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November 12, 2020

Western Hemisphere Regional

• “Nuevo Libro (Editado por Andres Serbin y Wolf Grabendorff) – los Actores Globales y el (Re) Descubrimiento de America Latina” (CRIES (Argentina), November 12, 2020).

El propósito de estas páginas es adentrarse en las diversas relaciones entre actores regionales y extra-regionales en el marco de un sistema internacional complejo en transición

• Camilo Montoya-Galvez, “Biden Plans Sweeping Reversal of Trump’s Immigration Agenda, From Deportations to Asylum Policy” (CBS News, November 12, 2020).

Mr. Biden will look to implement a 100-day freeze on deportations while his administration issues guidance narrowing who can be arrested by immigration agents

• Adolfo Flores, “Ice Is Trying to Deport Immigrant Women Who Witnessed Alleged Misconduct by a Gynecologist, Attorneys Say” (BuzzFeed, November 12, 2020).

“It’s as if ICE is trying to clear house before the new administration comes in by deporting as many of these witnesses as soon as possible”

Bolivia, Venezuela

• “New Bolivian Government Reestablishes Diplomatic Ties With Venezuela and Iran” (MercoPress, November 12, 2020).

Bolivia’s new president, Luis Arce, has moved swiftly to restore ties with Iran and Venezuela, receiving the credentials of ambassadors from the two countries on Wednesday, just three days after his socialist party retook the reins of power

Brazil

• Anastasia Moloney, Fabio Teixeira, “Indigenous Leaders Count on Biden to Help Save Amazon Forest” (Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reuters, November 12, 2020).

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has promised to act on global warming, raising expectations that conserving the Amazon forest will be a high priority for his government

• Bryan Harris, Carolina Pulice, “Local Elections Will Test Political Climate in Bolsonaro’s Brazil” (The Financial Times (UK), November 12, 2020).

More than 5,000 cities across Brazil will from Sunday host municipal elections in the first test of the prevailing political climate in Latin America’s largest nation since the election of rightwing populist president Jair Bolsonaro

• Natalia Scarabotto, “Bolsonaro Has Inspired More Police to Run for Office in Brazil” (VICE, November 12, 2020).

Observers say the trend is the result of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s popularity, which is encouraging like-minds to enter politics

• Dom Phillips, “Felipe Neto: The Youtuber Who Became One of Jair Bolsonaro’s Loudest Critics” (The Guardian, November 12, 2020).

Neto’s outspokenness landed him on Time’s most influential people list, but also made him the target of a vicious fake news campaign

• Antonia Noori Farzan, Miriam Berger, “Bolsonaro Says Brazilians Must Not Be ‘Sissies’ About Coronavirus, as ‘All of Us Are Going to Die One Day’” (The Washington Post, November 12, 2020).

“Everyone is going to die. There is no point in escaping from that, in escaping from reality. We have to stop being a country of sissies”

Chile

• Rocio Montes, “Richard Nixon: “Si Hay una Forma de Desbancar a Allende, Mejor Hazlo”” (El Pais (Spain), November 12, 2020).

50 años después de la llegada del socialista a la presidencia de Chile en 1970, el Archivo de Seguridad Nacional estadounidense difunde documentos inéditos que desvelan las estrategias de Washington para desestabilizarlo

Colombia

• Charlie Worthington, “Families of Colombia’s ‘False Positives’ Seek Justice” (The New Humanitarian, November 12, 2020).

Jacqueline Castillo, president of the Mothers of False Positives, or MAFAPO, a group looking for justice for the victims’ families, says the investigation of those abuses through a transitional justice body has been agonisingly slow

• Laura Soto, Andres Ortiz, “A los Exfarc los Matan Donde Disidencias se Disputan el Territorio” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), November 12, 2020).

Al revisar los 53 asesinatos ocurridos desde febrero hasta hoy, encontramos que los patrones siguen siendo los mismos

Honduras

• Jeff Ernst, “‘Everything Buried in Mud’: Hurricane Eta’s Devastating Blow to Honduras” (The Guardian, November 12, 2020).

Flooding left thousands trapped for days without food or water and death toll may never be known

Mexico

• Andrea Vega, “Mujeres Detenidas en Protesta en Cancun Denuncian Agresion Sexual de Policias” (Animal Politico (Mexico), November 12, 2020).

Personas que fueron detenidas aseguran que los integrantes del mando único policial no sólo dispararon sus armas, también los insultaron, golpearon y agredieron sexualmente a las mujeres

• “Small Town Mayor Murdered in Mexico Was Accused of Killings” (Associated Press, Yahoo!, November 12, 2020).

The opposition Democratic Revolution Party said in a statement that Ríos and other mayors had complained of harassment and persecution by the state government

• Maria Amparo Casar, “Las Mananeras del Miedo” (Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, Excelsior (Mexico), November 12, 2020).

El pasado 9 de septiembre el presidente López Obrador se refirió por la 38ª vez a Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad. En todas ellas de manera derogatoria y en casi todas haciendo mofa de la organización

• Alejandro Hope, “Cancun, la Policia y el Uso de la Fuerza” (El Universal (Mexico), November 12, 2020).

Los hechos sucedidos el lunes en Cancún son un recordatorio de la urgente necesidad de una reforma policial de gran calado y alcance nacional

• Anthony Esposito, “‘We’re Not a Colony’: Mexican President Stands Firm on Not Recognizing Biden Win” (Reuters, Reuters, November 12, 2020).

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday dug in his heels as one of the few leaders of major countries yet to congratulate Joe Biden on his presidential election win, saying it was too early and that his country was “not a colony”

Nicaragua

• Mikel Espinoza, “Ortega Cumple Hoy 75 Anos. ¿por Que Este Mandatario Es Uno de los Mas Extranos del Continente?” (Nicaragua Investiga, November 12, 2020).

Ortega no ha sido ni por cerca un líder elocuente ni carismático como otros caudillos nicaragüenses, pero sí muy hábil, a tal punto que hoy controla Nicaragua

Peru

• Jacqueline Fowks, “Peru Vive el Tercer Dia de Protestas Contra el Gobierno Interino y la Concentracion de Poderes” (El Pais (Spain), November 12, 2020).

Varios organismos defensores de los derechos humanos alertan de los excesos policiales y la falta de control de la Fiscalía

• Christine Armario, Franklin Briceno, “Peru Ouster Throws Nation’s Anti-Corruption Drive Into Doubt” (Associated Press, November 12, 2020).

The chief of state had emerged as the country’s most vocal proponent in pushing through measures to end decades of dirty politics

• Juan Delgado, “Us Donates Search and Rescue Equipment to Peruvian Air Force” (Dialogo (U.S. Southern Command), November 12, 2020).

On October 13, the U.S. government donated search and rescue equipment to the Peruvian Air Force (FAP, in Spanish), valued at $2 million

U.S.-Mexico Border

• Sandra Sanchez, “Border Wall Construction Forging Ahead With Biden Months Away From Taking Office” (Border Report, November 12, 2020).

South Texas congressmen say Biden administration should use federal law to terminate contracts

Venezuela

• “La Disciplina del Miedo: Detenciones Arbitrarias y Asesinatos en Protestas en los 6 Primeros Meses del Estado de Alarma en Venezuela” (PROVEA (Venezuela), November 12, 2020).

Entre los meses de marzo a septiembre de 2020 una cantidad de 5 personas fueron asesinadas y otras 442 fueron detenidas en el contexto de manifestaciones en el país