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Washington D.C.—On October 29, Senator Feliciano Valencia, a Nasa Indigenous land rights advocate, suffered an assassination attempt in Tacueyó, Cauca department, in southwest Colombia. A leader of the Indigenous collective peaceful protest action known as the minga, Valencia ran for senator after his release from jail in 2017, after he was the target of a […]
Washington, D.C.—A new report published by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) finds that, while Venezuela’s economic crisis began before the first U.S. sectoral sanctions were imposed in 2017, these measures “directly contributed to its deep decline, and to the further deterioration of the quality of life of Venezuelans.” The 53-page report, authored by […]
