Accumulating accounts of cruel and possibly unlawful removals and detentions; “Reconciliation” mega-spending bill sails ...

Rarely considered a priority region for U.S. foreign policy, Latin America has come to the forefront during the first few ...

On April 6, the Comuneros del Sur—dissidents of the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) in ...

Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador; Notes on “mass deportation”; The U.S. military role; Notes from the ...

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has radically reoriented U.S. policy toward Latin America—upending decades of ...

On March 24, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order that imposes a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported into the ...

Adam Isacson has worked on defense, security, and peacebuilding in Latin America since 1994. He now directs WOLA’s Defense Oversight... With this series of weekly updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most ...

On the night of April 20, Nayib Bukele proposed a “humanitarian agreement” to Nicolás Maduro via X: the repatriation of 252 Venezuelan migrants—who had been expelled from the U.S. to El Salvador—to ...

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