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The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is a leading research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas.
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📢BREAKING: Rep Castro and others just introduced a resolution rejecting U.S. military action in #Mexico. WOLA is proud to endorse this resolution, which reaffirms that unilateral military force is neither legal nor effective. 🔗 Read more: castro.house.gov/media-center... #humanrights

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🇻🇪 On Wednesday, Trump announced that he's reversing GL41, the U.S. license allowing Chevron to operate in Venezuela. The issue of sanctions is complex and should not be oversimplified. 👇 ✨ Director for Venezuela Laura Dib reacts.

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📢 ¡Hoy! 📢 El Director de Política de Drogas, John Walsh, participará en un evento en la AU como parte de un panel de expertos sobre Colombia y la política de EE.UU. Asiste en persona o en línea. 🕚 11 AM - 1 PM ET 📍 AU College of Law Regístrese aquí:👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkU...

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📢 Happening today! 📢 Director for Drug Policy John Walsh will be speaking at an event at AU on an expert panel on Colombia and U.S. Policy. Don't miss it! Attend in person or online. 🕚 11 AM - 1 PM ET 📍 AU College of Law Register here: 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkU...

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Such a remarkable chart (just updated). The result of states' legalization/regulation of cannabis, obviously.

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1/ Trump announced he's reversing GL41, the U.S. license allowing Chevron to operate in Venezuela. What does this mean? A quick breakdown of what we know & what’s unclear. 🧵👇

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🌎 "La migración venezolana en América Latina ha tenido un impacto tremendo en la región por la magnitud y la velocidad de salida de la población", explicó Presidenta de WOLA Carolina Jiménez Sandoval a El Tiempo. 📢 📖 Puede leer el artículo completo acá. 🔗 www.eltiempo.com/politica/gob...

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🇭🇳 Honduras heads into primary elections amid deep political divides and a strained relationship with the U.S. What’s at stake? 🔎 Read our latest analysis on the elections and the role of the U.S.: ⬇️ 🔗 wola.org/analysis/con... #Honduras #Democracy #HumanRights

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🔎 Climate change deniers and anti-woke champions—Argentina’s Javier Milei and Donald Trump have more in common than you think. 📖 Read WOLA’s latest analysis on how Milei is Trump’s political doppelgänger: ⬇️ 🔗 wola.org/analysis/thr...

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New @wola-org.bsky.social podcast episode: At the border in Nogales, Mexico, migrants tell Kino Border Initiative shelter staff, “They didn’t take our strength. They didn’t take our dignity. People will keep fighting for safety.” Listen: www.wola.org/multimedia/t...

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📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE! 📢 “They Didn’t Take Our Strength”: The Border Under Trump, Viewed from Nogales 👉 Listen to WOLA’s Latin America Today podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or on our website! 🔗 wola.org/multimedia/t...

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📢 Join WOLA’s John Walsh at American University on Feb. 28 for a critical discussion on Colombia & U.S. drug policies—their impact, results, and human rights implications. 🕚 11 AM - 1 PM ET 📍 AU College of Law Register 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkU... #DrugPolicy #HumanRights

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📢 “No han capturado más de 1.100 personas en un día, pero lo han hecho con bombos y platillos en redes para generar temor y provocar la autodeportación”, advierte Adam Isacson sobre la estrategia contra migrantes en EE.UU. Más en El Espectador 🔗 www.elespectador.com/responsabili...

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📰 "It's going to be like turning a supertanker for the first few months," Director of Defense Oversight Adam Isacson told Reuters. "The civilian part of the U.S. government can only do so much." Read here: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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🗓️ Happening today! Rep. Hank Johnson is hosting a Black History Month Briefing on Black History & Empowerment at 3:30 pm. WOLA is excited to be participating! This discussion on resilience and empowerment is more crucial than ever. #BlackHistoryMonth #HumanRights

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In this week's @wola-org.bsky.social Border Update: - Migration fell in January - Darién Gap migration dropped - "Bridge deportations" to Panama, Costa Rica - Guantánamo detainees sent to Venezuela via Honduras - Congress readies huge #border / deport spending - Mass deportation - Impact in Mexico

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🚨 EE.UU. está cerrando las puertas a quienes huyen de Venezuela. ❌ Al eliminar rutas de regularización, deja a miles sin opciones seguras. 📢 En WOLA analizamos el impacto de estas políticas y por qué es un grave error. 👇 🔗 www.wola.org/es/analysis/...

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Yesterday, WOLA staff met on the Hill, briefing congressional staffers on the impact on Latin America of the freeze on US foreign aid. In challenging times, our work remains more important now than ever. #humanrights #advocacy #WOLA

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🚨 The U.S. is stripping nearly 700,000 Venezuelans of legal protections. Here's our breakdown of what’s happening and why it matters. ⬇️ Read our full analysis: 🔗 wola.org/analysis/ter... #TPSforVenezuelans #ImmigrationJustice #HumanRights

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📺 En entrevista con NTN24, la Presidenta de WOLA @cjimenezdc.bsky.social, habló sobre la situación de la Embajada de Argentina en Caracas. Urge que se emitan los salvoconductos para los miembros del partido de oposición refugiados allí. Mira la entrevista aquí 👇 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3syZ...

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📢 “The concern is that this could open the door to both criminal prosecutions and immigration consequences for a wide range of everyday people, organizations, and businesses on both sides of the border,” Stephanie Brewer told Insight Crime. Read here. 🔗 insightcrime.org/news/organiz...

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🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 EE.UU. empuja a Colombia hacia China Tras el conflicto por Twitter entre Trump y Petro, Colombia busca diversificar sus relaciones económicas, alejándose de la influencia estadounidense y acercándose a China. 👇 🔗 Lee el articulo: (www.wola.org/es/analysis/...)

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📢 Aranceles. Fentanilo. Migración. En su primer mes, la administración Trump ha vuelto a ejercer presión sobre México con medidas que podrían afectar la economía y la cooperación bilateral. ¿Qué podemos esperar? 🔎 Lo analizamos en WOLA: www.wola.org/es/analysis/...

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🇨🇴 ➡️🇨🇳 Is the U.S. pushing one of its closest South American allies toward China? The most recent row between President Trump and Petro could be a sign of shifting collaboration in the region. Read more from WOLA: ⬇️ 🔗 www.wola.org/analysis/u-s...

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En diciembre de 2024, las organizaciones internacionales hicimos un llamado urgente a proteger a las personas asiladas en la embajada de Argentina en Caracas, bajo la protección de Brasil.

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“If the US government starts to consider everyone ‘terrorists’ regardless of motivations, then essentially nobody is a terrorist, and the post-9/11 focus on the international terror threat gets blurred.” From @wola-org.bsky.social's analysis of listing criminal groups as “terrorists”:

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This week's @wola-org.bsky.social #Border Update is live. - Migration is low - Guantánamo is growing, with non-criminals - Giant spending bill in Congress - Venezuela retrieves deportees - US military deployment - Criminal groups on terrorist list - US aid freeze

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This is an @adamisacson.com and @wola-org.bsky.social appreciation post.

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⏰ Today at 12 p.m. (DC time), our Vice President for Programs, Maureen Meyer, will be participating in a panel hosted by Amnesty International on the human rights of migrants. Don't miss it! (Event will be held in Spanish) 🔎👇 📺 Join here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t5S...

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⏰ Hoy a las 12 p.m. (hora de DC), nuestra Directora de Programas, Maureen Meyer, participará en un panel organizado por Amnistía Internacional sobre los derechos humanos de las personas migrantes. ¡No te lo pierdas! 🔎👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t5S...

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📢 On Feb 18 at 12 PM ET, WOLA President Carolina Jiménez Sandoval will join a panel at Harvard's DRCLAS for Latin American Studies to discuss the future of U.S.-Latin America relations under Trump 2.0. 🔗 Attend in person or online: drclas.harvard.edu/event/future... #ForeignPolicy #WOLA

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🔊 WOLA’s Program Director for Defense Oversight joined @newrepublic.com s podcast last week to break down how Trump’s tariff threats and Mexico’s role in stopping migration. 🎧 Listen now: newrepublic.com/article/1912... #BorderPolicy #HumanRights #DefenseOversight

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🇻🇪 “I don’t expect them to have any guarantee of due process upon return,” Venezuela Program Director Laura Dib told the New York Times, “If anything, I think there could be retaliations against people that had fled to the U.S.” Read the full piece here. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...

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