Nicaragua: Repression, Asylum and the International Response | A conversation with Kevin Sullivan
Human Rights Award Month Special Episode The Ortega-Murillo regime has spent eight years tightening its grip in Nicaragua, shutting down tho...
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20 of 112 episodesThe Venezuela Oil Deal: Opacity and a Transition in Doubt
In this episode, WOLA's Adam Isacson speaks with Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin America Energy Program at the Center for Energy St...
Security Reimagined: "Police reform isn't decreed; it's managed"
This Spanish-language conversation is the first in a series on alternative approaches to security in Latin America, "Security Reimagined." H...
"It's a Policy That Seeks to Wear People Out": U.S. "mass deportation" brings misery to Mexico's far south
This episode accompanies the August 2026 release of Desterrados al Sur: el costo humano de la deportación ("Banished to the South: The Human...
Colombia's and Peru's Election Outcomes: Razor-Thin Margins and Populist Tensions
This episode brings together two experts to discuss recent second-round presidential elections in Peru and Colombia: Jo-Marie Burt, a senior...
"We saw the Venezuelan state in its bare bones": the June 24 earthquake's aftermath
On June 24, 2026, two consecutive earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude—the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century—devas...
Saving asylum and retaking the narrative: defending LGBTQ+ migrants in Tijuana
In this episode of the WOLA Podcast, recorded on June 25, 2026, host Adam Isacson speaks with Elijah Maurus, an attorney based in Tijuana wh...
Derechos LGBTIQ+ en el exilio: una conversación con Braulio Abarca
En este episodio de la serie del mes del Orgullo de Latin America Today, Maureen Meyer, vicepresidenta de Programas de WOLA, conversa con Br...
Estructuras antiderechos: la lucha trans en Colombia y el mundo — con Renata Jank Vivas Antonelli
En este episodio especial del mes del Orgullo de Latin America Today, la presidenta de WOLA, Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, conversa con Renata...
"The Two Candidates Could Not Be More Different": Colombia's presidential vote
This episode examines the first round of Colombia's presidential election, which took place on May 31, 2026, and previews the June 21st runo...
One Year Later: The Political Imprisonment of Ruth López in El Salvador
A year after the arrest of Salvadoran human rights lawyer and anti-corruption advocate Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro, WOLA's Latin America Toda...
Uncovering Operation Condor: a 50-Year Fight for Accountability
This episode marks the 50th anniversary of Operation Condor's assassination program, codenamed "Teseo" (Theseus). Condor was the coordinated...
Polarization and Impunity: Peru's First-Round Presidential Election
This episode examines the aftermath of Peru's first-round presidential election held on April 12, 2025, recorded just five days later with r...
The All-Out Assault on Asylum
This episode examines the systematic dismantling of asylum protections in the United States under the Trump administration. Our guests are t...
"El camino duele, pero trae fortaleza": Un episodio especial por el Mes de la Mujer con Collette Spinetti, la primera secretaria de Estado trans del Uruguay
Por el Mes de la Mujer, estamos lanzando un episodio especial de Latin America Today con una conversación con Collette Spinetti — activista...
"Women, 'las buscadoras', have become a very strong reference for courage" | A Special Women's Month Conversation with Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez
For Women's Month, we're releasing a special episode of Latin America Today featuring a conversation with Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez — a Me...
Oil and the Rule of Law in Venezuela
This episode assesses the "transition"—if that is the correct word—in Venezuela nine weeks after the January 3 U.S. military operation that...
"It's So Seamlessly Blended into the Regular Economy That It's Hard to Pull Out": Environmental Organized Crime, in Venezuela and Throughout the Americas
This episode features Mark Ungar , a professor of criminal justice and political science at Brooklyn College and the City University of New...
Don't Let Boat Strikes Fade Into the Background
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...
U.S. Military Attacks Inside Colombia and Mexico: a Conversation We're Actually Having
Following the Trump administration's January 3, 2026 military operation in Venezuela and its lethal strikes on boats suspected of carrying d...