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July 19, 2017
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Americas Updater:
Vol.16, No. 3
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Contents:
*International Human Rights Experts Added to Growing List of Targets
*Guatemalans Driven from their Homes Stuck in Limbo on Mexican Border
*Brazil's Everlasting Corruption Soup Opera
*Case of Murdered Mexican Environmental Activist Moves to International Sphere
*Human Rights Absent in US-Mexico Conference on Central America Despite Concern
in Congress
*Javier Valdez and the Drug War that Killed Him
*Mexico Hosts SouthCom Conference to Launch Plan Pentagon Against Central
American Migrants
*Hope Springs from the People's Summit
NEW from the Americas Program
International Human Rights Experts Added to Growing List of Targets
By Laura Carlsen and Ana Victoria Rodríguez
With the Ayotzinapa case still unsolved, the students still disappeared, the
motives still unknown and the masterminds still unpunished, the spy scandal
adds another layer of injustice. It indicates what many of us have believed
from the beginning– that the Mexican government is more concerned with damage
control than truth because, for them, the truth could be very damaging.
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Guatemalans Driven from their Homes Stuck in Limbo on Mexican Border
By Spencer Tilger
After traveling 3 kilometers to the border, refugees from the Laguna Larga
community were met by the Mexican Nacional Institute of Migration (INM) and
armed federal and state police. Evicted by Guatemalan authorities and barred
from entering further into Mexico, the villagers were forced to stay in
makeshift tents made from plastic bags in the 8-meter border zone between
Campeche and El Petén.
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Brazil's Everlasting Corruption Soup Opera
By Gabriel Leao
As its political-economic crisis scales up, the country must face its demons
and prove to the populace and foreign players that it is still a hot emerging
venue.
Read More
Case of Murdered Mexican Environmental Activist Moves to International Sphere
By Simon Schatzberg
Knowing that his life was in danger, Abarca began to raise his public profile.
In July 2009, he traveled to the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City to deliver a
message about Blackfire’s conduct and the threats to his person. A video from
that visit shows him telling an embassy representative that Blackfire is using
its employees as shock troops for violent attacks on activists.
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Human Rights Absent in US-Mexico Conference on Central America Despite Concern
in Congress
By Laura Carlsen
The Miami meeting ignored human rights and refugee rights. There appears to
have been no discussion of government abuses as a result of intensified joint
operations to stop migrant flows to the United States, particularly by Mexican
security forces and increasingly by Central American forces charged with
controlling outmigration of their own people.
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Javier Valdez and the Drug War that Killed Him
By Andrew Kennis
One month ago today a burly, middle-aged reporter set out from the offices of
the news weekly Riodoce that he co-founded some fourteen years ago, walking
toward his car at high noon. He had just penned what would be his last column
that morning when his life was brought to an abrupt end by two unknown
assassins.
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Mexico Hosts SouthCom Conference to Launch Plan Pentagon Against Central
American Migrants
By Laura Carlsen
Mexico’s Secretaries of Government and Foreign Relations and Defense and Marine
Secretariats will stand beside their U.S. co-hosts June 15 and 16 to launch the
new Plan Pentagon for Central America.
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Hope Springs from the People's Summit
By Trish Snyder
There were many hundreds of young people who traveled from all over the country
to be part of the People’s Summit. To be part of the change, because NO is not
enough.
Read More
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