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The recent campaigns of stigmatization, harassment, and repression against the media in Venezuela constitute a clear attack against the freedoms of expression and of access to information and infringe upon the important contributions by these organizations
In the first full episode of The Venezuela Briefing, Geoff Ramsey and Kristen Martinez-Gugerli interview Feliciano Reyna, founder and executive president of Acción Solidaria, a Venezuelan humanitarian organization founded in 1995 to address the needs of those with HIV/AIDS.
oday, WOLA is launching a new podcast entitled The Venezuela Briefing to explore various aspects of Venezuela’s political, humanitarian, and migratory crises, and the prospects for change. In this teaser episode hosts WOLA Director for Venezuela Geoff Ramsey and Venezuela Program Assistant Kristen Martinez-Gugerli introduce themselves and The Venezuela Briefing to new listeners.
A new report published by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) finds that, while Venezuela’s economic crisis began before the first U.S. sectoral sanctions were imposed in 2017, these measures “directly contributed to its deep decline, and to the further...
On Saturday, October 10, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) joined with 27 Venezuelan and regional civil society organizations in calling on the U.S. government to reiterate its commitment to a peaceful, democratic solution in Venezuela, and to refrain from any policies that aggravate the humanitarian emergency.
Today, WOLA and the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) had the pleasure of partnering with the Dialogo Social coalition to promote a half-day forum connecting Venezuelan civil society actors with members of the international community. Speakers included...
In Venezuela, a country that for years has been grappling with widespread shortages of food, medicine, and essential goods, the COVID-19 pandemic is aggravating an already dire humanitarian emergency. By some estimates, Venezuela has just 8 hospital beds per 100,000 people.
Saturday, July 25 marks one full year since the Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 passed in the U.S. with bipartisan support. The Senate version of the bill has been stalled in the Senate ever since it narrowly failed to pass by unanimous vote shortly thereafter.
On June 30, we had the pleasure of collaborating with Refugees International and Women’s Link Worldwide to host a panel on the human trafficking of Venezuelan migrants throughout the region.
On May 15, more than 150 organizations and individuals across Venezuelan civil society issued this statement (translation below, see the original here) in response to recent events and the country's deepening crisis, calling for an urgent embrace of nonviolent,...
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