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August 19, 2019
Western Hemisphere Regional
- A.c. Thompson, ““Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career and the Crime That Finally Ended It” (Propublica, Mother Jones, August 19, 2019).
Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen had been investigated for years before he used his 4,000-pound truck to assault a fleeing migrant
- “Inside the New Border Patrol Tent Facility for Up to 2,000 Migrants in Tornillo” (KVIA (El Paso Texas), August 19, 2019).
The 197,000-square-foot facility in the West Texas desert, which opened this past week, has separate giant white tent buildings for single adult female and male detainees
Brazil
- Samy Adghirni, “Brazil Mulls Labeling Hezbollah as Terrorists in Pivot to U.S.” (Bloomberg, August 19, 2019).
The move could strain relations with Iran, a Hezbollah ally which imports $2.5 billion of Brazilian products per year, and displease Brazil’s influential Lebanese community
Colombia
- María Jimena Duzán, “El Cartel de los Ascensos” (Semana (Colombia), August 19, 2019).
Lo que está pasando en el Ejército es de cuidado: los suboficiales, es decir, la base, están enardecidos, viendo como muchos generales viven a sus anchas y promueven a sus enchufados, pese a que no cumplen los requisitos
- Andres Rosales Garcia, “En Zona de el Paisa, la Paz se Cocina a Fuego Lento” (Semana Rural (Colombia), August 19, 2019).
En San Vicente del Caguán, excombatientes de la otrora columna Teófilo Forero de las Farc hacen ingentes esfuerzos por completar el proceso de reincorporación. Ninguno de sus proyectos productivos es sostenible todavía
- Juanita Velez, Jineth Prieto, Tatiana Duque, “La Sombra de Armados y Narcos en las Elecciones Regionales” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), August 19, 2019).
Por lo menos en Putumayo, el Pacífico y Catatumbo, sus habitantes seguirán yendo a las urnas en medio del conflicto, y ahora con un fortalecido matrimonio entre narcos, guerrillas o disidencias con la política
- “Buque Hospital de ee.uu. Llega al Norte de Colombia para Mision Humanitaria” (EFE, El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), August 19, 2019).
El busque hospital USNS Comfort de la Armada de Estados Unidos llegó este domingo a la ciudad colombiana de Santa Marta
- Juan Francisco Valbuena G., “‘Fumigaciones Aereas Son un Elemento Muy Fuerte e Importante’: Ee. Uu.” (El Tiempo (Colombia), August 19, 2019).
Así lo dijo embajador saliente de ese país en Colombia, Kevin Whitaker, en entrevista con EL TIEMPO
Guatemala
- Azam Ahmed, “Women Are Fleeing Death at Home. The U.S. Wants to Keep Them Out.” (The New York Times, August 19, 2019).
Violence against women is driving an exodus of migrants from Central America, but the Trump administration is determined to deny them asylum
Mexico
- “Acusan a la Guardia Nacional de Actuar Como la Patrulla Fronteriza de Eu en Tijuana” (Proceso (Mexico), August 19, 2019).
El pasado martes 13 se llevaron detenidos, de forma arbitraria, a niños, adolescentes y adultos que se encontraban en playas de Tijuana en una salida recreativa
- Jason Kao, Denise Lu, “How Trump’s Policies Are Leaving Thousands of Asylum Seekers Waiting in Mexico” (The New York Times, August 19, 2019).
By early August, the waiting lists had expanded to three more cities. The total number of asylum seekers on these lists surpassed 26,000
Venezuela
- Jonathan Swan, “Amid Failure to Topple Maduro, Trump Privately Proposes a Naval Blockade of Venezuela” (Axios, August 19, 2019).
Trump has publicly alluded to a naval blockade of Venezuela. Earlier this month he answered “Yes, I am” when a reporter asked whether he was mulling such a move
- Joshua Goodman, “Us Talks Secretly to Venezuela Socialist Boss” (Associated Press, Associated Press, August 19, 2019).
Diosdado Cabello, who is considered the most-powerful man in Venezuela after Maduro, met last month in Caracas with someone who is in close contact with the Trump administration