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March 28, 2018

Brazil

• Vanessa Barbara, “Don’t Turn a Radical Activist’s Death Into a Tv Melodrama” (The New York Times, March 28, 2018).

She spent her days fighting inequality and injustice — not against an abstract notion of “violence.” So there’s no point in bringing more terror and repression to favelas, killing more of the same people

• “Shots Fired at Campaign Buses of Brazil Ex-President Lula” (Reuters **, March 28, 2018).

The Secretariat of Public Security of Parana said in a statement that it was investigating the incident and that Lula was not on the bus at the time of the attack

Central America Regional, Mexico

• Jorge Rivas, “A ‘Refugee Caravan’ Is Headed to the U.S. and Getting Bigger Every Day” (Splinter, March 28, 2018).

On Facebook, the group claimed the caravan is so large that Mexican immigration officials on Sunday abandoned a check point

Colombia

• Tatiana Duque, “Mientras las Disidencias Crecen, Tumaco Sufre” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), March 28, 2018).

El lunes en la noche, miembros de la disidencia que comanda alias Guacho tumbaron una torre de transmisión

• Ricardo Monsalve Gaviria, “Situacion Sigue “Oscura” en Frontera Con Ecuador” (El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), March 28, 2018).

En las últimas horas fueron secuestrados tres comunicadores y Tumaco se encuentra sin luz por un atentado contra dos torres

Cuba

• Marguerite Jimenez, “Cuba After the Castros” (Foreign Affairs, March 28, 2018).

Strategies of U.S. engagement that recognize Cuban sovereignty and resist calling for regime change will reduce the risks to Díaz-Canel of undertaking more significant changes

Mexico

• John Lindsay-Poland, “America’s Guns: Made in the Us, Killing in Mexico” (Al Jazzeera, March 28, 2018).

Gun victims in Mexico need action, as badly as the Parkland students and other gun victims do across the US

• “Ciudadanos de Nuevo Laredo y Saltillo Llaman a un Toque de Queda en Vias de Tamaulipas por Enfrentamientos” (Vanguardia, SinEmbargo (Mexico), March 28, 2018).

Pese al riesgo, y la recomendación de no circular por Tamaulipas para cruzar a EU, algunos coahuilenses que utilizaron ayer la carretera a Reynosa describieron que ésta se encontraba vacía

Nicaragua

• Leonor Álvarez, “Cenidh: Campesinos Son “Tratados Como Enemigos” en Regimen de Ortega” (La Prensa (Nicaragua), March 28, 2018).

Campesinos han denunciado los últimos diez años la persecución y represión de miembros del Ejército de Nicaragua, que vendrían como una orden