Venezuela | Argentina | Director, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program, Inter-American Dialogue
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Tamara Taraciuk Broner is director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue.
Before joining the Dialogue, Taraciuk Broner was the acting Americas director at Human Rights Watch. She has carried out extensive field research throughout Latin America documenting human rights violations and she has conducted cutting edge research on policies and practices that undermine democracy, including threats to judicial independence, attacks on free speech, discrimination, and harassment of civil society organizations.
Taraciuk Broner brings a proven record of developing ambitious projects to address critical rule of law issues. She has led strategic advocacy efforts to promote policy changes to strengthen rights protection and democracy in the region, including by building strong partnerships with public officials, civil society leaders, policymakers, and subject-matter experts. Taraciuk Broner has published widely in leading newspapers in the United States, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Miami Herald, as well as in Latin America and Europe.
Prior to her time at Human Rights Watch, Taraciuk Broner worked on a regional citizen security project at the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center. She also worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States.
Taraciuk Broner was born in Venezuela and grew up in Argentina. She studied law at Torcuato Di Tella University. She holds a post-graduate diploma on human rights and transitional justice from the University of Chile and a Master’s degree in Law (LLM) from Columbia Law School.
Es habitual que el sector privado exija reglas de juego claras y seguridad jurídica para operar. Es menos común que líderes empresariales hablen de democracia y derechos humanos. Se actúa como si lo primero pudiese existir sin lo segundo. Puede, pero en sociedades muy diferentes a las que queremos vivir.
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on the exile of Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González.
Tamara Taraciuk Broner, directora del Programa sobre Estado de derecho, conversó con BBC News sobre la situación en Venezuela tras la salida de Edmundo González a España.
In Latin America, the rise of so-called “outsiders” with anti-system or anti-establishment agendas has had significant consequences for the rule of law.
The regime is going to try to use González's departure to demoralize and divide the opposition. It is up to the opposition to stay united and focus on the uncontested facts: the regime has not backed up its allegations of electoral victory, and it is escalating the repression.
Everything they are doing is a demonstration of weakness, not strength, but right now time plays in favor of Maduro. The international community has to urgently activate to elevate the cost of this path and show them the costs of their actions.
