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September 11, 2018

Guatemala

• Enrique Naveda, “El Origen de la Crisis en Guatemala y Lo Que Podria Suceder” (The New York Times, September 11, 2018).

Acompañado por el alto mando militar y solo tres ministros de su gabinete (Gobernación, Defensa y Exteriores), en una imagen que recordaba a las épocas más represivas de la guerra civil, Morales dijo que había notificado a la ONU que no renovaría el mandato

• Sandra Cuffe, “Guatemala: Indigenous Protest Against Morales’ Cicig Decision” (Al Jazzeera, September 11, 2018).

Thousands block highways in first of week-long actions against president’s decision to not renew anti-graft body mandate

Mexico

• Karla Zabludovsky, “Hugs Not Bullets: How Mexico’s Next President Wants to End the Drug War” (BuzzFeed, September 11, 2018).

Security experts are skeptical about this strategy, based on love, redemption, and reconciliation — “Hugs, not bullets” — and say it lacks consistency, technical expertise, and a firm grasp on the country’s complex reality

Nicaragua, Venezuela

• “Onu: Bachelet Llamo al Consejo de Ddhh A “Tomar Todas las Medidas Disponibles” Sobre Venezuela y Nicaragua” (EFE, Cooperativa (Chile), September 11, 2018).

Afirmó que el número de personas que huye de Nicaragua crece de forma “exponencial” y que sigue llegando información de muertes por malnutrición en Venezuela

Venezuela

• Francisco Toro, “Cooler Heads Prevailed and the U.S. Sidestepped a Venezuela Blunder” (The Washington Post, September 11, 2018).

Far from a demonstration of U.S. aggressiveness toward Venezuela, it shows the way career officials in the Trump administration are keeping the peace against the expressed wishes of an aggressive commander in chief

Western Hemisphere Regional

• Franco Ordonez, “Latin America Says U.S. Has Itself to Blame for Chinese Entry Into Region That It Opposes” (The Miami Herald, September 11, 2018).

“You left some space and the other guy moved in,” a Latin American diplomat told McClatchy