| Take Action to Stop the Violence in Mexico
You can be part of the solution for a more peaceful Mexico. Thousands across the world have joined an international campaign calling on the U.S. government to stem the flow of illegal weapons going across the border that fuel devastating violence.
Click here to tell President Obama to stop gun smuggling into Mexico and then "like" our new facebook page "Stop the Violence in Mexico."
Unprecedented Opposition to the U.S.-Colombia FTA
This year, LAWG’s Colombia team brought together a coalition of labor, faith-based, environmental, and human rights groups to build a national grassroots movement to oppose the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA). We are proud of the work that everyone involved did to generate debate about the problems with this trade deal and to convince many members of Congress to vote for human rights rather than corporate interests.
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UN Cuba Vote: Happy 20th Anniversary
Happy 20th Anniversary! Or maybe “un-happy” anniversary. On October 25th, for the 20th year in a row, the UN General Assembly has voted to condemn the United States’ 50-year-old economic embargo on Cuba. How did the votes turn out this year?
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Remember Me: Voices of the Silenced in Colombia
This summer and fall, LAWG brought the Colombian art exhibit Remember Me: Voices of the Silenced in Colombia to Seattle, Portland, and Washington, DC. The Remember Me art exhibit gives a deeply personal voice to the decades-long conflict in Colombia. Through testimonies and art, viewers experience the violence and loss that Colombians have endured—and witness their courage and persistence.
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Border Patrol Abuse Cruel and Widespread
After ten years of making a life for himself in the beach-front city of Santa Monica, California, Jorge Romero* was deported to Mexico, joining the ranks of nearly 400,000 other undocumented migrants removed from the United States this past fiscal year. Behind the record high number of deportations by the Obama Administration are stark, human stories of broken families and untold abuse suffered by those who attempt to return to their homes in the United States.
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International Campaign: Stop Arms Trafficking to Mexico
On the heels of an especially violent summer south of the border, well-known Mexican movie star Diego Luna came to Washington, D.C., not as an actor, but as an advocate for the growing international campaign Stop Gun Smuggling: 3 Things President Obama CAN Do. Luna strategized with LAWG and other advocacy organizations before meeting with policymakers to promote measures that could curb the flow of assault weapons from the United States into Mexico, saving thousands of Mexican lives, while making U.S. communities safer. Some estimates suggest that as many as 2,000 guns are smuggled across the U.S. border into Mexico every day, and in Diego’s own words, “These guns are behind the violence that has left thousands of families mourning.”
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New Publication: A Cautionary Tale: Plan Colombia's Lessons for Mexico and Beyond
While U.S. policymakers contemplate copying Plan Colombia’s strategy in Mexico, LAWGEF and our partners CIP and WOLA warn that we should learn from Plan Colombia's mistakes, not replicate them. In this new report, we draw human rights and strategic lessons from a dozen years of U.S. policy towards Colombia that are relevant for U.S. policy toward Mexico and beyond.
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Support Our Work
Here in DC we are continuing to push for travel for all Americans to Cuba, support for victims of violence and human rights defenders in U.S.-Colombia policy, and immigration and border policies that protect migrants and border communities. This coming year will bring with it new challenges for U.S. policy toward Latin America. To help us work together with you for just policies towards our Latin American neighbors, please click here to make a generous contribution today.
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