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July 16, 2018

Western Hemisphere Regional

• Annie Correal, Dan Barry, Manny Fernandez, Miriam Jordan, “Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A Migrant Child’s Days in Detention” (The New York Times, July 16, 2018).

Do not misbehave. Do not sit on the floor. Do not share your food. Do not use nicknames. Also, it is best not to cry. Doing so might hurt your case

Colombia

• Christine Armario, “Ex-Rebels Leaders Appear Before Colombia’s Peace Tribunal” (Associated Press, The Miami Herald, July 16, 2018).

The procedural hearing for “Case No. 001” lasted three hours and was attended by just three of the 31 leaders of the disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

• Olga Patricia Rendon Marulanda, “Farc Da Primer Paso para la Verdad Sobre Secuestrados” (El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), July 16, 2018).

En la primera audiencia ante la JEP, se entregaron expedientes de casos de secuestros para que Farc los analice y expliquen qué sucedió. A la diligencia asistieron tres exjefes guerrilleros

• Juan Forero, “Where Colombian Rebels Once Ruled, Drug Gangs Now Fight for Control” (The Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2018).

In the year since the powerful Marxist guerrillas disarmed, drug gangs like this one have battled each other and the state for control of the booming cocaine trade in remote regions

• Ariel Ávila, LeÓn Valencia, “La Compleja Estructura Detras del ‘Clan del Golfo’” (El Tiempo (Colombia), July 16, 2018).

El ‘clan del Golfo’ es una organización de tercera generación, es decir, funciona en red, con nodos territoriales y los mandos son reemplazables fácilmente

Colombia, Venezuela

• “Santos Pide a Trump Que Hable Con Putin para Que Deje de Apoyar a Maduro” (EFE, El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), July 16, 2018).

“Para contribuir a la solución de la crisis en Venezuela, le pido al presidente Trump que le solicite a Putin dejar de apoyar al régimen de Maduro”, indicó el mandatario en su cuenta de Twitter

Cuba

• “Cuba Sets Out New Constitutional Reforms” (BBC (UK), July 16, 2018).

The intention of the proposed reforms is to constitutionally formalise the island’s economic and social opening-up while maintaining this “irrevocable” socialist system

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

• Roberto Suro, “We Need to Offer More Than Asylum” (The New York Times, July 16, 2018).

Managing this migration effectively and humanely requires a legislative solution outside the asylum system, a solution that establishes a legal process based on the specific circumstances of this migration

Guatemala

• Javier Estrada Tobar, “Un Nuevo Caso Contra Jimmy Morales: Mp Investiga su Viaje a Israel” (Nomada (Guatemala), July 16, 2018).

Ahora está en curso una investigación penal por el viaje que en el avión de un magnate americano-israelí sancionado por corrupción

• Michael E. Allison, “Guatemala Asks President Trump to Weaken Anti-Corruption Commission” (The Hill, July 16, 2018).

With one year remaining in its mandate, now is the time to discuss the strengthening and extension of CICIG’s mandate, not to negotiate its death by a thousand cuts

Honduras

• “Una Decena de Delitos Combatira la Fuerza Nacional Antimaras en Honduras” (El Heraldo (Honduras), July 16, 2018).

La Fuerza Nacional Antimaras y Pandillas (Fnamp) se conformó hace tres semanas. El anuncio lo hizo el presidente Juan Orlando Hernández

Nicaragua

• Joshua Partlow, “‘They Are Shooting at a Church’: Inside the 15-Hour Siege by Nicaraguan Paramilitaries on University Students” (The Washington Post, July 16, 2018).

By 10:30 p.m., the Catholic Church and the U.S. State Department had prevailed upon the Nicaraguan government to allow a convoy of ambulances and negotiators to cross police lines and ferry three wounded students and me out of the church

Venezuela

• , Jeremy Mcdermott, “Venezuela, the New Regional Crime Hub” (InsightCrime, The New York Times, July 16, 2018).

There is no clear-cut definition of what constitutes a mafia state, but the fact that organized crime touches the daily lives of every Venezuelan, and has penetrated the highest level of state institutions, easily qualifies Venezuela