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April 2, 2018

Brazil

Nem pauses for a moment. Then he throws out a question: “Do you think that politicians don’t know how to solve the problem of violence?” A second later he answers his own question. “The problem is they know they will not be re-elected if they do”

Colombia

Aunque el tamaño de los archivos que recibirá la JEP hace de la documentación un proceso engorroso, la protección de ese material garantiza el derecho de las víctimas a la verdad

El presidente de la Sala Penal de la Corte Suprema responde con extensos argumentos por qué le parece absurdo que, en pleno siglo XXI, el fiscal general proponga reformar la dosis personal

Destacó a las que llamó “mafias de la coca y las mafias de la tierra, porque para ellos es un problema que se hable de sustitución de cultivos, devolución o reforma de tierras”

Colombia, Ecuador

“The moment that the FARC left to negotiate [the peace deal], it was like a state that stopped acting”

Costa Rica

Carlos Alvarado Quesada of the ruling Citizen Action party had nearly 60.8% of the vote against 39.2% for the National Restoration party’s Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz

El Salvador

  • Hannah Dreier, A Betrayal (ProPublica, April 2, 2018).

By working with the police, he could have escaped the gang and started fresh. But not in the dawning of the Trump era, when every immigrant has become a target and local police in towns like Brentwood have become willing agents

Guatemala

Keen to help crush Cuban- and Soviet-backed insurgencies in Central America, President Ronald Reagan channeled military aid to Guatemala and praised Gen. Rios Montt for being “totally dedicated to democracy”

In the panoply of commanders who turned much of Central America into a killing field in the 1980s, General Ríos Montt was one of the most murderous

“Los seguidores (de Ríos Montt) enaltecen el terrorismo de su general, pero la indignación de las víctimas es la protagonista número uno”

Mexico

Guadalupe, municipio al este de Ciudad Juárez, colindante con Texas, es casi un pueblo fantasma, todavía

But Mr. Trump’s renewed legislative effort is a return to the hard-line anti-immigration themes that animated his campaign and much of his presidency

Western Hemisphere Regional

The president would have to overcome obstacles in Congress, and perhaps even legal challenges, to use Department of Defense resources on construction