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Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images photo at Univisión. Caption: “Members of Honduras National Police and police officers belonging to COBRA Special Riot Command stand outside the COBRA headquarters as they refuse to crack down on demonstrators in Tegucigalpa, on Dec. 5, 2017.”
December 7, 2017
Argentina
- “Russia Offering Argentina Mig-29 Aircraft, Reveals Moscow Top Official” (MercoPress, December 7, 2017).
Russia has sent Argentina all the necessary materials for taking part in a tender for fighter jets with its Mikoyan MiG-29 aircraft
Colombia
- “Cumplida Meta de Erradicacion de Coca, Gobierno Fija la de 2018” (El Tiempo (Colombia), December 7, 2017).
Villegas anunció que para el 2018 la meta de erradicación será de 63.000 hectáreas, de las cuales 23.000 se lograrán a través de apoyo de la Fuerza Pública a la sustitución voluntaria, y 40.000 hectáreas a través de la erradicación forzosa
- “Advierten ‘Rezago’ en Indemnizacion a Victimas de Conflicto Armado” (El Tiempo (Colombia), December 7, 2017).
Tras una reunión de evaluación, señalaron que solo el 7 por ciento de las víctimas registradas y reconocidas como tales – que son cerca de 7 millones– han recibido la indemnización económica
- Diana Durán Núñez, “El Coronel (R) Gonzalez del Rio y las Sentencias en su Contra” (El Espectador (Colombia), December 7, 2017).
Los jueces han determinado que las ejecuciones extrajudiciales son un crimen relacionado con la guerra, por lo que tiene todos los chances de que la JEP revise sus procesos
Colombia, Venezuela
- “Colombia Ha Registrado el Paso de 1 Millon de Venezolanos en la Frontera” (El Nacional (Venezuela), December 7, 2017).
Entre los otros datos de este fenómeno también llama la atención el número de venezolanos que ven en el país una opción de destino. Estas personas son cerca de 470.000
Honduras
- “Declaration of the Oas General Secretariat Regarding the Presidential Elections in Honduras” (Organization of American States, December 7, 2017).
The Mission reserves the right to make any additional recommendations it deems pertinent on any aspect thereof, without ruling out the possibility of recommending a new call for elections
- “Was U.S.-Training as Factor in Honduran Police Taking a Pro-Democracy Stand?” (Univision, December 7, 2017).
“I like to think that all the training had an effect. they seem to be acting in defense of the people”
- Sarah Kinosian, “Crisis of Honduras Democracy Has Roots in Us Tacit Support for 2009 Coup” (The Guardian (Uk), December 7, 2017).
The United States, which wields considerable influence in the country, shares some responsibility for creating the political landscape that laid the ground for the crisis
Mexico
- Philip Bump, “Would a Wall Have Kept Kate Steinle’s Killer Out of the Country?” (The Washington Post, December 7, 2017).
Zarate may have illegally entered the country on at least three occasions — in February 1998, 2003 and 2009 — using established border checkpoints
- Julián Aguilar, “With Border Arrests Down, Some Question Trump Administration’s Push for More Agents” (The Texas Tribune, December 7, 2017).
The Department of Homeland Security’s announced this week a near-record decline in the number of people caught trying to enter the country illegally. Yet the Trump administration still wants to hire thousands of more border agents