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Alianza Americas leverages delegations and tours to foster awareness, inspire change, and forge robust cross-border coalitions dedicated to advocating for a brighter future across the Americas.
Alianza Americas leverages delegations and tours to foster awareness, inspire change, and forge robust cross-border coalitions dedicated to advocating for a brighter future across the Americas.
Alianza Americas places a high value on establishing on-site and virtual meetings. These meetings serve as a platform to exchange information and insights on the importance of understanding the factors behind migration from multiple perspectives. This approach ensures that our understanding of migration is comprehensive and informed, leading to more effective solutions.
Alianza Americas delegations and speaking tours involve political leaders, philanthropic representatives, U.S. social leaders, and Alianza Americas membership organizations traveling to Latin America and the Caribbean to understand the realities of the countries of origin. These experiences allow them to appreciate the contributions of migrants and understand the challenges of overcoming systemic inequities, strengthening democracy, guaranteeing human rights for all, and protecting the environment.
On the other hand, the speaking tours enable opinion leaders, academics, journalists, and activists to share their experiences in the United States, which fosters the exchange of ideas and the building of collaborative relationships with elected officials, social leaders, and migrant communities in the United States, and highlights the importance of creating dignified living conditions in the countries of origin, so that people do not see migration as their only opportunity to achieve their well-being and that of their families.
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Alianza Americas organized a tour with three journalists from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to Washington, DC, May 6-10 to underscore the urgency of the climate crisis in the region and highlight the value of independent journalism as a reliable tool to make the situation visible. The tour is also an opportunity to insist on promoting and protecting freedom of the press as a democratic tool.
In July 2023, Alianza Americas, together with its membership present in Washington DC, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York, organized a tour with Jordán Rodas, former Human Rights Ombudsman in Guatemala, on the current situation in the Central American country and the deep reasons that have led many people to migrate.
In 2023, Alianza Americas and its member organization CARECEN DC developed a delegation to El Salvador comprised of Glenn Ivey, U.S. Congressman for Maryland, District 4, and other elected officials to learn first-hand about the country's social, democratic, and economic situation.
In 2022, Alianza Americas organized with its member organization Centro Presente, Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), and GreenRoots to investigate the political, economic, and social conditions in Guatemala and Honduras through an intersectional approach to the current nuances of migration: climate change and the erosion of the rule of law and democracy throughout Central America.
A delegation of leaders of Alianza Americas member organizations, in the context of the inauguration of President-elect Xiomara Castro in Honduras, in February 2022, called for the need to prioritize addressing the root causes of migration.
On March 9, 10, and 11, 2022, a hybrid delegation to Mexico took place with the participation of individuals representing several Alianza Americas member organizations. The general objective of the delegation was for organizations with Mexican leadership that are part of the Alianza Americas membership to establish contact with organizations in Mexico and build a common advocacy agenda.
In November 2021, a delegation of leaders of Alianza Americas member organizations, in the context of President-elect Xiomara Castro's inauguration in Honduras, called for prioritizing addressing the root causes of migration.
In June, 2021, in light of Vice President Kamala Harris' visit to Guatemala, Alianza Americas developed a delegation with Mirtha Colón and Abel Núñez, president and vice president of the board of directors, for a series of informational exchanges with civil society. In addition, an effort was made with civil society to present a series of advocacy recommendations that address human mobility within, from, and to Guatemala.
In January 2021, Alianza Americas held a series of virtual delegations focused on highlighting the realities and challenges in Central America and Mexico, with the purpose of identifying and supporting efforts to transform the region.
In January 2020, Alianza Americas, along with our member organization Strangers No Longer, organized an 11-day tour named “Youth Leaders across Borders” in Illinois and Michigan. Tour participants included Maggie Loredo and Leni Álvarez, from “Otros Dreams en Acción”, and Fernando Trejo of the “Soy Vida” project. The tour highlighted the impact of deportation and the role of street art and community organizations as a response to violence and stigmatization.
The Refuge for Families coalition had a five-day delegation trip in August 2019, to Guatemala and Mexico to engage with local human rights advocates and government officials helping migrants against increased repressive policies along their route north.
Wendy Cruz, an activist for the rights of peasant populations in Honduras, visited six universities in Minnesota in October 2019. This educational tour is organized by COPAL with support of Alianza Americas.
In April 2019, Alianza Americas organized a tour through Chicago, IL, Washington DC and Detroit, MI, with Magdalena Silva Rentería, known as “Sister Magda”, director of “Casa de Acogida y Formación para Mujeres y Familias Migrantes” (CAFEMIN) and coordinator of “Red de Documentación de las Organizaciones Defensoras de Migrantes” (REDODEM). Sister Magda is a renowned migrant human rights defender in Mexico and leader in the shelter network assisting the Central American exodus.
In 2018, Alianza Americas led a delegation of Mexican migrants, who organized a forum in the context of the Mexican elections, to strengthen their position as key players and their commitment to their country of origin.
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