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Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America
According to a new study, throughout Latin America non-violent drug offenders are being imprisoned, violating human rights and overloading the region’s prison system.
Preach What You Practice: The Separation of Police and Military Roles in the Americas
The report provides background on the distinction between police and military functions, and calls on the Obama Administration to stop encouraging other countries’ militaries to take on roles that would be illegal for the U.S. Armed Forces to carry out at home.
Change in Our Interest: Travel, Trade and Improved Relations with Cuba
This congressional education packet shows how existing restrictions on travel and trade harm U.S. national interests, and why reform is consistent with our values, our economic interests, and efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad.
Waiting for Change: Trends in U.S. Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean
Waiting for Change documents the complexities and disappointments of the Obama Administration’s relations with Latin America in its first year. The report identifies an underlying trend toward greater militarization of U.S. foreign policy which spans Democratic and Republican administrations alike.
DR-CAFTA and Workers’ Rights: Moving from Paper to Practice
This report finds that while the funds directed towards implementing the White Paper recommendations support commendable projects, the money is insufficient to resolve the long-standing labor problems plaguing the region.
Forging New Ties: A Fresh Approach to U.S. Policy in Latin America
WOLA’s plan for an overhaul of U.S.-Latin America relations gives the next administration important recommendations on how the United States can rebuild its standing in Latin America by putting relations on a new footing based on engagement, respect, and collective action on common challenges.
Opting for Engagement
Engagement with Cuba not only makes good sense domestically but is also far more likely to benefit dialogue and human rights in Cuba than isolation.
Chemical Reactions: A WOLA Report on the Failure of Anti-Drug Fumigation in Colombia
Intensive aerial herbicide spraying of coca crops in Colombia has backfired badly, contributing to the spread of coca cultivation and cocaine production to new areas of the country and threatening human health and the environment.
Love, Loss and Longing: The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban-American Families
A joint project by the Washington Office on Latin America and the Latin America Working Group Education Fund documents the effects of tighter U.S. travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans and their families on the island.