Federico Rios Escobar photo at The New York Times. Caption: “A group of rebels during their daily training regime.”

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September 18, 2018

Brazil

Mr da Silva, his former childhood friend, summed it up. Mr Bolsonaro was Brazil’s version of Mr Trump, a social media Pied Piper gathering diverse disgruntled followers from across the web

Colombia

These dissident guerrillas invited The New York Times to their camp, hidden among mountains north of Medellín, to tell the story of why they abandoned the peace deal

Tres días después, en el casco urbano de Tumaco, una caravana de motociclistas acompañó los cuerpos de David y su hermana hasta la tumba

Colombia, Venezuela

“No acepto la idea equivocada de que si hay extradición no puede haber verdad. En el caso de los paramilitares extraditados hace una década, hemos montado 3.000 audiencias”

“Ha habido voces sobre operaciones militares unilaterales. Creemos que tiene que haber una respuesta colectiva a esta crisis”, dijo Francisco Santos

Para evitar un retroceso irreparable en Latinoamérica, debemos trabajar con el presidente Duque y aumentar la cooperación entre los Estados Unidos y Colombia en tres áreas críticas

Guatemala

Anti-corruption politics won’t liberate Guatemala from the military, organized crime, and the wealthy. But only elites’ interests will be served by shutting down the country’s attempts to root that corruption out

The president of Guatemala pushed the nation toward a constitutional crisis on Monday, ignoring an explicit order by the country’s top court while testing the bounds of the nation’s fragile democracy

La carta enviada por la canciller Sandra Patricia Jovel Polanco al secretario general de la ONU, António Guterres, constituye todo un desafío. En un lenguaje alejado del diplomático, zanja el debate sobre Iván Velásquez y le “conmina” a elegir a un sustituto del comisionado en un plazo de 48 horas

Honduras

Three hours later than scheduled, the jam-packed courtroom was informed that the trial was suspended until the appeal court decides whether the judges are competent to proceed or not

Mexico

Jan Jarab reiteró que este cambio radical o de raíz en la estrategia del combate al crimen organizado es importante para que no se replique la violencia porque “es contagiosa”

Peru

Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is facing a standoff with legislators over his call for a referendum on anti-corruption measures and has invoked a constitutional procedure that could end up dissolving the Congress

Venezuela

If they enter, U.S. troops must prepare to stay for the long haul. Venezuela’s electricity grids, sewage systems, hospitals, schools, and other basic physical and social infrastructure are decimated