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News and analysis of politics, security, development and U.S. policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the Washington Office on Latin America.
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The Venezuela Oil Deal: Opacity and a Transition in Doubt (opens the original)
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In this episode, WOLA's Adam Isacson speaks with Francisco Monaldi , director of the Latin America Energy Program at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Monaldi, a leading scholar of the politics and economics of energy and resource policy in Latin America, returns to the podcast six months after a previous conversation about Venezuela's oil sector. The focus is the oil agreement that the Trump administration and the government of interim preside
Security Reimagined: "Police reform isn't decreed; it's managed" (opens the original)
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This Spanish-language conversation is the first in a series on alternative approaches to security in Latin America, "Security Reimagined." Here, WOLA's Adam Isacson speaks with Ernesto López Portillo, coordinator of the Programa de Seguridad Ciudadana at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Ibero) in Mexico City. Housed within the university's advocacy directorate (Dirección de Incidencia), the program functions, in López Portillo's words, as a "nodo"—a node where academia, civil society, journalism,
"It's a Policy That Seeks to Wear People Out": U.S. "mass deportation" brings misery to Mexico's far south (opens the original)
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This episode accompanies the August 2026 release of Desterrados al Sur: el costo humano de la deportación ("Banished to the South: The Human Cost of Mass Deportation"), a report WOLA published jointly with the Kino Border Initiative (KBI) in Nogales, Sonora, and the Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova in Tapachula, Chiapas. WOLA's Adam Isacson speaks with his co-authors, Juan Cuéllar Torres of the Kino Border Initiative and Josué Hildegardo Gómez Guzmán of Fray Matías, about what t
Colombia's and Peru's Election Outcomes: Razor-Thin Margins and Populist Tensions (opens the original)
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This episode brings together two experts to discuss recent second-round presidential elections in Peru and Colombia: Jo-Marie Burt , a senior fellow at WOLA and professor at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, and a leading expert on Peru; and Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli , WOLA's Director for the Andes, who maintains close contact with Colombian civil society. Both elections produced razor-thin margins, and both delivered victories to right-wing, populist candidates promi
"We saw the Venezuelan state in its bare bones": the June 24 earthquake's aftermath (opens the original)
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On June 24, 2026, two consecutive earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude—the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century—devastated the country's northern coast, including the city of La Guaira and parts of Caracas. This episode features Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, WOLA's president, who was visiting Venezuela when the earthquakes hit and subsequently traveled to the hardest-hit zone, and Laura Dib, director of WOLA's Venezuela program, who has closely tracked the humanitarian respon
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