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The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) was founded in 1974, at a time when nearly every country in Latin…
On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily paused a federal court ruling from California that had blocked the…
Introduction Through a controversial constitutional reform, Mexico has adopted an unprecedented system in which all judges across the country’s judicial…
On April 6, the Comuneros del Sur—dissidents of the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) in Colombia’s Nariño…
On the night of April 20, Nayib Bukele proposed a “humanitarian agreement” to Nicolás Maduro via X: the repatriation of…
Today, on April 14, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele will visit the White House per special invitation from President Donald…
*This information in this article comes from interviews done with civil society, local officials and members of the peace table…
On November 15, 2024, Venezuela enacted a regressive law tightening state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Popularly referred to as…
Introduction Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico since October 2024, stated in her inauguration speech that she did not come to…
The bilateral relationship between the United States and Honduras has faced many challenges, which have worsened under the Trump administration….
Following the January 26 diplomatic crisis between Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and U.S. President Donald Trump on X, and as…
U.S. policymakers from both sides of the aisle have a long history of denouncing authoritarian power grabs under Hugo Chávez…
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