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.
Read Moreoday, 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.
Read MoreOn July 23, NPR posted an excerpt of a nice conversation I had with John Otis on the difficult...
Read MoreIn the latest WOLA Podcast, WOLA’s Adam Isacson interviews Geoff Ramsey and David Smilde on the current state of play in Carcas and Washington.This situation report covers a lot of ground. Ramsey and Smilde explain the...
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This morning I had the pleasure of moderating an engaging discussion on U.S. sanctions strategy...
Read MoreToday, WOLA and the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) had the pleasure of partnering...
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreOn 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.
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