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July 26, 2017
Brazil
- “El Ejercito Contra los Narcos en Rio” (ANSA, ABC Color (Paraguay), July 26, 2017).
El gobierno confirmó que “en breve” el presidente Michel Temer firmará el decreto para autorizar el despliegue de tropas
- Dom Phillips, “Brazil: Landless Agriculture Workers Invade Farms of President’s Allies” (The Guardian (Uk), July 26, 2017).
The invasions on Tuesday form part of a campaign called “Corrupt People! Give Us Back Our Land” launched by the Landless Workers Movement
- Dom Phillips, “Brazil’s Right on the Rise as Anger Grows Over Scandal and Corruption” (The Guardian (Uk), July 26, 2017).
Bolsonaro, who promises to appoint generals to his cabinet if elected, is greeted by cheering crowds at airports and rallies who chant his name and boast that he has never been linked to any corruption allegations
Colombia
- Natalia Arenas, “El Modelo Economico de Romana Que Aun No Despega” (La Silla Vacia (Colombia), July 26, 2017).
El ex comandante de las Farc, alias Romaña, está liderando una serie de proyectos productivos en Tumaco para que los desmovilizados de la guerrilla y los cocaleros afines a su proyecto político sustituyan la coca
Colombia, Venezuela
- “Intempestivo Aumento de Migrantes en la Frontera Con Venezuela” (El Tiempo (Colombia), July 26, 2017).
Según información de autoridades migratorias, 560.000 venezolanos han solicitado una Tarjeta de Movilidad Fronteriza
El Salvador
- Roberto Valencia, ““las Pandillas Que Tenemos Hoy Son Consecuencia Directa del ‘Manodurismo’”” (El Faro (El Salvador), July 26, 2017).
Cruz acaba de presentar ‘La nueva cara de las pandillas callejeras’, del que es primera firma y que lleva el sello de la Universidad Internacional de Florida
Mexico
- Ted Hesson, “House Republicans Seek to Dodge Border Wall Vote” (Politico, July 26, 2017).
House Republicans are poised to fund $1.6 billion for President Donald Trump’s border wall through a procedural maneuver designed to avoid a floor vote that might fail
- Joel Rose, Shaheen Ainpour, “Death at the Southern Border an Increasing Risk for Migrants” (National Public Radio, July 26, 2017).
“If you have the same number of people dying at the same time that many fewer people are trying to cross the border,” Meade said, “that suggests to me that the border continues to get more and more dangerous”
- Adela Navarro Bello, “Mexico en Manos del Narco, Aunque el Gobierno Lo Niegue…” (SinEmbargo (Mexico), July 26, 2017).
El asentamiento de un cártel como el de Tláhuac solo puede ser posible en tres condiciones por parte del Estado: corrupción, impunidad y omisión
- David Agren, “Mexico City Has Mostly Been Spared From Grisly Drug Violence. Now That May Be Changing.” (The Washington Post, July 26, 2017).
Some people dispute Mancera’s insistence that no cartels operate in Mexico City. More than 1,000 people attended the funeral of “El Ojos” on Monday, including associates openly packing heat
Venezuela
- Moises Naim, “Asi Podria Salvar Trump a Maduro” (El Pais (Spain), July 26, 2017).
Un bloqueo petrolero daría la coartada perfecta al chavismo
- J. Weston Phippen, “Venezuela’s Deadline” (The Atlantic, July 26, 2017).
The opposition has until Sunday before President Nicolas Maduro’s regime begins rewriting the constitution
- , Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), “Ahead of Fraudulent Vote, Rubio & Menendez Urge Trump to Sanction Top Maduro Cronies” (U.S. Senate, July 26, 2017).
U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today urged President Trump to sanction individuals in the Maduro regime responsible for human rights abuses ahead of the fraudulent July 30 vote to rewrite the Venezuelan constitution