Photo from Semana (Colombia). Caption: “La fumigación aérea con glifosato se encuentra prohibida en Colombia desde 2015 por la Corte Constitucional.”

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August 14, 2020

Western Hemisphere Regional

The president took office with immigration enforcement plans that placed DHS at the forefront of his domestic agenda. In the three and a half years since, the White House has run the department as an instrument of policy and politics

Bolivia

El viceministro de Régimen Interior y Policía, Javier Issa, alertó que en el Chapare cochabambino se gesta una “narcoguerrilla”, luego de identificar a algunas personas que exhibieron armas de fuego en los puntos de bloqueo

Politically unstable when the pandemic hit, Bolivia is descending into chaos

Brazil

Not only is this the first senior space flag officer event between the U.S. and Brazil, but it is the first such event for the U.S. Space Force

Colombia

Hay acusaciones a 439 actores económicos acusados de haber financiado o colaborado con grupos armados al margen de la ley en el conflicto colombiano, pero las condenas son casi nulas

Los últimos enfrentamientos entre campesinos y miembros del Ejército, ocurridos en la vereda Nueva Colombia, ilustran las ya constantes agresiones por la que atraviesan las comunidades de la región del Guayabero

Mientras la Policía y la Anla continúan los trámites que le permitirían al Gobierno hacer fumigaciones aéreas con glifosato, diferentes colectivos adelantan campaña para no legitimar los espacios propuestos

El ataque se presentó en medio del operativo que adelantaba el Ejército Nacional para desalojar a las comunidades indígenas de las haciendas Granadita y Gracia Arriba

A la masacre en la que murieron cinco menores de edad en el barrio Llano Verde, de la Comuna 15, le siguió ayer una explosión junto al CAI del sector, ocurrida en pleno momento del velorio

This occurred in Llano Verde, a neighborhood in eastern Cali where the majority of families were forcibly displaced as a result of the armed conflict

Colombia is primed to play a pioneering role in the Trump administration’s “Back to the Americas” initiative, Mauricio Claver-Carone, U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser on Latin America, told Reuters

El Salvador

El Salvador’s downward trend in homicides suggests that gang cells in the streets have chosen not to battle with Bukele’s troops or among themselves

Honduras

En la última década en Honduras ha sido prevaleciente la presencia de militares en las calles reprimiendo protestas sociales, interviniendo instituciones como salud y educación y hasta ocupando titularidades de secretarías de estado

By any reasonable standard, the human rights and environmental impacts of the Jilamito hydropower project and the record of both Ingelsa and the Honduran state should have prevented this investment from going forward

Mexico

He has had 20 months in office to prove that his pacific policy can work, but so far the results are disappointing. American pressure, and El Mencho’s outrages, could oblige him to adopt tactics he has hitherto resisted

Nicaragua

In the more than two years since the government of Nicaragua launched a brutal crackdown on the country’s citizens, the U.S. continues to exert economic and diplomatic pressure

U.S.-Mexico Border

Since March, 110,107 immigrants have been quickly sent back to their home countries without so much as a court hearing under the new policy

Venezuela

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro continues to serve as a threat to the democratic freedom in neighboring nations in South America, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said

One official said the vessels had been taken over without the use of military force but didn’t provide any details

Craig Faller destacó que el Comando Sur está atento a lo que ocurre en la región y dijo que Maduro se sostiene por actividades ilegales y la influencia rusa