May 23, 2017
Colombia
- Juanita Velez, “La “Estrategia Mojoso” de las Farc” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), May 23, 2017).
Las Farc han venido aplicando lo que llaman ‘la estrategia Mojoso’ para que como ese, otros disidentes le apuesten al proceso de paz
Colombia, Venezuela
- “Venezuela No Esta Satisfecha Con Respuesta de Colombia Sobre Tanques” (Colprensa, El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia), May 23, 2017).
En un comunicado, el Ministerio de Defensa de Colombia aseguró que los vehículos fueron desplegados en 2015 con base en los acuerdos entre autoridades de ambas naciones
Haiti
- Jacqueline Charles, “Haitians Get Six Months of Protection From Deportation — but Told to Prepare to Leave U.S.” (The Miami Herald, May 23, 2017).
“As soon as you put your head down to sleep, it’s six months. After six months, what is next?”
- Maria Sacchetti, “For Haitians Who Came to U.S. After Earthquake, Another Deportation Reprieve” (The Washington Post, May 23, 2017).
The announcement did not please advocates on either side of the immigration debate. It foreshadowed the battles to come next year, when the Trump administration will decide the fate of about 263,000 people from El Salvador
Mexico
- “Concluye Reunion de Ministros de Defensa” (La Jornada (Mexico), May 23, 2017).
Durante el encuentro, realizado en Washington entre el domingo pasado y ayer, se establecieron diálogos estratégicos, en los que se abordaron temas sobre la defensa de América del Norte, ayuda humanitaria, apoyo a Centroamérica y el Caribe, cooperación para operaciones de mantenimiento de la paz
- Angela Kocherga, “Journalist Seeking Asylum in U.S. Gives Up, Returns to Mexico” (The Dallas Morning News, May 23, 2017).
Mendez described the Sierra Blanca Detention center in West Texas as “small, with metal bunks, worn-out rubber mattresses, wooden floors, bathrooms with walls covered in green and yellow mold, weeds everywhere and snakes and rats that come in at night”
Venezuela
- Alexandra Ulmer, Maria Ramirez, “Venezuela Prosecutor Decries Maduro Plan, Unrest Worsens” (Reuters **, May 23, 2017).
Venezuela’s state prosecutor has panned unpopular President Nicolas Maduro’s plan to create a grassroots congress, deepening a rare public split among the ruling Socialists
- Fabiola Sanchez , Hannah Dreier, “Lawmaker: Hugo Chavez’s Childhood Home Burned by Protesters” (Associated Press **, May 23, 2017).
Demonstrators lit the house in the city of Barinas where Chavez spent his early years aflame Monday afternoon along with several government buildings