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Latin America Today

May 31, 2011

The final round of Peru's hotly contested presidential election will take place on Sunday. Adam talks with renowned Peruvian investigative journalist Gustavo Gorriti, who runs the IDL Reporteros program in Lima, about what is at stake in the vote.


May 27, 2011

Adam talks with Pedro Abramovay of the Rio de Janeiro-based Fundaçao Getúlio Vargas about the Rio goverment's ongoing effort to "pacify," or provide community police and social services to, the city's historically neglected and violent favelas.


May 26, 2011

Adam looks at the Cartagena Accord allowing deposed President Manuel Zelaya to return to Honduras, the Victims and Land Restitution Law that passed Colombia's Senate, and the impact of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's state oil company.


May 26, 2011

Congressman David Bonior, who represented Michigan between 1976 and 2002, took a trip to Cuba recently with WOLA Program Director Geoff Thale and Program Associate Ashley Morse. They share impressions of a nation undergoing significant economic change.


May 26, 2011

A conversation between WOLA Program Director Geoff Thale, Carlos Rodríguez of TV Serrana -- which has produced many documentaries about life in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains -- and Alex Halkin of the Americas Media Initiative-Cuba Media Project.