May 7, 2020
Western Hemisphere Regional
- Betsy Woodruff Swan, Daniel Lippman, “Ice Chief Tangles With White House Over Political Appointees” (Politico, May 7, 2020).
McEntee, a 29-year-old former campaign staffer who has the president’s ear, is turning his focus to immigration as the 2020 election approaches. But the effort has faced resistance from Matthew Albence
- Kate Morrissey, “First Ice Detainee Dies From Covid-19 After Being Hospitalized From Otay Mesa Detention Center” (The San Diego Union-Tribune, May 7, 2020).
Rosa and her brother, the youngest of five siblings, came from El Salvador with their mother in 1980 during the country’s civil war
Brazil
- Ilona Szabo, Robert Muggah, “Brazil Needs Intensive Care” (Igarape Institute, Project Syndicate, May 7, 2020).
Now that COVID-19 has brought Brazil to the brink of a new disaster, the costs of corrupt populism are becoming clear
Colombia
- “Editorial: La Mano Abierta en Busca de la Paz: ¿Respondera el Eln?” (El Espectador (Colombia), May 7, 2020).
La administración de Iván Duque ha mostrado una voluntad de paz que no está cayendo en oídos sordos y podría, en medio de la pandemia, abrir la puerta a nuevas conversaciones
- “Las Exigencias de los Lideres Sociales al Gobierno en Medio de la Pandemia” (El Espectador (Colombia), May 7, 2020).
Entre enero y abril, 56 líderes y defensores de Derechos Humanos han sido asesinados, dijo la Defensoría del Pueblo
- “De los 40 Municipios del Cauca, Solo en Ocho Hay Presencia de la Fiscalia: Fiscal General” (El Espectador (Colombia), May 7, 2020).
En cuanto a la grave situación del Cauca, la entidad indicó ante la Comisión Segunda del Senado que ha tratado de ampliar su cobertura pero, para el fiscal general, Francisco Barbosa, aún falta mucho
Colombia, Venezuela
- Joshua Goodman, “Sources: Us Investigating Ex-Green Beret for Venezuela Raid” (Associated Press, Associated Press, May 7, 2020).
A former Green Beret who has claimed responsibility for an ill-fated military incursion into Venezuela is under federal investigation for arms trafficking
Haiti
- Monique O. Madan, Jacqueline Charles, “The U.S. Planned to Send a Death Squad Leader to Haiti. Then It Said Never Mind” (The Miami Herald, May 7, 2020).
Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, who has been living in the U.S. since fleeing Haiti in December 1994 and until recently was an inmate at a New York state prison following his 2008 conviction for mortgage fraud and grand larceny, was given the deportation reprieve
Honduras
- Eduin Funes, “Trasciende la Entrega de «el Tigre» Bonilla a la Justicia de Eeuu” (Tiempo (Honduras), May 7, 2020).
El exdirector de la Policía Nacional, Juan Carlos «El Tigre» Bonilla, habría salido de Honduras para entregarse a la justicia de Estados Unidos
Mexico
- Ana Paula Ordorica, “Jacobson Analiza las Estrategias Antinarco de Amlo y Calderon” (El Universal (Mexico), May 7, 2020).
Tenemos que asegurarnos que cuando trabajamos con una agencia lo hacemos con el menor número de personas, de oficiales, para asegurar la seguridad de la operación
U.S.-Mexico Border
- Nick Miroff, Josh Dawsey, “Trump Order to Paint Border Wall Black Could Drive Up Cost $500 Million or More” (The Washington Post, May 7, 2020).
The president’s determination to have the steel bollards coated in black has fluctuated during the past several years, and military commanders and border officials believed as recently as last fall that they had finally talked him out of it
- Asher Stockler, “Federal Government Suing Texas Orphanage to Obtain Access to Land for Border Projects” (Newsweek, May 7, 2020).
In return for a year-long grant of access to the land, known as an easement, the federal government says it will pay the Sacred Heart Children’s Home of Laredo, Texas, $100 as “just compensation”
- Camilo Montoya-Galvez, “U.S. Suspends Protections for Migrant Kids at Border, Expelling Hundreds Amid Pandemic” (CBS News, May 7, 2020).
For the first time in decades, children like Jesús who show up at the southern border without their parents or legal guardians are being summarily expelled and denied access to protections
Venezuela
- Anthony Faiola, Karen Deyoung, Ana Vanessa Herrero, “From a Miami Condo to the Venezuelan Coast, How a Plan to ‘Capture’ Maduro Went Rogue” (The Washington Post, May 7, 2020).
Goudreau claimed to have 800 men ready to penetrate Venezuela and “extract” Maduro and his henchmen, according to J.J. Rendón, the Venezuelan political strategist tapped by Guaidó to help lead the secretive committee
- “Pompeo: Eeuu «Hara Lo Posible» para Repatriar a Nuestros Ciudadanos en Venezuela” (Tal Cual (Venezuela), May 7, 2020).
Un vocero del Departamento de Estado de EEUU dijo que están investigando sobre las actividades de los dos estadounidenses detenidos