RSS - Posts
April 22, 2019
Western Hemisphere Regional
- Angela Kocherga, “Most of Trump ‘Emergency’ Wall Goes Through Nm” (The Albuquerque Journal, April 22, 2019).
The Trump administration’s declaration calls for $1 billion being diverted from military projects to build 57 miles of bollard barriers, with 46 of those miles in New Mexico’s Doña Ana and Luna counties
- Simon Romero, “f.b.i. Arrests Leader of Right-Wing Militia That Detained Migrants in New Mexico” (The New York Times, April 22, 2019).
Mr. Hopkins was arrested on charges of firearms possession by a felon
- Alex Horton, “Trump Soured Relations in Latin America. China and Russia Have Welcomed the Chaos.” (The Washington Post, April 22, 2019).
The Trump administration’s approach to Latin America is a house of mirrors and contradictions as it emphasizes relations mainly through migration and crime
Colombia
- Jose David Escobar Moreno, Leonardo Botero Fernandez, “Desmonte de los Sucesores del Paramilitarismo, Gran Deuda de la Fiscalia” (El Espectador (Colombia), April 22, 2019).
El Acuerdo de Paz creó una unidad especial para erradicar los grupos sucesores de los paramilitares. Casi dos años después de su creación no parece haber avances ni resultados contundentes
- “ee.uu y Colombia: Con Amigos Asi…” (Semana (Colombia), April 22, 2019).
La injerencia del Tío Sam está comenzando a preocupar a algunos y a incomodar a otros. Desde hace mucho tiempo no había tantas decisiones tan estructurales bajo la lupa de Estados Unidos
Guatemala
- Perla Trevizo, “Passports to the American Dream: Mounting Debt, Few Opportunities Keep Guatemalans Coming” (The Arizona Daily Star, April 22, 2019).
Leaving for the United States is seen as a last choice, propelled by a cycle of debt that only fuels more migration. And while it’s too soon to predict the long-term impact of family migration, some of these villages are losing their future
- Kevin Sieff, “The Stay Here Center” (The Washington Post, April 22, 2019).
As migration from Central America surges, a school funded by the U.S. government in a Guatemalan village aims to give youth the job skills to be successful in their own country. Will it keep them from heading north?
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
- Marcos Aleman, Maria Verza, “How Does a Central American Migrant Caravan Form?” (Associated Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, April 22, 2019).
The most recent caravan left the bus station in San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras on April 10, and journalists from The Associated Press have been following various online migrant chats since late March
Central America Regional, Mexico
- Sonia Perez D., “Frustration Grows Among Migrants in Mexico as Support Fades” (Associated Press, Associated Press, April 22, 2019).
The outpouring of aid that once greeted Central American migrants as they trekked in caravans through southern Mexico has been drying up
Mexico
- Kirk Semple, Paulina Villegas, “Mexican Town Once Welcomed Migrants. Now It Blames Mexico’s President for Them.” (The New York Times, April 22, 2019).
The towns here in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have long been a common stop on the migratory route for people heading north. But something began to change last October with the arrival of thousands of migrants traveling en masse
- “Arranque de 2019, el Mas Violento del Que Haya Registro: 8,493 Personas Asesinadas” (Animal Politico (Mexico), April 22, 2019).
En enero, febrero y marzo de 2019 fueron asesinadas 8,493 personas en México, se trata del primer trimestre más violento del que haya registro (un 9 % arriba del arranque de 2018 que fue récord en su momento)
Nicaragua
- Yader Luna / Maynor Salazar, “Carazo, Masaya, Managua: La Resistencia a un Ano de la Rebelion” (Confidencial (Nicaragua), April 22, 2019).
En semanas recientes, varias casas de Diriamba han amanecido con pintas en las que se lee: “¡Plomo!”, “¡Te estamos esperando!”, “¡Aquí vive un golpista!”
- Javier Lafuente, ““No Hay Libertad para Que Yo Diga Algo, en Nicaragua Estamos en una Dictadura”” (El Pais (Spain), April 22, 2019).
El poeta y sacerdote nicaragüense Ernesto Cardenal, recuperado tras 16 días hospitalizado con 94 años, celebra la figura del papa Francisco y lamenta la deriva de Ortega
Peru
- Mario Vargas Llosa, “Alan Garcia” (El Pais (Spain), April 22, 2019).
¿Fue un político honesto, comparable a un José Luis Bustamante y Rivero o a Fernando Belaúnde Terry, dos presidentes que salieron de Palacio de Gobierno más pobres de lo que entraron? Yo creo sinceramente que no
Venezuela
- Sebastiana Barraez, “Testimonio del Horror: Habla un Torturado en una Carcel Militar Chavista” (Infobae, April 22, 2019).
Infobae conversó con un oficial del ejército que estuvo preso 45 días en la Dirección General de Contrainteligencia Militar de Caracas
- Steven Lemongello, “Florida’s U.S. Senators Rattle Sabers Over Military Intervention in Venezuela” (The Orlando Sentinel, April 22, 2019).
Scott has spoken with President Trump, National Security Advisor John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence about military options