Isabel Mateos / AP photo at NBC News. Caption: “Central American migrants rest at La 72 shelter in Tenosique, Tabasco state, Mexico on Feb. 9, 2021. When Guatemalan authorities blocked a migrant caravan last month drawing international attention the flow of migrants might have seemed to slow down, but a growing number of small groups continue to flow daily from Central America into Mexico.”

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February 12, 2021

Argentina

“Corresponde aclarar que la presencia de naves susceptibles de portar y emplear armamentos nucleares en el Atlántico Sur contradice la Resolución 41/11 de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas”, advirtió el texto

Brazil

General Villas Bôas revealed a rekindled desire to remove the left from power dating back to 2008, which only intensified with the election of Dilma Rousseff

Central America Regional, Mexico

México aseguró que daría trabajo a 40 mil personas en El Salvador y Honduras para tratar de frenar la migración, pero solo logró 8 mil inscritos en sus programas, de los que reciben la ayuda 2 mil 700

Colombia

Colombia could restart aerial fumigation of coca – the base ingredient in cocaine – with herbicide glyphosate as early as next month, Defense Minister Diego Molano told Reuters in an interview

La desgracia infinita de la política de drogas es que tiene la facilidad de responsabilizar al campesinado por la falencia del Estado, justificar lo éticamente inadmisible y desenfocar la mirada de la sociedad de quienes realmente se han lucrado del negocio

Hasta el momento, el Colectivo Orlando Fals Borda ha logrado documentar 41 casos con 63 víctimas de presuntas ejecuciones extrajudiciales en los cuales se involucran unidades militares adscritas a la Cuarta División

El presidente Duque le puso una mordaza a sus promesas, supeditando sus acciones misionales referidas al asesinato de líderes sociales a las que adelante la Fiscalía General de la Nación

Miles de bonaverenses salieron a las calles a decirles a los violentos ‘Basta Ya’, ‘#SOSBuenavetura, ‘A Buenaventura se respeta, carajo!’

The government sends soldiers to kill drug-traffickers and other troublemakers. But it has not set up institutions needed to enforce the law consistently

La audiencia de ayer en la JEP, como todas las audiencias con los comparecientes, lo que busca es poner en escena, crear las condiciones de dignidad y respeto, para que la verdad sirva como un tránsito hacia la reincorporación

La llamada entre el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, y el presidente Iván Duque ocurrirá en los próximos días, probablemente la próxima semana

Colombia, Ecuador

Semana reveló un mensaje que reposa en los reportes de Uriel y que estaría dirigido a Felipe y Guillermo, contactos del Eln en Ecuador, en el que se refiere a un presunto “aporte préstamo” de una millonaria suma

Ecuador

History suggests that with less money, populists become more authoritarian. To prevent that, anti-correismo will need to overcome anti-bankerism

El Salvador

Fuentes cercanas a la Casa Blanca le comparan con Donald Trump y sus intentos de imponer relatos alternativos dirigidos a sus bases

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

Biden has been gradually unraveling many Trump-era immigration policies. Yet the new administration has encouraged Mexico and Guatemala to keep up border enforcement in their countries

Honduras

Poverty and gang violence push them out and increasingly aggressive measures to stop them, driven by the United States government, scuttle their efforts and send them back

Martínez, a 26-year-old trainee nurse from La Esperanza, western Honduras, died in police custody last weekend after being detained for breaching a coronavirus curfew

Hernández and his aides have tried to charm Democratic lawmakers, fired their lobbying firm, welcomed a new U.N. office focusing on drugs and crime and revived talking points on climate change

Mexico

El presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador inauguró ayer, 10 de febrero, las nuevas instalaciones de la Base Aérea Militar Número 1 (BAM-1) de Santa Lucía, en donde se construye desde octubre de 2019 el Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Ángeles

In spite of these issues, CAIET officers took part in tactical training alongside local Texas law enforcement in 2019, video and official government reports show

Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border

López Obrador said the massacre showed that it was too dangerous to allow migrants to travel through drug cartel turf in northern Mexico

Nicaragua

Según las Fidh, para impedir las protestas contra su gobierno, Ortega cuenta con un gran engranaje político que incluye a funcionarios del Poder Judicial, de las fuerzas armadas y grupos paraestatales

U.S.-Mexico Border

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to NPR’s Rachel Martin about the administration’s next step in immigration policy

About a dozen asylum seekers interviewed at the guarded gate of the Matamoros migrant camp this week said they are willing to give the Biden administration time to untangle what is a complicated web of Trump-era policies

U.S. officials will begin next Friday allowing in and processing immigrants at ports of entry in San Ysidro, Calif., and El Paso and Brownsville, Texas

Beginning on February 19, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin phase one of a program to restore safe and orderly processing at the southwest border

Mayorkas added that “changes will take time,” especially given the pandemic, and he cautioned that those not eligible for coming into the United States under the change should not travel to the border

Advocates point to misleading media reports, rumors and smugglers’ lies encouraging asylum seekers to try crossing before policy changes are in place

We have learned that at least 700 unaccompanied children who were detained by the government after being in the Remain in Mexico program remain at risk of being swiftly deported without even having their day in court

Venezuela

Sectoral sanctions on the oil, gold and mining industries, the economic blockade of Venezuela and the freezing of Central Bank assets have exacerbated pre-existing economic and humanitarian calamities