Latin America Today

Guatemala has seen a historic democratic opening get abruptly shut down, amid official U.S. silence. Martín Rodríguez Pellecer, director of the Guatemalan online news outlet Nómada, talks about how corrupt elites stifled a “justice revolution.”

Julio Martínez of Nicaragua's Articulación de Movimientos Sociales talks about the effort to stop human rights abuses and restore democracy in Nicaragua, the importance of international pressure, and the spread of authoritarianism in Central America.

Facing a corruption scandal, Peru's 2-time president Alan García killed himself on April 17. WOLA Senior Fellows Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta Youngers discuss a politician who loomed over Peru's past 35 years, and whose sad fate may influence its future.

The Trump administration has gone full hard-line against Cuba, announcing severe new measures. WOLA's Geoff Thale explains why these won't bring "regime change," how they will hurt the island's struggling private sector, and the underlying politics.

Ana Arjona of Colombia·s Universidad de Los Andes and Northwestern University presents an intricate theory of how armed conflicts work at the local level, as presented in her 2016 book Rebelocracy: Social Order in the Colombian Civil War.

Only a few years ago, Guatemala was making historic gains in its fight against corruption and human rights abuse. Since then, it has suffered a severe backlash from a "pact of the corrupt." Adam talks about it with WOLA Senior Fellow Jo-Marie Burt.

El Salvador is inaugurating a new president amid a severe security crisis. Tens of thousands continue to displace internally or move to other countries due to gang violence. Adam talks to Geoff Thale of WOLA and Cristian Schlick of El Salvador's IDHUCA.

U.S. and Mexican border communities are facing a surge of asylum-seeking families. Adam Isacson and Maureen Meyer discuss the crisis, the Trump administration·s various failed crackdowns, and what the process for asylum-seekers should ideally look like.

A fast-moving, wide-ranging discussion of the current moment in Venezuela, and the available options for finding a way out of the country's intractable crisis, with Geoff Ramsey, WOLA·s assistant director for Venezuela.

The Democratic Party won a majority of the House of Representatives in the November 6 midterm election. Adam talks with Director for Cuba Marguerite Jiménez about the changes that may bring to Cuba policy, border security policy, oversight, and U.S. aid.