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April 12, 2017
Brazil
- Ricardo Brito, Lisandra Paraguassu, “Brazil Judge Orders Corruption Probe Into a Third of Temer’s Cabinet” (Reuters **, April 12, 2017).
The list of names under investigation released by Justice Edson Fachin read like a Who’s Who of Brazilian politics, tarnishing past statesmen and potential presidential candidates alike
Colombia
- Ricardo Monsalve Gaviria, “¿Que se Sabe de la Disidencia del Frente Primero de las Farc?” (El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), April 12, 2017).
Según inteligencia de la Región Siete de la Policía Nacional, ese grupo disidente de las Farc cuenta con aproximadamente 110 integrantes
- Natalia Arbelaez, “La Comida: El Iman de las Farc en Icononzo” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), April 12, 2017).
La Silla visitó la zona de concentración del municipio tolimense, donde a través de la comida la guerrilla se acerca a la comunidad
- Kevin G. Hall, Brittany Peterson, “Colombia Sent General Who Lost Job Over Rights Abuses to Its Washington Embassy” (McClatchy DC, April 12, 2017).
A Colombian army chief relieved of duties following a scathing report on the summary killing of almost 3,000 peasants has spent the last 18 months working at his nation’s embassy in the United States
- Daniela Quintero, “Colombia Forces Struggle to Root Out Coca” (Agence France Presse, Business Insider, April 12, 2017).
“You’re tearing out the coca,” he tells AFP, “and the farmers are planting it again behind your back”
- Senior Airman Krystal Wright, “Colombian Ambassador Visits Iaafa” (502nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs, Revista Dialogo (U.S. Southern Command), April 12, 2017).
“IAAFA has between 150 to 350 students per 12-week cycle, and about 900 to 1,000 students per year,” Col. Partridge explained. “About 50 to 60 percent of the students are from Colombia”
Haiti
- Edith M. Lederer, “Us Says Withdrawing un Military From Haiti Is Good Example” (Associated Press, The Washington Post, April 12, 2017).
Haley told the Security Council that thanks to recent elections in Haiti “the political context is right” for a new and smaller mission
Mexico
- Hector de Mauleon, “Los Ocho Escoltas de Yarrington” (El Universal (Mexico), April 12, 2017).
Surrealista. Kafkiano. Incomprensible. El gobierno priísta comisionaba y le pagaba sus escoltas, ¿pero no sabía dónde se hallaba el ex gobernador prófugo?
- NoÉ Zavaleta, “Ante Ejecuciones e Inseguridad, Llega la Policia Militar a Veracruz” (Proceso (Mexico), April 12, 2017).
Son 400 elementos de esta área operativa del Ejército mexicano que reforzarán el trabajo que actualmente hace la Secretaria de Marina (Semar)
- David Luhnow, Jacob Schlesinger, “Frayed U.S.-Mexico Ties Mend as Trump Refrains From Attacks” (The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2017).
Mr. Trump, at the urging of senior aides, stopped attacking Mexico on Twitter and in public statements, opening up space to officials from both countries to markedly improve ties
- Nick Schifrin, “Deported to Mexico, These Men Feel Lost in a Country They No Longer Know” (PBS, April 12, 2017).
The Trump administration has vowed to speed up the deportation process, but what exactly happens when undocumented immigrants who have built lives and have families in the U.S. are forced to return to Mexico?
- Julia Edwards Ainsley, Kristina Cooke, “U.S. Judges Pulled From Mexico Border as Crossings by Women, Children Fall” (Reuters **, April 12, 2017).
The dearth of cases at two Texas facilities where the judges are based can be traced to a sharp drop in illegal border crossings
- “Attorney General Jeff Sessions Announces the Department of Justice’s Renewed Commitment to Criminal Immigration Enforcement” (U.S. Department of Justice, April 12, 2017).
Pursuant to the President’s executive order, we will now be detaining all adults who are apprehended at the border
Venezuela
- “Lanzan Objetos Contra Caravana de Nicolas Maduro Tras Desfile Militar en Venezuela” (El Universo (Ecuador), April 12, 2017).
En la última toma de la transmisión, obligatoria para todas las televisoras y radios del país, se puede ver a la seguridad tratando de evitar que Maduro fuera impactado por alguno de esos objetos, aunque luego se le puede ver limpiándose algo del cabello
- Maria Ramirez, Alexandra Ulmer, “Venezuela’s Maduro Jeered by Crowd as Unrest Grows” (Reuters **, April 12, 2017).
Angry Venezuelans threw objects at President Nicolas Maduro during a rally on Tuesday, as protests mount