Human Rights Watch
Managing Director of the Americas Division at Human Rights Watch and author of Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala, 2003 winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Is Mexico's Military Out of Control? Mexico's drug cartels are so powerful that local and national police -- notorious for corruption -- have been replaced by Marines and soldiers. In the name of restoring law and order, they're doing what they've been trained to do, and killing has become more common than arrest and prosecution. Civilians are among the victims; the UN and human rights groups have expressed alarm, but two successive presidents claim there's no alternative to the armed forces. We hear about a growing constitutional crisis -- financed in part by American military assistance.
The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?
President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
Venezuela spirals into economic and political chaos Venezuela, a country whose potential for prosperity is unmatched, finds itself on the verge of civil war. What sustains the repressive government? With time running out, guest host León Krauze looks at what the international community can do to pull the country from the edge of collapse.