Venezuelan Humanitarian Accord Widened to Include COVID-19 Vaccine
Agreement Will Require UN Oversight and Humanitarian Supervision Washington, DC—On February 11,...
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Category: WOLA Statement
Statements
New Effort to Advance TPS for Venezuelans Highlights Gaps in the Hemisphere’s Response
On January 25, 2021, a group of U.S. Senators led by incoming Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced a bill to designate Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which would grant temporary legal status to Venezuelans fleeing a devastating political and humanitarian crisis in their home country.
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Video: Venezuela Urgently Needs to Ramp Up Humanitarian Assistance
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.
Read MoreWOLA Statement: Attempted Takeover of Venezuela’s National Assembly Leadership is Illegitimate
Today, lawmakers belonging to Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), alongside minority opposition factions, proclaimed a new president of the National Assembly. Their announcement was made as security...
Read MorePoll: For a Peaceful, Electoral, Democratic and Sovereign Solution for Venezuela
Friends of WOLA Rafael Uzcategui and Verónica Zubillaga put together a poll for Venezuelans to express their support for a peaceful, democratic resolution of Venezuela’s conflict. It is still open for signatures until...
Read MoreA Peaceful, Democratic Solution to Venezuela’s Crisis Requires Fact-based Analysis and Advocacy: A Response to the ‘Open Letter to WOLA’
In our 45-year history, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has built a long trajectory of criticizing both U.S. military intervention and violations of democracy and human rights in our hemisphere. In the case of...
Read MoreWOLA Denounces Further Breakdown of Rule of Law and Democratic Institutions in Venezuela
WOLA released the following statement on the latest events in Venezuela on July 7. The Spanish version is available here. Washington, DC—On July 5, a group of armed supporters of the Venezuelan government attacked opposition...
Read MoreWOLA Statement: Hemisphere Must Reject Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly and Support an Electoral Resolution to the Crisis
As the Organization of American States (OAS) prepares for a June 19 meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Venezuela, WOLA has released the following statement urging the countries of the hemisphere to reject...
Read MoreA Constituent Assembly in Venezuela is No Substitute for Elections: WOLA Calls on Venezuela to Announce Electoral Timetable
In response to unfolding events in Venezuela, WOLA issued the following statement: Washington, DC—On May 3, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro presented electoral officials with plans to create a National Constituent Assembly,...
Read MoreWOLA Joins International Calls for Respect of Non-Violent Protest in Venezuela
Ahead of today’s protests in Venezuela, WOLA issued the following statement: Washington, D.C.—In a few hours, both the Venezuelan opposition and the ruling party are slated to hold demonstrations in Caracas and around the...
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Venezuela Program
Geoff Ramsey
Director for Venezuela @GRamsey_LatAm
David Smilde
WOLA Senior Fellow and the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University
@dsmilde