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Brazilian Army photo at Diálogo (U.S. Southern Command). Caption: “The Amazon Military Command’s Special Border Platoons patrol the border and work with communities who live in hard-to-reach places, among other missions.”
June 5, 2018
Argentina
- “Bullrich: “Hay Que Dar la Oportunidad a los Militares de Insertarse en la Democracia”” (Perfil (Argentina), June 5, 2018).
La semana pasada esta idea fue defendida por el presidente Mauricio Macri, quien expresó la necesidad de que las Fuerzas Armadas brinden “apoyo logístico a las fuerzas de seguridad”
Brazil
- Dom Phillips, “Truckers’ Strike Highlights ‘a Dangerous Moment’ for Brazil’s Democracy” (The Guardian (Uk), June 5, 2018).
The only politician likely to benefit from all of this is Jair Bolsonaro, an extreme rightwing lawmaker who has praised the military regime but has not faced serious graft allegations
Brazil, Ecuador
- Roberta Rampton, “Pence to Visit Brazil, Ecuador to Discuss Venezuela Crisis” (**, June 5, 2018).
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Brazil and Ecuador at the end of June in an effort to strengthen trade and security ties with countries grappling with growing numbers of refugees fleeing Venezuela’s economic crisis
Central America Regional
- Brett Samuels, “Sessions: Migrants Shouldn’t ‘Recklessly’ Bring Children Across Border if They Don’t Want to Be Separated” (The Hill, June 5, 2018).
Hewitt then appealed to Sessions to visit one of the facilities housing the migrant children, but Sessions did not commit to doing so
Colombia
- Chris Kraul, “Killings of Demobilized Rebels Threaten Peace Process in Colombia” (The Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2018).
The slayings have shaken faith in an already fragile peace process
Colombia, Venezuela
- Jim Wyss, “In Chaotic Venezuela, Guerrillas From Colombia Find New Territory to Grow” (The Miami Herald, June 5, 2018).
De Grazia said the Maduro administration, desperate for foreign investment, essentially invited the ELN to subdue warring gangs, or pranes, who have traditionally controlled gold, diamond and coltan
Haiti, Venezuela
- Franco Ordonez, Jacqueline Charles, “Haiti Excluded From White House Reception of ‘Like-Minded’ Friends on Venezuela” (The Miami Herald, June 5, 2018).
Haiti has been under considerable pressure by the United States to change its stance from abstention to expulsion. But based on the speech Monday from its foreign minister, Antonio Rodrigue, it doesn’t appear that the Trump administration succeeded
Mexico
- Martha Hernandez Fuentes, “Marinos Disparan al Aire en Manifestacion en Ciudad Guzman; Elementos de la Armada Fueron Agredidos” (Animal Politico (Mexico), June 5, 2018).
La tarde de este lunes, alrededor de 200 personas protestaban por los casos de desaparición de personas en el estado y de los que responsabilizan a elementos de la Secretaría de la Marina Armada de México
- Azam Ahmed, “Mexican Court Orders New Inquiry Into Disappearance of 43 Students” (The New York Times, June 5, 2018).
They accused the nation’s attorney general’s office of ignoring lines of evidence that contradicted its theory of the case, and they ordered the creation of a so-called truth commission to oversee the new investigation
- “Historica Sentencia del Poder Judicial de la Federacion en el Caso Ayotzinapa” (Centro PRODH (Mexico), June 5, 2018).
La sentencia ordena crear una Comisión de Investigación para la Justicia y la Verdad en el caso Iguala, como un “procedimiento alternativo”
- “Al Cjng No Le Afecta la Aprehension de “la Jefa”” (Revista Zeta (Tijuana Mexico), June 5, 2018).
La capacitación de ex kaibiles guatemaltecos y paramilitares colombianos al CJNG, no es nueva
Venezuela
- “Maduro ‘Perdona’ a Presos Politicos” (EFE, El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), June 5, 2018).
Según el régimen, las 80 liberaciones que se concedieron en los últimos días “marchan en una dirección justa” por lo que pidió “la compresión y el apoyo del país”
Western Hemisphere Regional
- Courtney Kube, Julia Ainsley, “Hundreds of Migrant Kids Separated From Parents Are Stuck at Border” (NBC News, June 5, 2018).
HHS officials will tour three bases in Texas to see if they are suitable to house unaccompanied migrant children, who now number more than 11,000
- “Press Briefing Note on Egypt, United States and Ethiopia” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, June 5, 2018).
Children should never be detained for reasons related to their own or their parents’ migration status. Detention is never in the best interests of the child and always constitutes a child rights violation
- Dara Lind, “Trump Keeps Making It Harder for People to Seek Asylum Legally” (Vox, June 5, 2018).
The administration is concerned with stopping people from seeking asylum the wrong way, but the alternative doesn’t look like a very clear path at all