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Polarization and Impunity: Peru's First-Round Presidential Election

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The All-Out Assault on Asylum

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"El camino duele, pero trae fortaleza": Un episodio especial por el Mes de la Mujer con Collette Spinetti, la primera secretaria de Estado trans del Uruguay

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"Women, 'las buscadoras', have become a very strong reference for courage" | A Special Women's Month Conversation with Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez

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Oil and the Rule of Law in Venezuela

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"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

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Don't Let Boat Strikes Fade Into the Background

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U.S. Military Attacks Inside Colombia and Mexico: a Conversation We're Actually Having

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A Year Into the Trump Administration, "We Are in Untested Waters"

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A Shocking U.S. Attack and "a Transition Without a Transition" in Venezuela

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Announcing Democracy&: A New Podcast From The Washington Office on Latin America

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Piercing the Propaganda Bubble in El Salvador

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The Grim Side of El Salvador's "Security Model"

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U.S. drug policy takes a "radical" and "chilling" turn. Is Venezuela in the crosshairs?

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"We Are in the Middle of a New Family Separation Crisis"

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"Simultaneously juggling nine processes at once": Colombia's "Total Peace" plan and mounting security challenges

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Derechos y resistencia LGBTIQ+ en Latinoamérica: seis voces de la región

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LGBTIQ+ Rights and Resistance in Latin America: Six Voices from the Region

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LGBTQ+ Migrants in the Crosshairs: A Critical Conversation with Brigitte Baltazar Lujano

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Global Drug Policy: "Countries are being freed up to actually speak their minds"

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Mujeres contra la corrupción y el autoritarismo: aprendiendo de El Salvador

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The Alien Enemies Act

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"Feminist Community Journalism Builds Hope": How Women Communicators in Guatemala and Colombia Are Defending Human Rights**

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"El periodismo comunitario feminista es esperanzador": Cómo comunicadoras en Guatemala y Colombia están defendiendo los derechos humanos

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"We need to aim to build feminism for democracy": WOLA's President reflects on International Women's Day and the importance of gender justice in human rights

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Tariffs Won't Stop Fentanyl: Upending U.S.-Mexico relations for a failed drug-war model

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"They Didn't Take Our Strength": The border under Trump, viewed from Nogales

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Authoritarianism, Resistance, and Repression: What's Next for Venezuela?

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From Promise to Pressure: Bernardo Arevalo's First Year in Power

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The Work of Urban Peace Continues in Colombia, Despite Frustrations

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A Tariff Threat Foreshadows U.S.-Mexico Relations During the Second Trump Presidency

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What Trump's Return Means for Latin America

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Mexico's Constitutional Reforms: a Setback for Checks and Balances

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Reimagining the Drug War Amid Rising Coca Cultivation in Central America

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"This Is Not Hollywood, This Is Real Life": three weeks after Venezuela's July election

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"The Scrutiny Should Be Public to All Citizens:" the aftermath of Venezuela's July election

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A Groundbreaking 'Win' at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs

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Flooding the Zone: the "Bukele Model," Security and Democracy in El Salvador

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Violence in Ecuador: Getting Beyond Stopgap Solutions

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A New Chapter in Guatemala's Anti-Corruption Struggle

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Understanding Regional Migration in an Election Year

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Taking Stock After a Tumultuous Year in the Americas: A Conversation with Carolina Jiménez Sandoval

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Planning, Unity, and Discipline: the Keys to Non-Violent Social Change in the Americas

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Mexico: "Demilitarization is not going to happen from one day to the next. But there needs to be that commitment"

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Venezuela: "The way out of this situation has to be through a democratic and peaceful solution"

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Advocacy for Migrants at a Challenging Time: The View from Mexico

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Good Governance Needs Good Data: the Central America Monitor Looks Ahead

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Fentanyl: "What sounds tough isn't necessarily a serious policy"

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"We can't deter our way out of this": a view from the Honduras-Nicaragua border

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"The days of hoping for a magical solution are long gone": Geoff Ramsey on Venezuela

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Guatemala: An Eroding Democracy Approaches New Elections

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Peru's Turmoil and "the Danger of a Much Deeper Crisis"

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Unprotected at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Reporting Back from Texas and Arizona

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Mexico Sends in the Troops: Stephanie Brewer on the Militarization of Public Security

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"What happens with the Petro government could become a model for engaging with the region"

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Migration and the Summit of the Americas

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"We believe there are multiple armed conflicts": Kyle Johnson on security in Colombia

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Is Mexico Prepared to be a Country of Refuge?

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Colombia's peace accord at five years

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Missing in Brooks County: A tragic outcome of U.S. border and migration policy

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A Conversation with WOLA's New President, Carolina Jiménez Sandoval

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For Disappearances to End, Justice Must Begin: Justice for Disappeared Mexicans

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A Goodbye to WOLA President Geoff Thale

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Addressing Cuba's Unseen Humanitarian Disaster

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Colombia After the Paro Nacional: A Report Back From Cali

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A New Wave of Political Unrest in Haiti

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Aligning Policy with Reality at the U.S.-Mexico Border

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Nicaragua's Exit from Democracy

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What's at Stake in Peru's Coming Elections

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A Snapshot of Human Rights and Democracy in Brazil

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Understanding Colombia's Latest Wave of Social Protest

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The Complexity of Engaging with Central America

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The Border Situation Viewed from Mexico

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"People coming from the Western Hemisphere have been perceived as inherently not refugees"

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COMING SOON: Rebuilding Peace in Colombia

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A Critical Moment for El Salvador's Democracy

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Mexico: the meaning of the Cienfuegos case

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The Transition: Authoritarianism, Populism, and Closing Civic Space

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When your neighbor is a murderer: Sean Mattison on "escrache" in Argentina

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The Transition: The future of Latin America's anti-corruption fight

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The Transition: A Rational, Region-Wide Approach to Migration

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The Transition: U.S. Credibility, Cooperation, and a Changed Tone

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Peru Abruptly Removes Its President

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Beyond the Wall: "It's all about the families", Eddie Canales on preventing deaths and identifying missing migrants in Texas borderlands

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Peru: "If we do not succeed against this plague, then anything can happen"

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Beyond the Wall: Reflections from a Former Border Patrol Agent

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Civil-Military Relations at a Crossroads in the Americas

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Demining sacred space in Colombia's Amazon basin

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"If you're an Afro-descendant LGBT person… your priority is not to be killed."

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Beyond the Wall: A Roundtable Discussion on Border and Migration

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A Crucial Moment for Guatemala's Fight Against Impunity

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"If they can kill Berta Cáceres, they can kill anybody": Nina Lakhani on the Danger to Social Leaders

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Venezuela: COVID-19, Sanctions, Outside Powers, Florida Politics, and the Search for a Political Solution

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Rep. Jim McGovern: "What if I was in Colombia? Would I have the courage to say what I believe?"

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Beyond the Wall: The Human Consequences of ICE Detention Centers

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"How do we define success?" Jonathan Rosen on governments' approaches to organized crime

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Practicing Asylum Law in El Paso: "MPP is just—it's utterly insane"

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"These moments of social resistance are never moments. They have long histories."

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Monitoring Anti-Democratic Trends and Human Rights Abuses in the Age of COVID-19

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Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War