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.

Latin America this week, that I know about, that can be attended in person in Washington or online anywhere.

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had 288 Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants in its custody. A vast majority, we now know, were not accused of committing crimes, and ...

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 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.

Update January 29, 2024: CBP has released final December 2023 data. Read an updated post with nine charts illustrating migration trends. (This number does not include approximately 50,000 more ...

I let an LLM crawl my personal database and surface key events, data points, and articles. The LLM provided me with an outline, which I then turned into prose. Guatemala took delivery on its first ...

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 ...

Here is one key point ahead of today’s House of Representatives debates and votes on War Powers Resolutions to stop the illegal boat strikes and to stop an unauthorized military attack on Venezuela.

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 ...