Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Turmoil at DHS, Big Bend border wall, ICE detention deaths and expansion

Kristi Noem leaves a DHS in turmoil. Border walls may be coming to Big Bend National Park. 10 people have died this year in ...
Opinion
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Fighting the Anti-Rights Agenda in Brazil

Similar to the United States and Argentina, Brazil experienced an erosion of rights protection for women and LGBTQ people ...
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Civil Society Resistance to Milei’s Anti-rights Agenda

Argentina has long been considered a regional leader in gender equality. It was among the first countries in Latin ...
Opinion
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)Opinion

“It’s So Seamlessly Blended into the Regular Economy That It’s Hard to Pull Out”: Environmental Organized Crime in Venezuela, and Throughout the Americas

Criminal networks carrying out environmental organized crime are deeply intertwined with state actors and the legal economy.
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)Opinion

The death of El Mencho and the Pyrrhic victories of the ‘war on drugs’ in Mexico

WOLA analysts examine why the killing of CJNG leader El Mencho is yet another Pyrrhic victory in the war on drugs—and what it ...
Opinion
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La muerte de El Mencho y las victorias pírricas de la ‘guerra contra las drogas’ en México

Análisis crítico de la muerte de "El Mencho" y la estrategia de descabezamiento en México: por qué eliminar líderes criminales no reduce la violencia ni el tráfico de drogas, y qué se necesita para lo ...