February 26, 2020
Brazil
- Ernesto Londono, “‘Like a Scream of Resistance’: Rio’s Carnival in Bolsonaro’s Brazil” (The New York Times, February 26, 2020).
“In difficult times, like during the era of dictatorship, Brazilian culture flourishes”
Central America Regional, Mexico
- Mathieu Tourliere, “Oim Preve Que Suba la Cifra de Migrantes Centroamericanos Que Cruzaran a Mexico” (Proceso (Mexico), February 26, 2020).
“Siempre hay un incremento en este momento del año (…) mientras las condiciones (de desarrollo) no se encuentren en los países de origen, las personas van a seguir buscando otras opciones”
Colombia
- “Frentes del Eln se Desmarcan del Comando Central y Piden Pista para Proceso de Paz” (Semana (Colombia), February 26, 2020).
Miguel Ceballos, alto comisionado de paz, manifestó que varios frentes de la guerrilla del ELN han venido enviando mensajes en busca de espacios de paz
- Carolina Avila Cortes, “Un Plan de Busqueda para los Desaparecidos del Guaviare” (El Espectador (Colombia), February 26, 2020).
Guaviare es el departamento de Colombia donde hay más probabilidades de que una familia tenga un pariente víctima de desaparición forzada
- Alejandra Bonilla Mora, “¿Otro Dabeiba? Los Falsos Positivos Que Yacen en un Cementerio de Valledupar” (El Espectador (Colombia), February 26, 2020).
La Fiscalía afirma que en una fosa común habría entre 450 y 500 cuerpos
- “Ingrid Responde a Version de las Farc Sobre su Secuestro: “Era Venganza Contra un Ser Humano”” (El Espectador (Colombia), February 26, 2020).
Ante la idea expresada por las Farc de que las cadenas era una manera de proteger su vida, Betancourt es enfática en develar su cinismo
Colombia, Venezuela
- Bram Ebus, “Under a Merciless Sun: Venezuelans Stranded Across the Colombian Border” (International Crisis Group, February 26, 2020).
It consists of the most vulnerable, including poor expectant mothers, unaccompanied children and the sick, people with no defence against the predations of armed bands
Costa Rica
- Nina Lakhani, “Costa Rican Indigenous Land Activist Killed by Armed Mob” (The Guardian, February 26, 2020).
The killing comes just two weeks after Mainor Ortiz Delgado, 29, a leader of the Bribri indigenous people in neighbouring Salitre, was wounded in a gun attack, and less than a year since Sergio Rojas Ortiz, 59, was shot dead
El Salvador
- Kevin Clarke, “State Department Sanctions 13 Suspected in 1989 Slaying of Jesuits in el Salvador. Why Now?” (America The Jesuit Review, February 26, 2020).
A better list would have focused on “high-level military personalities who were probably involved,” not on the soldiers who would have been killed themselves for not following orders
Honduras
- “Honduran Minister of Defense Visits Southcom” (U.S. Southern Command, February 26, 2020).
Honduras is a trusted partner in efforts to combat illicit traffickers in Central America
Mexico
- Manu Ureste, “Arantepacua, la Comunidad Purepecha Que Expulso a los Partidos Politicos” (Animal Politico (Mexico), February 26, 2020).
La gente de Arantepacua dice que se siente “traicionada” por un Estado y unas autoridades que enviaron a un “ejército de policías” a reprimir una protesta social
- Kirk Semple, “Under Pressure From Trump, Extraditions to U.S. From Mexico Soar” (The New York Times, February 26, 2020).
The increased pace follows a threat by President Trump to designate drug traffickers as terrorists and amid two visits by his attorney general to Mexico to push for more cooperation
Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border
- Pete Williams, “Supreme Court Rules Mexican Parents Can’t Sue Border Patrol Agent Who Killed Their Son” (NBC News, February 26, 2020).
The teen, a Mexican national, was playing with three friends in the concrete culvert that separates the two cities. They dared one another to cross the unmarked border, run up and touch the fence on the U.S. side, then run back to the Mexican side
- “Lamenta Gobierno de Mexico Fallo de la Suprema Corte de Estados Unidos” (Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (Mexico), February 26, 2020).
El Gobierno de México expresa su profunda preocupación por los efectos que esta decisión tendrá en otros casos similares
U.S.-Mexico Border
- Julián Aguilar, “Webb County and Laredo Coming Face to Face With the Reality of a Border Wall” (The Texas Tribune, February 26, 2020).
As of April 2019, only about 77 acres of land in Webb County was between a border barrier and the Rio Grande. That’s compared with more than 10,000 acres in Hidalgo County and more than 12,000 in Cameron County
Venezuela
- Luisa Quintero, “Dgcim, el Organismo de Contrainteligencia Que Paso a Ser Centro de Torturas” (Tal Cual (Venezuela), February 26, 2020).
La Dgcim permanece constantemente en la mira de Naciones Unidas y organizaciones no gubernamentales por las continuas violaciones de derechos humanos que se les atribuyen a los funcionarios, dentro o fuera de su sede
- Jay Weaver, Antonio MarÍa Delgado, “Huge U.S. Money-Laundering Probe Targets Widening Circle of Venezuelan Elites” (The Miami Herald, February 26, 2020).
The business elites are suspected of paying hefty bribes to the government officials in exchange for making loans in bolivars to the national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., and then receiving repayments in dollars