June 19, 2017
Brazil, Venezuela
- Jill Langlois, “Desperation Is Driving an Indigenous Tribe in Venezuela to Make the Trek Into Brazil” (The Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2017).
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
- “Pondores, en la Guajira, una Vereda Que se Prepara para el Fin de la Guerra” (Verdad Abierta (Colombia), June 19, 2017).
Se empieza a vislumbrar lo que pueden ser estos territorios para las Farc y las comunidades cercanas: un enclave de estudio, arte y política
- Marisol GÓmez Giraldo, “En Mesetas Sera el Historico Acto del Fin de las Farc Armadas” (El Tiempo (Colombia), June 19, 2017).
‘Carlos Antonio Lozada’ cuenta detalles de la última etapa del desarme, que comienza el martes
- ““Hay un Exceso de Odio en Colombia”: Humberto de la Calle” (Hugo García Segura, Lorena Arboleda Zárate, El Espectador (Colombia), June 19, 2017).
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
- “La Politica Detras de la Sustitucion de Cultivos” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), June 19, 2017).
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
- Alan Gomez, “Cuba’s Small Businesses Say They Will Suffer Under Trump’s Policy Changes” (USA Today, June 19, 2017).
The rest of Cuba’s entrepreneurs are left to figure out how to recover from the expected drop in American visitors
- William M. Leogrande, Ricardo Torres, “Perspectives on U.S.-Cuba Relations Under Trump” (AULA Blog (American University), June 19, 2017).
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
- Aria Bendix, “Cuba Won’t Negotiate Trump’s New Policy” (The Atlantic, June 19, 2017).
At a Monday news conference, the nation’s foreign minister called the latest deal “a grotesque spectacle straight from the Cold War”
- Michael Weissenstein, Andrea Rodriguez, “Tougher Trump Line Toward Cuba Delights Hardliners on Island” (Associated Press, The Washington Post, June 19, 2017).
Members of Cuba’s small but vibrant independent civil society say they fear the new policy will do more harm than good
Honduras
- “Con Aviones No Tripulados Fuerzas Armadas Vigilara las Fronteras de Honduras” (El Heraldo (Honduras), June 19, 2017).
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
- Azam Ahmed, Nicole Perlroth, “Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families” (The New York Times, June 19, 2017).
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
- Daniel Goure, ph.d., “Despite Opposition to President Trump’s Wall, the Southern Border Is Being Secured” (The Lexington Institute, RealClear Defense, June 19, 2017).
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
- Ryan Devereaux, “Arizona Aid Group Questions Border Patrol Surveillance Following a Raid on Its Camp” (The Intercept, June 19, 2017).
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
- Ginger Thompson, “Who Holds the Dea Accountable When Its Missions Cost Lives?” (ProPublica, June 19, 2017).
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
- Jim Wyss, “With Venezuela in Chaos, Asylum Petitions Have Tripled. Most Seek Refuge in U.S.” (The Miami Herald, June 19, 2017).
According to a United Nations report released Monday, some 34,200 Venezuelans sought asylum in 2016 — up from 10,200 claims the previous year
- “Power Without the People: Averting Venezuela’s Breakdown” (International Crisis Group, June 19, 2017).
A negotiated resolution remains the best hope for avoiding even greater bloodshed, but not by returning to the futile, time-c0nsuming “dialogue” of 2016