Adam Isacson

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Notes on our April 30 Enforced Disappearance Event

Here are notes and embedded video from our very well-attended 4/30 virtual panel, Lessons from Latin America as the United States Confronts Enforced Disappearance, hosted with the National Security Archive, with 3 longtime leaders in the fight against enforced disappearance in Latin America.

The below text is cross-posted from WOLA’s website.

Highlights and Conclusions from the April 30, 2025 WOLA–National Security Archive Webinar

This is enforced disappearance

Over the past two months, U.S. immigration and law‑enforcement agencies have been detaining migrants and asylum seekers without promptly disclosing their whereabouts, permitting contact with counsel, or even keeping them on U.S. soil where they are clearly within the reach of the rule of U.S. law. Veteran rights advocates warn that these detentions mirror a practice that Latin American societies know all too well: enforced disappearance.

That was the subject of a nearly two-hour discussion, hosted by the Washington Office on Latin America and the National Security Archive, featuring three renowned Latin American rights advocates who have devoted much of their careers fighting to end enforced disappearances and hold perpetrators accountable. The panel distilled four decades of hard‑won lessons—from Argentina’s military rule, Central America’s conflicts, and Mexico’s present‐day crisis—into guidance for a United States that has begun sliding onto the same dangerous slope.

Presentations

1. Carolina Jiménez Sandoval – President, WOLA

“Enforced disappearance is painful. It is a tragedy for families, but also for societies. And it’s not just a human rights violation… When a government takes citizens or others in their territory outside the protection of the law, this is a warning for democracy.”

In introductory remarks, Jiménez framed enforced disappearance as both a human‑rights atrocity and a democratic red flag. She invoked three mothers—Chilean, Mexican, Venezuelan—who are still looking for disappeared loved ones decades, years, or mere weeks later, to show that the pain transcends time and geography.

  • Definition matters. International law codifies disappearance as state custody, or deliberate state inaction, plus denial of the crime. There is no ambiguity.
  • Human impact is paramount. Technical debates must not obscure families’ anguish and the societal damage each disappearance inflicts.
  • U.S. exceptionalism is over. A webinar once unthinkable is now necessary because U.S. agencies are adopting tactics once associated with Latin American dictatorships.

2. Kate Doyle – Senior Analyst, National Security Archive

“We can’t help but connect what is happening in our country right now, today, to a long history in the Americas of the use by states of enforced disappearance to punish people considered dissidents.”

As moderator, Doyle noted chilling similarities between the Trump administration’s recent actions and the darker parts of Latin America’s recent history. She recalled, however, that Latin America “also has a proud and powerful tradition of fighting back” and inventing “strategies to protest the disappearances, demand information, hold hearings, fight in courts, create new laws, search for the missing, expose injustice, and tell the rest of the world what was happening.”

The three invited panelists, Doyle recalled, are emblematic of that experience. “We need to hear from them. We need to learn from their histories. We need to pull lessons from what they have to tell us about how to fight back here.”

3. Mercedes “Mimi” Doretti – Executive Director, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF)

“When the state no longer respects the rule of law, we are all in danger. We can all be accused at any time of being a criminal, a terrorist, or any other name, since nothing needs to be verified. Back then and now, we all know that no one actually disappears. It’s just not an existential status. We are either dead or alive.”

Drawing on 40 years of exhuming clandestine graves and investigating atrocities region-wide, Doretti described how Argentina’s junta used disappearance to eliminate due process and sow terror. She traced EAAF’s birth: prosecutors needed science, families needed someone they could trust more than state institutions, and young anthropologists provided both.

  • State denial breeds confusion and a maddening sense of unreality. Early in the dictatorship, relatives were told the kidnappings they witnessed had never occurred or that the victims were somehow deserving. The goal was paralysis through lies and denials.
  • Families are partners, not witnesses. EAAF put relatives at the center of every investigation—sharing findings, co‑designing searches, putting evidence at the center and building trustful relationships.
  • An “ecosystem” approach works. Forensic experts, lawyers, journalists, archivists, and families formed “a human‑rights ecosystem” that can out‑investigate a hostile, dishonest state.

4. Juan E. Méndez – Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; survivor, lawyer, scholar

“Disappearances are torture as well. Because the person who is deprived of contact with a family, the person who doesn’t know what’s going to happen to him or her, the person who doesn’t know when this detention will end, the person who is in incommunicado detention, perhaps even in solitary confinement somewhere where nobody knows where they are, that person is being inflicted pain and suffering of a mental nature, even if no physical torture may be happening.”

Méndez blended personal testimony—he was disappeared for days and imprisoned for 18 months—with legal analysis. He helped win the Velásquez Rodríguez v. Honduras judgment, the Inter‑American Court’s landmark ruling that enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity.

  • Temporary disappearances count. Moving detainees between secret sites, denying them lawyers, or hiding them from families—even for days—meets international definitions of disappearance. In Argentina, these practices began even before the 1976 military dictatorship began, during a state of siege.
  • Four minimum state duties: Governments must register every detention immediately; forbid secret sites; notify courts about each detention; and guarantee the detained person contact with counsel and relatives.
  • Law needs mobilization. International norms matter only when civil society “makes the state pay a price” for violations. A very good legal framework like the one that exists today is not enough on its own: “We need every man and woman who cares for the fate and whereabouts of every other human being to have their voices heard, have their voices resonate.”

5. Marcela Turati – Mexican investigative journalist, co-founder of Quinto Elemento Lab and Periodistas de a Pie

“The people [must] understand that victims have rights… even if they were criminals, they have rights [including] not to be disappeared.”

Reporting on 127,000 disappearances in Mexico—mostly committed at a time of formal democracy, mostly by non-state actors with the government’s collusion, acquiescence, or deliberate inaction—Turati emphasized the battle for truth in real time.

  • Name the crime. The press once spoke euphemistically of people falling victim to levantones (“pick‑ups”); insisting on using the word “disappearance” forces the state to own its obligations. “You can talk about enforced disappearances when the public servants don’t prevent these disappearances, don’t investigate when the people present a denunciation… So it’s not only when the army abducts or makes detentions.”
  • From confusion to complexity. Networks of journalists, data scientists, and victim groups map patterns—routes, mass graves, bureaucratic gaps—to demystify the phenomenon and put the puzzle pieces together, especially when the state can’t be counted on to do that.
  • Tech with a human face. Turati’s team’s WhatsApp chatbot, SocorroBot, walks families through the first 24 hours after someone vanishes and connects them to local support.

Key conclusions

  1. Disappearance is a deliberate state strategy, not a bureaucratic accident. Whether permanent or “only” temporary, or whether committed by government or non-state actors, secrecy plus denial equals disappearance.
  2. Information—and its absence—is a battlefield. Dictatorships lied outright; today’s U.S. agencies exploit data opacity, shifting detainees among ICE and local jurisdictions’ detention facilities or foreign prisons. Documenting transfers, in this example, helps move from confusion to accountability. Sharing credible information means better communication and storytelling, beginning with spreading knowledge “about people’s rights as human beings.” Turati added: “Always look for the audiovisual support. I think that we have to find a way to go public, just to be massive with the public. And I can see the effects of the videos, photos, camera images, satellite images, I don’t know, trying to bring what we know the ‘influencers’ use.” This also requires clarity about who the intended audiences are.
  3. Families are catalysts. Argentine mothers in the Plaza de Mayo, Mexican search collectives with shovels and drones, Central American parents seeking to trace children who disappeared along the migration route—relatives sustain the search when institutions fail. “The most important thing in Mexico is, for me as a journalist, to stay close to the victims,” Turati said.
  4. Independent expertise matters. The Argentine forensic model showed why civil‑society science must fill gaps left by compromised state forensics. “Both Mimi and Juan have pointed to this sort of creating expertise in a field where there was none,” Doyle observed. “And that’s something that I think we need to think about here in the United States as well.”
  5. International law is usable. The United States is a party to the Convention Against Torture. While it shuns the International Convention to Protect All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, existing instruments still prohibit the Trump administration’s practices, offering advocacy hooks. “The public understands instinctively what we mean when we say there’s no due process,” Méndez noted.

Recommendations

Drawing directly from the speakers’ proposals and proven tactics, steps like these can guide U.S. advocates, policymakers, and communities:

  • Rapid, independent documentation: We need to closely document what is happening, both through direct information gathering and building public databases.
  • Put families at the center: Relatives need immediate notification and frequent accompaniment from experts, mirroring EAAF’s family-first methodology.
  • Legal safeguards and reform: Even as a U.S. ratification of the International Convention to Protect All Persons from Enforced Disappearance appears far off, it is urgent to prohibit incommunicado custody, denial of access to counsel, invocation of the Alien Enemies Act during peacetime, and failure to provide at least 30 days to bring habeas corpus challenges before being rendered to another country. Extrajudicial imprisonment, whether at home or in other nations, must never happen.
  • Civil society mobilization: U.S. civil society and philanthropy must strengthen coalitions of journalists, tech volunteers, faith groups, and academics to keep cases in the public eye, echoing the Latin American “human-rights ecosystem.” Put a strong emphasis on storytelling, using innumerable tools including podcasts, exhibitions, teach-ins, or webinars like this one, especially to spotlight disappeared migrants and citizens.
  • International pressure and solidarity: Work with international bodies like the Inter-American Commission and U.N. Working Group on Enforced Disappearance for emblematic U.S. cases. Tighten bonds with Latin American experts and search collectives for skill-sharing on investigation, trauma care, and public protest tactics.
  • Accountability pathways: Document chain-of-command responsibility within DHS and private contractors to preserve evidence for future accountability measures. Never yield on the supremacy of judicial decisions: “I would say that the most alarming aspect of the situation,” Méndez warned, “is the fact that high ranking officers, officials are hinting that they don’t need to pay attention to court orders.”

Conclusion

The event’s nearly 500 participants asked dozens of incisive questions: more than time would allow. Many of them could be the subject of future events, and our organizations plan to hold more soon.

Argentina’s dictatorship, Central America’s civil wars, or Mexico’s organized crime violence all once seemed distant tragedies to many in the United States. Yet, as the webinar’s speakers made clear, the mechanisms of disappearance are portable, and their first victims are often the marginalized—migrants, students, activists—long before the practice threatens society at large.

The good news is that Latin America also exports resilience: mothers who march, scientists who unearth truth, lawyers who codify new crimes, journalists who refuse to let the missing be forgotten. Those lessons’ arrival in the United States is timely and urgently needed. By acting now—documenting every vanished person, closing every legal loophole, and mobilizing the broadest possible coalition—we can ensure that enforced disappearance never becomes normalized on U.S. soil.

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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

Monday, May 12

  • 2:00-2:45 at cnas.org: Countering China’s Digital Silk Road: Brazil (RSVP required).

Wednesday, May 14

Thursday, May 15

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, April 28

  • 1:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: Speaking out: Former wrongfully detained Americans in Venezuela (RSVP required).

Tuesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 30

Thursday, May 1

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

Tuesday, April 22

  • 10:00-4:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue: Eighth Annual Latin America Energy Conference – Shifting Currents: Energy and Geopolitical Realignment in the Americas (RSVP required).
  • 2:00 at Zoom: Trump’s Sheriffs: 287(g) and New Frontlines of Immigration Enforcement with author Jessica Pishko (RSVP required).

Thursday, April 24

  • 9:15-11:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Perspectives on Remittance Flows in 2025 (RSVP required).
  • 11:30 at migrationpolicy.org: Immigration Actions in First 100 Days of Trump Second Term (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, April 14

Wednesday, April 16

  • 2:00pm at atlanticcouncil.org: Navigating the US-PRC tech competition in the Global South (RSVP required).
  • 3:00pm at Georgetown University: Data for Humanity: How AI is Transforming Development and Business in Latin America (RSVP required).

Friday, April 18

  • 9:30am at atlanticcouncil.org: Banking on Belém: Mobilizing finance for energy and nature in the Global South (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, April 8

Wednesday, April 9

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, March 24

  • 2:00 at Zoom: What are the threats unaccompanied kids face? (RSVP required).

Tuesday, March 25

Wednesday, March 26

Thursday, March 27

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, March 17

Wednesday, March 19

  • 12:30-2:00 at George Washington University: Authoritarian Regimes, Gender Based Violence: How Right Wing Governments use the ‘Protective Discourse’ to Justify Their Harms Against Women and Girls (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 20

  • 4:00 at Georgetown University Law School Campus and at Zoom: U.S. Immigration Shifts and Their Impact on Latin America **I’m on this panel** (RSVP required).

Friday, March 21

  • 4:00-7:30 at American University: 3rd Annual Changing Aid Conference (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, March 10

Tuesday, March 11

Wednesday, March 12

  • 12:30-1:30 at Georgetown University: Latin America Research Seminar: Concubines, Lawyers, Cattle and Maps (RSVP required).
  • 2:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: The role of the Panama Canal in global commerce (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 13

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, March 3

  • 9:00-6:00 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Zoom: 192 Period of Sessions (RSVP required).

Tuesday, March 4

Wednesday, March 5

  • 9:00-5:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Zoom: 192 Period of Sessions (RSVP required).
  • 10:00 in Room SD-419 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Advancing American Interests in the Western Hemisphere.
  • 10:00-11:30 at thedialogue.org: The Lancet Series: Early Childhood Development and the Next 1,000 Days (RSVP required).
  • 1:00 at Zoom: Migration Policy Under the Trump Administration: What’s Changing and What’s at Stake? (RSVP required).
  • 6:00 hosted by Human Rights First: The Legacy of Executive Orders: Impact on Black Communities and Immigrant Rights (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 6

  • 9:00-3:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Zoom: 192 Period of Sessions (RSVP required).
  • 2:00 at Zoom: Reconciliation Rundown: Understanding the Basics of Budget Reconciliation (RSVP required).

Friday, March 7

  • 9:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Zoom: 192 Period of Sessions (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, February 18

  • 10:30-12:00 at wilsoncenter.org: Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: The Importance of Limiting Intermediary Liability (RSVP required).
  • 12:00-1:20 at drclas.harvard.edu: The Future of US-Latin America Relations Under Trump 2.0 (RSVP required).
  • 1:00-2:30 at CSIS and csis.org: U.S. Allies and Partners Under the Trump Administration (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 20

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, February 11

Wednesday, February 12

Thursday, February 13

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, February 3

  • 12:00 at atlanticcouncil.com: Why Ecuador matters for the future of the Western Hemisphere’s security (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 4

Wednesday, February 5

  • 10:00-11:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and Online: Peru’s Path Forward: Navigating Political, Economic, and Global Dynamics (RSVP required).
  • 4:30-6:00 at Georgetown University and online: Global Outlook: Latin America’s Place in the World (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 6

  • 10:00 in Room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Combatting Existing and Emerging Illicit Drug Threats.
  • 10:00-11:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: A Roadmap to Protect Independent Journalism in Repressive Countries (RSVP required).
  • 4:30-6:00 at Georgetown University and online: Breaking Latin America’s Cycle of Low Growth and Violence (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, January 27

  • 4:00-5:30 at wilsoncenter.org: The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (RSVP required).

Tuesday, January 28

Thursday, January 30

  • 1:00-2:00 at thedialogue.org: Tracking China-Caribbean Relations — New Tools and Takeaways (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, January 14

Wednesday, January 15

Thursday, January 16

  • 9:00 in Room 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Remain in Mexico.
  • 10:30-12:00 at wilsoncenter.org: USMCA 2026 Review: New Realities and Strategic Shifts in North American Trade (RSVP required).
  • 2:00-5:00 at ips-dc.org: Critical Raw Materials: The Impact of U.S.-China Competition (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, January 7

  • 12:00-1:30 at stimson.org: The Hidden Costs: Transparency and the US Arms Trade (RSVP required).

Friday, January 10

  • 1:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: 2025 Preview: What might be the big stories shaping the Americas? (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, December 17

  • 11:30 at migrationpolicy.org: The Biden Legacy on Immigration: A Complex Picture (RSVP required).

Wednesday, December 18

  • 2:00 on Border Network for Human Rights Zoom: Report from the Border: What to expect from the Trump’s Administration on Border Militarization and Immigration Enforcement (RSVP required).

Thursday, December 19

  • 10:00-11:30 at csis.org: The Future of Democracy and Human Rights in American Foreign Policy (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, December 9

  • 11:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.com: Driving smart cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).

Tuesday, December 10

Wednesday, December 11

  • 9:15-10:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue and thedialogue.org: Women, Financial Inclusion, and Family Remittances in Guatemala (RSVP required).
  • 1:00-2:00 at WOLA and wola.org: La Paz Total, El Capitulo Étnico y la Hermandad Afro Americana (RSVP required).
  • 2:00 in Room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations entitled The Communist Cuban Regime’s Disregard for Human Rights.

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, December 2

  • 10:00 at acleddata.com: Is ‘Total Peace’ still possible? A conversation on Colombia’s armed groups under Petro (RSVP required).

Tuesday, December 3

  • 10:00-11:00 at CSIS and csis.org: Addressing Maduro’s Oil Lifeline in the Wake of a Stolen Election (RSVP required).
  • 8:00pm at NACLA Zoom: Venezuela in the New Trump Era (RSVP required).

Wednesday, December 4

  • 9:00-12:30 at the Brookings Institution and brookings.edu: The fentanyl epidemic in North America and the global reach of synthetic opioids (RSVP required).
  • 10:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: El Salvador’s economic evolution: Investment insights and opportunities (RSVP required).
  • 11:00-12:30 at insightcrime.org: Behind Bars, Beyond Control: The Fall of Ecuador’s Prisons and the Rise of Its Mafias (RSVP required).
  • 12:00-2:00 at eff.org: Virtual Wall: Surveillance Tech at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Thursday, December 5

  • 10:30-12:00 at the Wilson Center and wilsoncenter.org: The Next President of the United States: Challenges and Recommendations for the US-Mexico Relationship (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, November 18

  • 12:30-2:00 at George Washington University: Can Peru’s Democracy Survive? Insights from President Francisco Sagasti and Ambassador Stephen McFarland (RSVP required).
  • 2:00-3:00 at refugeesinternational.org: Cartagena +40: Where Next for Refugee Protection in Latin America? (RSVP required).

Tuesday, November 19

Wednesday, November 20

Thursday, November 21

  • 2:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: Building the future of cross-sector collaboration in the Summit of the Americas (RSVP required).
  • 3:00-4:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and thedialogue.org: Realizing the Economic Potential of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Fireside Chat with William Maloney and Kellie Meiman Hock (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, November 11

  • 9:00-2:30 at Georgetown University: Caring for the Other: Refugees and Displaced Persons (RSVP required).
  • 9:00-6:00 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and online: Public Hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (RSVP required).

Tuesday, November 12

  • 9:00-6:00 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and online: Public Hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (RSVP required).
  • 11:00-12:30 at WOLA and online: ¿Por qué la comunidad internacional no puede ignorar la crisis en Perú? (RSVP required).
  • 2:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Assessing the halfway point of Colombia’s 2016 peace accord implementation (RSVP required).

Wednesday, November 13

  • 9:00-6:00 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and online: Public Hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (RSVP required).
  • 10:00-11:00 at csis.org: Can Latin America’s Copper Be the Key to a Low-Carbon Future? (RSVP required).
  • 10:00-11:30 at georgetown.edu: Caring for the Other: Refugees and Displaced Persons Webinar (RSVP required).
  • 11:00-12:00 at wilsoncenter.org: The Drying Out of Central America (RSVP required).

Thursday, November 14

  • 9:00-5:30 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and online: Public Hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (RSVP required).
  • 10:00-11:15 at wilsoncenter.org: Claudia Sheinbaum’s Security Strategy: A Path Forward? (RSVP required).
  • 12:00-1:30 at refugeesinternational.org: U.S. Election Implications on Migration Policy in the Americas (RSVP required).
  • 12:00 at Zoom: The Darien Gap: A Deadly Journey in the Pursuit of Safety (RSVP required).
  • 1:00-2:00 at CGRS Zoom: Asylum and Climate Change: Identifying and Analyzing Climate-Related Claims in the United States (RSVP required).
  • 2:00-3:30 at csis.org: Consult and Cooperate in Times of Great Need: Indigenous Rights and the Just Transition (RSVP required).

Friday, November 15

  • 9:00-10:15 at wilsoncenter.org: USMCA After the Election: Key Challenges and the Path Forward (RSVP required).
  • 9:00-5:30 at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and online: Public Hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Wednesday, November 6

Thursday, November 7

  • 10:00-11:00 at USIP: First in War, First in Peace: Building Post-Conflict Stability and Democracy (RSVP required).

Friday, November 8

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, October 28

Tuesday, October 29

Wednesday, October 30

  • 9:30-11:00 at stimson.org: Assessing Global Arms Trade Transparency (RSVP required).
  • 11:00-12:00 at thedialogue.org: A Conversation with Paul Simons on the US Election and the Future of Energy and Climate in Latin America (RSVP required).
  • 11:00-12:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Nuclear Strain: Looking Back at Brazil-US Nuclear Diplomatic Relations (RSVP required).
  • 5:00-6:30 at wola.org: Texas’s Operation Lone Star: Abuse on the Borderline (RSVP required). (Hey, I’m organizing this one. Don’t miss it.)

Thursday, October 31

  • 10:00 at migrationpolicy.org: Charting a Smart Agenda for Managing Climate Migration (RSVP required).
  • 10:00-11:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Social Media and Elections: Navigating Disinformation and Free Speech (RSVP required).
  • 11:00-12:15 at wilsoncenter.org: Mexico’s Constitutional Changes: Energy Outlook and Implications (RSVP required).
  • 2:00-3:00 at George Washington University: Crime and Policing in Brazil (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Monday, October 21

  • 3:30-5:00 at the U.S. Institute of Peace: Searching for Colombia’s Missing Persons (RSVP required).
  • 4:00-5:30 at wilsoncenter.org: The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History (RSVP required).

Tuesday, October 22

Wednesday, October 23

  • 11:00-12:00 at csis.org: Assessing the Impact of Mano Dura Policies on Democracy in Latin America (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 24

  • 2:00-3:30 at thedialogue.org: The Power of Technology and Support and Care Systems as a Basis for Inclusive Education (RSVP required).

Friday, October 25

  • 1:00-2:00 at University of Oklahoma Zoom: Central American Perspectives and Implications of the U.S. Elections (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, October 15

  • 6:00-7:30 at ips-dc.org: Extractive Companies Suing Guatemala: Injustices and Solutions (RSVP required).

Wednesday, October 16

  • 10:00-11:00 at heritage.org: Protecting Children: Race, Family, and the Border (RSVP required).
  • 1:00-2:00 at cmsny.org: The Untold Story: Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond (RSVP required).
  • 5:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Shaping the future of democracy in the Americas (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 17

Friday, October 18

  • 1:00-7:15 at Georgetown University and online: Mexico: Addressing Economic Challenges (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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Tuesday, October 8

Wednesday, October 9

  • 9:00-11:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue: Bolstering Latin America-Japan-US Cooperation on Energy Transition and Critical Minerals Supply (RSVP required).
  • 9:30-10:45 at IRI: Advancing democracy: A fireside chat on US global leadership and priorities with Assistant Secretary Rand (RSVP required).
  • 10:30-12:00 at the Wilson Center: Tackling the Root Causes: Food Insecurity and Forced Migration in Latin America (RSVP required).
  • 12:00-1:30 at Georgetown University and online: Argentina: Finding the Center in the Age of Right-wing Populism (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 10

  • 12:00-1:30 at WOLA Zoom: Responding Effectively to the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis: Evidence from the Border and Beyond (RSVP required).

Friday, October 11

  • 9:00-10:00 at brookings.edu: The international aid architecture: Addressing development challenges in fragile and conflict-affected areas (RSVP required).
  • 3:00-4:00 at wilsoncenter.org: Negotiated Inequality: Latin America and the Making of the Nuclear Club (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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

Wednesday, October 2

  • 10:00-12:00 at Global Witness: Missing Voices: The Violent Erasure of Land and Environmental Defenders (RSVP required).

Friday, October 4

  • 11:00-12:30 at brookings.edu: The United States and China in Latin America: Rivalry, cooperation, or something in-between? (RSVP required).

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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

Monday, September 23

Tuesday, September 24

Wednesday, September 25

  • 10:00 at Alianza Regional Zoom: Violencia digital y libertad de expresión: un reto para el periodismo en América Latina y el Caribe (RSVP required).
  • 2:00 in Room 2154 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on The Border Crisis: The Cost of Chaos.
  • 3:00-4:15 at Georgetown University: Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America (RSVP required).

Thursday, September 26

Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week

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

Tuesday, September 17

Wednesday, September 18

Thursday, September 19

Friday, September 20

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