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*Take sip of coffee*
*Open up The Atlantic*
*Clean coffee spatter from desktop*
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We'll never know how many lives Eduardo Canales saved—dozens? maybe hundreds—by leaving water stations in Brooks County, Texas, where huge numbers of migrants are lost to dehydration.
We'll miss him and hope that the vital work of the South Texas Human Rights Center continues.
💔Beyond heartbroken to hear about the passing of Eddie Canales, founder of the South Texas Human Rights center in Brooks County, Texas. Eddie was a spirited fighter and helped countless families.
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I can’t even believe the Presidency of
#Colombia
tried to show they’re doing something about the paramilitary “armed strike” by showing a video of 23 soldiers piling into 6 trucks. They could take 6 taxis.
Activamos el
#PlanDemocracia2022
de manera inmediata en zonas del país afectadas por retaliaciones de reductos del "Clan del Golfo", el despliegue de nuestra fuerza pública estará garantizado para proteger a todos los Colombianos.
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Look what the US military deployment did to the border fence in downtown Nogales, Arizona. This makes us look like a nation that's completely lost its mind:
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What is up with the
@CBPWestTexas
Twitter feed right now? This is one of the most egregious examples I’ve ever seen of a US federal law enforcement agency defying elected political leadership in official communications.
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#Colombia
’s
@RevistaSemana
, which under new ownership has turned into far-right toilet paper, mocks how Bogotá mayor
@ClaudiaLopez
speaks English. (She has a PhD from Northwestern Univ., where they speak English.)
This is peak “everything that’s loathsome about Bogotá’s elites.”
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Please don’t ask me to explain David Frum: look him up, he's been tragically wrong before. (Some props, though, for being an anti-Trump conservative).
But he'll always be featured at higher-powered conferences, and tonier Washington dinner parties, than you or I ever will.
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In February, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 18,904 people fleeing their native
#Guatemala
because they couldn’t live there anymore.
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I'm no
@TwitterSafety
moderator (do those even exist, really?), but this sure looks like a prominent public official threatening the free press by claiming that a journalist is linked to terrorists.
A better social media network would've taken this down hours ago.
Este es el “periodista” Nicholas Casey, que en 2016 estuvo de gira con las farc en la selva.
¿Cuánto le habrán pagado por este reportaje? ¿Y por el de ahora, contra el ejército de Colombia?
#CaseyEsFakeNews
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#Colombia
's vice president was here in Washington last week striking a moderate and reasonable tone before US audiences. This week, a group of extreme hardline governing-party politicians is here. Whenever they open their mouths, they undermine the VP's effort.
#Washington
| Hoy, ante la
@CIDH
entregamos un completo dossier que prueba la violencia y estigmatización que ha sufrido la Fuerza Pública, por parte de líderes de oposición y sectores de extrema izquierda, en el marco del Paro Nacional.
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Getting dozens of messages like this. From several cities.
#Colombia
's police are on a rampage against protesters. Human rights completely disregarded, shredded. Not even bothering to disguise it. Cali seems worst.
I've never seen Colombia this bad, in this many places at once.
S,O.S CALI 🇨🇴NO puede ser un campo de batalla de jóvenes y piedra contra balas de Ejército y Policía. Apoyo internacional de carácter humanitario YA. Rechazamos toda violencia.
@mbachelet
@RepMcGovern
@llombartpatUE
@VP
@POTUS
@aocenespanol
@adam_wola
@AristeguiOnline
@JoeBiden
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An expert I talked to today pointed out: How is it that Colombia is receiving 5,000 Venezuelans every day, but the U.S. government is panicked by 7,000 Central Americans?
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Next time an Administration Official tells you how it’s flat-out logistically impossible even to process asylum seekers at ports of entry, recall the logistical wizardry with which they threw together a fleet of aircraft to expel 4,000 people to Haiti in 9 days.
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We'd been hearing this, but were unable to confirm. Here it is.
US border authorities have dumped 200+ Central American children unaccompanied into Mexico.
Again: US border authorities have dumped 200+ Central American children unaccompanied into Mexico.
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There are now four-fifths fewer unaccompanied children stuck in Border Patrol's holding facilities than there were a month ago.
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Popular vote in the House
* D 51.0% (50,225,460)
* R 47.3% (46,539,984)
Popular vote in the Senate
* D 56.6% (44,638,718)
* R 41.7% (32,890,821)
In the end, it looks like people weren’t too stirred up about “invading marauding migrant caravans."
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I got this shot of the king of Spain remaining seated when they brought out Bolívar's sword at yesterday's
#Colombia
inauguration 😬
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Just a hell of a week for the United States Border Patrol.
1/3 An 8-year-old girl with a history of heart problems and sickle cell anemia dies after 9 days in the agency’s custody. The mother says agents ignored their pleas for an ambulance.
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What a huge miscalculation this video is.
The protesters want to be heard and respected. People are in pain and want to be listened to with dignity.
Here, Duque robs them of all agency. He sees unwitting dupes of chaos-loving politicians. He looks empathy-free and out of touch.
No tengo versión subtitulada, pero, si usted habla o entiende inglés, quisiera conocer su opinión sobre esto.
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We’ve listed other recent episodes of insubordinate or highly politicized conduct by federal border law enforcement at
@WOLA_org
’s “Border Resource” site:
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I’m not in
#Colombia
right now, but can’t shake the impression that the government there is maybe one-tenth as upset/on alert about the ongoing paramilitary “armed strike” as it was about people protesting in streets a year ago. Today’s response is phlegmatic by comparison.
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Imagínese querer gobernar un país cuando ni siquiera puede distinguir entre un "bandido" y una familia obligada a depender del cultivo de la coca para sobrevivir.
No más tregua contra los bandidos que hoy viven del narcotráfico. Que regrese la fumigación.
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So many cases of this today.
#Colombia
forces clearly have orders to go after peaceful protesters, not “vandals.” And seem to be happy to do so while dozens record video.
Does
@IvanDuque
somehow want to escalate this crisis? Because this is how to do it.
💥Así dispersó el Esmad a manifestantes que cantaban pacíficamente el himno de Colombia en la 7 con Jimenez con uso de aturdidores. Video: César Melgarejo | Reporte con
#ReportoEnCity
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The 2018 border migration numbers, released yesterday, in context. Let's never lose sight of this.
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Seeking as always to escalate a tense situation, Álvaro Uribe calls for abolishing the number 3.
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For an ex-guerrilla who abandoned armed struggle, and an Afro-descendant social movement leader, to be the country’s next top leaders is beyond remarkable. The road ahead will be bumpy, and they will inevitably disappoint us at times. But this is a giant step for democracy.
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This week was a horror in Latin America.
*
#Colombia
police killed dozens
*
#ElSalvador
president eviscerated judiciary
*
#Brazil
police killed 28+ in Rio favela
*
#Mexico
president called NGOs coup plotters
*
#Peru
to choose btw Leninist and crook
* COVID-19 killed about 30,000
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Great map from
@elpais_america
shows Petro’s base in big cities (except Medellín) and more marginal rural areas, many beyond the “agricultural frontier.” Rural areas more integrated into the economy (cattle, coffee, oil palm, etc.) voted Rodolfo, as did nearby small cities.
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Like they say… the first step in solving a problem is recognizing it exists.
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In surprise move, ex-president Uribe quits
#Colombia
’s Senate after Supreme Court puts him under investigation for bribing/intimidating witnesses.
Cheers to
@DCoronell
for relentlessly pushing this issue in the pages of
@RevistaSemana
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Credible reports of port-of-entry officers blocking asylum-seekers, or making them wait outdoors for days or weeks,
In El Paso:
In McAllen:
In Nogales:
In San Diego:
You are not breaking the law by seeking asylum at a port of entry.
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🚨🚨🚨
#Colombia
55 congresistas de EE.UU. piden al Secretario de Estado que suspenda la ayuda a la policía, congele la venta de equipos de control de disturbios, inste a la desescalada y fomente el diálogo.
PDF en español al final de esta página:
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This part of the Texas border story needs amplification:
"There are serrated metal plates that look like circular saw blades between each buoy."
Who puts SAW BLADES in an area of frequent drownings, in a fast-flowing river navigated by civilians?
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In fiscal 2018, the average Border Patrol agent apprehended 23 migrants. All year.
9 of them would've been kids and family members, leaving 14 single adults, all year. One per agent, every 26 days.
And now, at great expense, 5,200 active-duty soldiers are headed to the border.
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Quite a photo today outside the
#Colombia
ambassador's residence in Washington.
Shortly after this, Vice President
@mluciaramirez
refused the
@CIDH
's request for a visit to look into the human rights situation. The sign gives a sense of how much needs investigating.
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There's some serious military hardware listed here. I can't recall the last time there were US Navy destroyers in the Caribbean or the eastern Pacific coast (on operations, not exercises). And each E-3 AWACS plane costs more than a quarter billion dollars.
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Álvaro Uribe was the colossus of
#Colombia
's politics. He moved the country far to the right, even as human rights abuses proliferated and inequality persisted.
Now he's past his expiration date. His disapproval rating is 53 pts higher than his approval:
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People here are already on US soil; the area is walled off. They want to get past Texas state authorities to turn themselves in to federal authorities.
The TX guardsmen blocking them are soldiers, who rarely get trained in crowd control or de-escalation. TX is making this worse.
This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today
We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here.
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* 42,384 citizens of
#Honduras
were apprehended at the border in May.
* The population of Honduras is about 9.5 million.
That means about _1 in every 224 Hondurans_ was apprehended at the US-Mexico border in a single month.
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People in
#Colombia
keep asking me when Joe Biden might meet with
@IvanDuque
. I can only remind them that important members of Duque's party campaigned for 2 Republican House challengers last fall in south Florida. This helped cost Democrats 2 seats in a nearly tied House. (1/2)
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I'm super concerned for the security of
#Colombia
Senator
@IvanCepedaCast
, who is at the center of the case against ex-president Álvaro Uribe. The son of a senator assassinated in 1994, Cepeda has seen "an exponential increase" in threats, people taking photos outside his home.
@IvanCepedaCast
habla sobre su seguridad
Hay un incremento exponencial de las amenazas, se ha constatado que hay personas que han estado merodeando en las afueras de mi domicilio y tomando fotografías.
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There's a snow-covered mountain peak within sight of downtown Bogotá? I honestly had no idea. This is the Nevado de Tolima, usually hidden by smog and haze:
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"The troops are perched on raised platforms throughout a large room where the migrants are held."
Active-duty soldiers as prison guards. A 150-year-old norm against using the military on US soil for non-emergencies is disappearing before our eyes.
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Imagine the painful contortions required to write this statement, at this moment, without using the words "peace," "accord," "police," "freedom of expression / assembly," "use of force," or "dialogue."
Deeply, deeply disappointing.
Spoke with Colombian Minister of National Defense
@Diego_Molano
. I expressed my commitment to strengthening our defense relationship. We discussed regional security, climate change, COVID-19, and respect for human rights in the Western Hemisphere.
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#Colombia
's Defense Minister's
#1
talking point is that narcotrafficking underlies all the country's problems.
But what causes narcotrafficking? Official corruption. Rampant impunity. Vast ungoverned territories.
Why not talk about those? Why this obsession with coca farmers?
El narcotráfico es el principal enemigo de los colombianos. Mata, deforesta y afecta el medio ambiente. Por eso hago un llamado a la colaboración armónica de todos los poderes para reiniciar la aspersión y evitar obstáculos y asonadas contra los erradicadores de cultivos ilícitos
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Tent encampments. Miserable tent cities have formed, full of asylum seekers—many of them children.
Not because of war or natural disaster. Because of U.S. government policy.
This should be common knowledge. We should all know it’s happening, and have to reckon with it.
Our team just returned from Matamoros, where there are 1,600 people sleeping in tents by the border b/c they have been returned under Remain in Mexico.
Hundreds of people in a sprawling tent encampment w/no infrastructure—mothers, children, ordinary people.
People like Natasha.
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This curve is not flattening. This is the largest one-day increase.
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If any of those migrants were on US soil and expressed fear of return, then this headline is an admission of violating US law and international law.
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3/3
@reveal
exposed conditions faced by the 5% of USBP agents who are women.
@ESMcIntyre
found “a workplace where a wide range of sexual misconduct is pervasive: from stale sex jokes to retaliation for reporting sexual misconduct and assault and rape.”
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2/3 Border Patrol in San Diego leaves several hundred migrants—for as many as 7 days, with minimal access to food, water, sanitation, shelter, or medical attention—out in the open air between layers of the double border wall.
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Imagine that: a child left to fend for him/herself in a Mexican border town, and he/she isn't even Mexican. And people wearing U.S. uniforms did that. People whose paychecks say "U.S. Treasury" on them.
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Multiple reports that men in civilian clothes have been shooting at protesters in Cali in the past few hours. Security forces are present and doing nothing—perhaps even aiding/abetting. Details aren’t clear, but there are casualties and it may still be happening.
#Colombia
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1,606 migrants per day walked through Panama's until-recently impassable Darién Gap jungles in September. An absolutely unthinkable number.
1,280 were citizens of
#Venezuela
.
Source:
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@JDVance1
89% of fentanyl is seized at ports of entry, and next to none of it on the bodies of asylum seekers who were forced to remain, in grave danger, in Mexico.
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A few quick notes after 7 days in
#Colombia
. I don't think I've seen this big of a pullback in government presence and security provision since the Samper years of the mid-1990s. It's really alarming.
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#Venezuela
’s electoral authority is claiming that Maduro has bested González by 51.2%-44.0% with 80% of ballots counted. A result that defies all polling and what we know of informally reported precinct results.
Things were already tense. Now it's 10X worse.
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Importante que se sepa en
#Colombia
que una comisión gubernamental bipartidista de EEUU dijo, como punto de consenso, que "Enviar trabajadores y fuerzas de seguridad a zonas remotas para eliminar pequeñas parcelas de coca es un esfuerzo inútil y a la larga infructuoso."
NEW REPORT📑 Chairman
@RepEliotEngel
releases Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Report.
The report provides critical recommendations that will help policymakers improve U.S. drug policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. ⤵️
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The death toll of
#Colombia
's protests has slowed over the past week. The
@TembloresOng
/
@Indepaz
database shows 3 murders over 8 days May 7-14. That's 3 too many, but what came before was much worse.
You'd better believe this is a result of international scrutiny. Keep it up.
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"There's a fundamental question here: Who is in charge of the security forces in Colombia? Who assumes responsibility for what is happening?"
What a terrifying question to have to ask.
#Colombia
Aquí hay una pregunta de fondo: ¿Quién está al mando de la fuerza pública en Colombia? ¿Quién asume responsabilidades por lo que está ocurriendo?
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In the Cancún
#Mexico
airport,
@INAMI_mx
agents pulled prominent
#Colombia
journalist
@SebastianForerr
aside and prevented him from entering the country.
A plainclothes US
@CBP
officer was right there with the Mexican agents. He canceled Forero’s valid US visa with black marker:
Al periodista
@SebastianForerr
le impidieron la entrada a México hace unos días. Encerrado, vio los abusos del INM y detectó a agentes del CBP operando en el aeropuerto de Cancún. Lean la nota en
@elespectador
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A Colombian NGO that tracks police violence is recommending that all protesters go home or seek refuge to stay alive tonight.
Forces’ attacks on civilians are so widespread that it’s hard to imagine leadership didn’t give a green light, whether explicit or tacit, to rampage.
Con tristeza tenemos que recomendarles a todos los manifestantes que vuelvan a sus casas o busquen un lugar para resguardarse. La situación de derechos humanos es crítica y no hay garantías para la vida, la integridad ni el ejercicio libre de la protesta social.
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One of
#Colombia
’s hardest right-wing senators suffered a heart attack on the floor of the chamber.
The first one to respond and help? A senator from the demobilized FARC. That’s pretty cool.
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114 years ago Saturday, Ellis Island processed 11,747 immigrants, its biggest day. 1.2 million immigrants came legally in 1907. (My great-grandfather in 1908.)
Now, a couple thousand asylum-seekers on the heaviest days sends Ted Cruz into the underbrush.
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It's so perplexing that people are convinced that Title 42 slowed migration, and that its lifting will be a major change.
Here's what happened to single-adult migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border after Title 42 went into effect.
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Military intervention in
#Venezuela
would be hard. Casualties could be in the low 000s. It would involve
#Colombia
. There might be insurgency. Alternatives still exist.
I welcome debate about this, w/o ad hominem attacks, here or in this post's comments:
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En su totalidad (o casi su totalidad), estos US$5.000 millones son garantías estatales a préstamos bancarios al sector privado, hechos por bancos privados. No es "ayuda" ni donativo.
Importante noticia: la Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo Internacional de EE.UU. ha anunciado que aportará cerca de US$5 mil millones para programas sociales en territorios afectados con cultivos ilícitos. Estos recursos apoyarán proyectos de las
#ZonasFuturo
y los PDET.
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So did the conversation actually go like:
“Armed men accompanied by police just shot people in Cali”
“Let’s send soldiers to assist the police”
#ATENCI
ÓN Iván Duque ordena “máximo despliegue de asistencia militar a Policía” en Cali y Valle del Cauca.
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The mother of Dilan Cruz, the 18-year-old protester killed by a policeman's supposedly "nonlethal" weapon during protests in Bogotá in November 2019, just joined President-Elect Gustavo Petro on the stage.
#Colombia
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Of the 9 countries in the Americas whose citizens migrated most often to the US-Mexico border in April, only 2 have presidents attending the Summit right now. The “Los Angeles Declaration” will be about managing flows of migrants from uninvited or non-participating countries.
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Indigenous senator from Cauca,
#Colombia
: "The Cali Police are lying! They lie because the Indigenous Guard is not armed, nor did they loot houses or businesses, we are not thieves or vandals. It was armed civilians protected by the police who attacked the unarmed Minga."
¡La Policía de Cali miente!
Miente porque la Guardia Indígena no está armada, tampoco saqueó casas ni comercios, no somos ladrones ni vándalos.
Fueron civiles armados protegidos por la policía quienes atacaron a la Minga desarmada.
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Never seen this before in
#Colombia
. After firing 22 police generals, the new president says here that if massacres or social-leader killings happen in military and police commanders' areas of responsibility, it "will affect" their career paths.
La comisión de masacres y su impunidad en jusrisdicciones de mandos militares y policiales afectará la hoja de vida de los mandos
Desde ahora todo mando militar o policial en su jurisdicción debe velar por neutralizar al máximo la comisión de masacre y muerte de lideres sociales
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10 migrants drowned in El Paso irrigation canals June 9-22.
>20 Nicaraguans drowned in Rio Grande Mar 4-May 19.
36 remains found this year in Brooks County TX. 110 in Pima County AZ.
229 border-wall fall injuries since Oct in El Paso sector.
Now this. It's a policy of death.
While we await SCOTUS decision on Remain in Mexico (MPP), at least 42 ppl found dead trapped in a semi-truck in the Texas heat trying to seek safety & security in the US. Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons; all deserve to be
#SafeNotStranded
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The
#Colombia
where I’ve worked for 25 years was a place where even center-left reformers were tarred as guerrillas, including by media. Where social movement leaders fear for their lives. Where Álvaro Uribe was dominant and beloved by a fearful electorate, including the poorest.
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I just graphed out 32 years of U.S. government coca cultivation estimates for a talk I'm giving later today, and… just wow.
Our government's over-reliance on forced crop eradication has been… well, let's be nice and say that it's been "a policy."
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I study Latin American civil-military relations. If a Latin American civilian defense minister, no doubt under pressure from the high command, felt it necessary to defy a President like this, it would be a huge deal.
In the US, it's a gargantuan deal.
NEW: Defense Sec. Esper: "I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act."
“The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most ... dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now.”
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@AOC
This article is unclear about this, but the situation is:
- Kids arrive without adult accompaniment
- They need to be placed with a relative or sponsor
- Arranging that can take days or weeks
- Where do the kids stay in the meantime?
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Sorry ambassador, but no clear-headed person in Washington is going to buy the argument "Conditions are worse in
#Colombia
because of the peace accord that my government opposed and barely implemented for the past 3 years."
La verdad es que acuerdo de La Habana No alcanzó la paz. Reducción del crimen fue esencialmente por avances en seguridad y sacrificios para debilitar los violentos.
Positivo:
Desmovilización parcial
Negativo:
Impunidad
Más cocaína y oro ilegal
FFAA debilitadas
Fractura política
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I usually learn a lot from
@NickMiroff
and colleagues' reporting, but I need to respond to a few of the choices made in this piece.
NEW: How the Biden admin's poor planning, botched messaging, rush to repudiate Trump and a broken asylum system unleashed the biggest border surge in 20 years, with "no end in sight" with
@AshleyRParker
@WaPoSean
@tylerpager
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“OK let’s have him shaking hands in a pandemic again. But this time, with Chapo Guzman’s mother. Yeah, and then some close-talk with a guy who says he’s the Guzmáns’ lawyer.”
Whoever wrote this episode of “The AMLO Show” is on fire right now.
This is El Chapo’s mom meeting
@lopezobrador_
, who is definitely not into social distancing.
The man in the hat appears to be Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza, an attorney for the Guzman family in Mexico.
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Outcome:
Totally unacceptable and disappointing that any CBP Twitter account was used to R/T offensive, unauthorized content. We’ve removed the content and will deactivate the account. The Office of Professional Responsibility will investigate. This must not happen again.
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"Migrant riot"
"Migrants try to force"
"Attempt to storm"
…or, from
@elpasomatters
' reporter, on-scene: "hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants walked to the top of the Paso del Norte Bridge on Sunday to learn if a rumor about the border being temporarily opened was true"
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It looks virtually ceratain that
@SenatorLeahy
, an outspoken proponent of human rights in
#LatinAmerica
, is going to be the next chairman of the full Senate Appropriations Committee. And I think that's delightful.
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Critical chokepoint for international commerce: 1 backhoe
Illegal mining site in Chocó, Colombia: 2 backhoes
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What a story in
@_elfaro_
.
#ElSalvador
crypto-president
@nayibbukele
had a cozy covert pact for 2 1/2 years with MS-13. It broke down; MS killed 87 people in 3 days in late March.
Bukele (alias "Batman" in leaked audios) has rounded up and imprisoned 31,000 young men in 7 weeks.
EXCLUSIVE: Audios of top Bukele administration official reveal that the record spike in homicides in March was the result of the collapse of negotiations between MS-13 and the government of
#ElSalvador
.
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89% counted. Not even close, really. This is historic. A country that has seen several left/reformist candidates assassinated over the past 75 years is about to elect one.
#Colombia
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Oh dear Lord just look at that photo.
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Presidents prosecuted for "official actions" in Latin America who, under the new standards imposed by SCOTUS today, might be immune:
- Alberto Fujimori
- Efraín Ríos Montt, Otto Pérez Molina, Alfonso Portillo
- Jorge Rafael Videla
- Ricardo Martinelli
- Juan Orlando Hernández
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This sucks. It means:
* Less money for humane treatment of kids and families in processing
* Less money for border communities absorbing the flow
* More money for ICE
* More money for the National Guard at the border
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.
@TembloresOng
got a judge to order
#Colombia
’s Defense Min to reveal how $8 million in US “human rights” aid to the National Police is being spent.
They shouldn’t have had to go to court. The US
@StateINL
should have transparently reported this already.
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This is a huge point. Did you know the US expelled more than 13,000 unaccompanied children back to their home countries, unaccompanied, between last March and November, when a judge finally told the Trump administration to stop?
Coverage wise: did unaccompanied children who were immediately expelled back to their home countries or to Mexico get the same amount of attention as the coverage focusing on children in HHS/BP custody?
Both worthy coverage points but the former did not cut through. Why?
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Look at this incredible disparity in asylum acceptance rates across U.S. immigration courts. You have a 3 in 4 chance in New York, a 1 in 17 chance in El Paso.
Using new data from
@TRACReports
:
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