8:00–10:00 at wilsoncenter.org: Mayors Delivering Democracy Daily (RSVP required).
10:00–11:00 at heritage.org: Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Strengthening Relations with Our Partners in the Western Hemisphere (RSVP required).
10:00–11:30 at brookings.edu: Combating corruption to drive democratic renewal A kickoff event for the Summit for Democracy (RSVP required).
10:00–11:30 at csis.org: Advocates for Democracy in Closed Spaces (RSVP required).
10:00-11:30 at brookings.edu: Mexico’s midterm elections: The future of the López Obrador presidency and US-Mexico relations (RSVP required).
1:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: A studio conversation with Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia Marta Lucía Ramírez (RSVP required).
11:00 at Zoom: Debt, Austerity and Human Rights in Latin America (RSVP required).
12:00-2:00 at thedialogue.org: Evaluating the Socioemotional Competencies of Students During the Pandemic and School Reopening (RSVP required).
Tuesday, May 18
11:00-12:30 at USIP Zoom: Understanding the Crisis in Colombia: Perspectives from Cali on Dialogue, Justice, and Healing (RSVP required).
11:00-12:30 at canninghouse.org: Life, Livelihoods and Liberty (RSVP required).
1:00 at Zoom: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and Authoritarianism in Unrevolutionary Mexico: A Book Talk with Paul Gillingham and Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (RSVP required).
3:00-4:30 at thedialogue.org: The Decisions of Facebook’s Oversight Board – Implications for the Global South, particularly in Latin America (RSVP required).
Wednesday, May 19
9:30-10:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: What is the road ahead for Colombia? (RSVP required).
10:00 at semanajusticiafiscal.com: La política fiscal como clave para avanzar hacia la justicia ambiental y climática en América Latina (RSVP required).
10:00 at Zoom: Pandemia, vacunas y derechos humanos en las Américas (RSVP required).
2:00-3:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Latin America’s Digital Divide: Overcoming Persistent Gaps (RSVP required).
Tuesday, May 11
10:30 at migrationpolicy.org: From a Humanitarian Exodus to Long-Term Growth: Latin America’s Journey Responding to the Venezuelan Exodus (RSVP required).
7:00pm at eventbrite: Canada’s Toxic Legacy: Pan American Silver and Mining Billionaire Ross Beaty in Latin America (RSVP required).
Wednesday, May 12
9:00 at IREE: The Future of Brazil – U.S. Relations under the Biden Administration (RSVP required).
9:00-10:00 at csis.org: Colombia Reacts to New Tax Reform: A Conversation with Colombia’s Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios Martínez (RSVP required).
9:00-10:00 at atlanticcouncil.org:What might the year 2035 bring for China’s trade with Latin America? (RSVP required).
Thursday, May 13
8:00-9:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Combatting corruption in the Northern Triangle: Prioritizing a whole-of-society approach (RSVP required).
2:00-4:00 at thedialogue.org: How Do We Support Students and Their Teachers in the Reopening of Schools? The Role of Diagnostic Learning Evaluations (RSVP required).
5:00-6:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Beyond the headlines: Central American migrant’s human journey (RSVP required).
Wednesday, April 28
10:00-11:30 at Fundación Ideas para la Paz Facebook: ¿Cómo contribuye el sector empresarial al respeto de los DDHH de la población migrante? (RSVP required).
3:00-4:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Peru and Ecuador: Elections and Democracy in the Andes (RSVP required).
Tuesday, April 20
11:00-12:00 at thedialogue.org: Is Latin America Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China’s International Development Strategy? (RSVP required).
11:00-1:00 at institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de: Protección en Colectivo – Defensores y defensoras indígenas de Derechos Humanos en Colombia (RSVP required).
8:00pm at amnistia.org.pe: Lanzamiento Virtual del Informe Anual de Amnistía Internacional en Perú (RSVP required).
Wednesday, April 21
9:15-10:30 at thedialogue.org: Addressing the Root Causes of Migration from Central America (RSVP required).
You may have seen that Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal recently found that the country’s armed forces likely killed a shocking 6,402 civilians between 2002 and 2008. WOLA is putting on an event today at 4:00 Eastern to talk about it, and I’ll be presenting. Here’s the text of the announcement at WOLA’s website, where you can RSVP:
**Due to emergency security concerns, Sergeant Mora will not present during this panel**
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) cordially invites you to our webinar:
Afro-Colombian Sergeant Carlos Eduardo Mora of Colombia’s 15th Mobile Brigade of Ocaña observed inconsistencies in the combat deaths that members of his battalion were reporting in their counterinsurgency statistics. In 2008, Mora denounced his colleagues for killing civilians and later passing them as enemy combats. These extrajudicial killings were widespread throughout the country and became nationally known—and erroneously termed as “false positives”—when a scandal involving 19 murdered young men from the southwestern Bogotá neighborhood of Soacha was undercovered.
Mora has suffered greatly for his role as a whistleblower, having faced multiple types of retaliation like public humiliation and death threats. His security situation became so serious that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a resolution in 2013 urging the Colombian state to protect Mora and his family.
In February, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, JEP)—Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal devised in the 2016 peace accord—revealed that the Colombian armed forces committed at least 6,402 extrajudicial killings between 2002 and 2008. In light of these disturbing revelations, WOLA’s Director for the Andes Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli will moderate a panel to discuss the role of individuals like Sergeant Mora and hear from two human rights and U.S. military aid experts. Alberto Yepes, Coordinator for the Human Rights Observatory of the Colombia-Europe-United States Coordination (Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados Unidos, CCEU) coalition, will discuss the implications of the JEP’s recent order on extrajudicial killings. Adam Isacson, WOLA’s Director for Defense Oversight, will discuss U.S. funding to Colombia’s armed forces and what actions can be taken to guarantee justice in these horrific cases.
10:30-11:30 at CLIP: Corriendo la cortina de las relaciones China – Venezuela (RSVP required).
1:00 at Noria Research Zoom: Opium & the War on Drugs: Mexico into International Perspective (RSVP required).
5:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: COVID-19 recovery: A partnership strategy for the Biden administration in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).
7:00 at centroprodh.org.mx: Militarización y derechos de las mujeres (RSVP required).
2:00-3:30 at refugeesinternational.org: From Displacement to Development: Challenges and Opportunities to the Economic Inclusion of Venezuelans in Perú (RSVP required).
3:30 at Zoom: Indigenous rights and Canadian mining in Mexico (RSVP required).
Friday, March 12
11:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: International trade and Mercosur on its 30th anniversary: A foreign minister conversation (RSVP required).
