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November 6, 2018

Western Hemisphere Regional

• James Stavridis, “Why It Would Be a Major Military Mistake to Deploy Troops to Confront the Migrant Caravan” (Time, November 6, 2018).
  

  We should control our border. But sending the military won’t help that cause

• Phil Stewart, “Pentagon Balked at U.S. Border Troops Building Detention Facilities – Officials” (Reuters **, November 6, 2018).
  

  Manning said only military police would carry weapons and stressed that there were no plans for U.S. troops to come in contact with protesters or migrants

• Alberto Manguel, Colm Toibin, Deborah Eisenberg, Et Al., Maaza Mengiste, Margaret Atwood, “Concentration Camps for Kids: An Open Letter” (The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2018).
  

  This generation will be remembered for having allowed for concentration camps for children to be built on “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” This is happening here and now, but not in our names

• Carlos Sanchez, Robert Moore, “Border Patrol to Conduct ‘Crowd Control’ Exercise on Election Day” (Texas Monthly, November 6, 2018).
  

  The exercise appears planned between Chihuahuita and the residents’ designated polling place about a half-mile away

• Kate Morrissey, “Ice Moves to Silence Detention Center Volunteer Visitors” (The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 6, 2018).
  

  The confidentiality sections of the new forms require volunteers to agree not to share information they learn inside without written permission from the warden

Central America Regional, Mexico

• Mariano v. Osnaya, Monica Wise Robles, Mustafa Khalili, Tom Silverstone, “Video: La Caravana: On the Road With the Migrant Caravan” (The Guardian (Uk), November 6, 2018).
  

  Thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala head north hoping to find work and a better life in the US. The largest Central American caravan in decades keeps growing as thousands more join this journey – but when they reach Mexico, the migrant caravan starts taking different directions

• and Maria Verza, Mark Stevenson, Sonia Perez D., “Migrants Straggle Into Mexico City to Shelter at Stadium” (Associated Press, ABC News, November 6, 2018).
  

  Authorities counted more than 2,000 migrants entering the Jesus Martinez stadium by midafternoon Monday, and a steady flow continued into the night

Colombia

• “Duro Pulso en el Congreso para Cambiar Acuerdo de Paz” (El Tiempo (Colombia), November 6, 2018).
  

  Ya no se creará la sala especial para los militares que proponía Paloma, sino que habrá 14 magistrados más en la JEP elegidos por instancias como la Judicatura y el Procurador, entre otros

El Salvador

• Molly o’toole, “Can Megachurches Save el Salvador?” (The New Republic, November 6, 2018).
  

  Gang bosses are increasingly granting those under their command desistance—a status change from “active” to “calmado,” meaning “calmed down”—if they convert to evangelicalism

Guatemala

• Ricardo Barrientos, “Presupuesto 2019: Quitarle a la Justicia para Darle al Ejercito” (Plaza Publica (Guatemala), November 6, 2018).
  

  Pese a una reducción del techo presupuestario global, el Ejército estaría recibiendo en 2019 casi 800 millones de quetzales más a costa de recortes al sector justicia y al gasto social

Mexico

• “Madres Buscan en Veracruz la Que Podria Ser una de las Mas Grandes Narcofosas de Mexico” (SinEmbargo (Mexico), November 6, 2018).
  

  Este lunes ha iniciado la búsqueda de más fosas clandestinas en la zona norte de la ciudad de Veracruz por parte del Colectivo Solecito

• Oscar Balderas, “Unos 100 Miembros de la Caravana Migrante Fueron Secuestrados y Entregados a un Cartel: Ombudsman de Oaxaca” (Huffington Post Mexico, November 6, 2018).
  

  De acuerdo con testimonios recabados por él y miembros de la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos en México— el secuestro ocurrió en el estado de Puebla

• Justin Villamil, “Billionaire Partner of Imprisoned Chapo Consolidates Empire” (Bloomberg, November 6, 2018).
  

  The last capo standing may be losing his grip on the world’s largest drug cartel. Mexico’s murder rate is skyrocketing as Chapo’s former allies sense a power vacuum and regional rivals muscle in