This has been in the news lately, so I scoured my database for recent information about a U.S. facility that reopened in Panama in 2025 ...

Warning: I am absolutely not WOLA’s lead analyst on Venezuela; our Venezuela program is led by my colleague Laura Dib, and our president, Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, is a Venezuelan citizen and a top ...

A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on September 7, covering harms done by Trump-era U.S.-Mexico border wall construction, includes the only number I’ve seen of the total ...

Here is what I’ve seen about the U.S. military presence at the Ecuadorian Air Force’s base at Taura, in Guayas province, about 45 minutes from Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city.

Since October, there have been seven votes on six resolutions, in both houses of Congress, seeking to prevent the Trump administration from deploying U.S. troops into hostilities in Latin America ...

The U.S. government’s 2023 fiscal year ended on September 30. Here’s a comparison of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, by migrants’ nationalities, over the past three fiscal years.

tl;dr: This piece doesn’t make a human rights argument about asylum access, though it does acknowledge cruelty and human cost. Instead, the argument here is cold, analytical, and practical: the past ...

The list below is an excerpt from tomorrow’s Border Update, which I’m still drafting. But it deserves to be shared separately. But even though none committed any crimes in El Salvador, the government ...

The lethal, illegal boat strikes are back, after a 63-day hiatus following the Venezuela earthquakes. Strikes are back despite overwhelming evidence that they are murder; that many, likely most, of ...

(This is an experiment: I let an LLM crawl my personal database and surface key events, data points, and articles. The LLM gave me a list of events and supporting information, which I treated as a ...

U.S. military personnel are actively participating in operations in Ecuador, one of the most advanced parts of the Trump administration’s new “joint operations” framework for Latin America military ...

The State Department’s International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement Bureau is all-in on using drones to eradicate coca in Colombia. Sure, spraying herbicides directly over the plants would do ...