Madeleine Wattenbarger photo at NACLA. Caption: “A march in Mexico City in February 2019”

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March 5, 2020

Western Hemisphere Regional

Freedom House found that 2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom

Brazil

The agreement, known by the acronym RDT&E (English acronym for research, development, testing, and evaluation), will be signed next week, during the visit of President Jair Bolsonaro to Miami

Colombia

Since last year, Chinese companies have committed billions to Colombia, winning bids to build Bogota’s first metro line and a regional rail line, and acquiring a gold mine, among other deals

Dice a sus interlocutores ser el eje de una operación de compra de votos en la Costa Norte para el hoy presidente, Iván Duque, por orden del ex presidente y senador Álvaro Uribe

Con este hecho se prolonga la amenaza que pesa sobre el líder comunitario Leyner Palacios Asprilla, oriundo de Bojayá-Chocó

Organizaciones del Bajo Cauca proponen refugios humanitarios al interior de la región como forma de autoprotegerse y, al tiempo, continuar en el territorio

En 2019, el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR) registró 352 víctimas de artefactos explosivos y minas antipersonal, entre las que se encuentran 159 civiles

BBC Mundo tuvo una breve conversación telefónica con Forst minutos después de su presentación en Ginebra

Colombia, Venezuela

En un discurso ante el grupo de cabildeo pro-Israel AIPAC, el presidente de Colombia equiparó al ELN y a las disidencias de las Farc con los terroristas de Oriente medio

Ecuador, Mexico

Trump’s allies are blocking a path for Africans fleeing violence in their homelands as those countries face a U.S. president who has used economic leverage to get help curtailing immigration

Guatemala

Ríos Montt’s tenure as president was one of the bloodiest periods in Guatemala’s history, but the administration that preceded his was also a calamity. In a few weeks, the Public Ministry will present in court the conclusions of its investigation into the massacres carried out under President Romeo Lucas García

Honduras

La salida que queda es aprobar la Ley de Protección de la Soberanía de Espacio Aéreo de Honduras que ya está en el Congreso Nacional

Mexico

More than 9,000 migrants have been taken to Chiapas from the border cities of Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo under the busing program

An average of 10.5 women are murdered every day in Mexico. What is the government doing to stop the femicides?

The draft law is much too limited to make an impact so long as comprehensive transitional justice measures are not in place

Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border

The court granted a government request to allow the policy to stay temporarily in effect while the Trump administration seeks a review by the Supreme Court

Nicaragua

“Nos han querido poner en lugares donde nunca nosotros hemos estado y lo hemos dejado claro en todas y cada una de nuestras notas de prensa y notas informativas”, manifestó

U.S.-Mexico Border

Smith said he hopes Republican House colleagues join him in returning to the Department of Defense $3.8 billion that has been redirected from defense modernization to the president’s border wall

Venezuela

Dentro de la Fuerza Armada Militar se gestan grupos que acusan a “los políticos” de todas las tendencias por las penurias que pasa la población. La operación Aurora es apenas una demostración de lo que puede suceder