Sandra Sanchez photo at Border Report. Caption: “Tommy Fisher, CEO of Fisher Sand & Gravel Company, shows freshly poured concrete on Jan. 15, 2020, on a section of private border wall his company built on private lands south of Mission, Texas. Fisher’s company won a $289.5 million contract from CBP to build 17 miles of border wall in Laredo, Texas, the agency announced Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2020.”

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August 4, 2020

Brazil

The office of hate does not have an official title or budget — but its work is subsidized with taxpayer money. It’s unclear how many people work for this office, or who they are

Vast quantities of the pills are still sitting in storage in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo, and one former health minister believes they may eventually have to be destroyed

Colombia

Se define si hay lugar a dictarle una orden de captura, una medida de casa por cárcel, una restricción de movilidad o si, por el contrario, puede seguir enfrentando el caso en libertad

El exsecretario de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación de Perú, y actual director de la Fundación Ford para el Área Andina, dice que los desacuerdos siempre van a ocurrir, pero que es importante que la comisión colombiana escuche a todos

El Salvador

Como requisito, los congresistas piden al Pentágono que entregue a las autoridades judiciales en El Salvador los archivos relacionados a la masacre de El Mozote y lugares aledaños, ocurrida en 1981

Mexico

Es un testimonio inédito de primera mano que no deja duda de la penetración del narcopoder en las entrañas del Estado

The prosecutors’ office in Guerrero state said Morrugares and a state police officer were at a restaurant when they were killed in a hail of bullets on Sunday

Por primera vez en Guanajuato está prevista una búsqueda de desaparecidos que será realizada entre colectivos y autoridades en el municipio de Uriangato durante toda la semana

U.S.-Mexico Border

Fisher Sand & Gravel Company was awarded the $289.5 million contract to build the 17 miles of contiguous new border wall in Laredo

The incident comes months after a 19-year-old pregnant woman from Guatemala died after falling while trying to climb the border wall near El Paso, Texas

Agents “trashed” the camp, which No More Deaths has operated on a private, half-acre lot since 2004

Venezuela

Biden was the first Democratic presidential candidate in 2019 to support Guaido as interim president