Juan Chiari, U.S. Army Garrison-Miami photo at U.S. Southern Command. Caption: “Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talks with U.S. Southern Command’s Commander, Navy Adm. Craig Faller, during a visit to SOUTHCOM headquarters. Bolsonaro visited SOUTHCOM to meet with U.S. military leaders to discuss the growing U.S.-Brazil defense partnership.”

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March 9, 2020

Western Hemisphere Regional

Nosotras, que somos las recipientes de tanta ofensa, nos retorcemos una vez más de rabia impotente

Argentina

“Hoy ya no existe ninguna restricción formal para que las mujeres se integren en todas las áreas y pueden hacer su carrera militar”, destacó la directora de Género del ministerio

Bolivia, Western Hemisphere Regional

As a right-wing, pro-American government represses, threatens and jails its leftist opponents, the United States has stayed largely silent — just as it did during the abuses of the Latin American dictatorships it supported during the Cold War

Brazil

The leaders discussed the growing defense-cooperation partnership between Brazil and the U.S.

Até que ponto o Exército já é visto como parte do governo Bolsonaro

Brazil, Western Hemisphere Regional

La militarización ya no proviene de los golpes tradicionales ejecutados por los dictadores en los años 50 a 80. Políticos, comúnmente sin partidos estructurados ni alianzas ordenadas, recurren a los oficiales para continuar en el poder

Colombia

Entre las dificultades que tienen para estudiar y también para trabajar están la maternidad, la falta de flexibilidad en horarios, los costosos desplazamientos en sus territorios, la estigmatización social y la validación de saberes

Los relatos de los exguerrilleros ante la JEP han ofendido a las víctimas y no ayudan a la búsqueda de la verdad. ¿Qué han dicho?

This nationwide show of strength essentially proves that the ELN is Latin America’s only criminal group able to bring large parts of a country to a halt

El líder Leyner Palacios da su estremecedor testimonio de por qué lo quieren quitar del camino

If the U.S. president has his way, clouds of the weed killer glyphosate will descend on crops and people in Colombia. His EPA says it’s safe. Thousands of lawsuits say it’s not

Colombia, Venezuela

Las primeras versiones indican que todo ocurrió luego de un enfrentamiento armado entre grupos ilegales. En la zona hay disputas entre colectivos venezolanos, ELN y Los Rastrojos

Central America Regional, Costa Rica

Faced with government inaction, some activists try to reclaim ancestral lands on their own. Often, they pay a high price

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

Lawmakers Charge that Agreements with Northern Triangle Countries Are Unlawful and Place Vulnerable Migrants at Grave Risk

Guatemala

“We have only one runway” and one migrant reception center, Hernandez said in an interview last week. The agreement “cannot exceed our installed capacity”

Haiti

“Everyone is immune to it. Everyone knew what was happening. It was shocking to me. Even the little kids, they are immune to it by now”

Mexico

El nuevo trato presidencial y la omisión de hacer reformas al sector defensa, les ha dado a los militares la coartada de un intervencionismo exacerbado, con garantías amplias de privilegio e impunidad

Como medidas de no repetición, la sentencia obliga a la Semar a destinar “una partida presupuestal para capacitación de todos los elementos castrenses o su mando en materia de derechos humanos”

La Fiscalía General del Estado de Veracruz sigue una línea de investigación encaminada hacia un presunto vínculo entre ganaderos acaudalados y las fosas clandestinas localizadas en la región de Playa Vicente

One would think López Obrador, who came to power as a supposed progressive, would fully support the women’s movement. Or, at the very least, respect it. But he has done the complete opposite

With femicide rates rising and a climate of impunity for the killers, anger is being directed at López Obrador government

Nicaragua

El coordinador del Movimiento Campesino manifestó que a la institución militar al menos le debería de preocupar la gran cantidad de armas en manos de civiles

U.S.-Mexico Border

The Trump administration is sending 160 active-duty personnel to the southern border in light of a recent court ruling preventing the government from making immigrants wait in Mexico

Lt. Col. Chris Mitchell, a Defense Department spokesman, said the active-duty troops would be placing temporary barriers at the ports of entry and “provide force protection” for the border officers

Her case is emblematic of the obstacles other immigrants in MPP who have been attacked in Mexico face when they try to convince an asylum officer to let them stay in the US instead

Since the victims, violence and costs of that crisis happen to be just south of the border — sometimes nearly within view of it — U.S. officials have successfully averted their eyes

Venezuela

Militares, que se autodefinen como institucionales, llaman a defender a la Fuerza Armada Nacional (FAN) exigen al presidente del Parlamento y presidente encargado, Juan Guaidó, no retardar más lo que aseguran fue un compromiso adquirido por el dirigente opositor de designar un Comisionado de Defensa