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The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is a leading research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas.
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Follow us for the latest analysis, updates, and news on human rights, democracy, and social justice across the Americas.

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WOLA is a leading research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas. We promote policies that protect human dignity and justice.
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🇧🇷 WOLA y otras organizaciones internacionales condenamos la masacre del 28 de octubre en Río de Janeiro, #Brasil . La “Operación Contención” expone la violencia estructural y el racismo de la política de seguridad del estado.

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https://www.wola.org/es/2025/10/pronunciamiento-brasil-operativo-seguridad-muertes/
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October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🏆 "Having seen WOLA's publications as a beacon of hope as a student, I'm even more proud to work alongside WOLA in my work as US Senator," - Senator Tim Kaine, WOLA's 2025 Human Rights Award recipient.

📺 Watch his full acceptance video: youtu.be/9c4R5XaUyFM
Senator Tim Kaine Accepts WOLA's 2025 Human Rights Award
YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
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October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨 Event next week 🚨

📅 Wednesday, November 5, 2025
⏰ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST
🎧 English with Spanish translation
🔗 Register now: wola.org/events/uncha...
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨 Aguas desconocidas: la acción militar de estadounidense en el Caribe

📅 Miércoles, 5 de noviembre de 2025
📍Híbrido: 1666 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC o en línea
🎧 Inglés con traducción al español us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🏆 Our tribute to MOVIR, our 2025 Human Rights Award recipients. 🇸🇻

Despite severe repression in #ElSalvador, they demand truth & justice for those arbitrarily detained under the #stateofexception. Their work reminds us why we do what we do.👇

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WOLA Honors MOVIR for the 2025 Human Rights Award
YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
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October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This week's @wola-org.bsky.social Border Update has a lot of charts.

Fiscal 2025 data show a big drop in migration but a rise since July. Border Patrol agents will replace ICE officials in a purge. Updates about cybersecurity and civil liberties, and human rights issues in Chicago and elsewhere.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: 2025 migration data, ICE purge, cybersecurity and civil liberties - WOLA
Fiscal 2025 data show a big drop in migration amid the Trump crackdown, though numbers have risen sharply since July. Border Patrol agents will replace ICE field office directors in a "mass deportatio...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🎙️ New podcast: “Piercing the Propaganda Bubble in #ElSalvador.”

WOLA's @adamisacson.com talks with Dr. Ricardo Valencia about how Bukele’s popularity depends on a fragile propaganda machine—and why cracks are beginning to show.

🎧 wola.org/multimedia/p...

#HumanRightsAwardsMonth
Piercing the Propaganda Bubble in El Salvador - WOLA
Ricardo Valencia explains why the current popularity of El Salvador’s authoritarian president rests on a surprisingly fragile foundation.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚨 🇸🇻 Con una audiencia clave próxima, hacemos un llamado: los defensores de DDHH no deben ser criminalizados.

El Salvador debe garantizar las garantías procesales plenas de Alejandro Henríquez y José Ángel Pérez.

Lee nuestra declaración 👉 www.wola.org/es/2025/10/d...
Defensores de derechos humanos en El Salvador deben contar con garantías procesales plenas - WOLA
Washington, D.C., 20 de octubre de 2025 — El pasado 13 de mayo, los defensores de derechos humanos Alejandro Henríquez y José Ángel Pérez fueron detenidos en El Salvador en un contexto de creciente re...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🚨 The resignation of Southcom commander, Adm. Holsey,
comes as U.S. military units are carrying out illegal orders to bomb civilian vessels in the Command's area of operations.

Now is a good time for the command's former chiefs to speak out about these strikes. 🧵 (1/5)
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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In this week's @wola-org.bsky.social Border Update:

- 230 miles of new border barriers at a cost of $4.5 billion.
- Migrants' human rights crisis is far from over in Mexico.
- Links to coverage of aggressive immigration operations in the US, and DHS's troubled organizational culture.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Big border wall contract, Mexico updates, Chicago and elsewhere - WOLA
DHS plans to build 230 miles of new border barriers at a cost of $4.5 billion. The migration-related human rights crisis is far from over in Mexico. Dozens of links to updates about aggressive immigra...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨 WOLA joins international coalition calling for an immediate end to repression, militarization & excessive use of force in #Ecuador.

🇪🇨 We stand with civil society in demanding respect for human rights and democratic freedoms.

Read the full statement 👉 www.wola.org/2025/10/urge...
Urgent call from the international community for an immediate end to repression, militarization, and excessive use of force in Ecuador. - WOLA
International community demands immediate end to repression and militarization in Ecuador. Joint statement condemns excessive use of force and calls for respect of human rights and civil liberties.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨 WOLA se une a una coalición internacional que pide el cese inmediato de la represión, militarización y uso excesivo de la fuerza en #Ecuador.

Nos solidarizamos con la sociedad civil exigiendo respeto a los #DDHH.

Lee la declaración completa 👉 www.wola.org/es/2025/10/l...
https://www.wola.org/es/2025/10/llamado-urgente-de-la-comunidad-internacional-al-cese-inmediato-de-la-represion-la-militarizacion-y-el-uso-excesivo-de-la-fuerza-en-ecuador/
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October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📍 El deterioro democrático de El Salvador continúa: redetenciones, arresto de abogados de DDHH, desplazamiento de periodistas y extensión del estado de excepción hasta 2027.

Por esto honramos a MOVIR con nuestro Premio de Derechos Humanos 2025.
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🇬🇹 #CasoDiarioMilitar

WOLA se suma a este comunicado ante los intentos del MP de garantizar impunidad por graves violaciones a #DDHH durante el #ConflictoArmadoInterno.
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨 New analysis: Political imprisonment has returned to #ElSalvador —not as a relic of the past, but as a refined tool of authoritarian control. 🇸🇻

At least 35 political prisoners. 430+ deaths in custody since 2022.

Read more 👉 www.wola.org/analysis/pol...
Political Imprisonment in El Salvador and the Dismantling of Democracy - WOLA
What distinguishes today’s political prisoners from those of El Salvador’s past? And what does this reveal about the state of democracy under President Nayibe Bukele? To answer these questions, we mus...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🎙️ NEW: As part of WOLA's Human Rights Awards Month, host Adam Isacson sits down with Stanford's Beatriz Magaloni to expose the dark reality behind #ElSalvador's "security model"—mass incarceration, state terror & systematic torture.

Listen now 🎧 wola.org/multimedia/t...
The Grim Side of El Salvador’s “Security Model” - WOLA
Human Rights Awards Month special: WOLA podcast investigates El Salvador's mass incarceration "security model," state terror, and human rights crisis with expert Beatriz Magaloni.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
📍 Tijuana, Mexico 🇲🇽

At Espacio Migrante, WOLA's Director for México Stephanie Brewer learned about the current situation of migrant families at the border & work to defend their rights in Mexico.

#migration #Mexico #humanrights
October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🚨 Last night, the Senate narrowly rejected (48–51) a War Powers Resolution led by Sens. Schiff and Kaine requiring congressional approval before using military force against alleged “narco-terrorists.”
October 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🎉 Human Rights Awards Month starts now! This October, we're honoring MOVIR of El Salvador and Senator Tim Kaine. Watch our launch video 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=ToLR...

And stay tuned!

#HumanRightsMonth #WOLA
Introducing WOLA's Human Rights Award Month 2025
YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
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October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
1/ Trump officials reportedly told Congress the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” with “designated terrorist organizations.” Here’s why that’s wrong: the U.S. is not at war. 🧵
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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My org, @wola-org.bsky.social, has fought since the 1970s to stop US aid to Latin American forces that violate human rights. Through the Dirty War, Iran-Contra, Plan Colombia.

But now, US forces are cutting out the middleman: violating human rights directly in the region. It's a horrendous shift.
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says
U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
www.miamiherald.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🚨 🇵🇪 URGENTE: WOLA junta a @cejil.bsky.social y @dplf-info.bsky.social alertan sobre la grave #criminalización del sistema de justicia en #Perú.

El Congreso y el Ejecutivo buscan neutralizar cualquier control sobre legislación que vulnera DDHH. Lee la declaración. 👇
www.wola.org/es/2025/09/p...
Perú: Criminalización del sistema de justicia exige acción internacional urgente - WOLA
Washington, D.C., 18 de septiembre. – Las organizaciones internacionales de derechos humanos firmantes alertamos a la comunidad internacional acerca de...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🏆 ¡Tenemos el honor de anunciar que el senador
@timkaine
es el segundo galardonado con el Premio de Derechos Humanos de WOLA 2025!

A lo largo de su distinguida carrera, el senador Kaine ha sido un firme defensor de la democracia y de los #DerechosHumanos. 🌎 🇺🇸
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🏆 ¡Nos es un honor anunciar que hemos reconocido al senador Tim Kaine como ganador del Premio de Derechos Humanos de WOLA de este año! 🇺🇸

Un defensor incondicional de los valores democráticos y los #derechoshumanos frente al autoritarismo, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. 🌎 ⚖️
September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🏆 ¡Es un honor para nosotros reconocer a MOVIR
- Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen - con el Premio de Derechos Humanos de WOLA de este año! Durante más de tres años, han luchado por los detenidos y han defendido los valores democráticos en #ElSalvador. 🇸🇻

#DDHH #democracia
September 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM