Gustavo Torrijos photo from El Espectador (Colombia). Caption: “Paro Nacional – #5 de Mayo -Zona Rural – Tocancipa”

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May 20, 2021

Colombia

Desde la década de 1990, diversos informes han adjudicado casos de cáncer linfoma no Hodgkin y de neurotoxicidad como producto del contacto con el glifosato

Colombia

  • Sarah Cahlan, Drea Cornejo, Anthony Faiola, Elyse Samuels, Steven Grattan, Killed by Police in Colombia (The Washington Post, May 20, 2021).

An analysis of video evidence in four cases of protester deaths shows the extent to which police appear to have overstepped their rules of engagement

While the issue of the Leahy Law specifically is not an issue for Colombians to decide, many are looking with desperation toward foreign actors to pressure their government in a way that the people have been unable to

The human rights organization is calling on Secretary of State Blinken to immediately cease the direct or indirect supply, sale, or transfer of equipment used for repression

Colombia, Haiti

Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Eduardo Tellez Betancourt told Reuters his team of four specialists had delivered its report on Haiti’s kidnapping crisis on Tuesday after three months of on- the-ground research

Colombia, Venezuela

Who’s fighting whom, exactly? And why? It’s complicated. But here’s what we know

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

U.S. lawmakers and analysts said the lists appeared to exclude a number of officials who have faced corruption allegations in recent years, including Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández

U.S.-Mexico Border

In recent weeks, Homeland Security officials have agreed that those ordered deported in absentia should have their cases reopened

May 19, 2021

Chile

“Estamos advirtiendo de un camino sin vuelta atrás, en el cual el Gobierno está utilizando a las FFAA para asuntos de orden interno y de seguridad pública, cuestiones que no les competen”, aseguró

Colombia

Its design, as well as past fights with the executive branch, have forced the agency to find ways to be minimally intrusive

All signs indicate that the foundational document they will draft will enshrine principles of civic participation, justice, gender equality and Indigenous rights

“A large part of the Colombian establishment doesn’t understand that these calls for change are coming from the people in the streets of cities, and not from an armed guerrilla group in the countryside”

The outpouring quickly morphed into a widespread expression of anger over poverty and inequality — which have risen as the virus has spread — and over the violence with which the police have confronted the movement

Las historias de vulneración de derechos se repiten en aquellas ciudades donde las expresiones callejeras de inconformidad con el actual gobierno nacional trascurren de manera pacífica y en las que acaban en batallas campales

“Rape has been used during these protests as a weapon of war, as well as a weapon of torture to punish those marching”

La Corte Constitucional ha respaldado la transferencia de esas funciones a la Policía por el desbordamiento del Estado en materia carcelaria

In Colombia, and many other countries, security forces’ attacks on protesters have led to nationwide reckonings with injustice

Aunque la Fiscalía dice que es aliada del Clan del Golfo de alias Otoniel, la Policía dice que es hace poco forjó un pacto mafioso con la Segunda Marquetalia de “Iván Márquez”

The U.S.-Colombia Action Plan (USCAP) will resume training in May 2021. USCAP training halted when the stakeholder nations’ implemented COVID-19 mitigation strategies to protect their populations

Colombia, Venezuela

Just before the death of Mr. Hernández, the Colombian Supreme Court had indicated it was in favor of extraditing him to the United States to answer to drug charges

Aunque la muerte de Santrich resuene en Colombia como una derrota para las disidencias en general, lo cierto es que en Arauca el frente Décimo está ganando la guerra. No solo a la Segunda Marquetalia, también al régimen venezolano

Guatemala

Declaró que desde que el país regresó a un sistema democrático “el Ejército ha sido el principal baluarte de que la estabilidad política del país se mantenga”

Honduras

Al carecer de servicios sanitarios y sin agua, los reos castigados tenían que hacer sus necesidades fisiológicas en pedazos de papel, bolsas y botes, volviendo el sitio insano

Mexico

“El gasto en las Fuerzas Armadas es actualmente de 140 mil millones de pesos, el nivel más alto registrado, los mayores niveles de gasto coinciden con el mayor uso del ejército para combatir los crímenes de la delincuencia organizada”

Mientras que el Ejército está entrenado bajo una lógica de combate al enemigo y protección del territorio, las policías son quienes, desde una lógica eminentemente local, regulan y controlan las interacciones cotidianas de la ciudadanía

Nicaragua

Daniel Ortega acusó al embajador de Estados Unidos, Kevin Sullivan, de elegir los «candidatos» para los partidos políticos de oposición que correrán en las próximas elecciones de noviembre

U.S.-Mexico Border

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., said during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on National Guard and Reserve forces that the Defense Department received a request from Homeland Security to continue the Guard’s border deployment into the 2022 fiscal year

This report provides an update on metering lists, asylum seekers, and migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border amid CBP’s asylum processing suspension. It documents approximately 18,700 asylum seekers on waitlists in 8 Mexican border cities

A Cuban asylum-seeker who was forced to wait in Mexico under a Trump-era policy was fatally shot Monday night in Ciudad Juárez a few days before he was to be allowed into the US

Venezuela

Unos 11 presos políticos que se encontraban en la sede de las FAES en La Quebradita que serían trasladados presuntamente a cárceles comunes