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June 18, 2019
Western Hemisphere Regional
- Priscilla Alvarez, Geneva Sands, “Trump Admin Considers Temporary Courts Along the Southern Border” (CNN, June 18, 2019).
Site assessments have been completed for almost all the ports of entry to determine where such temporary immigration courts, described by sources as “soft-sided,” would be needed
Colombia
- Tatiana Duque, Juanita Velez, “Gentil Duarte Da un Paso Mas para Revivir a las Farc” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), June 18, 2019).
La disidencia de Gentil Duarte, que es la más grande del país, se está consolidando en Putumayo, está dando los primeros pasos para entrar a Cauca y por medio de su aliado Iván Mordisco llegó hasta Nariño
- Sebastian Forero Rueda, “La Verdad de las Mujeres en la Guerra, en Manos de Justicia Transicional” (El Espectador (Colombia), June 18, 2019).
La Jurisdicción Especial de Paz y la Comisión de la Verdad reciben este martes, 18 de junio, cinco informes sobre violencia contra mujeres indígenas, afrodescendientes, exiliadas y defensoras de derechos humanos que recogen más de 900 testimonios
- “Gobierno Planea Retomar Aspersion Con Glifosato En “Cuestion de Semanas”” (El Espectador (Colombia), June 18, 2019).
Según reveló Botero, la aspersión se retomaría en julio
Ecuador
- Pablo Jaramillo Viteri, Chris Kraul, “Ecuador Defends Decision to Let the U.S. Use the Galapagos Islands for Anti-Drug Flights” (The Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2019).
Ecuador signed the new agreement with the U.S. last year, but it was detailed only at a little-noticed news conference in April
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
- Matthew Lee , “Us Restores Some Aid to el Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala” (Associated Press, Associated Press, June 18, 2019).
The State Department said that after a review of more than $615 million in assistance that President Donald Trump ordered in March to be cut entirely, it would go ahead with $432 million
Guatemala
- Sandra Cuffe, “Guatemala Arrests Fugitive Ex-Military Chief Accused of Genocide” (Al Jazeera, June 18, 2019).
Luis Enrique Mendoza, on the run since 2011, faces charges for his alleged role in 1982 massacre of Maya Ixil people
- MartÍn RodrÍguez Pellecer, “Habra Otro Invierno en el Gobierno, el Pacto Es Castigado, y Otras Sorpresas de la Eleccion” (Nomada (Guatemala), June 18, 2019).
No hay mucho qué celebrar para la alianza conocida como el Pacto de Corruptos en el Congreso. Y hubo un voto de protesta que no puede ser ignorado
- Gabriel Labrador, “Guatemala se Resigna en las Urnas a Ver Morir a la Cicig” (El Faro (El Salvador), June 18, 2019).
El resultado probablemente condena a muerte a la Comisión Contra la Impunidad, pieza clave de la lucha contra la corrupción en los últimos diez años
Mexico
- Alonso Urrutia, “Asumira el Gobierno Control de Albergues para Indocumentados: Amlo” (La Jornada (Mexico), June 18, 2019).
Había casos, dijo, de organizaciones no gubernamentales dedicada a apoyos a migrantes a quienes se le entregaban los recursos y el dinero nunca llegó a los migrantes
- Alberto Pradilla, “Todos Alerta: Migrantes Eluden Retenes en la Carretera y Corren en un Intento de Abordar el Tren” (Animal Politico (Mexico), June 18, 2019).
En una de las salidas de Huixtla, Chiapas, migrantes centroamericanos se aferran a la posibilidad de abordar el tren, para avanzar en su ruta hacia el norte
- Maria Verza, “Overcrowding, Abuse Seen at Mexico Migrant Detention Center” (Associated Press, Associated Press, June 18, 2019).
Located in the city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, it’s a secretive place off-limits to public scrutiny where cellphones are confiscated and journalists aren’t allowed inside
- Nick Miroff, “Arrests Along Mexico Border Are Falling, Preliminary Figures Show” (The Washington Post, June 18, 2019).
U.S. authorities detained more than 85,000 “family unit” members at the border in May, an average of nearly 2,800 per day. That number has declined about 13 percent since the beginning of June
- Alejandro Lazo, “Mexican Shelters Strained by Migrants Struggle With U.S. Returnees” (The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2019).
Shelters in Mexico are already overcrowded, and resources are thin in border communities such as Tijuana
- Maria Sacchetti, “‘the American Dream Has Turned Into Hell’: In Test of a Deterrent, Juarez Scrambles Before U.S. Dumps Thousands of Migrants” (The Washington Post, June 18, 2019).
More than 200 migrants were sent back to Juarez on Thursday, double the previous day, and officials expect as many as 500 migrants each day will be returned from El Paso to Juarez in coming weeks
- Ted Hesson, “Mexican Official Claims Gains in U.S. Border Enforcement” (Politico, June 18, 2019).
The Mexican official, who briefed reporters in Washington, said U.S. Border Patrol arrested 2,600 people per day after the agreement was struck on June 7. That would be a steep drop from the daily average of 4,300 border arrests in May