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WOLA promotes human rights, democracy, and social justice by working with partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to shape policies in the United States and abroad. Listen to updates and...
This episode examines the aftermath of Peru's first-round presidential election held on April 12, 2025, recorded just five days later with r...
This episode examines the systematic dismantling of asylum protections in the United States under the Trump administration. Our guests are t...
Por el Mes de la Mujer, estamos lanzando un episodio especial de Latin America Today con una conversación con Collette Spinetti — activista...
For Women's Month, we're releasing a special episode of Latin America Today featuring a conversation with Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez — a Me...
This episode assesses the "transition"—if that is the correct word—in Venezuela nine weeks after the January 3 U.S. military operation that...
This episode features Mark Ungar , a professor of criminal justice and political science at Brooklyn College and the City University of New...
This episode is a conversation with John Walsh , WOLA's director for Drug Policy and the Andes, about the ongoing U.S. military attacks on c...
Following the Trump administration's January 3, 2026 military operation in Venezuela and its lethal strikes on boats suspected of carrying d...
January 20, 2026 is the first anniversary of Donald Trump's second inauguration. As we pass this milestone, WOLA President Carolina Jiménez...
After midnight on January 3, 2026, the Trump administration bombed Venezuelan military sites and extracted the country's authoritarian leade...
In this series from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), prominent decision-makers from across the Americas—those who have been at...
WOLA presents a new episode about El Salvador, coinciding with our awarding of our 2025 Human Rights Award to MOVIR, El Salvador's Movement...
A special episode as part of WOLA's 2025 Human Rights Awards Month President Nayib Bukele's government has jailed nearly 2 percent of El Sal...
Since late August, the Trump administration has sent a flotilla of U.S. warships to the southern Caribbean, in the largest naval display in...
Since January, the United States' migrant detention and deportation system, which was already troubled, has become increasingly opaque. Acce...
Nearly three years into President Gustavo Petro's term, his flagship "Total Peace" initiative is faltering. On this episode of the WOLA Podc...
A Special Pride Month Episode This special Pride Month episode brings together the voices of six LGBTIQ+ activists from across Latin America...
This special Pride Month episode brings together the voices of six LGBTIQ+ activists from across Latin America—Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, V...
In the wake of escalating immigration enforcement targeting vulnerable migrant communities, this Pride Month episode brings essential perspe...
For the second year in a row, what had been an uneventful, consensus-driven United Nations meeting on drug policy saw unexpected drama and s...
**This podcast is in Spanish. Stay tuned for an English summary! Este Mes de la Mujer, en WOLA lanzamos una serie especial de nuestro podcas...
On March 15, 2025 President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for only the fourth time in U.S. history. The target, this ti...
This Women's Month, WOLA launched a special podcast series to amplify feminist voices fighting for human rights in Latin America. Our second...
**This podcast is in Spanish. Stay tuned for an English summary! Este Mes de la Mujer, en WOLA lanzamos una serie especial de nuestro podcas...
To kick off our series for International Women's Month, we sat down with WOLA President Carolina Jiménez Sandoval to discuss gender justice...
In an expected but still stunning escalation, the Trump administration has imposed 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, citin...
In the five weeks since Donald Trump's inauguration, the landscape for migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border has shifted dra...
The director of WOLA's Venezuela Program, Laura Dib , joins the podcast to discuss the political, human rights, and diplomatic reality follo...
In this podcast episode WOLA's Central America Director, Ana María Méndez Dardón , reflects on Bernardo Arevalo's first year in office, as J...
WOLA's director for Colombia, Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, is just back from taking a U.S. congressional delegation to Colombia. In addition to B...
On November 25, President-Elect Donald Trump announced via social media that he would impose a 25 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico...
This episode was recorded three days after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. It brings together WOLA's president, Carolina Ji...
In September 2024, Mexico's legislature quickly approved a series of constitutional reforms at the behest of outgoing president Andrés Manue...
This podcast episode features Kendra McSweeney and Fritz Pinnow , part of a team investigating a new trend: the emergence of coca cultivatio...
WOLA's President Carolina Jimenez Sandoval is joined by Laura Cristina Dib , WOLA's director for Venezuela to discuss the state of Venezuela...
On July 28, 2024, Venezuela held a long-awaited presidential election. More than 25 years after Hugo Chávez was first elected, his successor...
On March 14-22, 2024, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) held its 67th annual session in Vienna, Austria. The session saw a landmark...
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele just won re-election by a broad margin as a massive security crackdown has reduced gangs' role in every...
A January outbreak of criminal violence in Ecuador made headlines worldwide. Now, a new government is cracking down in ways that recall othe...
After relentless attempts to block his inauguration and a nine-hour delay, Bernardo Arévalo, who ran for Guatemala's presidency on an anti-c...
As congressional negotiations place asylum and other legal protection pathways at risk, and as we approach a 2024 election year with migrati...
A conversation with WOLA's President, Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, about the year ahead. She discusses current challenges in the Americas with...
Maria Belén Garrido , a research lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, and Jeffrey Pugh , an associate professor at the...
A new report from WOLA dives deeply into the growing power and roles of Mexico's military, and what that means for human rights, democracy,...
Venezuela is to hold presidential elections sometime in 2024. Whether they will be at least somewhat free and fair, moving the country away...
Gretchen Kuhner directs the Mexico City-based Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI). She explains the challenges and complexities—and occ...
Joining WOLA with partners in three countries, the Central America Monitor has tracked governance indicators during a very difficult nine ye...
From a traditional drug policy perspective, fentanyl would appear to be an intractable problem. It also threatens a rift in the U.S.-Mexico...
WOLA staff report from Honduras after a visit to the border with Nicaragua, where we witnessed a historic migration flow. As government and...
A conversation about the political and humanitarian moment in Venezuela, efforts to resolve the country's crisis, and the U.S. role, with Ge...