#PoliticsAndSecurity

2025-06-30

WOLA Podcast: Colombia’s “Total Peace” plan and mounting security challenges

WOLA’s Gimena Sánchez and I spend an hour explaining the alarming deterioration in Colombia’s security situation and the Petro government’s so far fruitless efforts to negotiate with the country’s series of fragmenting and proliferating armed groups.

#Audio #Colombia #ColombiaPeaceProcess #PoliticsAndSecurity #PublicSecurity #WOLAPodcast

http://admis.me/b/30J

2025-06-12

At WOLA’s site: The Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Military Deployment in Los Angeles Echoes the Overreach We’ve Long Opposed in Latin America

A new piece published at WOLA’s website sounds alarms about what’s happening in Los Angeles, urges everybody to pay attention, and urges political and national-security leaders to speak up and speak out now.

#CivilMilitaryRelations #HumanRights #PoliticsAndSecurity #USPolitics

http://admis.me/b/2za

2025-06-11

A Bad Day for the U.S. Military

Troops at a Fort Bragg event should never have cheered and jeered alongside President Trump’s nakedly political attacks. It was a bad moment for U.S. civil-military relations, and commanding officers screwed up badly.

#CivilMilitaryRelations #PoliticsAndSecurity #USPolitics

http://admis.me/b/2ys

2025-06-10

Crossing a Threshold in Los Angeles

I’ve studied civil-military relations in Latin America for 30-plus years, during a time when the region underwent important transitions from military dictatorship to democracy. Now, before our very eyes, the United States is crossing a critical threshold in the other, disastrous direction.

#CivilMilitaryRelations #PoliticsAndSecurity #USPolitics

http://admis.me/b/2y_

2025-04-21

At MSNBC: “The frightening popularity of El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele’s authoritarianism”

A link to my April 16 column at MSNBC’s website about Nayib Bukele’s high-approval-rating authoritarianism in El Salvador

#ElSalvador #HumanRights #PoliticsAndSecurity #Writing

http://admis.me/b/2uU

2025-04-05

Improbable, but no longer impossible

Maybe President Bukele will build a new wing at his mega-prison to hold all the Trump administration critics who get sent there as “no-takebacks mistakes,” as happened with supposedly non-deportable Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Ábrego García.

#ElSalvador #HumanRights #PoliticsAndSecurity #USPolicy

http://admis.me/b/2tN

2025-04-01

“I’m not trying to hit cleanup. I’m bringing orange slices.”

Legal expert Elie Mystal of The Nation, with Anand Giridharadas at The Ink, discuss generational change in today’s urgently needed political activism:

#PoliticsAndSecurity #USPolitics

http://admis.me/b/2sL

2025-03-25

Testifying Thursday

m looking forward to testifying in Congress again at 11:00 Eastern on Thursday, this time in a hearing of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere about the State Department’s counter-drug and law enforcement programs.

#Congress #PoliticsAndSecurity #ShamelessSelfPromotion #USPolicy #Video

http://admis.me/b/2r5

2025-03-18

Organized Crime-Tied Corruption in the Americas: Links from the Past Month

Links to 4 stories documenting examples of official government collusion with organized crime.

#Corruption #LatinAmerica #NewsLinks #OrganizedCrime #PoliticsAndSecurity #PublicSecurity

http://admis.me/b/2oD

2025-01-24

WOLA Podcast: Authoritarianism, Resistance, and Repression: What’s Next for Venezuela?

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro got himself sworn into office again 2 weeks ago, despite losing an election, riding a wave of repression. WOLA’s latest podcast episode is a situation report from my colleague Laura Dib, who runs our Venezuela program.

#Audio #PoliticsAndSecurity #Venezuela #WOLAPodcast

http://admis.me/b/2YB

2025-01-15

WOLA Podcast: From Promise to Pressure: Bernardo Arévalo’s First Year in Power in Guatemala

The first WOLA podcast of 2025 is with my colleague Ana María Méndez, who runs our Central America program. The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, finished his first year in office on January 14.

#Audio #Guatemala #PoliticsAndSecurity #WOLAPodcast

http://admis.me/b/2X_

2024-11-23

Organized Crime-Tied Corruption in the Americas: Links from the Past Month

Links to 12 stories (7 from Mexico alone) documenting examples of official government collusion with organized crime.

#Corruption #NewsLinks #OrganizedCrime #PoliticsAndSecurity #PublicSecurity

http://admis.me/b/2V7

2024-11-09

WOLA Podcast: What Trump’s Return Means for Latin America

If there’s a central message to this first-days conversation, it’s that the path back to democracy runs through a robust, creative, inclusive civil society.

#Audio #HumanRights #Migration #PoliticsAndSecurity #USPolicy #WOLAPodcast

http://admis.me/b/2U4

2024-10-21

WOLA Podcast: Mexico’s Constitutional Reforms: a Setback for Checks and Balances

Mexico has changed its constitution to allow direct election of judges, placement of a militarized National Guard under direct Army control, and other changes. Stephanie Brewer of WOLA and Lisa Sánchez of MUCD explain what this means, in a new WOLA podcast episode.

#CivilMilitaryRelations #JusticeSystems #Mexico #PoliticsAndSecurity #WOLAPodcast

http://admis.me/b/2Qw

2024-07-30

WOLA Podcast: “The Scrutiny Should Be Public to All Citizens:” the aftermath of Venezuela’s July election

Laura Cristina Dib, WOLA’s director for Venezuela, discusses the aftermath of the Venezuelan elections that took place on July 28, 2024, as new developments continue to come to light.

#Audio #Elections #PoliticsAndSecurity #Venezuela #WOLAPodcast

http://admis.me/b/2HQ

2024-05-18

Medellín’s Comuna 13, 22 Years After Operación Orión

Some quick notes on a visit to Medellín’s now-peaceful Comuna 13 neighborhood, site of a brutal military-paramilitary offensive in 2002. I reported from there in 2006.

#Colombia #Photos #PoliticsAndSecurity #Travel

https://admis.me/b/2BQ

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