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August 13, 2020

Western Hemisphere Regional

• Dan Glaun, “How Ice Data Undercounts Covid-19 Victims” (PBS NewsHour, August 13, 2020).

The agency only tracks deaths that take place within its custody — not those of people who contract the virus while in detention, but then die of the illness once they are released or deported

Bolivia

• Santiago Anria, Kenneth Roberts, “The Difficult – if Not Impossible – Game of Bolivian Politics” (AULA Blog (American University), August 13, 2020).

The political field is sharply divided into two major antagonistic camps – masistas and anti-masistas – and neither can govern effectively while excluding the other

Colombia

• “Lo Que Hay Detras de la Masacre de Cinco Menores de Edad en Cali” (Semana (Colombia), August 13, 2020).

En el barrio hay microtráfico, guerra de pandillas, fronteras invisibles y violencia. Mucha violencia

U.S.-Mexico Border

• Wendy Fry, “Kumeyaay Band Seeks Federal Injunction to Halt Construction of Border Wall” (The Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2020).

A band of the Kumeyaay Nation whose native land spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border filed a federal lawsuit this week against the Trump administration seeking an injunction to stop further construction of the border wall