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August 11, 2022

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile

• Ryan Dube, “The Place With the Most Lithium Is Blowing the Electric-Car Revolution” (The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2022).

A California-sized piece of South America is stifling production of lithium at a time when battery makers desperately need it

Colombia, Venezuela

• Deisy Martinez, “Combate a Grupos Armados y Delitos Binacionales: Lo Que se Espera de Nuevas Relaciones Militares Con Colombia” (Efecto Cocuyo (Venezuela), August 11, 2022).

Expertos consideran que el anuncio de restablecimiento de relaciones militares entre Venezuela y Colombia es positivo

Colombia

• Megan Janetsky, “Colombian Narco Militia Seeks Peace Talks After Calling ‘Unilateral’ Ceasefire” (The Guardian (Uk), August 11, 2022).

Feared Gulf Clan has unleashed terror campaign since arrest of leader in May but keen to talk to leftist president Gustavo Petro

• Juanita León, Santiago Rodriguez Alvarez, “La Paz Total de Petro Es Tan Ambiciosa Como Riesgosa” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), August 11, 2022).

Por ahora parece que va a haber más zanahoria que garrote

• Julie Turkewitz, Sarah Hurtes, “In the Amazon, a u.n. Agency Has a Green Mission, but Dirty Partners” (The New York Times, August 11, 2022).

One of the world’s largest sustainable development agencies has worked with energy companies to quash opposition and keep oil flowing, even in sensitive areas

• “El Exfiscal Luis Camilo Osorio y el Paramilitarismo: Una Historia Sin Investigar” (El Espectador (Colombia), August 11, 2022).

En su más reciente volumen del Informe Final, la Comisión de la Verdad puso su lupa sobre episodios en los que las entidades públicas terminaron siendo arma para la guerra. Uno de ellos es el caso del exfiscal Luis Camilo Osorio

Guatemala

• Stephen Mcfarland, “Guatemala’s March Toward Authoritarianism” (Americas Quarterly, August 11, 2022).

Time is no longer on the side of the U.S. and of those who support democracy

Honduras

• Jared Olson, “Palm Oil and Blood in Honduras’ Ongoing Conflict” (New/Lines, August 11, 2022).

Though the roots of the country’s land battles go back decades, there is new hope that turmoil over disputed plantations — the cause of so many killings and enforced disappearances — could finally be settling down

Mexico

• Pedro Dominguez, “Guardia Nacional Sera Entregada al Ejercito en el Desfile Militar” (Milenio (Mexico), August 11, 2022).

La secretaria de Seguridad Pública, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, hará entrega de las responsabilidades de la Guardia Nacional a la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional el próximo 16 de septiembre durante el desfile militar

• Jorge Zepeda Patterson, “Militarizacion: Razones y Sinrazones de Lopez Obrador” (Milenio (Mexico), August 11, 2022).

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• Alonso Urrutia, Emir Olivares, “La Jornada: Buscara Amlo Recurso Legal para Que la Guardia Nacional Pase a la Sedena” (La Jornada (Mexico), August 11, 2022).

Enviará una propuesta al Congreso, pese a que “los conservadores están en huelga y todo lo rechazan”

• Andrea Navarro, “Narcos Set Fire to 25 Femsa Convenience Stores in Mexico” (Bloomberg, August 11, 2022).

Members of the well-armed and brazen Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion blocked roads and lit fire to cabs, buses and stores in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato

U.S.-Mexico Border

• “Man Dies After Falling From the International Border Barrier Near San Ysidro, Calif.” (U.S. Customs and Border Protection, August 11, 2022).

The agent approached the area and observed the man sustained a severe head wound from an apparent fall from the secondary barrier

• Anna Giaritelli, “Texas State Troopers Returned 3,900 Illegal Immigrants to Border” (The Washington Examiner, August 11, 2022).

Texas state troopers have taken custody of and returned to the border several thousand migrants who illegally crossed from Mexico, according to the governor’s office