Latin America Today

"El camino duele, pero trae fortaleza": Un episodio especial por el Mes de la Mujer con Collette Spinetti, la primera secretaria de Estado trans del Uruguay

Mar 31, 2026

Por el Mes de la Mujer, estamos lanzando un episodio especial de Latin America Today con una conversación con Collette Spinetti — activista trans uruguaya, profesora de literatura y la primera mujer trans en ocupar un puesto de secretaria de Estado en Uruguay.

En este episodio, Collette conversa con Carolina Jiménez...

"Women, ‘las buscadoras’, have become a very strong reference for courage" | A Special Women's Month Conversation with Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez

Mar 26, 2026

For Women's Month, we're releasing a special episode of Latin America Today featuring a conversation with Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez — a Mexican human rights lawyer with over two decades of experience working on enforced disappearances, femicides, migrants' rights, and women's rights across Mexico and Central...

Oil and the Rule of Law in Venezuela

Mar 11, 2026

This episode assesses the “transition”—if that is the correct word—in Venezuela nine weeks after the January 3 U.S. military operation that extracted Nicolás Maduro. This conversation with Laura Dib, director of WOLA’s Venezuela program, and Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin American Energy Program at...

“It's So Seamlessly Blended into the Regular Economy That It's Hard to Pull Out”: Environmental Organized Crime, in Venezuela and Throughout the Americas

Mar 5, 2026

This episode features Mark Ungar, a professor of criminal justice and political science at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York. Ungar has written extensively on the rule of law, policing, and human rights in Latin America, and more recently has focused his research on environmental organized crime...