RSS - PostsApril 23, 2019
Western Hemisphere Regional
- Alfredo Corchado, “‘This Is All One Big Lie.’ Why This Migrant Just Wishes He Could Go Home” (The Dallas Morning News, April 23, 2019).
The America they were told about was a lie. They were not welcomed with open arms
- Jean Guerrero, “The Border Realities Beneath the Fury” (The New York Times, April 23, 2019).
As President Trump renews threats to close the border outright, customs brokers tell me their partners — in cross-border supply chains for aerospace, medical devices and agriculture — are “panicked”
Brazil
- Andres Martinez-Fernandez, Ryan Berg, “Three Measures Brazil Should Take to Face Organized Crime” (American Enterprise Institute, Americas Quarterly, April 23, 2019).
The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil’s dominant criminal group with an estimated 30,000 members, controls key territory in major cities and large swaths in rural areas, as well as parts of Paraguay, Bolivia, and beyond
- Robert Muggah, “Brazil’s Murder Rate Finally Fell—and by a Lot” (Igarape Institute, Foreign Policy, April 23, 2019).
The drop in lethal violence started well before the election of the self-styled crime-fighter-in-chief, President Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected in October 2018. Despite his attempts to claim these successes as his own, there is little evidence that his administration has had anything to do with the drop
Central America Regional, Mexico
- Sonia Perez D., “Mexican Police Detain Hundreds of Central American Migrants” (Associated Press, April 23, 2019).
As migrants gathered under spots of shade in the burning heat outside the city of Pijijiapan, federal police and agents passed by in patrol trucks and vans and forcibly wrestled women, men and children into the vehicles
Colombia
- Luis Felipe Cruz Olivera, “La Sustitucion de Cultivos de Coca Es Mucho Mas Barata Que el Glifosato” (DeJusticia, El Espectador (Colombia), April 23, 2019).
¿Está el Gobierno dispuesto a gastar más de 8 billones de pesos anuales en una guerra contra las poblaciones cocaleras o mejor debería aumentar los 1,3 billones de pesos que se están destinando al programa de sustitución?
- Sebastian Forero Rueda, “Los Desafios para Acelerar la Reincorporacion de la Farc” (El Espectador (Colombia), April 23, 2019).
Básicamente, en todos los ETCR los predios están en arriendo y el Gobierno paga ese monto. Esa situación irá hasta agosto, cuando se deberá resolver si se compran los terrenos o si los excombatientes deben trasladarse
Colombia, Venezuela
- Dylan Baddour, “Inside the un’s First Tent Camp for Venezuelans Who Fled to Colombia” (VICE, April 23, 2019).
The $1.7 million facility opened March 8 with 60 family-sized tents and a lengthy waiting list
Colombia
- Javier Forero, “‘las Farc Nunca Estuvieron Derrotadas Militarmente’: Ariel Avila” (El Tiempo (Colombia), April 23, 2019).
En su nuevo libro, el investigador derrumba afirmaciones que, dice, son erróneas sobre la violencia
Cuba
- “Editorial: Cuba Is a Problem That Trump Is Making Worse” (Bloomberg, April 23, 2019).
A full resumption of normal ties between the U.S. and Cuba should indeed require the victims of expropriation to be compensated. A process that could have yielded this result was underway thanks to the warming of relations under President Obama
Nicaragua
- Carlos Dada, “Nicaragua Vive una Normalidad Muy Extrana” (El Faro (El Salvador), April 23, 2019).
A un año del inicio de las protestas contra el gobierno de Daniel Ortega, las autoridades sandinistas se esfuerzan por presentar un país al que ha vuelto la calma y la normalidad. La realidad es muy distinta
- Judith Flores, “Sanciones Muestran la Red de Operacion de Daniel Ortega” (La Prensa (Nicaragua), April 23, 2019).
El Gobierno de Estados Unidos ha designado sanciones para siete altos funcionarios del régimen de Daniel Ortega, y al Bancorp, relacionado con Albanisa, que administra los millonarios fondos del acuerdo petrolero con Venezuela
Venezuela
- Tom Phillips, “‘Operation Blackout Is Underway’: Russia Blames Us for Venezuela Power Crisis” (The Guardian (Uk), April 23, 2019).
The Russian report was approvingly reproduced by Telesur, Maduro’s main international propaganda outlet