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My conversation with Maria starts at about 28 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno is CEO of RepresentUs. She is an advocate, author, and lawyer with two decades of experience globally and within the US on issues of corruption, authoritarianism, organized crime, and human rights. Maria has held multiple senior positions at Human Rights Watch and served as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, at the helm of a team running groundbreaking state and national campaigns. A Peruvian-American, Maria came of age in Peru at a time of internal armed conflict, economic crisis, and then corrupt autocracy. Early in her career, she contributed to the extradition and trial on charges of corruption and crimes against humanity of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. Her narrative non-fiction book "There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia" (Bold Type Books, Feb. 2017), won the 2018 Juan E. Méndez Human Rights Book Award, and the Spanish translation is on its third printing. Maria earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law and served as a judicial clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo All things Jon Carroll Buy Ava's Art Subscribe to Piano Tuner Paul Paul Wesley on Substack Listen to Barry and Abigail Hummel Podcast Listen to Matty C Podcast and Substack Follow and Support Pete Coe Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being a leader at Human Rights Watch, her award winning book "There Are No Dead Here" (about human rights in Columbia) and her role at RepresentUS, where they're working to fight corruption and defend democracy.
Statement from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance "While Trump is drawing from failed drug war programs to fund the wall, this is not a moment to applaud. The administration's obsession with building a border wall to stop drugs from flowing into the US is wrong-headed and wasteful. The US has spent decades trying to stop drugs through over-policing, walls, prisons, and large-scale deportations for drug offenses, with only devastation to show for it. Those resources would be better spent on programs and infrastructure that treat people with compassion and understanding by offering pathways that allow them to reach their full potential instead of incarcerating them."
This week we sat down with Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, DPA’s executive director. We had a lot to catch up about since the last time she was on the show back in October 2017. Her new book, There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia, was released in February and Maria explains how it created a little bit of controversy with a former Colombian president. We also talked about how DPA has been responding to Trump’s calls to ramp up the drug war, what’s needed to address the overdose crisis, and the future of marijuana legalization.
Lately, there have been countless articles about the rise of authoritarian regimes. One aspect of all of these regimes is, even as we’re seeing here in America, the dramatic extremes in corruption. Often fueled by power, money laundering, drugs, and simply all manner of crimes upon the public. Perhaps nowhere in contemporary times was this worse than in Columbia in the 1990s and 2000s. Amidst a complicated, murky civil war, drug cartels, corruption and unrestrained violence, the country came apart. What exactly happened, where is it today and what we can learn from it, is the subject a new and powerful book by Peruvian-American activist/writer Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno entitled There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia. My conversation with Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno:
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Don't Call Me Princess, All the Names They Used for God, Baby Monkey, Private Eye, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Dreadful Young Girls and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill and ThirdLove. Books discussed on the show: All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good by Emma Gray Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues by Nova Jacobs Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb What we're reading this week: MEM by Bethany C. Morrow A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle More books out this week: A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller Where I Live by Brenda Rufener People Like Us by Dana Mele Eat the Apple by Matt Young A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked by Brian Evenson Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) by Sayantani DasGupta The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington Chicago by David Mamet How to Think Like a Cat by Stephane Garnier Green Sun by Kent Anderson The Hush by John Hart Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman Summer Hours at the Robbers Library: A Novel by Sue Halpern The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeer The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories by Michael Andreasen There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus The Listener by Robert McCammon The Misfits Club by Kieran Crowley Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin (paperback)