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April 26, 2017

Brazil

• Ueslei Marcelino, Anthony Boadle, “Brazil Indigenous Protest Over Land Rights Turns Violent” (Reuters, April 26, 2017).

The demonstration was peaceful until police blocked some of the indigenous people, their bodies painted and wearing colorful headdresses, from climbing a ramp that led into the congressional building

Brazil, Paraguay

• Simon Romero, “Deadly Heist Shakes a South American Borderland Trying to Shed Its Lawless Image” (The New York Times, April 26, 2017).

the Paraguayan authorities said they suspected a Brazilian prison gang, commonly referred to as the P.C.C., or Primeiro Comando da Capital in Portuguese, of carrying out the crimes

Colombia

• Eduardo Alvarez Vanegas, Daniel Pardo Calderon, “Las Caletas de las Farc: Un Riesgo Anunciado” (Fundacion Ideas para la Paz, El Espectador (Colombia), April 26, 2017).

A pesar de los protocolos, reglas de juego, mecanismos de rendición de cuentas, cronogramas, entre otros, establecidos en el Acuerdo Final, quedan sobre la mesa las siguientes preguntas

• Juan Esteban Lewin, Tatiana Duque, Juanita Velez, Daniel Morelo, “Estas Son las Circunscripciones Especiales” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), April 26, 2017).

Uno de los puntos controversiales del Acuerdo con las Farc son las circunscripciones especiales de paz, sobre cuya localización el Gobierno ha mantenido el tema bajo gran sigilo. La Silla finalmente conoció cuáles serán

• “Posconflicto Amargo para los Pueblos Indigenas en Antioquia” (Verdad Abierta (Colombia), April 26, 2017).

Varios líderes indígenas han sido abordedados por desconocidos en diferentes municipios de esa región agroindustrial y les repiten como una letanía que si no se van de la región ya saben lo que les pasará

• “El Glifosato Casi Extingue a una Comunidad en Guaviare: Corte” (Semana (Colombia), April 26, 2017).

A pesar de que el Gobierno tiene suspendidas las fumigaciones aéreas con glifosato desde octubre de 2015, la Corte encontró necesario prohibir el retorno de la aspersión de esa sustancia

Mexico

• Elisabeth Malkin, “Mexican Journalists Navigate Threats and Censorship by Cartels” (Committee to Protect Journalists, April 26, 2017).

“There is no evidence to say that it came from the government,” he said. “But I have elements to say that it wasn’t a common crime”

• Astrid Sanchez, “Homicidios Dolosos Aumentan 19% Con Epn” (El Universal (Mexico), April 26, 2017).

La cifra de homicidios dolosos en lo que va de la administración del presidente Enrique Peña se ha incrementado 12 mil 476 casos respecto al mismo periodo del presidente Felipe Calderón

• David Agren, “Mexico Talks Tough to Trump as Border Wall Funding Appears to Stall” (The Guardian (Uk), April 26, 2017).

“Tough talk about the wall right now, right after Trump backing down, is low risk and comes without cost”

Venezuela

• Javier Corrales, “Can’t We Give Venezuela’s Opposition a Little Credit?” (Americas Quarterly, April 26, 2017).

The MUD may not have succeeded in stopping the government’s march toward authoritarianism and militarization. But to its credit, the MUD has made this march costlier than Chávez or Maduro ever imagined

• Andrew Cawthorne, Diego Ore, “Death Toll in Venezuela’s Unrest Rises to 26” (Reuters **, April 26, 2017).

Two Venezuelan men died on Tuesday from gunshots at political demonstrations, bringing to 26 the number of fatalities

• “Editorial: The Guardian View on Venezuela: A Country in Pain” (The Guardian (Uk), April 26, 2017).

Venezuela is in great danger. This stand-off can only be resolved if both sides make some big and difficult decisions

• David Smilde, “Can a Revived Opposition Stop Venezuela’s Authoritarian Slide?” (World Politics Review, April 26, 2017).

The fact that the U.S. State Department chose not to take on an assertive, public role at the OAS allowed Latin American countries such as Mexico and Peru to take the lead. It also made it politically palatable for countries usually reticent to pressure Venezuela to get involved