November 18, 2009
"Today, the U.S. Congress takes a major step forward in reshaping U.S. policy toward Cuba," said Geoff Thale, Program Director at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). "It has been more than a decade since the House has held a hearing on travel to Cuba. Finally, under the leadership of Chairman Howard Berman, the House Foreign Affairs ...
November 12, 2009
According to a recent report released by international experts from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Transnational Institute in The Netherlands and the Colectivo para una Política Integral Hacia las Drogas in Mexico, the new Mexican law that decriminalizes the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use will substantially increase chances that drug users are mistaken ...
November 11, 2009
Rep. James P. McGovern, accompanied by a delegation of U.S. citizens, will examine storm damage in the city of San Salvador on Wednesday around 3:30pm. Last weekend's rains caused landslides and damage in San Salvador, San Vicente, and several other areas in El Salvador. They caused over 130 deaths, and left thousands homeless.
November 10, 2009
Next week, President Mauricio Funes will present El Salvador's highest award to the six Jesuit martyrs murdered in 1989 by the military during the country's civil war. The Jesuits were committed to bridging dialogue between the two warring parties and many of them had close relationships to Washington. Their murders led to international outrage and shifted U.S. support for the ...
November 6, 2009
The Ambassadors of Honduras, Argentina, and other countries to be announced will speak to the press tomorrow on the accord signed October 30th for the restitution of President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Washington Office on Latin America.
October 30, 2009
The United States and Colombia this morning signed a 10-year agreement which will allow increased access by the U.S. military to seven of Colombia's military bases. The details of the agreement have not yet been released by the U.S. or Colombian governments.
October 30, 2009
WOLA applauds the long awaited breakthrough in Honduras to bring the immediate political crisis to an end, and urges the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court to move swiftly to approve the negotiated agreement between Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti.
October 29, 2009
Tomorrow, the United Nations General Assembly will likely vote overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo against Cuba for an 18th consecutive year. The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) strongly applauds this statement from the international community and the nations of Latin America.
October 22, 2009
International Drug Policy Experts Affirm a Paradigm Shift on the Continent
October 15, 2009
Today a bill that represents a significant step toward a serious - and overdue - reconsideration of U.S. drug control policy will be marked-up at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
October 15, 2009
This Afternoon, Thursday, October 15th, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere will mark-up a bill that would create an independent "Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission" to recommend how to improve U.S. domestic and international drug control policies.
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September 29, 2009
Last week, the public learned of a series of threats against the life of Dr. Salomon Lerner the former president of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru (TRC).
September 23, 2009
WOLA will grant today its 2009 Human Rights Award to the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center from Guerrero, Mexico, an award given each year to organizations or individuals who significantly contribute to the promotion of human rights in Latin America.
September 21, 2009
The Washington Office on Latin America understands that President Manuel Zelaya has returned to Honduras. Given the polarized situation in the country, WOLA calls on all sides to refrain from violence and to negotiate a peaceful return to Constitutional order.
September 17, 2009
The Obama administration's "decertification" of Bolivia's drug control efforts, announced last night, is unwarranted and risks unnecessarily complicating efforts underway to improve U.S.-Bolivian relations, according to the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Andean Information Network (AIN).
September 15, 2009
"The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Pinochet", a memoir of dictatorship and its long aftermath in Chile, has won the second annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, WOLA and Duke University announced today.
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