December 23, 2020
Colombia
- “Cauca, una Apuesta Militar Ineficaz” (La Liga Contra el Silencio, Voragine (Colombia), December 23, 2020).
Organizaciones sociales y voceros comunitarios, a pesar del miedo, denuncian una supuesta connivencia entre la fuerza pública y los grupos ilegales
- “Una Guerra Entre Ilegales Desangra a Norte de Santander” (La Liga Contra el Silencio, Voragine (Colombia), December 23, 2020).
La pugna que enfrenta al grupo narcoparamilitar Los Rastrojos con la guerrilla del ELN ha dejado una estela de muerte
- “Antioquia y Cordoba, Otra Vez Tierra de Sangre” (La Liga Contra el Silencio, Voragine (Colombia), December 23, 2020).
El Nudo del Paramillo, frontera natural entre los dos departamentos, es hoy un corredor que ocho grupos se disputan tras la salida de las Farc
Colombia, Venezuela
- Joe Parkin Daniels, “Alarm at Colombia Plan to Exclude Migrants From Coronavirus Vaccine” (The Guardian, December 23, 2020).
President Iván Duque says undocumented Venezuelans will be denied access in a move denounced as unethical and impractical
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
- Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York), “Engel U.S.-Northern Triangle Enhanced Engagement Act Passes Congress” (U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, December 23, 2020).
Legislation requires creation of “Engel list” of corrupt and undemocratic actors who will be denied entry to U.S.
U.S.-Mexico Border
- “2020 Was the Deadliest Year on Record for Migrants Crossing the Arizona Desert” (Mother Jones, December 23, 2020).
They are likely the result of a combination of changes to border policy by the Trump administration, an increase in hostility by US Border Patrol toward humanitarian aid workers, and record-breaking heat
- Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti, “Biden Says He’ll Reverse Trump Immigration Policies but Wants ‘Guardrails’ First” (The Washington Post, December 23, 2020).
The president-elect said creating a system to process thousands of asylum seekers will take months, because the government needs funding to put staffers such as “asylum judges” in place
- Michelle Hackman, Santiago Perez, Alicia A. Caldwell, “Migrants Stranded in Mexico Await Biden Administration Overhaul” (The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2020).
While tens of thousands of asylum seekers, mostly from Central America, have given up and returned home, many others haven’t