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May 26, 2020
Brazil
- Javier Bonilla, “El Ejercito Brasileno en la Lucha Contra la Deforestacion de la Selva” (Defensa.com (Spain), May 26, 2020).
El operativo Verde Brasil 2 ya está en marcha e involucra a 3.800 efectivos del Ejército, 110 vehículos, 20 embarcaciones y 12 aviones, con bases en Belém, Porto Velho y Cuiabá
- David Biller, “In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Everyone Else Is to Blame for Virus” (Associated Press, Associated Press, May 26, 2020).
Mainstream media outlets Globo and Folha de S.Paulo later announced they would stop covering Bolsonaro’s informal press conferences outside the residence due to concern for their journalists’ safety
- Renata Brito, “Death and Denial in Brazil’s Amazon Capital” (Associated Press, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 26, 2020).
Doctors and psychologists say denial at the grassroots stems from a mixture of misinformation, lack of education, insufficient testing and conflicting messages from the country’s leaders
Colombia
- “Dos Meses de Cuarentena / Pandemia del Covid-19 No Ha Detenido el Avance de la Politica de Paz Con Legalidad” (Presidencia de Colombia, May 26, 2020).
Las instrucciones del Jefe de Estado fueron claras: privilegiar la vida y evitar que se detengan las acciones de la Paz con Legalidad, particularmente, en los territorios más vulnerables
- “Colombia Registra en Cuarentena la Menor Tasa de Homicidios en 46 Anos” (El Espectador (Colombia), May 26, 2020).
“Entre el 20 de marzo y el 20 de mayo se registraron 1.321 homicidios en todo el país, mientras que en el mismo periodo del año anterior se presentaron 2.012 casos, lo que equivale a una reducción del 34 %”, indicó la Policía
Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
- “Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela: Population Movement in the Covid-19 Context” (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, May 26, 2020).
Returnee flows of people on the move raise concerns about the increased risk of COVID-19 infection in that population group
Colombia, Venezuela
- ““Santrich” Esta en Caracas “Con Anuencia del Regimen de Maduro”, Dice Asesor de Guaido” (El Espectador (Colombia), May 26, 2020).
Iván Simonovis, comisionado de seguridad e inteligencia, mostró imágenes de satélite y un video en el que, asegura, aparece el rearmado jefe guerrillero de las extintas Farc
Cuba, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border
- Molly Hennessy-Fiske, “Cuban Doctors and Nurses Seeking Asylum Keep Border Clinic Running During Pandemic” (The Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2020).
The clinic, run by U.S. volunteers with Florida-based nonprofit Global Response Management, has been staffed since it opened last fall almost entirely by asylum seekers. Most are Cubans like Tamayo with prior medical training
Honduras
- Hector Silva Avalos, Victoria Dittmar, “Honduras Politician’s Murder Linked to Underworld Violence in Copan” (InsightCrime, May 26, 2020).
Recent violence in Copán has been linked to the fall of the Valle clan beginning in 2014, and the later arrest of Tony Hernández and surrender of Ardón to US authorities in 2018
Mexico
- Catalina Perez Correa, “Acuerdo Militarista” (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, El Universal (Mexico), May 26, 2020).
No es subordinada, pues los castrenses tendrán que “coordinarse” mas no “subordinarse” a las autoridades civiles. Y no es “complementaria”, pues las Fuerzas Armadas seguirán siendo los protagonistas centrales
- Alejandra Garcia, Isaac Vargas, Nancy Chavez, Sara Velazquez, “El Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion y su Dominio en el Mercado de la Metanfetamina en Mexico” (Animal Politico (Mexico), May 26, 2020).
Los laboratorios de metanfetamina que se dedican al abastecimiento de la demanda internacional y local han sido localizados en una variedad de lugares que van desde casas en fraccionamientos, bodegas en zonas industriales, locales abandonados, o espacios montados ex profeso en sierras y caminos apartados
Mexico, Venezuela
- Joy Olson, “Mexico Uniquely Positioned to Help Venezuelans” (Joy Olson’s Blog, May 26, 2020).
Mexico could, and should, use its good offices and long history of non-intervention, to help the Venezuelan people by encouraging the acceptance and execution of an a-political humanitarian response
Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border
- Alfredo Corchado, Valeria Olivares, “Covid-19 Cases Rise in Juarez and el Paso as Mexico Readies for Reopening of Factories” (The Dallas Morning News, May 26, 2020).
This nation is far from flattening the COVID-19 curve, but thousands of maquiladora employees are set to return to work after the government caved in to intense pressure from the Trump administration
- Sergio Arauz, “Matamoros: Un Botadero de Migrantes en Plena Pandemia” (El Faro (El Salvador), May 26, 2020).
Matamoros, ciudad controlada por La Maña, la crisis humanitaria se resume en un campamento a la orilla del río Bravo: 2,000 personas de Centroamérica, Venezuela, Cuba y otros países, sobreviven hacinados
Nicaragua
- “Ivan Acosta Podria Continuar en su Cargo a Pesar de la Sancion de Estados Unidos” (Nicaragua Investiga, May 26, 2020).
El Ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público Iván Acosta podría continuar en su cargo hasta terminar su mandato, pero se vería imposibilitado de firmar convenios o préstamos en nombre de Nicaragua
U.S.-Mexico Border
- John Burnett, “Trump’s Border Wall Would Go Through Laredo’s Historic Downtown” (National Public Radio, May 26, 2020).
The federal government plans to build 69 miles of the massive barrier through the city’s historic downtown but not if opponents in Laredo have anything to do with it
- Morgan Loew, “Critics in Southern Arizona Call New Border Wall Contract Wasteful, Unnecessary” (KOLD (Tucson, Arizona), May 26, 2020).
Critics argue that this spot between Nogales and Sasabe is so remote and rugged, that the cost to build and damage done by a border wall far outweigh any benefit
Venezuela
- Kejal Vyas, Benoit Faucon, “Second Fuel Tanker From Iran Arrives in Venezuela” (The Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2020).
A second tanker dispatched by Iran was welcomed Monday by Venezuelan naval frigates and helicopters as it entered national waters