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September 4, 2020
Western Hemisphere Regional
- Patrick Leahy, George Shultz, Robert Zoellick, Carla Hills, “This Is No Time to Weaken the Inter-American Development Bank” (Office of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), U.S. Senate, September 4, 2020).
Mr. Claver-Carone is a political appointee in the Trump White House whose controversial nomination would break a longstanding precedent that a Latin American serves as president of the IDB
Colombia
- “El Gobierno Colombiano No Debe Reanudar las Aspersiones Con Glifosato Porque Generan Riesgos para la Salud Reproductiva” (Centro de Derechos Reproductivos, September 4, 2020).
El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad del Valle presentan una investigación que revela que la exposición al glifosato puede tener impactos negativos en la salud reproductiva de las personas
- “La Ficha de Alejandro Ordonez Que Llevara el Caso Uribe en la Fiscalia” (El Espectador (Colombia), September 4, 2020).
A Gabriel Jaimes Durán Estados Unidos le revocó la visa justo después de que Hernando Gómez Bustamante, un poderoso narcotraficante del cartel del norte del Valle conocido como Rasguño, declarara sobre el caso de Álvaro Gómez
- Colombia Investigative Unit, “Criminal Governance Under Coronavirus: How Colombian Groups Seized the Day” (InsightCrime, September 4, 2020).
InSight Crime carried out extensive research across 14 departments to see what forms of criminal governance have taken shape across Colombia, and what this might mean for the future
El Salvador
- Carlos Martinez, Oscar Martinez, Sergio Arauz, Efren Lemus, “Gobierno de Bukele Lleva un Ano Negociando Con la Ms-13 Reduccion de Homicidios y Apoyo Electoral” (El Faro (El Salvador), September 4, 2020).
En 14 de las visitas participaron encapuchados que entraron a cárceles sin identificarse. Al menos uno de esos visitantes era un líder pandillero en libertad
- Joshua Goodman, “Us Official Warns el Salvador’s President That Aid at Risk” (Associated Press, Associated Press, September 4, 2020).
The rare rebuke from the Trump administration — one of Bukele’s biggest boosters — came in a May 29 letter to an aide of the president from Thomas Kelly, acting vice president of the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Guatemala
- Kay Valle, “Guatemalan Army Destroys Coca Crops” (Dialogo (U.S. Southern Command), September 4, 2020).
On June 25, Guatemalan Army personnel found coca crops and a lab in a hard-to-reach jungle area of Petén
Honduras
- “Fuerzas Armadas No Solo Estan Involucradas en Narcotrafico Sino en Redes de Corrupcion: Jari Dixon” (Criterio (Honduras), September 4, 2020).
El abogado y exfiscal hondureño Jari Dixon Herrera indicó este jueves que las Fuerzas Armadas no sólo están involucradas en narcotráfico sino en gigantescos casos de corrupción
Mexico
- Arturo Angel, “Fallece Tras Accidente Fiscal de Fgr Responsable del Caso Javier Duarte” (Animal Politico (Mexico), September 4, 2020).
Animal Político solicitó a la Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) información oficial sobre las circunstancias del fallecimiento de la funcionaria, pero hasta el momento de esta publicación no se ha proporcionado información
- Ricardo Ravelo, “Sinaloa y Cjng, Duenos del Pais” (SinEmbargo (Mexico), September 4, 2020).
Lo cierto es que así como en Morelos el narcotráfico y otras modalidades del crimen organizado están impunes –como lo está todo en el país, por desgracia
- Abel Barrera Hernandez, “Ines y Valentina: 18 Anos de Impunidad Militar” (Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan, La Jornada (Mexico), September 4, 2020).
La lucha tenaz de Inés y Valentina iluminó el camino espinoso de la justicia para las mujeres sobrevivientes de tortura sexual
Nicaragua
- Mario de Franco, “The Triad of Evil: Dictatorship, Security Forces & Oligarchy” (Confidencial (Nicaragua), September 4, 2020).
As long as the business leadership isn’t accountable for its coexistence with the dictatorship, we will have no future
U.S.-Mexico Border
- Debbie Weingarten, “‘It’s Not the Same’: How Trump and Covid Devastated an Arizona Border Town” (The Guardian, September 4, 2020).
Nogales residents say the city is struggling amid the pandemic and after years of Trump painting the area as a ‘war zone’
- Catherine E. Shoichet, Geneva Sands, “The Us Detained Hundreds of Migrant Children in Hotels as the Pandemic Flared” (CNN, September 4, 2020).
Hundreds of migrant children have been held in hotels and guarded by government contractors in recent months as part of a secretive new system that advocates warn puts kids in danger
- Michelle Hackman, Alicia A. Caldwell, “U.S. Pulls Back on Quickly Returning Migrant Children to Home Countries” (The Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2020).
About 30 minors a day were handed over to migrant shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services in recent weeks, the people said, compared with about six a day a month ago
Venezuela
- Vivian Sequera, “Relatives of Jailed Venezuelan Police, Military Clamor for Their Release” (Reuters, Reuters, September 4, 2020).
Relatives of at least 259 jailed Venezuelan police and military officers are clamoring for their release, upset that none of them were included on the list of 110 people pardoned by President Nicolas Maduro’s government
- Anthony Faiola, Ana Vanessa Herrero, “Venezuela’s Maduro Tries to Recast His Authoritarian Image, and Guaido Confronts a Rebellion” (The Washington Post, September 4, 2020).
Moves this week by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to recast his authoritarian image are succeeding in what might be their principal aim: dividing the U.S.-backed opposition