April 2, 2018
Brazil
- Gil Alessi, “‘I Don’t Regret Being a Drug Trafficker. What Would You Do in My Place?’ – Rocinha’s Nem” (RioOnWatch (Rio de Janeiro Brazil), April 2, 2018).
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
- Olga Patricia Rendon M., “Depuracion de Archivos, la Gran Tarea de la Justicia para la Paz” (El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), April 2, 2018).
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
- Diana Durán Núñez, ““Penalizar el Consumo Me Parece un Tremendo Error”: Magistrado Luis Antonio Hernandez” (El Espectador (Colombia), April 2, 2018).
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
- German Jimenez Morales, “A Elena, Lider Cocalera, la Mataron Delante de su Familia” (El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), April 2, 2018).
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
- Kimberley Brown, “Three Journalists Are Kidnapped in Ecuador, Signaling the Violence Spilling Over From Colombia” (The Washington Post, April 2, 2018).
“The moment that the FARC left to negotiate [the peace deal], it was like a state that stopped acting”
Costa Rica
- Jon Henley, “Costa Rica: Carlos Alvarado Wins Presidency in Vote Fought on Gay Rights” (The Guardian (Uk), April 2, 2018).
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
- John Otis, “Efrain Rios Montt, Former Guatemalan Military Dictator Charged With Genocide, Dies at 91” (The Washington Post, April 2, 2018).
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”
- Stephen Kinzer, “Efrain Rios Montt, Guatemalan Dictator Convicted of Genocide, Dies at 91” (The New York Times, April 2, 2018).
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
- “Rigoberta Menchu Lamenta Que Con la Muerte de Rios Montt, se Enaltezca su Terrorismo en Guatemala” (EFE, SinEmbargo (Mexico), April 2, 2018).
“Los seguidores (de Ríos Montt) enaltecen el terrorismo de su general, pero la indignación de las víctimas es la protagonista número uno”
Mexico
- “Pueblo de Chihuahua Casi Vacio y Con Olor a Muerte Es el Trofeo Sucio de la Guerra Fch-Pena” (SinEmbargo (Mexico), April 2, 2018).
Guadalupe, municipio al este de Ciudad Juárez, colindante con Texas, es casi un pueblo fantasma, todavía
- Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Trump Returns to a Hard Line on Immigrants” (The New York Times, April 2, 2018).
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
- Priscilla Alvarez, “Could Trump Actually Use Military Funding for His Border Wall?” (The Atlantic, April 2, 2018).
The president would have to overcome obstacles in Congress, and perhaps even legal challenges, to use Department of Defense resources on construction