Andrés Celis photo at Verdad Abierta (Colombia). Caption: “Cada campamento de las distintas ZVTN o PTN rinde homenaje a través de pancartas a los comandantes que han muerto.”

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June 19, 2017

Brazil, Venezuela

Although the trip is expensive and long for the Warao — it can take multiple boat and bus rides and several weeks to reach the Brazilian city — those who have made the journey say it was worth it just to see their children eat

Colombia

Se empieza a vislumbrar lo que pueden ser estos territorios para las Farc y las comunidades cercanas: un enclave de estudio, arte y política

‘Carlos Antonio Lozada’ cuenta detalles de la última etapa del desarme, que comienza el martes

Es el momento de la grandeza de todos: de la sociedad colombiana para obrar sin mezquindades y buscar la reconciliación

  • Alfredo Molano Bravo, Esmad (El Espectador (Colombia), June 19, 2017).

Las últimas actuaciones contra el paro cívico en Buenaventura tuvieron un resultado contrario a lo esperado: las manifestaciones fueron creciendo de 10.000 a 120.000 personas

El Gobierno tendrá que meterle el acelerador para que la presión del discurso de Trump no cale. Y eso pasa por resolver el pulso entre Coccam y las demás organizaciones

Cuba

The rest of Cuba’s entrepreneurs are left to figure out how to recover from the expected drop in American visitors

Despite the incendiary rhetoric in which Donald Trump cloaked his new policy when he rolled it out at a rally of Cuban-American hardliners in Miami, the sanctions he announced were limited

At a Monday news conference, the nation’s foreign minister called the latest deal “a grotesque spectacle straight from the Cold War”

Members of Cuba’s small but vibrant independent civil society say they fear the new policy will do more harm than good

Honduras

La adquisición de este equipo de última generación está incluido dentro del convenio de cooperación bilateral entre Honduras y el gobierno de Israel, valorado en 209 millones de dólares

Mexico

The software has been used against some of the government’s most outspoken critics and their families, in what many view as an unprecedented effort to thwart the fight against the corruption infecting every limb of Mexican society

Advanced surveillance and sensing technologies, wide area communications networks, pattern recognition algorithms and power generation systems form the basis for the construction of a virtual wall

The humanitarian group said approximately 30 well-armed Border Patrol agents descended upon the location looking for “bodies” in a coordinated and alarmingly militarized operation

What the DEA could easily do, however, is establish firm and formal protocols for exchanging information with Mexico. Current and former DEA officials describe the system as loose and somewhat random

Venezuela

According to a United Nations report released Monday, some 34,200 Venezuelans sought asylum in 2016 — up from 10,200 claims the previous year

A negotiated resolution remains the best hope for avoiding even greater bloodshed, but not by returning to the futile, time-c0nsuming “dialogue” of 2016