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August 23, 2018

Western Hemisphere Regional

• Jonathan Blitzer, “Will Anyone in the Trump Administration Ever Be Held Accountable for the Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy?” (The New Yorker, August 23, 2018).

The main focus, the official added, has been to “map out” how the government can detain asylum seekers as they wait for a hearing before an immigration judge, which can take several months

Brazil

• Yesica Fisch, “Rio Residents Allege Abuses by Military and 3rd Soldier Dies” (Associated Press, The Washington Post, August 23, 2018).

Those allegations included killing and leaving the bodies of several young men in a forest atop the complex of slums

Colombia

• Olga Patricia Rendon Marulanda, “La Contrarreloj para Que Civiles se Sometan a la Jep” (El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), August 23, 2018).

EL COLOMBIANO conoció que 33 personas que entran en esa categoría ya han solicitado someterse a la JEP, entre ellos dos paramilitares, el resto son agentes del Estado

• “Las Pruebas Que Pide la Jep para Definir el Futuro de los Bienes de las Farc” (El Espectador (Colombia), August 23, 2018).

La Sección de Primera Instancia de la JEP emitió un auto de 30 páginas en el que se emiten diez órdenes con el propósito de establecer con exactitud la cantidad de bienes y activos que pertenecieron a las antiguas Farc

• Joe Parkin Daniels, “Colombian Activists Face ‘Extermination’ by Criminal Gangs” (The Guardian (Uk), August 23, 2018).

At least 123 of those killings took place in the first six months of this year, in what the country’s human rights ombudsman described as “an extermination”

• “52 Anos en Pie de Guerra” (El Tiempo (Colombia), August 23, 2018).

Su nacimiento, sus intentos para negociar con el Gobierno, sus jefes, los crímenes que cometió y los golpes que recibió. Esta es la evolución histórica de la guerrilla de las Farc

Cuba

• Nora Gamez Torres, “Cuban Artists Rebel Against Government Decree to ‘Criminalize Independent Art’” (The Miami Herald, August 23, 2018).

Decree 349 issued by the Culture Ministry tries to control art not sponsored by the government. It bars independent artists from presenting their work in both public and private spaces, and from being paid for their work

Mexico

• Arturo RodrÍguez GarcÍa, “Lopez Obrador se Reune Con Cienfuegos para Abordar Violencia y Relevo en Sedena” (Proceso (Mexico), August 23, 2018).

La relación de López Obrador con las fuerzas armadas ha sido polémica al menos desde 2016, pues su posición, respecto de la militarización desde el sexenio del panista Felipe Calderón, incomodó a los mandos castrenses

• Kate Linthicum, “Mexico Opened 2,599 Homicide Investigations in July — the Most Ever Recorded in a Month” (The Los Angeles Times, August 23, 2018).

Many in Mexico say the country’s crime-fighting efforts are also partly to blame for the rising body count