Adam Isacson

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

Monday, March 18, 2024

• 9:00-10:30 at csis.org: USAID/MujerProspera: Advancing Gender Equality in Northern Central America (RSVP required).
• 2:00-5:00 at CSIS and csis.org: From Terrestrial to Celestial: Unlocking the Potential to Enhance U.S.-Latin American B2B Collaboration (RSVP required).

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

• 3:00-3:50AM at WOLA Zoom (Event in Vienna, Austria): From Synthetic Drug Threats to Synthetic Drug Realities.
• 10:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: General Laura Richardson on security in the Western Hemisphere (RSVP required).
• 6:00-8:00 at Busboys and Poets K Street: Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti (RSVP required).

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

• 8:00-8:50 at WOLA Zoom (Event in Vienna, Austria): Environmental Justice and the Urgency of Drug Policy Reform.
• 2:45 in Room 342, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight on Strengthening International Cooperation to Stop the Flow of Fentanyl Into the United States.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

• 4:10AM at WOLA Zoom (Event in Vienna, Austria): The War on Drugs: Militarization and States of Emergency (RSVP required).
• 10:30 in Room 419, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Implementation of the U.S. Anti-Corruption Strategy.
• 1:00 at Artículo19 social networks: Debates sobre la regulación electoral.
• 2:00 in Room 310, Cannon House Office Building: Hearing of two House Homeland Security Subcommittees on Examining CBP One: Functions, Features, Expansion, and Risks.
• 2:00 in Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on Accountable Assistance: Reviewing Controls to Prevent Mismanagement of Foreign Aid.
• 3:00 at AfroResistance Zoom: Realities and Challenges of the Haitian Population in the Dominican Republic from the Voices of Women (RSVP required).
• 4:30-5:30 at Georgetown University: Whose Story to Tell? Writing About, For, and Alongside Children on the Move (RSVP required).

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

Monday, March 11, 2024

• 10:00-11:15 at the Wilson Center and wilsoncenter.org: China’s Voice in Latin American Media (RSVP required).
• 2:30 in Room 216, Hart Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Worldwide Threats.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

• 10:00 in Room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on U.S. Military Posture and National Security Challenges in North and South America.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

• 12:00-1:00 at Georgetown University: Latin America Research Seminar: “Transforming the Religious/Secular Arena: The Far-Reaching Consequences of Educational Reform in Chile”.
• 3:15 at UCLA Zoom: A View from the Border: Exploring Challenges & Solutions for Immigration Policy with Advocates on the Ground (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 14, 2024

• 9:30 in Room 216, Hart Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the Future Years Defense Program.
• 10:00-11:00 at the Wilson Center and wilsoncenter.org: Navigating Brazil’s G20 Presidency: A Conversation with Ambassador Maurício Lyrio (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:30 at Georgetown University and online: Mexican Cartels, Fentanyl, and the Global Synthetic Drugs Revolution (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:30 at thedialogue.org: The Future Of Micro-Credentials in Latin America – Challenges And Opportunities (RSVP required).
• 3:00-4:30 at Georgetown University: Global Humanities Seminar Series: Son Jarocho, Sounds of Dissent, and Global Activism.

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

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

• 12:00 online: A conversation about Digital Rights with the Experts (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:20 at harvard.edu: Venezuela 2024: Negotiations, Elections, and the Prospects for a Way Out (RSVP required).
• 3:00 at WOLA: Mesa “Ideas por la Democracia”: Desafíos y oportunidades en las Américas (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:30 at George Washington University: Book Talk: Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico, With Professor Jaime Pensado.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

• 2:00 at wola.org: The Past, Present, and Future of the Fight for Gender and Racial Justice in the Americas (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:15 at wilsoncenter.org: Political Risk and Mexico’s Investment Climate (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 7, 2024

• 2:00 in Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere on The Agents of Antisemitism in Latin America.
• 2:00 in Room 2141, Rayburn House Office Building: Meeting of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement on Presidential Power to Secure the Border.
• 3:00-4:00 at CSIS and csis.org: Rethinking the U.S. Approach in the Global South (RSVP required).

Friday, March 8, 2024

• 10:00-12:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlaniccouncil.org: Breaking waves: Igniting gender inclusivity for development across the Americas (RSVP required).
• 1:00-2:15 at the Inter-American Dialogue and thedialogue.org: Freedom Behind Bars: 11 Stories of Resistance (RSVP required).

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

Monday, February 26, 2024

• 11:00-1:00 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Guatemala: Case 13.159 14 Communities of the Mayan Q’eqchi’ People (Ex officio).
• 1:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: Venezuela at a turning point: María Corina Machado on 2024 elections (RSVP required).
• 2:30-6:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Colombia: Case 13.583 – League of Displaced Women.
• 5:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Redefining US strategy with Latin America and the Caribbean for a new era (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

• 9:00-10:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Colombia: Forced Recruitment of Indigenous Children and Adolescents in the Armed Conflict in Cauca.
• 10:00 in Room G50, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Damming the Iron River: How to Stop the Deadly Flow of American Guns to the Cartels.
• 10:00-12:00 at the Heritage Foundation and heritage.org: The Dangers of Gender Ideology at Home and Abroad (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Colombia: Right to comprehensive redress of the victims of the armed conflict.
• 3:30-4:15 at atlanticcouncil.org: Institutional Retrenchment and the Growth Imperative in Latin America, at Freedom and Prosperity Research Conference (RSVP required).
• 4:30-6:00 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Guatemala: Follow-up to precautionary measures in favor of indigenous communities.
• 6:00-8:00 at American University: Sounding the Alarm: A Conversation on the Rise of Authoritarianism Behind Latin America’s Humanitarian Crisis (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

• 9:00-10:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Mexico: Protection of Women Seekers.
• 9:00-10:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Ecuador: Right to indigenous justice.
• 9:30-10:45 at WOLA and wola.org: Chemical Reactions: U.S.-Mexico Drug Control in the Age of Fentanyl (RSVP required).
• 10:00-11:15 at the Wilson Center and wilsoncenter.org: 11th Annual US-Mexico Security Conference: Preventing and Combating Illicit Trade (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Mexico: Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists.
• 11:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: United States: Impacts of uranium exploitation on indigenous peoples’ rights.
• 12:00-1:00 at Georgetown University: Latin America Research Seminar: “Afro-Colombian female resistance and resilience in ‘Ancestras’ by Petrona Martínez” (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Honduras: Forced evictions of indigenous, black and peasant communities.
• 2:00-3:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Dominican Republic: Human Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.
• 4:00-5:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Regional: Status of judicial independence (Ex officio).
• 4:00-5:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Regional: Impact of carbon market expansion on indigenous peoples and local communities in Colombia, Guyana and Peru.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

• 9:00-10:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Regional: Human rights of people in human mobility due to the effects of climate change.
• 9:00-10:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Cuba: Right to freedom of association.
• 10:30-11:45 at Forum on the Arms Trade Zoom: Accountability for Gun Violence: What’s Next In Mexico’s Case Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers? (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:00 at wilsoncenter.org: A Conversation with Interior Minister Mónica Palencia on Ecuador’s Security Crisis (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and thedialogue.org: Caribbean Energy Synergies (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Haiti: Impunity for sexual violence against women and girls.
• 11:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Cuba: Human Rights of Persons Participating in Medical Missions.
• 1:00 at WOLA and wola.org: Climate Emergency, Displacement, and Migration: Voices and Proposals from Affected Communities and Civil Society (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Guyana: Impacts of private companies on human rights.
• 2:00-3:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Panamá: Impacts of private business activities on the human rights of indigenous and peasant communities.
• 3:00-4:15 at wilsoncenter.org: 11th Annual US-Mexico Security Conference: Challenges Facing the Next President of Mexico (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Regional: Right to reintegration of women deprived of their liberty.
• 4:00-5:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Regional: Situation of human rights defenders.
• 4:30-5:30 at WOLA and wola.org: Accused of Money Laundering and Terrorism: Criminalization of NGOs to Close Civic Space (RSVP required).

Friday, March 1, 2024

• 9:00-10:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Nicaragua: Arbitrary deprivation of liberty for political reasons.
• 9:00-10:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Uruguay: Right to nationality and risk of statelessness in legislation.
• 11:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Peru: Human rights of victims of forced sterilization.
• 11:00-12:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Regional: Business Impacts on Human Rights and the Environment.
• 2:00 at Columbia ILAS Zoom: New Perspectives on Crime, Violence, and Victims in Latin America (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Chile: Human Rights of the Deaf persons.
• 2:00-3:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Venezuela: Right to physical, psychological and moral integrity of political prisoners.
• 4:00-5:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Peru: Public Prosecutor’s Office Situation and Human Rights Impacts.
• 4:00-5:30 at Inter-American Human Rights Commission Headquarters: Regional: Human rights situation of older persons in the region (Ex Officio).

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

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

• 9:00-10:00 at wilsoncenter.org: What to Expect from Secretary Blinken’s Visit to Brazil (RSVP required).
• 10:00-11:00 at hudson.org: What Does Bukelismo Mean for Latin America?.
• 2:00-3:00 at the Wilson Center and wilsoncenter.org: Venezuela at a Crossroads: Is the Barbados Agreement on Life Support? (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

• 12:00-1:30 at Georgetown University: Higher Education and Social Mobility in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities (RSVP required).
• 1:00 at cmsny.org: Telling the Truth about the Border: A Humane Vision for Border Management (RSVP required).
• 1:30-2:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Bernardo Arévalo’s First Month in Office and the Path Ahead for Guatemala (RSVP required).
• 1:30-3:00 at Zoom: Presentación del cortometraje COLATERAL (México, 2024) (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 22, 2024

• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University and Georgetown Americas Institute YouTube: Mexico’s 2024 Elections: What’s at Stake, What’s Next? (RSVP required).

Friday, February 23, 2024

• 11:00-12:00 at wilsoncenter.org: A Brazilian Perspective on the G20: Debriefing the First Ministerial Meeting (RSVP required).

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

Monday, February 12, 2024

• 2:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Countering China and Russia in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).
• 3:00-6:00 at Georgetown University and online: Seminar ‘Why does Latin America matter?’ (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:30 at Columbia University Zoom: Bukele’s El Salvador and its Regional Implications on Democracy and Security: A Post-electoral Discussion (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

• 10:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: A new era for US-Guatemala economic relations (RSVP required).
• 1:00 at IBERO online: Presentación del libro “El negocio del crimen. El crecimiento del delito, los mercados ilegales y la violencia en América Latina” (RSVP required).
• 3:00-4:00 at csis.org: Venezuela’s Deteriorating Electoral Conditions: A Conversation with María Corina Machado (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 15, 2024

• 9:30-11:00 at the Wilson Center: A Conversation With Mexico City Mayoral Candidate Salomón Chertorivski (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:00 at wola.org: Mexico could elect its first female president. What would this mean for human rights and the feminist movement? (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 2200 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on The Agents of Antisemitism in Latin America.
• 2:00 in Room 2154 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Oversight National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on The Consequences of Catch and Release at the Border.
• 3:00-4:00 at csis.org: Report Launch: China’s Role in Democratic Backsliding in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).

Friday, February 16, 2024

• 10:00-11:30 at wola.org: From Barbados to Democratic Elections: Will Venezuela Meet the Challenge? (RSVP required).
• 12:30-1:45 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Perspectives on Remittances in 2024 (RSVP required).
• 4:15 at the Atlantic Council and online: The Bahamian foreign minister on shaping US-Caribbean ties (RSVP required).

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

Monday, February 5, 2024

• 9:30-11:00 at wilsoncenter.org: A Conversation with Mexican Presidential Candidate Xóchitl Gálvez (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

• 9:00 at Colombia Congress YouTube: ¿Cómo va la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz?.
• 10:00-11:15 at Canning House Zoom: Elections in El Salvador (RSVP required).
• 10:00-11:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue: Wall Street’s Influence on Democracy in Latin America (RSVP required).
• 11:00 at the United Methodist Building: Press Conference & Senate Lobby Day on Senate Immigration Proposal.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

• 11:00 in Room 2200 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on The Fight for Freedom in Venezuela: A Conversation with María Corina Machado.

Thursday, February 8, 2024

• 9:30 in Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine the nomination of Dafna Hochman Rand, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
• 1:00-2:30 at American University: Book Event: “From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class and Color” (RSVP required).
• 3:30 at naturalresources.house.gov YouTube: Hearing of the House Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee on Biden’s Border Crisis: The Consequences of Failing to Secure Federal Border Lands.
• 4:00-7:00 at the Fairmont Hotel: Resisting to Continue Defending Human Rights: Reflections One Year After the Banishment and Dispossession of Nicaraguan Nationality (RSVP required).

Friday, February 9, 2024

• 12:00 at UCSD online: Will Immigration be Biden’s Poisoned Apple in 2024? (RSVP required).

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

Monday, January 29, 2024

• 10:00-11:00 at csis.org: El Salvador’s 2024 Elections: Voting in a One-Party State? (RSVP required).
• 3:00-4:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Industry Minister Víctor Bisonó on the Dominican Republic’s economic growth and resilience (RSVP required).
• 5:30-7:00 at Georgetown University and YouTube: Religious and Academic Freedom in Nicaragua (RSVP required).

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

• 10:00 in Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government on The Southern Border Crisis: The Constitution and the States.
• 10:00 in Room 310 Cannon House Office Building and online: House Homeland Security Committee Markup of Articles of Impeachment against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
• 10:00-1:00 on several social media streams: Un Camino con las Víctimas.
• 11:30 at USCRI Zoom: The Impact of Proposed Changes to the Asylum System on Survivors of Human Trafficking (RSVP required).

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

• 9:00-10:30 at InsightCrime YouTube and Facebook: Organized Crime in Venezuela: Challenges and Perspectives for 2024.
• 11:00-1:00 at UNAM Zoom: Tensiones Constitucionales: Libertad de Expresión y Derechos de Autor en la Era Digital (RSVP required).
• 1:00-6:00 at Rutgers University and online: “La Marea Feminista”: Feminist Movements for Reproductive Justice and Against Gender -Based Violence and Exclusion (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 1, 2024

• 12:15 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Unlocking opportunities for the US-Suriname relationship (RSVP required).

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

Monday, January 22, 2024

• 4:00-5:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: LAC2024: The stories we’ll likely be talking about (RSVP required).

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

• 8:00-9:30 at Zoom: The human rights crisis in Mexico: the road towards Mexico’s fourth cycle to the Universal Periodic Review (RSVP required).
• 12:00-2:00 at Centro PRODH Facebook Live: México Ante la 4ª revisión del Examen Periódico Universal de la ONU (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:30 at American University: Book Launch and Commemoration:The North American Research Initiative (RSVP required).

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

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

• 1:00-2:00 at quincyinst.org: Demilitarizing the U.S.-Mexico Relationship (RSVP required).
• 4:30 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Setting the US-Caribbean agenda with The Bahamas Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon. Frederick Mitchell (RSVP required).

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

• 10:00 in Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on The Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Policymaking Efforts to Undermine U.S. Immigration Law.

Thursday, January 18, 2024

• 9:30-1:30 at homeland.house.gov: Hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security on Voices for the Victims: The Heartbreaking Reality of the Mayorkas Border Crisis.
• 12:00-1:30 at Georgetown University and online: Globalization, Trade, and Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).
• 1:00-2:15 at wilsoncenter.org: Mexico’s Election: Issues and Polls (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on The Myth of the New Cuban Entrepreneurs: An Analysis of the Biden Administration’s Cuba Policy.

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

Monday, December 11

• 5:00-6:30 at Columbia University Zoom: Guatemala: Democracy in the Crosshairs (RSVP required).

Tuesday, December 12

• 1:00-2:00 at Refugees International Zoom: A Better Approach Toward Reception of People Seeking Asylum (RSVP required).

Wednesday, December 13

• 10:00-11:15 at aei.org: Should Argentina Dollarize? (RSVP required).
• 12:00-2:00 at House of Sweden: The Global State of Democracy: Presentation of International IDEA’s 2023 Report (RSVP required).

(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).

(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).

(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).

(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.

(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).

(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).

(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).

(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).

(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.

(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).

(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).

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).

Monday, July 31, 2023

• 11:00-12:00 at the Heritage Foundation and online: Catch, Release, and Then What? (RSVP required).

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

• 12:30-1:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Argentina Elige: A Conversation with Luciano Laspina, Argentine Congressman and Senior Economic Adviser to Presidential Candidate Patricia Bullrich (RSVP required).
• 6:00-7:00 at thedialogue.org: Elections Series – The Role of the Judiciary in Electoral Contexts: A View from Latin America (RSVP required).

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

• 12:00-1:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Presentación del reporte del “Foro nacional sobre feminicidio: Visiones y soluciones” y del reporte sobre “Los avances legislativos y propuestas que se encuentran pendientes de aprobar en materia de feminicidio en México” (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:00 at wola.org: Abuses at the U.S.- Mexico Border: How To Address Failures and Protect Rights (RSVP required).

Friday, August 4, 2023

• 10:00-10:45 at csis.org: Looking South: A Conversation with GEN Laura Richardson on Security Challenges in Latin America (RSVP required).
• 1:15-2:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: A Conversation on Central America (RSVP required).

Tuesday, July 25

• 2:00 at Americans for Immigrant Justice Zoom: What is the Family Expedited Removal Management (FERM) process? (RSVP required).

Wednesday, July 26

• 9:00 at 216 Hart Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee To Consider the Nominations of: Lieutenant General Gregory M. Guillot, Usaf to Be General and Commander, United States Northern Command/Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and Lieutenant General Stephen N. Whiting, Ussf to Be General and Commander, United States Space Command.
• 10:00 at 2141 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
• 11:00-11:30 at the Atlantic Council and online: Guatemala’s choice: A conversation with presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo (RSVP required).
• 12:30-1:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Argentina Elige: A Conversation with Diana Mondino, Senior Economic Adviser to Presidential Candidate Javier Milei (RSVP required).
• 2:00 at 310 Cannon House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittees on Border Security and Enforcement and Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence on The Real Cost of an Open Border: How Americans are Paying the Price.

Thursday, July 27

• 10:00 at 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues on Haiti: Next Steps on the International Response.
• 10:00 at 2237 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance on Oversight of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
• 10:00 at 2154 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Oversight and Reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
• 10:30 at 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Full Senate Appropriations Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2024 Defense, Interior and Environment, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Homeland Security Appropriations Acts.
• 2:00 at Congressional Visitors Center HVC-210 and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere on Colombia’s Descent to Socialism: Assessing Gustavo Petro’s Presidency.
• 4:00-5:00 at csis.org: Energy, Environment, and Opportunities for Mexico’s Natural Gas Sector (RSVP required).

Tuesday, July 11

• 12:00 on Zoom: “Cómo informar al público latino/centroamericano en Estados Unidos sobre los temas que ocurren en la región (RSVP required).

Wednesday, July 12

• 2:00 in Room 310, Cannon House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement on “Protecting the U.S. Homeland: Fighting the Flow of Fentanyl from the Southwest Border”

• 3:30-4:30 at the Heritage Foundation and online: Securing the Border and the Homeland: A Conversation with Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (RSVP required).
• 7:00 on Zoom: Derecho a las Memorias Sesión 2: Rexistencias de las Memorias.

Thursday, July 13

• 9:00-10:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Guatemala’s choice: What’s at stake ahead of the runoff election? (RSVP required).

Friday, July 14

• 1:30 on AILA Zoom: High-Stakes Asylum: How Long an Asylum Case Takes and How We Can Do Better (RSVP required).