Highlights: Organized crime in Mexico extends over 81% of the national territory. More than 108 million Mexicans are potentially exposed to gang violence. Donald Trump says he has been too busy to make the documents confidential. In Haiti, the latest statements by de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry make the headlines. The integration of migrants in Brazil is put in the spotlight on World Refugee Day, June 20, 2023.. Press Review of the Americas is published every week by the Intercontinental Press Association (IPPA)

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Headlines: organized crime covers 81% of Mexican territory

Mexican law enforcement training session in the fight against gangs, January 4, 2023 © AP/Moises Castillo

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This is the conclusion of a study published by the newspaper El Universal. The data is overwhelming, writes the daily: the presence of organized crime in Mexico extends over 81% of the national territory. Among the criminal groups, the Jalisco cartel is the most present in the country. It operates in 28 of the 32 states. More than 108 million Mexicans are potentially exposed to gang violence, including executions, massacres, kidnappings, extortion and targeted assassinations of politicians and police officers. During the first 12 days of June, almost a thousand homicides were recorded, an average of 80 per day.

Donald Trump says he has been too busy to make the documents confidential

Former US President Donald Trump, accused of hiding confidential documents, justified himself again, it was yesterday on the Fox News channel, during a rather muscular exchange. Journalist Bret Baier asked the former president why he didn't just hand over the documents at the request of federal agents. Donald Trump's response: "I was very busy ... I didn't have time to sort through the business documents of my personal belongings." This explanation made the front page of USA Today. The news site The Hill notes that the journalist and the former president have argued over the remarks of Donald Trump who still believes that he won the 2020 presidential election.

You lost the election," the Fox News reporter corrected. Earlier in the interview, Donald Trump had attacked the Fox News channel, saying that "far less" people than before watch the channel. Asked by the journalist about the reasons that push him to come to the set of Fox News despite his incessant attacks on the channel, Donald Trump replied, with rare frankness: "You have to get your message across somehow."

The integration of migrants in Brazil

This Tuesday, June 20, 2023 is World Refugee Day and the Brazilian press has decided to put migrants in the spotlight. Including examples of successful integration. Folha de São Paulo publishes the portrait of several migrants who have recently come to Brazil. Mazen Zwawe, for example, 31 years old who fled the war in Syria. He arrived in São Paulo ten years ago and is now the chef of a restaurant specializing in Mediterranean cuisine that employs six people. Mazen Zwawe has obtained Brazilian citizenship and plans to stay in the country that has welcomed him so well, he says.

According to Folha de São Paulo, the majority of people applying for refugee status come from Venezuela. This is the case of Larry Alexander de la Rosa, 49, who has lived in Brazil for four years. An advertising worker in Venezuela, he now works in a bakery. His eldest daughter and wife have just joined him in São Paulo. He, too, sees his future in Brazil, especially if his daughter, who is taking the equivalent of the baccalaureate this year, is accepted into a public university.

"The gospel according to Ariel Henry... where time is infinite"

In Haiti, it is the latest statements by de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry that make the headlines. Before flying to Europe where he will participate in the summit on a new global financial pact at the end of the week in Paris, Ariel Henry said on Twitter that he was committed, among other things, to launch the process of revising the Constitution and forming a government of national unity.

Remarks that make react Frantz Duval, the director of the Nouvelliste. In its editorial, it notes that all its commitments are devoid of timetable. "In the Gospel of Henry, ... time is infinite," writes Le Nouvelliste, before continuing: "the last time the country was in a situation similar to the one it knows today, Jean-Claude Duvalier was president for life. Like him, Ariel Henry has all the powers and no election to fill his replacement is on the agenda. As for Jean-Claude Duvalier, all friendly countries support the power in place "without diktat or timetable". For lack of anything better, say the most influential diplomats," writes Le Nouvelliste.

Headlines: organized crime covers 81% of Mexican territory

Headlines: organized crime covers 81% of Mexican territory

Donald Trump says he has been too busy to make the documents confidential

The integration of migrants in Brazil

"The gospel according to Ariel Henry... where time is infinite"

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