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August 4, 2020

Brazil

• Patricia Campos Mello, “Brazil’s Troll Army Moves Into the Streets” (The New York Times, August 4, 2020).

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

• Nick Paton Walsh, Jo Shelley, Marcia Reverdosa, Eduardo Duwe, “The Us Sent Brazil Millions of Hydroxychloroquine Doses. Months Later, They’re Still in Storage” (CNN, August 4, 2020).

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

• “Corte Suprema Termino Sala Extraordinaria Sin Decision Sobre Alvaro Uribe” (El Espectador (Colombia), August 4, 2020).

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

• Beatriz Valdes Correa, “La Comision Debe Ser Independiente, Incluso de las Victimas: Javier Ciurlizza” (El Espectador (Colombia), August 4, 2020).

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

• Gabriel Labrador, Nelson Rauda Zablah, “Camara Baja Presiona al Pentagono para Que Entregue Archivos de el Mozote” (El Faro (El Salvador), August 4, 2020).

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

• Dolia Estevez, “La Historia de Tortura, Violacion y Asesinato de 12 Federales en el Reinado de Terror de Garcia Luna” (SinEmbargo (Mexico), August 4, 2020).

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

• “Mexico Journalist Gunned Down – the Fifth to Be Killed This Year” (Associated Press, The Guardian, August 4, 2020).

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

• Alberto Pradilla, “Guanajuato Reconoce 2 Mil Desaparecidos; Colectivos Haran su Primera Busqueda” (Animal Politico (Mexico), August 4, 2020).

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

• Sandra Sanchez, “Private Border-Wall Company Wins Cbp Contract to Build 17 New Miles in Laredo” (Border Report, August 4, 2020).

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

• Chantal Da Silva, “Mexican Man, 33, Dies After Falling Off Border Wall in Arizona” (Newsweek, August 4, 2020).

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

• Rafael Carranza, “Border Aid Group Assessing Aftermath of Border Patrol Raid on Medical Camp” (The Arizona Republic, August 4, 2020).

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

Venezuela

• Eli Lake, “Biden Should Give Maduro Reason to Worry” (Bloomberg, August 4, 2020).

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