Events

December 4, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, December 4

8:30-10:00 at csis.org: Prospects and Pitfalls for Security Assistance in Haiti (RSVP required).

Tuesday, December 5

10:00-1:00 in the House of Representatives and online: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology on “Protecting our Preparedness: Assessing the Impact of the Border Crisis on Emergency Management”.
2:30 at the Atlantic Council and online: Venezuela 2024: A democratic opportunity (RSVP required).
5:00-7:00 at Article 19 / UNAM Facebook Live: Presentación de investigación: «Autoridades electorales y plataformas digitales, desafíos y oportunidades para la democracia»

Wednesday, December 6

9:00-10:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue: La agenda ambiental y climática en Colombia: autoridades locales hablan (RSVP required).
9:30-11:00 at the Brookings Institution and online: Tackling global corruption to strengthen democracy and security (RSVP required).
10:00 at Race and Equality: Challenges And Lessons Of The Brazilian Trans Movement (RSVP required).
11:30-12:45 at the Inter-American Dialogue: Mobilizing Youth for Democracy and Human Rights (RSVP required).
2:00-3:00 at carnegieendowment.org: Pivotal States: Is the United States Overlooking Mexico’s Potential? (RSVP required).
2:00-5:30 at CSIS and online: Progress and Possibility: Reflecting on 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (RSVP required).
3:00-5:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Elections everywhere all at once (RSVP required).
6:30 at cuny.edu: How Can We Solve The Border Crisis? (RSVP required).

November 26, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, November 27

11:00-12:00 at Brookings.edu: Women’s role and influence in organized crime.

Tuesday, November 28

10:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Venezuela 2024: A democratic opportunity (RSVP required).

Wednesday, November 29

9:30-10:45 at the Inter-American Dialogue: The Pulse of Democracy in the Americas: Results from the 2023 AmericasBarometer (RSVP required).
10:00-7:35 at IberoMx YouTube: Conferencia Internacional sobre Reducción de Homicidios.
12:00-1:00 at Georgetown University: Latin America Research Seminar – Partido de Agua: An Examination of a Local Election in Rural Ayacucho, Peru.

Thursday, November 30

10:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Assessing the future of US-Colombia cooperation on drugs and security (RSVP required).
10:00-11:30 at the thedialogue.org: The State of Community-based Care and Support Systems for People with Disabilities in Latin America (RSVP required).
10:00-7:00 at IberoMx YouTube: Conferencia Internacional sobre Reducción de Homicidios.
11:00 at Zoom: Reforming “The Dictators’ Bank”: Revelations from recent investigative reporting into the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) (RSVP required).
12:00 at International Crisis Group Zoom: Mexico: Women’s Rise in Organised Crime (RSVP required).
2:00 in Room 210 of the Capitol Visitors’ Center and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on The U.S. Border Crisis and the American Solution to an International Problem.
4:00-6:30 at the Keough School Washington office: Lasting and Sustainable Peace in Colombia: The seventh anniversary of the peace accord and opportunities that lie ahead (RSVP required).
5:00-7:00 at George Washington University: Assessing Argentina’s Election Results: Prospects for the Future (RSVP required).
6:00-8:00 at George Washington University: Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges and Growth (RSVP required).

Friday, December 1

10:00-2:00 at IberoMx YouTube: Conferencia Internacional sobre Reducción de Homicidios.
10:30-12:00 at CSIS and csis.org: Democracy and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua (RSVP required).

November 13, 2023 — 0

Video: “Migrant Justice in Times of Militarized Borders”

This was a great panel on November 7, with speakers in four countries (the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia). We talked about challenges for dignified migration at a time of hardening borders and more military and police involvement in migration control throughout the region.

Many thanks to Hispanics in Philanthropy and Open Society Foundations for organizing it and inviting me to participate.

November 12, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, November 13

10:00-11:30 at the Wilson Center and online: US–EU Cooperation: Strengthening Democracy in Latin America (RSVP required).

Tuesday, November 14

8:00-12:00 at YouTube Live: Territorios Colectivos de Comunidades Negras: Apuestas y voces frente al bienestar y un mejor ambiente.
9:00-10:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: The road to COP28: The energy transition in Central America (RSVP required).
2:00-3:30 at the Wilson Center and online: Mexico’s Next President: Challenges and Recommendations (RSVP required).
2:00-5:00 at homeland.house.gov: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement and Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology on The Broken Path: How Transnational Criminal Organizations Profit From Human Trafficking at the Southwest Border.
5:00-6:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Art and Politics in Nicaragua: A Conversation with Carlos Fernando Chamorro and Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy (RSVP required).

Wednesday, November 15

8:00-10:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: The Caribbean gender empowerment forum (RSVP required).
9:00-12:00 at homeland.house.gov: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Worldwide Threats to the Homeland.
11:00-12:30 at Georgetown University: CLAS Ambassador Series: A Conversation with H.E. Catalina Crespo Sancho of Costa Rica (RSVP required).
2:00-3:00 at wilsoncenter.org: Examining the Impact of Elections in Argentina with Former President Macri (RSVP required).
6:00-8:00 at WOLA and at wola.org: Racism in the Americas: A Path Forward (RSVP required).

November 6, 2023 — 0

Thursday at 5:00 Eastern: Crowd-Control Weapons in the Americas: Evidence From the Ground and How to Stop Their Harm

A big group of non-governmental human rights organizations, from around Latin America, has a hearing on Thursday at the OAS Inter-American Human Rights Commission to discuss how security forces are misusing supposedly “non-lethal” crowd-control weapons to maim or kill participants in political protests. The United States, through arms sales, is a top source of those weapons.

Join me later on Thursday, at 5:00—at WOLA or online—when I have the honor of moderating a discussion with some of them.

Here’s the explanatory text from WOLA’s website:

The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) warmly invite you to the hybrid event “Crowd-control weapons in the Americas: Evidence from the ground and how to stop their harm”. The event will be held in-person and on Zoom on Thursday 9 November from 5:00-6:30 PM EST.

The right to protest in the Americas is regularly undermined when crowd-control weapons (misleadingly called non-lethal or less-lethal) are used and misused in ways that are disproportionate, indiscriminate and illegal. They inflict life-changing injuries, long-term psychological harm and even death. Despite growing recognition of their dangers, the manufacture, marketing, trade and use of law enforcement equipment including less lethal weapons continues to rise.

Join us for a civil society discussion on how to tackle the negative impacts of crowd-control weapons used by law enforcement in protests across the Americas with experts from the US, Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador.

The discussion will include a presentation of Lethal in Disguise 2: How Crowd-Control Weapons Impact Health and Human Rights, reflections on an IACHR hearing on the subject to be held earlier that day and growing call at the UN for a binding global Torture-Free Trade Treaty.

Speakers:

Adam Isaacson, Director for Defense Oversight at WOLA (moderator)
Erika Dailey, Director of Advocacy and Policy of PHR

Alicia Ruth Tapuy Santi, INREDH / Widow of Byron Guatatuca

Camilo Mendoza Zamudio, Researcher for the police violence observatory and platform GRITA of Temblores NGO
Juliana Miranda, Researcher for Citizen Security and Police Violence teams of CELS
Michael Perloff, staff attorney at ACLU

The event will be in Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation available virtually. For those joining us in person and need interpretation, we ask that you bring a device and headphones to connect to the virtual meeting and access the simultaneous interpretation. Wifi will be available.

There will be ample time for Q&A, as well as a short reception following the discussion with beverages and snacks.

** Registration is required both for in person and virtual participation. Please RSVP through this link.

The event will be livestreamed and accessible afterwards on WOLA’s Youtube Channel.

November 5, 2023 — 0

Tuesday 3:00 Eastern: “Migrant Justice in Times of Militarized Borders”

Event poster: Migrant Justice in times of militarized borders

Hispanics in Philanthropy - Open Society Foundations

Lizbeth Gramajo, Red Jesuita con Migrantes de Centroamérica y Norteamérica

Adam Isacson, Washington Office on Latin America

Lorena Delgadillo, Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de Derecho

Manaka Infante, Open Society Foundations

Jose Knippen, Hispanics in Philanthropy

Tuesday November 7, 2023 12PM PT 2PM CT 3PM ET

Register at bit.ly/webinar-fronteras

I’ll be on a first-rate virtual panel on Tuesday afternoon, talking about hard-line “deterrence” border and migration policies—which cause a lot of harm, continue to escalate, and fail to deter desperate people—at the U.S.-Mexico border and along the migration route. Register here to view and participate.

November 5, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, November 6

7:30-5:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Wilson Center Conference on US-Chile Climate Action and the Energy Transition.
8:30-5:30 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission: 188 Period of Sessions.
10:00-11:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue: A Conversation with Ecuadorian President-elect Daniel Noboa (RSVP required).
10:00-11:00 at USIP and online: Russian Influence Operations in Latin America (RSVP required).
12:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: The future of economic partnership between the US, Europe, and LAC (RSVP required).
4:00 at YouTube: Periodismo en Centroamérica: el silencio no es una opción.

Tuesday, November 7

8:30-5:30 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission: 188 Period of Sessions.
3:00-4:30 at Zoom: Migrant Justice in Times of Militarized Borders (RSVP required).
5:00-6:30 at American University: Cafecito Talk: Gender, Tech, and Sustainability (RSVP required).

Wednesday, November 8

8:30-5:30 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission: 188 Period of Sessions.
9:00 in Dirksen Senate Office Building 106 and online: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on A Review of the President’s Supplemental Request for the Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security.
12:15-1:15 at Georgetown University: Latin America Research Seminar – “Almitas milagrosas” in Bolivia: Rites and Objects of Devotion as Portals of Hope for the People (RSVP required).

Thursday, November 9

8:30-5:30 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission: 188 Period of Sessions.
3:00-5:30 at Amnesty International YouTube: Situación del espacio cívico y democrático en Venezuela.
5:00-6:30 at WOLA and online: Crowd-Control Weapons in the Americas: Evidence From the Ground and How to Stop Their Harm (RSVP required).

Friday, November 10

8:30-3:30 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission: 188 Period of Sessions.

October 15, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

I’ll soon be traveling for work for a couple of weeks. These “events” posts will resume again on November 5.

Tuesday, October 17

2:00-5:00 at the Wilson Center and online: Building a High Quality US-Mexico Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (RSVP required).
5:00 at CINEP Facebook Live: Entre la continuidad y el cambio: creencias y comportamientos sociales que condicionan el derecho a la tierra y el territorio de las mujeres (RSVP required).
7:00-8:30 at IPS and online: The Rising Latin American Left: México and Beyond (RSVP required).

Wednesday, October 18

2:00-3:15 online: Organized crime in Latin America (RSVP required).
3:00-4:00 at Fordham University Zoom: The FERM Program: A Three-Month Assessment Highlighting the Need for a More Family-Centered Approach (RSVP required).
3:00-5:00 at American University Washington College of Law: Book Conversation: Mexico, A Challenging Assignment.
4:30-5:15 at the Atlantic Council and online: Addressing inequality in Colombia: A conversation with Vice President Francia Márquez (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 19

1:00-6:00 at Georgetown University: Brazil in Transition Conference (RSVP required).
6:00 at the National Press Club: In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Conversation about Press Freedom in Mexico (RSVP required).

Friday, October 20

9:00-6:00 at Georgetown University: Brazil in Transition Conference (RSVP required).
10:00-11:15 at the University of Chicago and online: Disparity: Origin and Consequence of the Latin American Pre-Development Trap (RSVP required).
10:30-11:30 at Georgetown University: Frontlines of Freedom: Conversations on Democracy, Activism, and Anti-Authoritarian Efforts (RSVP required).

October 9, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, October 9

3:15-8:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Court EventBrite: A 75 años de la Declaración Americana y 45 de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos: logros y desafíos (RSVP required).

Tuesday, October 10

12:00-1:00 at Washington College of Law: Confronting Authoritarianism in Latin America: A Conversation with leading Human Rights Lawyers in El Salvador (RSVP required).
12:00-1:00 at csis.org: Managing Geopolitical Risk in Mexico’s ICT Sector (RSVP required).

Wednesday, October 11

1:30-2:50 at University of Chicago (hybrid): Journalism Under Threat (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 12

10:00-11:00 at Council of the Americas Zoom: China in the Americas: Assessing the Impact and Implications of Authoritarian Capital (RSVP required).
4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: The Power of Public Opinion in Latin American Climate Policy (RSVP required).

October 1, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, October 3

11:00-12:30 at IDPC Zoom: In defence of decriminalisation –a baseline upon which to build sustainable drug policy (RSVP required).
2:00-4:00 at brookings.edu: Violent crime in South America (RSVP required).
4:30-5:30 at the Wilson Center and online: ‘Primavera Democrática’: A Conversation with President-Elect Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala (RSVP required).

Wednesday, October 4

12:00-1:30 at Georgetown University: Elections in Argentina: Will the Country Turn to the Far Right? (RSVP required).
6:00-8:00 at Georgetown University: The Dictator’s Destructions: Facing Pinochet’s Power in Chile (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 5

10:30-12:00 at George Washington University: Expanding South-South Climate Change Collaboration (RSVP required).
11:00-1:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Advancing Caribbean development through women’s empowerment (RSVP required).
6:30-8:00 at IPS: Inside Biden’s Cuba Policy: Film Screening (RSVP required).

September 25, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, September 25

3:00-4:00 at wilsoncenter.org, thedialogue.org, or atlanticcouncil.org: A Conversation with President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso (RSVP required).

Tuesday, September 26

10:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: Pulling off an energy transition: A road map for the Caribbean (RSVP required).
2:00-4:00 on Microsoft Teams: USMCA: Past, Present, Future (RSVP required).
4:00 at CODHES YouTube: Migración en la Agenda de las elecciones 2023 en Colombia.

Wednesday, September 27

9:00-10:30 at CSIS: The Future of Latin America’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (RSVP required).
10:00-11:30 at the Wilson Center: Challenging Autocracy From the Front Lines (RSVP required).
1:00 at startwithdignity.org: Start With Dignity Campaign Virtual Press Conference (RSVP required for Zoom, but not to view on Facebook).
3:00 at Jesuit Refugee Service Zoom: Accompaniment at the U.S.-Mexico Border (RSVP required).

Thursday, September 28

2:00 in House Visitors’ Center Room HVC-210 and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere about Communism on Our Doorstep: The Threat of China’s Malign Influence in Latin America.
4:00-5:30 at AEI and online: Streamlining the Immigration Bureaucracy: A Conversation with Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) (RSVP required).

Friday, September 29

11:00-12:00 at the Wilson Center and online: Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints (Book Launch) (RSVP required).

September 17, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, September 18

9:00-5:00 at Georgetown University and online: 20th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference (RSVP and admission fee required).
11:00-12:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Understanding the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis: US-Mexico Solutions (RSVP required).
11:00-12:30 at InsightCrime YouTube: La ‘Paz Total’: ¿Solución al Conflicto Urbano en Colombia? – Panel virtual
12:30-2:30 at Georgetown University: A Conversation with Samanta Schweblin (RSVP required).
3:00-4:30 at the Atlantic Council and online: What’s Next for the International Response to Venezuela? (RSVP required).
3:45-5:00 at Berkeley University Zoom: Did Trump’s Border Policies Deter Migration? (RSVP required).

Tuesday, September 19

9:00-10:30 at csis.org: Digital Report Launch: Tracking Transatlantic Drug Flows through the Caribbean to Europe (RSVP required).
10:00-11:30 at Open Society Foundations and on BlueJeans: Militarización del Control Migratorio en México (RSVP required).
12:00-1:30 at harvard.edu: Guatemala’s 2023 Elections (RSVP required).

Wednesday, September 20

10:00 at homeland.house.gov: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on The Financial Costs of Mayorkas’ Open Border.
12:00-1:30 at harvard.edu: El Descenso de Nicaragua a la dictadura: Perspectivas de exiliados políticos (RSVP required).

Thursday, September 21

6:30-8:00 at IPS and online: Climate Justice: A Report from the Global South (RSVP required).

Friday, September 22

3:00-5:00 at the MLK Memorial Library: Public Art, Activism, and Historic Memory (RSVP required).

Saturday, September 23

11:00 at Sheridan Circle: Special Address by Chilean President Gabriel Boric.

September 10, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events Online and in Washington This Week

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

10:00-11:00 at the Wilson Center and online: Untapped Economic Potential: What Can Latin America and the Caribbean Offer the World? (RSVP required).
3:00-5:00 at American University: (Co)Building a Strategic Agenda for the Americas (RSVP required).
3:30-4:30 at IPS: Prospects for Normalization of US-Cuba Relations: A Talk with Cuban Deputy Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío (RSVP required).

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

10:00-1:00 at 310 Cannon House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security on An Unbearable Price: The Devastating Human Costs of the Biden-Mayorkas Border Crisis.
10:30-11:30 at the Wilson Center and online: Two Years After Moïse Assassination: The Impact of Gang Violence in Haiti (RSVP required).
11:00-12:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: A Conversation with Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali (RSVP required).
4:00-6:00 at CODHES (Bogotá) and online: Balance de Situación Humanitaria en Colombia 2023 (RSVP required).

Thursday, September 14, 2023

10:15 (possibly 2:15) at the Atlantic Council and online: A Conversation with H.E. Irfaan Ali, President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana (RSVP required).
4:00 at WOLA and WOLA Zoom: Post-election Optics in Guatemala: Judicial Cooptation and Gender Violence (RSVP required).

September 5, 2023 — 0

Latin America-Related Events Online and in Washington This Week

(All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, September 5

11:00-12:15 at Canning House Zoom: Elections in Guatemala (RSVP required).

Wednesday, September 6

11:30 at the Atlantic Council and online: A conversation with Kenneth Wainstein, DHS Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (RSVP required).
2:30 in Room 562, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management on After Apprehension: Tracing Dhs Responsibilities After Title 42.

Thursday, September 7

9:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Where have the banks gone? Curbing financial de-risking in the Caribbean (RSVP required).
9:30-11:00 at the Wilson Center and online: Journalism in the Age of Spyware: Defending Freedom of the Press and Countering Threats Posed by Surveillance Technologies in Latin America (RSVP required).
10:30 in Room 419, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues on Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Priorities for the Western Hemisphere.
1:00-3:00 at LAF Berlin online: El regreso de los militares ¿Un peligro para las democracias o más bien un debate fantasma? (RSVP required).

August 6, 2023 — 0

Latin America-related online events this week

Monday, August 7, 2023

5:00 at Pulitzer Center Zoom: Amazon Underworld: Crime and Corruption in the Shadows of the World’s Largest Rainforest (RSVP required).

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

10:30-11:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Argentina Elige: A Conversation with Martín Redrado, Former Central Bank President and Economic Adviser to Presidential Candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (RSVP required).
1:00 at Race & Equality Facebook Live: Herramientas para la implementación de la Convención Interamericana contra el Racismo en México.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

2:00-3:00 at wilsoncenter.org: A Conversation with Henrique Capriles, Presidential Candidate for Venezuela’s Primero Justicia Party (RSVP required).

Thursday, August 10, 2023

2:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: A conversation with Alicia Bárcena: Mexico’s newly appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs (RSVP required).