Latin America Today

Adam looks at the Secretary of State's visit to Colombia and Brazil, the early release of a Mexican drug-trafficker who killed a U.S. agent, and some recent episodes pointing to worsening political polarization in Venezuela.

A new media law regulating press coverage, among other recent government actions, is limiting freedom of expression in Ecuador. Adam discusses developments with Carlos Lauría, senior Americas program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Adam looks at the Secretary of State's upcoming lightning-fast visit to Colombia and Brazil, new UN estimates of coca-growing in Bolivia and Colombia, and new violence amid struggling police reform in Honduras.

Uruguay's lower house has voted to legalize and regulate the production and sale of marijuana. Adam talks to John Walsh, WOLA's Senior Associate for Drug Policy and the Andes, about what the law does and what comes next, domestically and internationally.

Adam looks at the foreign aid bill that's moving through Congress, the state of the gang truce in El Salvador, and Venezuela's latest effort to fight crime by sending soldiers into the streets.

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Adam looks at the capture of the Zetas' maximum leader in Mexico, regional fallout of the Snowden / NSA spying revelations, and the controversial campesino protests in Catatumbo, Colombia.

As the U.S. Senate prepares to adopt a provision that would double the number of Border Patrol agents stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border, Adam talks to Christian Ramírez, the San Diego-based director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition.

Brazilians have taken to the streets for the past few days in a series of protests that has taken almost everybody -- including the government -- by surprise. Adam discusses events with WOLA Program Officer and Brazil specialist Joe Bateman.

Drug policy was a central topic at the June Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly in Guatemala. And Cuba's exclusion from the Summits of the Americas came up often. Adam talks to WOLA's John Walsh and Geoff Thale about both.