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September 7, 2023

Latin America Studies Program
Latin America This Week: September 7, 2023

Petro’s latest scandal could reenergize Colombia’s lackluster conservative opposition; foreign direct investment in Latin America defies global downturn.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro attends event with the Colombian government's peace negotiators and members of the ELN.

October 6, 2023

Venezuela
Maduro Regime To Accept Venezuelans Returned Home: Why Now?

The Biden administration has announced that the Maduro regime will henceforth accept the return of Venezuelans deported from the United States. Will sanctions relief will soon follow?

October 16, 2023

Guatemala
Guatemala's Protests Go National, Plus Meddling Ex-Presidents and a Thaw in U.S.-Venezuela Relations

Guatemala’s protest movement goes national; Latin America’s meddlesome ex-presidents; U.S. border crisis and geopolitical turmoil are taking the pressure off Maduro.

Guatemalan demonstrators participate in anti-corruption protest

February 29, 2024

Immigration and Migration
Responding to Immigration Influx in the United States

Theresa Cardinal Brown, senior advisor of immigration and border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, discusses prospects for reforms to U.S. immigration policy and how state and local officials c…

Play U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility in Brownsville, TX.

April 21, 2022

Health
A Conversation With Secretary Xavier Becerra

Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra discusses the agency’s global footprint, including how COVID-19 exposed systemic disparities in healthcare at home and abroad, plans to prepare f…

Play Woman gets covid-19 vaccine

August 27, 2023

Venezuela
Venezuela: U.S. Policy, U.S. Sanctions, and Humiliation by Maduro Regime

While the Biden administration says it will maintain sanctions on the Maduro regime unless there is progress toward free elections, there is progress instead toward lifting sanctions while repression…

August 4, 2023

Venezuela
Chevron, the Biden Administration, and the Maduro Regime

Concessions to the Maduro regime in Venezuela have permitted Chevron to produce more oil there, but have brought only more repression.