🚨 NEW REPORT: "Killing Spree: Extrajudicial Executions in the U.S. Boat Strike Campaign" is now live. Since September, U.S. military strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific have killed 221 people.
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🚨 NEW REPORT: Since September 2025, the U.S. military has killed 221 people in strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. 👇 wola.org/analysis/kil... 🧵
🚨 221 people. Killed in U.S. military strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific — many broadcast on social media, backed by a secret legal memo. This Friday, we're releasing "Killing Spree," the first full report on the U.S. boat strike campaign. More soon.
🚨 WOLA President @cjimenezdc.bsky.social 's new guest essay in @nytopinion.nytimes.com reflects on returning to Venezuela days before the country's devastating earthquakes. "This crisis is as much a tragedy of authoritarian rule as it is a tragedy of nature." 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
Opinion | I’m in Venezuela. Things Are Worse Than They Look.
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"The earthquakes have exposed the toll of years of corruption, institutional dismantling and the abandonment of Venezuelan citizens by their state," writes PWH Fellow and @wola-org.bsky.social President @cjimenezdc.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. Read here: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
Opinion | I’m in Venezuela. Things Are Worse Than They Look.
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🌈 The final installment is here! ✨ Our summer interns are closing out the series with the books, films, and series that move them most — all created by LGBTQ+ voices from across Latin America. 🏳️🌈 Check out their picks. 📚 🎥 📺
🎙️ New episode of our Pride Month series 🏳️🌈 Maureen Meyer talks with Braulio Abarca, exiled Nicaraguan activist, about defending LGBTIQ+ rights from exile. Watch the video with English subtitles 💪🇳🇮 🔗 youtu.be/Y4a1YR3rnGA #PrideMonth #Nicaragua #HumanRights
Derechos LGBTIQ+ en el exilio: una conversación con Braulio Abarca (with English subtitles)
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🎙️ Nuevo episodio de nuestra serie del Mes del Orgullo 🌈 Maureen Meyer conversa con Braulio Abarca, activista nicaragüense exiliado, sobre defender los derechos LGBTIQ+ desde el exilio. 🇳🇮👇 🔗 www.wola.org/es/multimedi... #OrgulloLGBTIQ #Nicaragua #DDHH
Derechos LGBTIQ+ en el exilio: una conversación con Braulio Abarca - WOLA
En este episodio de la serie del mes del Orgullo de Latin America Today, Maureen Meyer, vicepresidenta de Programas de WOLA, conversa con Braulio Abarca, activista LGBTIQ+ nicaragüense exiliado, defen...
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🌈 "Si los derechos son condicionales para un grupo, son condicionales para todos." 📄 Nuevo análisis de WOLA como parte de nuestra serie de orgullo sobre el manual global anti-derechos que se desarrolla en las Américas. 🔗 www.wola.org/analysis/the...
The Global Anti-Rights Agenda in Latin America - WOLA
Attacks on LGBTQ+ rights are not a side effect of rising new forms of authoritarianism, but the first step on the road to consolidating power. When governments set out to dismantle democratic norms, L...
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🚨 🌈 "If rights are conditional for one group, they are conditional for all." 📄 New WOLA analysis as part of our #pride series on the global anti-rights playbook playing out across the Americas — and why it matters for democracy everywhere. 👇 🔗 www.wola.org/analysis/the...
The Global Anti-Rights Agenda in Latin America - WOLA
Attacks on LGBTQ+ rights are not a side effect of rising new forms of authoritarianism, but the first step on the road to consolidating power. When governments set out to dismantle democratic norms, L...
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🚨 🇨🇴 WOLA joins 11 other organizations in denouncing the Trump administration's interference in Colombia's presidential election ahead of Sunday's runoff. We call on Congress to condemn this pattern and reaffirm U.S. commitment to non-intervention. 👇 www.lawg.org/wp-content/u...
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📣 One week to go! 🌈 Join us Wednesday, June 24 at 11am EDT for our webinar "LGBTIQ+ Journalism and the Fight Against Disinformation in Latin America." 🔎 The event will be in Spanish with English interpretation. Have you registered yet?✨ 🔗 www.wola.org/events/lgbti...
Our 2025 Annual Report is here. 📋 2025 was one of the hardest years in WOLA's 50+ year history — but our team showed up. 350+ media interviews. 1.2M website visitors. Congressional testimony. And so much more. Read the full report → www.wola.org/about-us/our... #HumanRights #LatinAmerica
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Discover WOLA's impact in defending human rights, U.S. foreign policy, the rule of law, democracy and much more.
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🌈 Part 3 is here! ✨ WOLA staff are sharing the books, films, and series that move them most — all created by LGBTQ+ voices from across Latin America. 🏳️🌈 Check out our picks. 📚 🎥 📺 🖼️
🇨🇴 🇺🇸 El respaldo de Trump a un candidato en Colombia rompe décadas de tradición diplomática entre ambos países. Nuestra directora para Los Andes, Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli, explica qué hay detrás — y qué significa para las relaciones bilaterales. 🔎 ➡️ razonpublica.com/las-eleccion...
Las elecciones colombianas en el tablero geopolítico de Washington
¿Qué intereses explican la decisión del gobierno estadounidense de involucrarse de manera tan explícita en las elecciones presidenciales colombianas?
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🇻🇪 The selection of Venezuela’s Supreme Court justices must be transparent, merit-based, and open to citizen participation. WOLA joins fellow organization to call for a process that strengthens judicial independence and the rule of law. ⚖️ 🔗 www.wola.org/2026/06/civi...
Civil organizations demand transparency and citizen participation in the election of Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice - WOLA
Caracas and Washington D.C., June 12, 2026.- The undersigned organizations express our concern regarding the process of partial renewal of justices of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the recent re...
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🚨 Our latest #BorderUpdate is out — Congress just handed ICE and CBP another $69.5 billion, with few conditions attached. 👇 wola.org/2026/06/u-s-mexico-border-update-billions-more-for-ice-and-cbp-detention-border-wall-construction-impacts-in-the-americas/
U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Billions more for ICE and CBP, detention, border wall construction, impacts in the Americas - WOLA
Congress approved, on a party-line vote, another $69.5 million in funding for ICE and CBP. Alarms about detention conditions intensify, as do concerns about the environmental impact of border wall con...
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🇨🇴 🗳️ Colombia's presidential runoff is June 21 — and the first round was full of surprises. WOLA's Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli breaks down what happened and what's at stake 👇 wola.org/analysis/five-outcomes-of-colombias-first-round-presidential-elections #Colombia #Elecciones2026
Five Outcomes of Colombia’s First Round Presidential Elections - WOLA
On May 31, Colombians voted in the first round of their presidential elections. Here are some of the main takeaways.
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It's Pride Month, and our staff is back with more picks. 🌈 Part 2 of our series is here — more books, films, and TV series created by LGBTIQ+ voices from across Latin America. Take a look. 🎬📚✨
🎙️ Nuestro episodio sobre las elecciones en Colombia ya está disponible con subtítulos en español. 🇨🇴 Primera vuelta, segunda vuelta del 21 de junio, y lo que está en juego — con Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli. ▶️ youtu.be/s6fMqR1gyn4 #Colombia #Elecciones2026
“The Two Candidates Could Not Be More Different”: Colombia’s presidential vote
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📢 Yesterday, WOLA staff met w/ Sen. @ChrisVanHollen to discuss the rising number of political prisoners in El Salvador, particularly the case of Ruth Lopez, a human rights defender unjustly detained for over a year who should be immediately & unconditionally released.
🚨 Over 200 people dead. 59 boat strikes since last September. And after nine months, drug supplies haven't moved. WOLA's Adam Isacson breaks it down. 🔎
🇨🇴 🎙️ Colombia's first-round presidential election yielded two finalists ahead of the June 21 runoff. WOLA's Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli joins Adam Isacson on Latin America Today to discuss the results and what to expect next. 👇 🔗 www.wola.org/multimedia/t...
"The Two Candidates Could Not Be More Different": Colombia's presidential vote - WOLA
Colombia's first-round presidential election yielded two finalists for the June 21 runoff who present starkly different visions for the country's future.
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⚖️🇸🇻 WOLA stood in solidarity at the US Capitol yesterday, demanding the release of Ruth López. WOLA President Carolina Jiménez Sandoval addressed the crowd, calling for justice for Ruth and for all those arbitrarily detained in #ElSalvador.
🌈 It's Pride Month, and our staff is sharing the art that moves them most. From novels to films to TV series — these are the books, stories, and screens that have stayed with them, all created by LGBTIQ+ voices from across Latin America.
🏳️🌈 Feliz Mes del Orgullo de parte de WOLA. En toda América Latina y el Caribe, las comunidades LGBTQ+ siguen manifestándose, alzando la voz y luchando por sus vidas y su dignidad cada día. Es un honor para nosotros estar a su lado. Estén atentos este mes para más información. 🌈
🇧🇷 THIS THURSDAY | Polarized Elections in Brazil: Challenges for the Congress Join us for a public conversation with Brazilian members of Congress on polarization & the road to 2026. 📅 June 4 | 5 PM | WOLA Office, DC RSVP 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride from WOLA. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, LGBTQ+ communities continue to show up, speak out, and fight for their lives and dignity every single day. We are honored to stand alongside them. Stay tuned this month for more. 🌈 #Pride2026 #LGBTQRights
Gimena Sánchez Garzoli warns that attacks on Afro-descendant and Indigenous rights are being pushed globally through U.S. policy, funding cuts, and pressure on Latin America. Full Africa Today interview at kpfa.org #KPFA #africatoday #humanrights @wola-org.bsky.social
🚨 🇨🇴 Urgent Updates on Colombia are now available. Latest on violence, displacement, and attacks on defenders. Read the full update. 👇 wola.org/2026/01/colo... #Colombia #HumanRights
Colombia: Urgent Updates - WOLA
On this page, you’ll find the latest updates on Colombia and the current security situation as of March 2025. WOLA closely monitors the situation in collaboration with communities and partners, and we...
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