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November 12, 2018

Western Hemisphere Regional

• Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, “Deployed Inside the United States: The Military Waits for the Migrant Caravan” (The New York Times, November 12, 2018).
  

  Putting troops at the border to protect against what Mr. Trump deemed a threat, in his rallying cry for the midterms, has put Mr. Mattis’s views about politicizing the military on a collision course with the president

Brazil

• Andres Schipani, Joe Leahy, “Brazil’s Generals Vow to Stay Out of Politics” (The Financial Times (UK), November 12, 2018).
  

  General Villas Bôas said the country was “politically mature” with strong institutions. “Brazil will not turn into a fascist country. That’s not in our nature,” he said

• Ernesto Londono, “As Brazil’s Far Right Leader Threatens the Amazon, One Tribe Pushes Back” (The New York Times, November 12, 2018).
  

  The Times traveled hundreds of miles into the Brazilian Amazon, staying with a tribe in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory as it struggled with the shrinking rain forest

Central America Regional, Mexico

• Alberto Pradilla, “Caravana Migrante: Frio y Tos en Medio de la Nada en Queretaro” (Plaza Publica (Guatemala), November 12, 2018).
  

  Cientos de migrantes centroamericanos pasaron la noche del sábado 10 de noviembre al raso en el exterior del estadio Corregidora, en Querétaro. Están enfermos. Todo el mundo tose

Colombia

• Edinson Arley Bolanos, “Viaje a los Archivos de Inteligencia del Das” (El Espectador (Colombia), November 12, 2018).
  

  Reposan en más de 12.000 cajas. ¿Cómo llegaron ahí? ¿Por qué la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) dice que los archivos están en riesgo? ¿Por qué este tribunal transicional pide su custodia? ¿Están completos? ¿Qué dicen?

Cuba

• Adam Entous, Jon Lee Anderson, “The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome” (The New Yorker, November 12, 2018).
  

  After the State Department’s presence was diminished, what remained of the C.I.A. station was closed down, on Pompeo’s orders

Mexico

• Alejandra Guillen, Mago Torres, Marcela Turati, “El Pais de las 2 Mil Fosas” (A Donde Van los Desaparecidos (Mexico), November 12, 2018).
  

  En México 37 mil 485 personas están reportadas como desaparecidas entre diciembre de 2006 y octubre pasado, según los registros oficiales. Se desconoce cuántas de ellas están en fosas

Nicaragua

• Carlos Perez Osorio, Sarah Kinosian, “How Nicaragua Uses Anti-Terror Laws Against Protesters to Suppress Dissent” (The Intercept, November 12, 2018).
  

  Many of those arrested will be tried as terrorists, thanks to a law passed by the Ortega-controlled Congress in July that expanded the definition of terrorism to include a broad range of crimes