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Washington, and Lister helped Ferreira to obtain a visa. 161 During the 1970s and early 1980s, Ferreira worked for a number of human rights organizations, including WOLA, and he finally launched his own organization, Convergencia Democrática. 162 Perhaps the most significant result, albeit indirect, of Lister’s mentoring activities was the founding of WOLA. Lister first met Diane La Voy in 1971, when La Voy, then a recent college graduate, was participating in a U.S. Information Agency travel grant program. 163 In the early 1970s, La Voy worked nearby the State Department at the Organization for American States, and Lister and La Voy would sometimes meet for lunch. 164 Lister “hammered across” his points about human rights advocacy, La Voy recalls, “over many a sandwich, or, you know, a banana eaten in a park.” 165 La Voy at the time had been participating in meetings for the Latin American Strategy Committee (LASC), a group of leaders from the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant denominations who were concerned about human rights in Latin America. LASC was already becoming a mechanism by which church groups were voicing human rights concerns in a unified way. La Voy noticed that the group was also receiving “very fresh, very real time” information about human rights abuses from missionary groups and churches throughout Latin America, but that little of this information was reaching Members of Congress or other policymakers. 166 During their lunch conversations, Lister had shared with her many examples about the ways in which he provided timely information to Members of Congress. La Voy became 91
convinced that clear, reliable information delivered in a timely way could affect policy decisions. 167 Lister provided the spark for an idea. La Voy went to LASC and they agreed together to open a one-person office—with La Voy to be the lone staff person—to begin purveying objective, detailed information on human rights violations in Latin America. 168 Much of the information could come from LASC’s contacts. 169 Shortly before La Voy was to open the office, she mentioned to Lister during a walk along 16 th Street that some concerns of hers might require her to postpone the opening. 170 La Voy vividly remembers that Lister abruptly ushered her into the lobby of the A.F.L.-C.I.O headquarters and directed her to sit down. “Put some iron in your pants,” he demanded, trying to convince her to follow through, which she did. 171 In the summer of 1974, the Washington Office on Latin America opened on a shoestring budget of $400/month. 172 La Voy would leave WOLA that fall and Eldridge would take over, but the organization would quickly grow in prominence. 173 In 1981, Lars Schoultz called WOLA “the organization that government officials can contact for a correct answer or an informed opinion regarding United States foreign policy towards Latin America.” 174 WOLA today engages in a variety of human rights advocacy activities, but it won influence among policymakers by providing, according to Schoultz, “the most reliable data available on repression of human rights in Latin America.” 175 92
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