mexico Border. But This Time Is Different” (CNN, April 19, 2022).

Why wait until May? Officials appear to be giving themselves a cushion to plan for the possibility that the number of migrants at the border will significantly increase

• Dianne Solis, “Despair Thrives in Mexican Migrant Camp, but Some See Hope in End of the Title 42 Pandemic Order” (The Dallas Morning News, April 19, 2022).

The sprawling migrant camp here in a city park near the international bridge has seen its population double in recent months. Migrants crowd nearby shelters

• “Cbp Releases March 2022 Monthly Operational Update” (U.S. Customs and Border Protection, April 19, 2022).

In total, there were 221,303 encounters along the southwest land border in March, a 33 percent increase compared to February. Of those, 28 percent involved individuals who had at least one prior encounter in the previous 12 months

• Tarini Parti, Michelle Hackman, “U.S.-Mexico Border Arrests Top One Million in Six Months” (The Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2022).

Border agents made 209,906 arrests along the border in March, making it the busiest month in two decades

• Julian Resendiz, “Record Number of Migrants Freed From Detention Are Self-Reporting Their Whereabouts” (Border Report, April 19, 2022).

The Biden administration has allowed a record 216,450 migrants to exit detention, with most self-reporting their whereabouts through a cellphone app

Venezuela

• Deisy Martinez, “Conozca Quienes Son los Trabajadores y Dirigentes Sindicales Judicializados y Presos en Venezuela” (Efecto Cocuyo (Venezuela), April 19, 2022).

Tanto organizaciones pro derechos humanos como movimientos de trabajadores y sindicales, que incluyen al chavismo disidente, exigen libertad plena para los que aún están detrás de las rejas y los que han sido excarcelados bajo medidas cautelares