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Dear John,
With Mexico’s presidential elections only 4 months away, and as the country’s first female presidency looks all but guaranteed, this week I published a listicle about key issues to watch in the electoral season, which takes place amid attempts by President López Obrador to weaken democratic checks and balances. WOLA highlights three areas of particular concern: electoral violence, human rights including women’s rights, and a package of proposed constitutional reforms which are likely to include attempts to weaken the judiciary and increase militarization, a topic I have researched extensively.
This week was also Mexico’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council. WOLA joined over 300 organizations in presenting information on the human rights situation in Mexico. All this and more in this week’s WOLA Weekly, Best, |
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Stephanie Brewer Director for Mexico |
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🇲🇽 WOLA joined several Mexican civil society organizations to issue a joint statement calling to ensure access to human rights for refugees. This statement is in Spanish.
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🇺🇸🇲🇽 As we approach 2024 elections in the U.S., this week's episode on Latin America Today, discusses regional migration trends.
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In April 2022, WOLA launched its one-of-a-kind Border Oversight Database, which documents hundreds of reports of human rights violations and abuses against migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. |
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"What we see is that as countries look for ways to reduce the impacts of organized crime and violence, the profit that this activity brings to criminal groups makes it more difficult. There is no magic wand to end this problem because, sadly, they are entrenched, both in the communities and in the institutions. But if we continue with this model of failed prohibition - because in reality it doesn't stop anything, but brings gigantic profits to organized crime - it deepens the problem." (
Interview in Spanish) John Walsh, Director for Drug Policy and the Andes – El Universo, John Walsh, de WOLA: Concederles a los delincuentes el estatus de grupos no estatales beligerantes es darles una estatura que no merecen
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| “In decades of failed negotiations between Colombian governments and the National Liberation Army (ELN), no government has advanced agreements as far as the Petro administration.” Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, Director for the Andes
– Latin America Advisor, Is Colombia’s Petro Getting Closer to ‘Total Peace’?
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🇨🇴 On January 21, 2024, IGUALADA, a documentary highlighting the life and career trajectory of Francia Márquez, Vice President of Colombia and long-time WOLA partner, premiered at Sundance Film Festival. |
🇨🇱 Check out this Oscar nominated film,
The Eternal Memory, that tells the story of journalist, Augusto Góngora, known for his reporting under the Pinochet dictatorship, his relationship with actress Paulina Urrutia and their battle with Alzheimer's. |
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