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October 27, 2017

Brazil

O comandante-geral da PM, coronel Wolney Dias, quer as Forças Armadas no Rio de Janeiro

The president will probably remain in office until new elections next year, but the deals he made to ensure his survival have appalled many Brazilians

Colombia

Amnesty International has stated on a number of occasions that the effective implementation of the Peace Agreement in territories historically affected by violence could contribute to the nonrepetition of such crimes

Las dos disidencias de las Farc que anunció el Ejército la semana pasada que aparecieron en Putumayo son insignificantes en número de hombres armados. Pero ya se están convirtiendo en una amenaza para los acuerdos de sustitución

“Estados Unidos está listo para apoyarlo en sus esfuerzos en sus esfuerzos antinarcóticos. Simultáneamente estoy trabajando diligentemente para combatir el consumo internamente”

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

The new initiative aims to discourage people from leaving Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala by funding projects over the next six months to improve the economies and security situation

Guatemala

Consecuencia de la pulseada: se comienzan a desbaratar algunas de estas redes, y, como símbolo, algunos de sus dirigentes van a parar a la cárcel. Pero los poderes ocultos siguen vivos, operativos

Honduras

The Trump administration has said it may revoke TPS for some countries, affecting as many as 300,000 people from the Western Hemisphere

Mexico

Agency officials said they would test the mock-ups over the next few months to determine which worked best in curbing illegal immigration and drug trafficking

All would evoke a prison feel if replicated for miles on end

Only about one-third (32%) of Americans near the border and 35% of those living further away from the border approve of the proposed wall. Mexicans are overwhelmingly united in opposition

El secretario lamenta que algunos gobiernos estatales no cumplan sus responsabilidades

Ante la falta de claridad sobre el tiempo que las fuerzas armadas deberán permanecer realizando labores de seguridad pública, es necesario que el Congreso las dote de ‘‘certeza jurídica’

Mexican leaders feel abandoned by American politicians who should know better, but are scared of Mr Trump and his voters

Venezuela

Solicitan al Secretario General y al sistema de las Naciones Unidas que contribuyan a atender dicha crisis y las continuas violaciones de los derechos humanos

Two of the judges turned in their resignations, one is under house arrest in Venezuela and the remaining 30 fled across the Americas

  • Dorothy Kronick, Francisco Rodriguez, “15o: Fraud or Fatigue?” (Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights, Washington Office on Latin America, October 27, 2017).

The presumption was that hungry and demoralized government backers would tire before committed pro-democracy protesters. Perhaps. But the data suggests this hasn’t happened yet

Young protesters, who saw hundreds of their fellow demonstrators jailed, injured or even killed in anti-Maduro street protests earlier this year, are disgusted by what for them is now a bleak political scenario

From Lima to London, prominent progressives, some within spitting distance of governing, still either actively defend the Venezuelan regime or resist calls to condemn its abuses

Western Hemisphere Regional

One explanation for the prevalence of trigger-happy cops is the embrace of punitive policing as an antidote for weak justice systems

as estrategias más eficaces para reducir la violencia letal son invertir recursos en la estabilización de los hogares y promover la crianza positiva