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Private Equity and Venture Capital: Betting on Innovation in Latin America

Join AS/COA for its fourth annual private equity and venture capital panel in partnership with the Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA).
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AS/COA Holds First Women's Hemispheric Network Forum in Miami

The event gave promising young women the opportunity to network at senior levels and identify role models.
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Congressional Testimony: Improving Security and Facilitating Commerce with Mexico at America's Southern Border

Recognition of shared U.S.-Mexican responsibility for security and prosperity fosters confidence to expand the trade agenda, explains COA's Eric Farnsworth in congressional testimony.
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Music of the Americas Concert Series: 2013 Highlights and What's Next in 2014

With the concert series recognized with a CMA/ASCAP award for adventurous programming, AS Music Director Sebastián Zubieta presents highlights from the past season–as well as what's coming up in 2014.
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Five Points on Mexico’s Energy Reform Debate in Congress

COA Director of Energy Christian Gómez explores key questions as Mexico’s Congress seeks to pass a much-anticipated energy reform this month.
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Cristóbal Lehyt: Iris Sheets

Final week: Running through December 14, the Americas Society exhibition features an installation examining the repression of memory after Chile’s dictatorship.

Upcoming Events

December 11, 2013

YPA Holiday Fiesta
December 12, 2013

Private Equity and Venture Capital: Betting on Innovation in Latin America
December 16, 2013

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz of U.S. Treasury
February 03, 2014

Ensemble CEPROMUSIC: New Music from Mexico
February 04, 2014

Panel Discussion: The Omnivore Realism of Photography
February 06, 2014

New York: A Bridge Too Far or a Place Called Home for Latin American Arbitration?
February 21, 2014

Concert: Music of Ignacio Cervantes
February 26, 2014

Cristóbal Lehyt and Alejandro Zambra: Conversation and Book Launch
March 05, 2014

Gallery Talk with Iliana Cepero-Amador

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Social Inclusion

Christopher Sabatini de AS/COA explica en el blog "Sin Miedos" del BID cómo en América Latina la falta de inclusión social es causante de violencia.

A slew of elections set for the coming year could dramatically change the face of Latin America, writes COA’s Eric Farnsworth for PODER.

AS/COA's Summit of Gateway Cities convened leaders to share best practices for facilitating immigrants' integration and changing the public discourse around the immigration debate.

Americas Society (AS) is the premier forum dedicated to education, debate, and dialogue in the Americas. Council of the Americas (COA) is the premier international business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the Western Hemisphere.

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Americas Society members participate in culture and public policy programs that explore current hemispheric developments. Council of the Americas members form a collaborative network that supports efforts to conduct business successfully in Latin America.

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