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Nicaragua 1/13/2019
January 13, 2019
Raid on December 21 of independent television news channel 100% Noticias in Managua and the arrest of two of its journalists: Miguel Mora Barberena, the station’s owner and director, and Lucía Pineda Ubau, the station’s news director. The channel has been banned from broadcasting.
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Witness Against Torture
January 13, 2019
Week of fasting, public witness calls for closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison. Let them go home!
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RRN Letter
Colombia 1/12/2019
January 12, 2019
Assassinations of six social leaders that have occurred during the first week of 2019.
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RRN Letter
Colombia 1/11/2019
January 11, 2019
Recent attack on indigenous leader Alejandro Pascal Pai and his wife. Alejandro Pascal Pai was recently elected Awá governor of the Pingullo Sardinero community in Barbacoas municipality, Nariño Department.
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Military Operations on the U.S./Mexico Border
January 2, 2019

Tear gas and military deployment on the border

The mobilization of the U.S. military to the border, of course, is itself quite striking. Militarization is not just a factor overseas, but right here within our own borders. We have soldiers patrolling against the perceived harm of migrants seeking personal safety and shelter, painted by the government as violent criminals.

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The Problem with Border Security
December 28, 2018
Border security—supported by Republicans and Democrats alike—is responsible for the death of Jakelin Caal, the exoneration of the Border Patrol agent who murdered a Mexican teen, and the separation and death of thousands of immigrant families.
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U.S. should acknowledge its role in driving Guatemalans to flee their country
December 28, 2018
the lifeless body of Jakelin Caal Maquín, 7, who died in the custody of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, was returned to her family home in Guatemala. Then on Christmas Day, the Border Patrol announced another Guatemalan child, 8-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonso, had died in the agency’s custody.
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Transgender Asylum-Seeker Who Died In ICE Custody Was Beaten, Autopsy Shows
December 27, 2018
Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez had “deep bruises” on her body and died of dehydration, an independent autopsy found.
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RRN Letter
Honduras 12/26/2018
December 26, 2018
Ongoing criminalization and judicial harassment of Juana Carranza, a member of the Reyes Rodríguez Arévalo Campesina Cooperative, which is affiliated with the Yoro regional branch of the National Field Workers Office (CNTC) in El Progreso, Yoro Department.
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RRN Letter
Colombia 12/25/2018
December 25, 2018
Assassinations of Awa indigenous leaders Hector Ramiro García and his son, Arturo García, on December 2 in Ricaurte, Cundinamarca Department.
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