WOLA Podcast
By Adam Isacson
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Podcast Description
News and analysis of politics, security, development and U.S. policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the Washington Office on Latin America.
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Launch of "Beyond the Border Buildup" | Audio from the launch of WOLA's new report on security and migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Featuring Adam Isacson and Maureen Meyer from WOLA and Jennifer Podkul of the Women's Refugee Commission. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bolivia and U.S. Drug Policy: a conversation with Kathryn Ledebur | Bolivia is criticized in a recent State Department counter-drug report, while the country seeks an exemption from an international ban on coca leaves. Adam talks with Kathryn Ledebur of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba, Bolivia. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 years after the collapse of Colombia's FARC peace process | Talks between Colombia's government and the FARC guerrillas fell apart ten years ago, on February 20, 2002. Adam talks with Marc Chernick of Georgetown University and Virginia Bouvier of the U.S. Institute of Peace about the failure of the last peace process and prospects for peace today. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A report back from Cuba: security, ongoing reforms, and U.S. policy | WOLA staffers Geoff Thale, George Withers and Clay Boggs just returned from a week-long trip to Cuba. They talk to Adam about the island's maritime cooperation with the United States, oil, economic reforms, U.S. policy and the Republican primary debates. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The U.S.-Mexico Border: A report from Arizona | Adam, WOLA Senior Associate Maureen Meyer, and Senior Fellow George Withers are on a research trip to the Arizona-Mexico border region. They talk about what they are learning about spillover violence, the security buildup, and consequences for migrants. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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State of Emergency in Peru: Jo-Marie Burt on the Cajamarca crisis | In response to protests against a large mining project, Peru's center-left government has declared a state of emergency. The situation, seen as a test for the new government, is at an impasse. Adam talks to WOLA Senior Fellow Jo-Marie Burt. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elections in Guatemala and Nicaragua: A conversation with Adriana Beltran and Maureen Meyer | On Sunday, Guatemalans elected retired Gen. Otto Pérez Molina to be their next president, while Nicaraguans re-elected Daniel Ortega. Adam talks about the result, and what might come next, with WOLA Senior Associates Adriana Beltrán and Maureen Meyer. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lecciones de la amnistía en Uruguay: Una conversación con Juan Raúl Ferreira | Geoff Thale, el director de programas de WOLA, conversa con Juan Raúl Ferreira, un periodista, escritor y activista uruguayo. Hablan de la experiencia de la amnistía que se otorgó a los militares en su país, y el esfuerzo de derogarla. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Migration and Border Security: Josiah Heyman on conditions in El Paso-Ciudad Juárez | Adam talks to Josiah Heyman, professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, about recent developments in U.S. border policy and their impact on migration and security in El Paso, Texas and the neighboring city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Timothy Dunn on Security and the Military on the U.S.-Mexico Border | WOLA Fellows George Withers and Lucila Santos have an animated conversation with Timothy Dunn, a professor at the University of Salisbury and expert on U.S. border security policy. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Protecting Mexican Guest Workers and Seeking a Saner Migration Policy: A conversation with Chuck Barrett | Adam and WOLA Senior Associate for Rights and Development Vicki Gass talk with Chuck Barrett, a consultant to Catholic Relief Services, about his work on rural development, migration, and protecting the rights of agricultural guest workers from Mexico. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turning Point in Bolivia: An update from Kathryn Ledebur of the Andean Information Network | On 9/25 the government of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, cracked down on indigenous protestors opposed to a highway project. Adam talks to Kathryn Ledebur of the Andean Information Network about the incident and its political fallout. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Politics and Security in Venezuela: A conversation with David Smilde | Adam talks with David Smilde of the University of Georgia about the political impact in Venezuela of Hugo Chávez's illness, public security concerns, and Venezuelan foreign policy. | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: Peru's New President, Press Freedom in Ecuador, U.S. Congress | Adam discusses challenges facing newly inaugurated President Ollanta Humala in Peru; Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's lawsuit against a newspaper; cuts in U.S. aid to Mexico and other ways that the U.S. Congress is affecting Latin America policy. | 7/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bolivia and the international drug control regime: a conversation with Martin Jelsma | Bolivia has denounced the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which bans the traditional practice of chewing coca leaf. Adam talks with Martin Jelsma, who coordinates the Drugs and Democracy Program at the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Report Back from Central America's Security Conference | WOLA Program Director Geoff Thale and Senior Associate Adriana Beltran were in Guatemala City, where Central America's presidents and international donors were discussinging responses to Central America's severe citizen security challenges. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: Free trade, drug reports, Hugo Chávez | Adam goes over the Colombia and Panama free-trade agreements currently stalled in Congress, UN and U.S. findings about cocaine production, and increasing uncertainty in Venezuela about Hugo Chávez's health. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: U.S. weapons in Mexico, Central America security conference, Bolivia coca | Adam looks at a new Senate report on U.S. weapons' illegal flow into violence-wracked Mexico, next week's citizen security conference of Central American governments and donor nations, and security and coca-growing developments in Bolivia. | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trends in Latin American military spending: a conversation with SIPRI's Carina Solmirano | South America's military budgets rose 5.8% in 2010, faster than any other region, says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's latest yearbook. Adam and WOLA Fellow Lucila Santos talk with Carina Solmirano of SIPRI about her findings. | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: Ollanta Humala, OAS Citizen Security, Mexico violence | Adam reviews Ollanta Humala's first moves as Peru's president-elect, the OAS General Assembly and upcoming Central American summit focused on citizen security, and trends in Mexico's violent organized crime. | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The OAS talks citizen security: Adriana Beltrán and Victoria Wigodsky in San Salvador | The OAS General Assembly is meeting right now in El Salvador, and this year's theme is citizen security. WOLA's senior associate for citizen security, Adriana Beltrán, is there. Adam talks to Adriana and Victoria Wigodsky of the Argentina-based CELS. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Humala wins: Coletta Youngers on Peru's presidential election result | Peruvians voted June 5. The results indicate that Ollanta Humala, a center-left candidate, will be the country's next president. Adam talks to WOLA Senior Fellow Coletta Youngers about what Humala's victory means for Peruvian politics and U.S. policy. | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: Peru elections, Colombia working group, Brazil forestry law | Adam looks at Peru's presidential vote, which is four days away; the "high level partnership dialogue" that has many Colombian diplomats visiting Washington; and a bill before Brazil's Congress that may make it easier to cut down the Amazon rainforest. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gustavo Gorriti on Peru's elections | The final round of Peru's hotly contested presidential election will take place on Sunday. Adam talks with renowned Peruvian investigative journalist Gustavo Gorriti, who runs the IDL Reporteros program in Lima, about what is at stake in the vote. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Citizen Security in Brazil: A conversation with Pedro Abramovay | Adam talks with Pedro Abramovay of the Rio de Janeiro-based Fundaçao Getúlio Vargas about the Rio goverment's ongoing effort to "pacify," or provide community police and social services to, the city's historically neglected and violent favelas. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: Zelaya's return, Colombia's Victims' Law, PDVSA Sanctions | Adam looks at the Cartagena Accord allowing deposed President Manuel Zelaya to return to Honduras, the Victims and Land Restitution Law that passed Colombia's Senate, and the impact of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's state oil company. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Changes in Cuba: A conversation with Congressman David Bonior, Geoff Thale and Ashley Morse | Congressman David Bonior, who represented Michigan between 1976 and 2002, took a trip to Cuba recently with WOLA Program Director Geoff Thale and Program Associate Ashley Morse. They share impressions of a nation undergoing significant economic change. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cuba's TV Serrana: Community Video in the Sierra Maestra | A conversation between WOLA Program Director Geoff Thale, Carlos Rodríguez of TV Serrana -- which has produced many documentaries about life in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains -- and Alex Halkin of the Americas Media Initiative-Cuba Media Project. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: Massacre in Guatemala, Peru elections, is Colombia in an armed conflict? | Adam discusses what we know about an apparent Zetas massacre of 27 people in Guatemala's Petén, the campaign for Peru's June 5 presidential runoff, and an argument between President Juan Manuel Santos and former President Álvaro Uribe. | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week Ahead: Changes at State Department, Ecuador Referendum, Mexico March | Adam discusses Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela's resignation, Ecuador's referendum results, and the anti-violence march in Mexico. | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A March for Peace in Mexico | Adam talks with WOLA Communications Coordinator Kristel Muciño, who is in the Zócalo in downtown Mexico City just as thousands of participants in a rather large and unprecedented march against violence are arriving. | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Security in Mexico: A conversation with Raúl Benítez Manaut of CASEDE | Adam talks with Raúl Benítez, who heads Mexico's Colectivo de Análisis de Seguridad con Democracia (CASEDE) think-tank, about the state of U.S.-Mexican security cooperation and the Mexican armed forces' role in public security. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Week: Colombia free trade "Action Plan," Walid Makled, violence in Mexico | Adam gives an update on the Colombian FTA debate, the extradition of a Venezuelan narcotrafficker from Colombia to Venezuela, another mass grave in Mexico, Uruguay's amnesty law, and Peru's elections. | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cynthia McClintock on Peru's elections | George Washington University Professor Cynthia McClintock, just back from a visit to Peru to observe the April 10 elections, talks about the vote that has left Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori contending in Peru's June presidential runoff. | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peru's April 10 elections: a conversation with Jo-Marie Burt | Peruvians will elect their next president on Sunday. Polls show a five-way race with little clarity about who might make it to a second-round runoff. Adam talks with WOLA Senior Fellow Jo-Marie Burt about the candidates and the issues concerning voters. | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The week: Elections in Haiti, Colombia's luxury military prison, Mexico's army and public security | Adam looks at the preliminary result of Haiti's election, revelations of plush conditions for Colombian military human rights abusers, and a UN human rights body's recommendation that Mexico take the armed forces out of internal security. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The week: Elections in Peru and elsewhere, Mexico border, and more | Adam looks at Peru's upcoming, and up-for-grabs elections; Washington's discussion of the Homeland Security and Pentagon role in Mexico border security; political violence in Colombia; and much else. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Agroecology and climate change: Francisco Fonseca of CEDECO | WOLA Rights and Development Senior Associate Vicki Gass talks with Francisco Fonseca of CEDECO, the Educational Corporation for Costa Rican Development, about his organization's work encouraging small farmers' adoption of sustainable methods. | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Argentina: a conversation with Gastón Chillier of CELS | Adam talks to Gastón Chillier, director of Argentina's Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), about the group's recent work on citizen security and the ongoing effort to hold human rights violators accountable in Argentina. | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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La visita del Presidente Obama a El Salvador | Adam habla con Geoff Thale, director de programas de la Oficina en Washington de Asuntos Latinoamericanos WOLA, sobre la visita del Presidente Barack Obama a El Salvador, programado para el 22 de marzo de 2011. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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President Obama Goes to El Salvador | Adam talks to WOLA Program Director Geoff Thale about the El Salvador leg (March 22) of President Obama's Latin America visit. This visit will include a moment of dramatic symbolism: a visit to the tomb of murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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President Obama's Visit to Latin America | President Barack Obama will be visiting Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador on March 19-23. WOLA's Adam Isacson, Joy Olson, Vicki Gass, John Walsh and Adriana Beltrán talk about what to expect as the President visits a rapidly changing region. | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 42 Episodes |
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