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John Dinges

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Journalist, author, writes on Latin America. Author Chile in Their Hearts (2025), Amigo de Chile (condecoración O’Higgins) Washington Post, NPR, Columbia U.
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Turning Tragedy into Transformation: LGBTQ+ Activism and Justice in Latin America

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By John Dinges
| WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
Across Latin America, LGBTQ+ individuals have faced discrimination, violence, and exclusion from political and social institutions. Yet, they have also been at the forefront of movements demanding justice, recognition, and equality. Recent developments in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia demonstrate both the persistent challenges confronting LGBTQ+ communities and the transformative impact of their activism.
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Death Comes for Cuba’s Master of Repression and Spies Original

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By John Dinges
| SpyTalk Verified
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez in 2022. The powerful secret police and spy catcher was equally feared, reviled and respected by his opponents, including his CIA adversaries, over many decades (Granma.cu photo) He spent a lifetime quashing threats, but in the end he could not defeat the one that eventually catches up to all mortals, no matter how powerful: time. Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a longtime CIA nemesis, spymaster and architect of internal repression, died in a Havana hospital last week, age 94.
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The Global Anti-Rights Agenda in Latin America

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By John Dinges
| WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
When WOLA set its new strategic priorities in 2024, we consciously included promoting LGBTQ+ rights and gender diversity on the list. This decision would prove to be increasingly relevant. Within months, the president of Argentina would equate “gender ideology” to “child abuse” on the international stage, and the incoming administration in the United States would move to erase legal transgender identities . But attacks on the LGBTQ+ community are not necessarily new to the region.
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