(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

• 2:30 in room 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues on The National Security Strategy and the Western Hemisphere.
• 3:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Colombia’s government transition and the priorities ahead (RSVP required).

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

• 12:00 in room H-313 of the Capitol and online: Hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Human Rights in Venezuela: Status and Opportunity.
• 2:00 in room 2200 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on A New Beginning for Colombia.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

• 10:00 at thedialogue.org: Mexico’s Evolving Public Health Agenda—Lessons from Cancer and Cardiovascular Health (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown Americas Institute Zoom: The Making of Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Transformation (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, June 30

• 5:30am on #AguantaUcrania social media accounts: Standing Up for International Law & HR: LAmerica, Europe and the invasion of Ukraine
• 10:00-11:00 at acleddata.com: How will Colombia’s election reshape security ties with Venezuela? (RSVP required).
• 7:00-9:00 at Busboys & Poets K Street: What’s Hidden Behind the Headlines of U.S. Charges Against Raúl Castro (RSVP required).

Wednesday, July 1

• 11:00 at Pan-American Strategic Advisors and the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Zoom: The 200th Anniversary of the Congress of Panama & the State of Inter-American Cooperation (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, June 22

• 9:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Colombia’s new government and the road ahead (RSVP required).
• 11:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: The Americas together: Confronting shared challenges, building shared prosperity (RSVP required).

Tuesday, June 23

• 4:00 at Georgetown Americas Institute Zoom: The State of Democracy in Colombia (RSVP required).

Wednesday, June 24

• 11:00 at WOLA Zoom: LGBTIQ+ Journalism and the Fight Against Disinformation in Latin America (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Beyond Our Shores: The Global Reach of Mexican Drug Cartels and Risks to U.S. National Security.

Thursday, June 25

• 10:00 in Room 2358-C Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Appropriations Committee on Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
• 2:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: What comes next for Peru in 2026? (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommitee on Oversight on False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center.

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Wednesday, June 17

• 9:00-2:30 at CSIS and online: Border Security and Defense Cooperation in North America: Addressing Emerging Challenges (RSVP required).
• 10:00 at thedialogue.org: Charting Peru’s Democratic Path Forward (RSVP required).
• 10:00 at Austin Kocher Zoom: Why is Congress Giving Stephen Miller Another $70 Billion? (RSVP required).
• 10:00 in Room 116, Capitol Building: Senate Foreign Relations Committee markup of several bills, including some relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thursday, June 18

• 10:30 in Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Nominations hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including three posts relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean.

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, June 9

• 9:00-10:15 at Canning House Zoom: Election Analysis Webinar: Peru (RSVP required).
• 9:30 in Room 2154 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Oversight Committee Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses on Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy.
• 10:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Cuba’s Next Chapter (RSVP required).
• 11:00 in Room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building and online: House Appropriations Committee Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Homeland Security Bill.
• 1:00 at Austin Kocher’s Zoom: Rethinking Interior Immigration Enforcement w/ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick & Nayna Gupta (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown Americas Institute Zoom: The State of Democracy in Peru (RSVP required).

Wednesday, June 10

• 9:00-2:15 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Twelfth Annual Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border Conference (RSVP required).
• 10:00 in Room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building and online: House Appropriations Committee Continued Consideration of the Full Committee Markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 Homeland Security Bill.

Thursday, June 11

• 2:00-3:00 at heritage.org: Finding the Unaccompanied Children the Biden Administration Lost (RSVP required).

Friday, June 12

• 9:00 online: ¿Cómo se llegó a la aplicación de la Jurisdicción Universal para Venezuela? (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, June 1

• 11:00 at Stimson Center Zoom: Colombia elections: first round post mortem; second round preview (RSVP required).

Tuesday, June 2

• 10:00 in Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Review of the FY27 State Department Budget Request.
• 10:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Strengthening Caribbean infrastructure for hurricane readiness (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs on Department of State and Related Programs.
• 2:00 in Room 138 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security.
• 2:00-3:00 at the Brookings Institution and online: War at arm’s length: How America can build effective partners through military assistance (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:15 at Georgetown Zoom: GEO-LAC: The EU–Mercosur Agreement Enters into Force (RSVP required).

Wednesday, June 3

• 10:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Department of State FY 2027 Budget Request: A Commitment to America First Foreign Policy.
• 10:00-1:00 in Room 310 Cannon House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for DHS.
• 3:00 in Room 138 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of State.

Thursday, June 4

• 9:30-6:00 at brookings.edu: Reimagining education systems through collaborative research and action: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).
• 10:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on Confronting the Totalitarian Ortega-Murillo Regime.

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, May 26

• 10:00 at crisisgroup.org: El saqueo de la selva: Oro, minerales críticos y crimen en la Amazonía (RSVP required).
• 10:00-11:15 at brookings.edu: High wire: The Sheinbaum administration and the future of US-Mexico relations (RSVP required).

Wednesday, May 27

• 1:00-2:00 at quincyinst.org: Colombia’s 2026 Presidential Elections: Implications for US Policy (RSVP required).

Friday, May 29

• 10:00-11:30 at CSIS and online: Nicaragua Under Repression: Human Rights, Accountability, and Exile (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, May 19

• 8:00 in Room SD-342 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Business Meeting of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Reconciliation recommendations to the Budget Committee.

Wednesday, May 20

• 12:15 at the Atlantic Council and online: Senator Bernie Moreno on Colombia’s 2026 elections (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on Confronting the Totalitarian Ortega-Murillo Regime.

Thursday, May 21

• 1:00 online: Event with Control Arms, Global Exchange, Stop US Arms to Mexico, and the Forum on the Arms Trade on Implications of the IACHR Advisory Opinion on “The Responsibility of States in the Field of Human Rights with regard to the Illegal Trafficking of Firearms” (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, May 11

• 12:00-1:15 at the Stimson Center and online: The Future of the Panama Canal: Climate Resilience and Strategic Competition (RSVP required).

Tuesday, May 12

• 8:00-9:00 pm at Amnesty USA Zoom: The Press Under Threat: Protecting Journalism and the Public’s Right to Know (RSVP required).

Wednesday, May 13

• 10:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building: Committee on Foreign Affairs Markup of Various Measures.
• 1:00 at American Immigration Council Zoom: Restoring Credibility and Humanity: A New Framework for Immigration Enforcement (RSVP required).

Thursday, May 14

• 8:30 am at the Atlantic Council and online: Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on security in the Western Hemisphere (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, April 28

• 10:00 in Room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building and online: House Appropriations Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2027 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Bill.
• 1:00 at Colegio de México YouTube: Conversando con Marcela Figueroa sobre los desaparecidos y las cifras
• 3:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Reporters at risk: What the future holds for the press in Venezuela after Maduro (RSVP required).

Wednesday, April 29

• 10:00 at thedialogue.org: Brazil’s Digital Governance Moment (RSVP required).

Thursday, April 30

• 3:30 at the Atlantic Council and online: Senators Bernie Moreno and Ruben Gallego on Colombia’s 2026 elections (RSVP required).

Friday, May 1

• 10:00-11:30 at George Washington University: 10 Years Since the Historic Peace Deal with the FARC: Colombia’s Fight for Peace (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, April 20

• 12:00 online: ¿Cómo está cambiando el espacio cívico? (RSVP required).
• 6:30-8:30pm at WOLA: Building Bridges: Garifuna & Afro-Latino Leaders Engaging U.S. Congress (RSVP required).

Tuesday, April 21

• 9:00-10:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Building Panama’s innovation economy through AI and science (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:00 at Georgetown University: A Conversation with Esteban Moctezuma, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States (RSVP required).
• 5:30-6:30 at George Washington University: Engaging America: Ambassadorial Perspectives on Public Diplomacy with the Ambassador of the Republic of Guyana (RSVP required).
• 5:30-7:30 at Mercy University Zoom: Untangling the Messy Politics of Immigration Data with Austin Kocher, Syracuse University

Thursday, April 23

• 8:00 in Room H-140 Capitol and online: House Appropriations Subcommittee Markup of Fiscal Year 2027 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Bill.
• 12:30-1:30 at Georgetown University: Mobilizing Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities and Policy Priorities (RSVP required).
• 6:30-8:30pm at WOLA and online: Music for an Ancestral Future-Música para un futuro ancestral (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, April 14

• 4:00-5:30 at Georgetown University: Book Launch: “Venal Origins of Development in Spanish America” by Jenny Guardado (RSVP required).

Wednesday, April 15

• 12:00-1:00 at George Washington University: Police, Private Police, and “Patitos”: The Market for Security in Mexico City (RSVP required).
• 5:00-6:00 at Georgetown University: Hemispheric Security, Diplomacy, and Economic Cooperation (RSVP required).

Thursday, April 16

• 10:00 in Room 2362-A Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee on Budget of Department of Homeland Security: CBP, ICE, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
• 2:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Latin America After the Fall of Maduro.
• 2:00 in Room 1334 Longworth House Office Building and online: Hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on The State of Exception in El Salvador: Year Five.
• 6:00-8:30 at NYU Zoom 2026 Professor Emeritus Christopher Mitchell Distinguished Lecture: The Pursuit of Justice in Post-Genocide Guatemala (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, April 6

• 10:00-3:30 at Johns Hopkins SAIS: Cyber and Emerging Technology in Latin America (RSVP required).

Tuesday, April 7

• 12:00 at CEDA Zoom: Today in Cuba: A Ground-Level Perspective from Cuban Entrepreneurs (RSVP required).
• 1:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Argentina’s turning point: Accelerating economic takeoff (RSVP required).

Wednesday, April 8

• 12:00-1:30 at George Washington University: Film Discussion: Spring of the Vanishing (RSVP required).

Thursday, April 9

• 8:30-7:00 at Johns Hopkins SAIS: 8th Annual Security Challenges in Latin America Forum: Politics and Violence in a Shifting Hemisphere (RSVP required).

Friday, April 10

• 12:00-1:00 at George Washington University: Untangling the Messy Politics of Immigration Data (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, March 30

• 3:00-5:00 at ips-dc.org: Current Challenges in The Fight to Stop Mining in El Salvador (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: Can Mexico’s Drug Cartels be Defeated? (RSVP required).
• 4:30 at Austin Kocher Zoom: Family Separation by Design: Understanding ICE’s Systemic Failures and Building Systems for International Reunification (RSVP required).

Thursday, April 2

• 2:00-3:00 at quincyinst.org: What is the New Paradigm of US-Venezuela Relations Post-Maduro? (RSVP required).

Friday, April 3

• 12:00-1:30 at ips-dc.org: Trump’s Mineral Grab (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, March 23

• 5:30-7:00 at George Washington University: Cuba in the 21st century: “stuck in the past?” Two Decades of Political and Economic Change (RSVP required).
• 7:00 at CISPES Zoom: Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration from the U.S. to El Salvador (RSVP required).

Tuesday, March 24

• 9:00-12:30 at Georgetown Americas Institute: Colombia’s Next President: What Comes After the Vote? (RSVP required).
• 10:30 in Room SD-419 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Arms Control and Transforming International Security Functions at the State Department.
• 2:00-3:15 at the Brookings Institution and online: US strategy in a turbulent world (RSVP required).

Wednesday, March 25

• 10:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Securing the Future: Arms Control and International Security for the Modern Age.
• 10:00-11:00 at Georgetown University Zoom: When the Hegemon Goes Rogue: How to Adapt to Washington’s Belligerent Foreign Policy (RSVP required).
• 12:00 at Fund for Investigative Journalism Zoom: Finding and Using Public Records to Cover Immigration Enforcement (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:00 at George Washington University: Our Life is Punk: Policing Youth Culture Under the Brazilian Dictatorship, 1978-82 (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 26

• 10:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Still watching: How Venezuela deploys surveillance to maintain political control (RSVP required).
• 11:30-2:00 at Johns Hopkins SAIS and online: Iniciativas Emergentes De La Oea Y Estándares De Naciones Unidas: Sinergias para los Derechos de las Personas y Pueblos Afrodescendientes (RSVP required).
• 12:00 at Columbia University Zoom: Democracy, Civil Society, and Political Futures (RSVP required).
• 1:00-2:00 at Young Center online: Family Separation on Our Street Corners: The Young Center’s Real-Time Response (RSVP required).
• 2:00 at Drug Policy Alliance Zoom: Effective Strategies to Combat Rising Authoritarianism (RSVP required).

Friday, March 27

• 11:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on Latin America After the Fall of Maduro.

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, March 17

• 10:00 in Room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on U.S. Military Posture & National Security Challenges in the Western Hemisphere.
• 10:00 in Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Commitee on Reforming America’s Defense Sales.
• 2:00 in Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Foreign Assistance: Lessons Learned and Charting a Path Forward.

Wednesday, March 18

• 9:30 in Room SD-342 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Nomination of the Honorable Markwayne Mullin to be Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
• 2:00 in Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight on The Legal Basis for Action Against Venezuelan Drug Traffickers.
• 4:30-6:00 at AEI and online: Inside America’s Opioid Crisis: A Book Event (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 19

• 9:30 in Room SD-G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee To receive testimony on the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the Future Years Defense Program.
• 11:30 at Red TDT Zoom: Nueva Estrategia de Seguridad de EEUU: Reflexiones y Propuestas Desde Latinoamérica y el Caribe (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:00 at WOLA Zoom: Denouncing Into the Void: The Dismantling of Internal Oversight and Accountability at DHS (RSVP required).
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Friday, March 20

• 2:00-3:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: The fight for influence in Venezuela against Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, March 2

• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: Political and Economic Outlook of Peru (RSVP required).

Tuesday, March 3

• 9:00 in Room 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
• 9:00-12:15 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: From Production to Consumption: Japan–Latin America Cooperation in Food and Agriculture (RSVP required).
• 5:00-6:00 at Georgetown Americas Institute Zoom: The Rise of Organized Crime and Political Realignment in Latin America (RSVP required).

Wednesday, March 4

• 9:30-12:00 at the Brookings Institution and online: USMCA Forward 2026 launch (RSVP required).
• 10:00 in Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
• 2:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Investing in health for economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, February 23

• 9:15-11:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: Money, Migration, & Markets: Remittance Trends Between the U.S. and Venezuela (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 24

• 3:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Unlocking new opportunities in US-Guatemala trade and investment (RSVP required).
• 6:00-7:30 at American University: Venezuela at the Crossroads (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 25

• 2:00 at Hope Border Institute Zoom: Cruelty as Policy: Migration and Human Experience on the U.S.-Mexico Border Under Trump (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 26

• 9:30 in Room SD-G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee To consider the nominations of: Mr. Mark R. Ditlevson to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs; and Honorable Brian D. Birdwell to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment.

Friday, February 27

• 11:00-12:15 at thedialogue.org: Mexico’s Electoral Reform-What’s at Stake (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, February 17

• 1:00 at Austin Kocher’s Zoom: Investigating Immigrant Detention: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan of The Washington Post (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 18

• 10:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Venezuela’s public opinion in the post-Maduro era (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 19

• 12:00 at Columbia University Zoom: Venezuela: Migration and Humanitarian Dimensions (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, February 10

• 10:00-1:00 in Room 310 Cannon House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS.
• 2:00 in Room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe on Weaponized Mass Migration: A Security Risk to Europe and the United States.
• 2:30 in Room 138 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on Haiti 2026: Security and Foreign Assistance Priorities.

Wednesday, February 11

• 10:00 in Room 2362-A Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Appropriations Committee on Potential DHS Shutdown Impacts.

Thursday, February 12

• 10:00 in Room 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Evaluating North American Competitiveness.
• 11:00 at stimson.org: After Caracas: A New U.S. Posture in the Americas and What It Means for China and Russia (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Wednesday, January 21

• 10:00-11:00 at CSIS and online: Examining Major Elements Driving Investment Uncertainty in the 2026 USMCA Review (RSVP required).
• 1:30 at HOPE and CMS Zoom: Catholic IMMpact: Catholic Immigrant Prophetic Action Project (RSVP required).

Thursday, January 22

• 10:00 at Room 310 Cannon House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement on Smarter Borders, Safer Nation: Expanding the Use of Non-Intrusive Inspection Technology.
• 3:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: What to know about the oil sector in post-Maduro Venezuela (RSVP required).

Friday, January 23

• 11:30-1:00 at George Washington University: Latin American Development Options in a Fractured Global Order (RSVP required).
• 12:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: The future of US strategic investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, January 12

• 10:00-11:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: 2026 in the Americas: Stories that may drive the news (RSVP required).

Tuesday, January 13

• 10:00 in Room 2167 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation on Drugs, Thugs, and Fish: Examining Coast Guard Law Enforcement Effort.
• 10:00-11:00 at csis.org: The Donroe Doctrine: What Venezuela Means for China, Russia, and Iran | The State of Play (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:00 at perryworldhouse.upenn.edu: Venezuela and U.S. Policy After Maduro (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:00 at gwu.edu: Venezuela After Maduro: Power, Politics, and the Path Forward (RSVP required).
• 1:00 at migrationpolicy.org: Beyond “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Actions in the First Year under Trump 2.0 (RSVP required).
• 2:30-4:00 at the Brookings Institution and Online: Assessing US immigration policy in the second Trump administration (RSVP required).

Wednesday, January 14

• 9:30-10:45 at thedialogue.org: 2026 Outlook-Ten Political Risks for Mexico (RSVP required).
• 12:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: The future of EU-Mercosur trade (RSVP required).

Thursday, January 15

• 9:30 in Room SD-G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee To consider the nominations of: Lieutenant General Francis L. Donovan, USMC to be general and Commander, United States Southern Command; and Lieutenant General Joshua M. Rudd, USA to be general and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service/Commander, United States Cyber Command.

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, December 1

• 2:00-3:00 at IPS Zoom: International Leaders Speak on Protecting Clean Water in El Salvador (RSVP required).
• 4:30-6:00 at AEI and aei.org: US Asylum Policy: Defend It, End It, or Mend It? (RSVP required).

Tuesday, December 2

• 9:00-10:30 at IACHR Zoom: Women Human Rights Defenders: Safeguarding Democracy, Peace, and the Rule of Law (RSVP required).
• 9:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: What to know after Hondurans cast their vote (RSVP required).
• 10:00 at International Crisis Group Zoom: Violencia y crimen organizado en Ecuador (RSVP required).
• 10:00-11:30 at thedialogue.org: Child Migration in Latin America and the Role of Civil Society (RSVP required).

Thursday, December 4

• 10:00-11:00 at CSIS and csis.org: The Ties that Bind: Strengthening U.S. – LAC Educational Exchange for Public Diplomacy (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:00 at Georgetown University: From the Bottom Up and the Outside In: Social Movement and International Influences on Democracy in the Americas (RSVP required).
• 4:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Driving the next chapter in the US–Mexico agenda (RSVP required).
• 5:00-7:00 at University of Chicago Office of Federal Relations: Solutions to Mission: Solutions to the Drug War (RSVP required).

Friday, December 5

• 11:00-12:00 at Refugees International / Human Rights First Zoom: Launch Event: Banished by Bargain—Third Country Deportation Watch (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, November 24

• 11:00-12:00 at quincyinst.org: Book Talk | Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000 (RSVP required).
• 11:30 at migrationpolicy.org: U.S. Immigration Courts at a Crisis Point (RSVP required).
• 3:00 at CIDE YouTube: Conversatorio Virtual: “Políticas públicas y presupuesto para erradicar la violencia en México”.

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, November 17

• At cidh.org: 194th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
• At Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy: Latin America and the Caribbean Under a New Geopolitical Order (RSVP required).
• 9:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: What comes next after Chile’s presidential election? (RSVP required).

Tuesday, November 18

• At cidh.org: 194th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
• At Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy: Latin America and the Caribbean Under a New Geopolitical Order (RSVP required).
• 11:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Entrepreneurship to fuel jobs and growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).
• 3:30-5:00 at American University: Chile at a Crossroads: The 2025 Elections and the Future of Democracy (RSVP required).

Wednesday, November 19

• At cidh.org: 194th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
• 10:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Why US economic security runs through Central America (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration on ICE Under Fire: The Radical Left’s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement.
• 3:00-4:00 at WOLA and Zoom: Tres años después del informe de la Comisión de la Verdad de Colombia: ¿Ha cambiado Colombia? (RSVP required).
• 6:00-8:00 at American University: When Aid Fades: Assessing Impacts on Global Democracy and Security (RSVP required).

Thursday, November 20

• At cidh.org: 194th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
• 10:00-12:10 at thedialogue.org: Launch of the Executive Report of the USMCA Digital Trade and AI Task Force (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 2200 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on Democracy in Peril: the Fight for Free Election in Honduras.
• 4:00-5:00 at csis.org: Countering the Criminal Drone Threat in the Americas.

Friday, November 21

• At cidh.org: 194th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, November 10

• 9:45-6:15 at Georgetown University and Georgetown Americas Institute YouTube: The Americas and the World Forum (RSVP required).

Tuesday, November 11

• 1:00-2:15 at atlanticcouncil.org: From risk to resilience: The future of food security in the Americas (RSVP required).

Wednesday, November 12

• 8:00 at Global Exchange Zoom: American Attacks in the Caribbean: War on drugs or regional intervention? (RSVP required).
• 10:00-11:00 at Georgetown Americas Institute Zoom: GEO-LAC: The Future of U.S. Trade Policy and Its Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).

Friday, November 14

• 10:00-11:15 at thedialogue.org: Mexico at the Crossroads—Navigating U.S.–China Tensions (RSVP required).
• 12:00-1:00 at Harvard David Rockefeller Center Zoom: USMCA Revision: North America on the Edge (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:00 at quincyinst.org: The USMCA Review: What Future for North American Economic Integration? (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Tuesday, November 4

• 8:00 at Heinrich Böll Foundation Colombia YouTube: El clima no se vende: mercados de carbono, DD.HH y falsas soluciones en la transición energética.
• 4:00-6:00 at American University: Nicaragua: Political Imprisonment and Transnational Human Rights Violations (RSVP required).

Wednesday, November 5

• 5:00am-6:00am at georgetown.edu: The Turn to the Global South (RSVP required).
• 10:30-12:00 at WOLA and online: Uncharted Waters: U.S. Military Action in the Caribbean (RSVP required).
• 12:00 on InsightCrime Instagram: Fentanyl and Synthetic Opioids: The Making of a Global Industry?

Thursday, November 6

• 1:30-3:00 at Georgetown University: Democratic and Legal Regression in the Americas (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, October 27

• 10:00-11:00 at csis.org: Caribbean Buildup: A Renewed Focus on Counternarcotics and Hemispheric Security? (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:00 donation required at insightcrime.org: Crime, Climate, and COP30: Environmental Crime Challenges in Latin America (RSVP and contribution required).
• 12:00 at Columbia University Zoom: Venezuela at a Crossroads: Political Developments & U.S. Relations (RSVP required).

Tuesday, October 28

• 10:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: The economic and political implications of Argentina’s midterms (RSVP required).
• 11:00-2:30 at OAS Microsoft Teams: Trata de Personas y Tráfico Ilícito de Migrantes: Reparación Digna y Transformadora a las Víctimas de Trata de Personas (RSVP required).

Wednesday, October 29

• 10:30-12:00 at wola.org: 2025 Human Rights Awards Month: Keynote Address with Dr. Steven Levitsky (RSVP required).
• 1:30-4:50 at the Brookings Institution and brookings.edu: The 2025 Knight Forum on Geopolitics (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 30

• 1:30-3:30 at University of London online: A Brief History of Violence in Mexico (RSVP required).

Friday, October 31

• 10:00-1:00 at the OAS: Inter-American Democratic Charter: The Promise of Democracy and Prosperity (RSVP required).

(Events that I know of, anyway. All times are U.S. Eastern.)

Monday, October 20

• 4:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Panama’s vision for the canal’s next chapter (RSVP required).

Tuesday, October 21

• 2:00 in Hart Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Global Gangsters: Hezbollah’s Latin American Drug Trafficking Operations.

Wednesday, October 22

• 10:00-11:30 at CSIS and csis.org: Understanding the Future of North American Trade and Security (RSVP required).
• 3:00-3:30 at csis.org: Investing in Copper Security Across the Americas (RSVP required).

Thursday, October 23

• 2:00-3:00 at Georgetown University: Europe and Latin America in the New Trade Order (RSVP required).

Friday, October 24

• 10:30-12:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue: Economic Effects of Venezuelan Migrants Across Latin America and the Caribbean (RSVP required).