This is really just me sitting in a room talking into a microphone from time to time. The subject is Latin America, the region I've worked on for more than 20 years: its challenges—especially security and human rights challenges—and the United States' complicated relationship with it. This podcast accompanies my personal blog, and doesn't reflect the views of my employer, whose much better podcast is at https://www.wola.org/format/podcast/.
Relations between the United States and close ally Colombia have hit their roughest patch in years. It is being aggravated by disagreement over the FA...
April 25, 2017: The Trump White House came dangerously close to shutting down the U.S. government over funding for its proposed wall along the border ...
April 25, 2017: The Trump White House came dangerously close to shutting down the U.S. government over funding for its proposed wall along the border ...
April 6, 2017: Did you know that the U.S. government now has 107 programs that it can use to aid foreign militaries and police forces? Neither did I, ...
March 24, 2017: In this inaugural episode, I voice some gnawing concerns about whether, and how, Colombia is going to implement its peace accords. Thi...
March 24, 2017: In this inaugural episode, I voice some gnawing concerns about whether, and how, Colombia is going to implement its peace accords. Thi...