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April 10, 2017
Colombia
- Alejo Vargas Velasquez, “Gobierno y Eln: Buen Ambiente y Bases Solidas” (Ola Politica (Colombia), April 10, 2017).
Nada despreciables estos avances para las primeras seis semanas de conversaciones. Por el contrario, muestran un ritmo importante
- “Suroccidente Peligroso para los Lideres Sociales” (Semana (Colombia), April 10, 2017).
De los 117 líderes sociales asesinados en 2016 en Colombia, 57 de ellos, es decir, el 66 por ciento, murieron en el suroeste colombiano (Nariño 9, Cauca 43 y Valle 5)
- “Se Desactiva la Guerra, Pero la Violencia Sigue en Colombia” (Fundacion Ideas para la Paz, El Espectador (Colombia), April 10, 2017).
El reto para el país es pasar de una lógica de confrontación enfocada en las amenazas y la eliminación del contrario, a un modelo que tenga en el centro la protección de los ciudadanos
Colombia, Western Hemisphere Regional
- Myriam Ortega, “Transnational Organized Crime, a Hybrid Threat” (Revista Dialogo (U.S. Southern Command), April 10, 2017).
The academic event was organized by the Regional Center for Strategic Security Studies (CREES, per its Spanish acronym), with support from the Joint Special Operations University and U.S. Special Operations Command South
Honduras
- Iris Amador, “Guardians of the Homeland” (Revista Dialogo (U.S. Southern Command), April 10, 2017).
The program is geared towards reinforcing a sense of right and wrong and instilling morals and leadership principles among minors throughout the country’s 18 departments
Mexico
- “Editorial: Up Against the Wall” (The New York Times, April 10, 2017).
Things roost in his brain and come out of his mouth and Twitter feed, and before you know it, the federal government is taking proposals for Mr. Trump’s great border wall with Mexico
- Adolfo Flores, “Here’s How Undocumented Immigrants Are Living in the Shadow of Border Patrol Deep Within the Us” (BuzzFeed, April 10, 2017).
Most Americans don’t know that there is a 100-mile zone that extends inland from the edge of the US, and within that zone, border patrol agents have the authority to stop and search motorists, for any reason
Mexico, Venezuela
- Javier Lafuente, “Mexico Asume el Liderazgo de America Latina en la Crisis de Venezuela” (El Pais (Spain), April 10, 2017).
La postura firme de las últimas semanas supone un cambio en la diplomacia mexicana, históricamente activa, tibia en la última década
Nicaragua
- Joshua Partlow, “The Soviet Union Fought the Cold War in Nicaragua. Now Putin’s Russia Is Back.” (The Washington Post, April 10, 2017).
Over the past two years, the Russian government has added muscle to its security partnership here, selling tanks and weapons, sending troops, and building facilities intended to train Central American forces to fight drug trafficking
Venezuela
- Oliver Stuenkel, “Why Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Doesn’t Look Finished Quite Yet” (Americas Quarterly, April 10, 2017).
Maduro has opted for an incremental, two-steps-forward-and-one-step-back approach that has allowed him to effectively outfox the normative frameworks established to preserve democracy
- Rosalinda Hernandez C., “Protestas en Venezuela se Agudizan en Zona Fronteriza” (El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), April 10, 2017).
Las protestas en las calles de Venezuela ya dejan unos 50 heridos. Líderes opositores dicen que seguirán protestando, Maduro asegura que los derrotará en las elecciones regionales
- Victor Amaya, “Brutalidad Policial Tiene Sello Militar” (Tal Cual (Venezuela), April 10, 2017).
El nuevo modelo policial humanista se abandonó, al mismo tiempo que creció la represión a quienes protestan