Ivan Valencia/Bloomberg via Getty Images photo at NPR. Caption: “A plantation of coca, the main ingredient in cocaine, is seen in this aerial photograph taken above Tumaco, Colombia, on Feb. 26. The country’s military says former rebel fighters have turned to drug trafficking and other illegal operations in the area.”

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May 19, 2020

Colombia

El Ministro de la Defensa, al responder en el debate, sostuvo que el gobierno, en cabeza del presidente Duque, sí ha estado atento que se haga esa depuración en las fuerzas

Fueling this exit from the peace process is the fact that many former rebels have few job skills to flourish as civilians

El Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz (INDEPAZ) lleva el registro anual de estos asesinatos. Este año han asesinado a 101 líderes sociales y defensores de derechos humanos

The following are summaries of the human rights situations and cases we received that require action. We have divided them into three parts: military intelligence scandal, COVID-19 related concerns, and human rights abuses

Aunque la ANLA insistía en realizar este encuentro de forma no presencial, una tutela interpuesta por una lideresa de cacaoteros de Policarpa (Nariño) cambió el rumbo de esa decisión

Organizaciones campesinas aseguraron que militares abrieron fuego contra los labriegos. El Ejército aseguró que las tropas “fueron atacadas”

Mancuso se encuentra detenido en la cárcel Irwin County Detention Center, de Atlanta

Guatemala, U.S.-Mexico Border

They are effectively compelled to abandon their asylum claims and some who have a well-founded fear of persecution appear to be returning to their home countries where they are at real risk of serious harm

Honduras

El principal objeto de esta ley es establecer las normas, procedimientos y reglas para la identificación, rastreo, interceptación a través de disparos de advertencia contra aeronaves que son sospechosas de transportar drogas

Mexico

Families forced to halt hunt for nearly 62,000 who’ve vanished since ‘war on drugs’ began in 2006: ‘We can’t go out and search’

Nicaragua

La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) advierte y condena el incumplimiento de las recomendaciones formuladas en sus Observaciones Preliminares y en su Informe de País

U.S.-Mexico Border

The latest slate of restrictions indicate that while the United States moves toward reopening, the federal government is not ready to ease measures put in place in March that largely sealed off the US to stem the spread of Covid-19

As the nation remains focused on COVID-19, the U.S. government has aggressively begun to rush the deportations of some of the most vulnerable migrant children in its care to countries where they have been raped, beaten or had a parent killed

The current administration is using the imprimatur of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to circumvent laws and treaty protections designed to save lives and enable the mass expulsion of asylum seekers and unaccompanied children

Venezuela

We emphatically urge the reactivation of a credible, balanced, and inclusive mechanism with feasible goals that is facilitated by recognized mediators to advance legitimate solutions to the Venezuelan crisis

Un acuerdo humanitario tendría importancia en sí, pero también podría tener la capacidad de encaminar en otra dirección el conflicto venezolano que se encuentra estancado en la actualidad

Padrino controls food distribution and leads 11 of Venezuela’s 32 ministries. He is practically a head of government in the shadows, and he has even managed to outweigh Diosdado Cabello