I’m in near-constant meetings today. (How to contact me) I’ve spent a lot of the last few days and nights making some big improvements to our underutilized “colombiapeace.org” website (read about those here). I’d like to add more to it this week, but might not do much: it’s one of those “high season” weeks with […]
Read MoreI’m off today. (How to contact me) This is the last day of a brief family vacation. I’ll be back on the job in Washington tomorrow, but difficult to contact today.
Read MoreI should be reachable much of the day. (How to contact me) Other than lunch with a longtime colleague at another organization, I should be at my desk in the office all day. I’ll be doing a post about coca fumigation in Colombia, setting up a trip to El Paso/Juarez for the week of the 20th, […]
Read More(Even more here) September 20, 2019 Western Hemisphere Regional Rafael Carranza, “Feds Outline Road Map for Construction of Trump’s Border Wall Using Military Funds” (The Arizona Republic, September 20, 2019). The 18 border projects listed a total of about 309 miles of new and replacement fencing, mostly along the western portion of the U.S.-Mexico border […]
Read MoreHere’s a short analysis posted to WOLA’s website (Español). It jumps off from last Friday’s Washington Post finding that dozens of CBP and ICE officers may be sent to Guatemala to work as “advisors” at the country’s border with Mexico. The piece is built around a listing of Homeland Security and Defense Department deployments to […]
Read MoreI’m out of the office all day today. (How to contact me) I’m writing at home today. Replies to messages may be delayed because, well, I’m writing.
Read MoreI’ll be hard to contact today. (How to contact me) I’m in an all-day staff training at WOLA. The family are out of town for 2 days, though, so I hope to get some writing and research done at home tonight.
Read More(Cross-posted from WOLA’s colombiapeace.org blog) On March 11 Colombian President Iván Duque threw the country’s peace process into semi-paralysis. He formally “objected” to parts of the law underlying the transitional justice system that the accords had set up for judging ex-combatants’ human rights crimes. The “objections,” essentially a line-item veto, sent back to Colombia’s Congress […]
Read MoreThursday, April 25 8:30–10:30 at the Notre Dame University Keogh School: Venezuela: Humanitarian Crisis and Struggle for Democracy (RSVP required). 9:00 at the Atlantic Council: Venezuela After Maduro: A Vision for the Country’s Future (RSVP required). Friday, April 26 8:30–10:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue: Institutions for Productivity: Towards a Better Business Environment in Latin America […]
Read MoreI’m out today. (How to contact me) I’m taking a personal day today, to recover physically from traveling and a month of 60-plus-hour weeks. Also I need to finish doing my taxes, as today is the deadline in the United States.
Read MoreI’m in continuous meetings throughout the day, and will be hard to contact. (How to contact me) I’ll be in a long morning staff meeting, lunch with a Colombian colleague, a visit to Senate committee staff, and a call with a House staffer. When at a desk, I may be analyzing the White House budget […]
Read More(Even more here) January 23, 2019 Western Hemisphere Regional Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Senate Leaders Plan Competing Bills to End Shutdown” (The New York Times, January 23, 2019). If both measures fall short, the votes could add new energy to efforts to negotiate a bipartisan compromise Kristine Phillips, “They Left Food and Water […]
Read MorePeople have asked me, “Didn’t you listen to Trump when he said that he would build a wall?” I didn’t take the idea seriously during the campaign. From “I voted for Trump. Now his wall may destroy my butterfly paradise,” a Washington Post column by Luciano Guerra, “a nature photographer and outreach coordinator and educator for the […]
Read More“I’ll Be There” by Michael Rault (2018).
Read More(Even more here) December 20, 2017 Bolivia “Bolivia y China Firman Protocolo de Donacion Logistica a Favor de ff.aa.” (Agencia Boliviana de Noticias (Bolivia), December 20, 2017). El embajador de China en Bolivia, Liang Yu y el ministro de Defensa Reymi Ferreira, firmaron el miércoles un protocolo de donación de material logístico a las Fuerzas […]
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