How does the United States work to regain its role as a promoter of democracy? With humility, said the two Clinton administration officials.
Podcasts
El Faro’s Nelson Rauda covers the Biden administration’s approach to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala ahead of 2021 elections in two of those countries.
COVID-19 researcher Dr. Roselyn Lemus-Martin covers vaccine rollout in Latin America while Doctors Without Borders’ Pierre Van Heddegem gives a ground-level view of a variant-fueled outbreak in Brazil’s Amazonas.
COMEXI President and Mexican ex-Deputy Minister for North America Sergio Alcocer covers how the two governments will handle trade, security, immigration, and more.
From an absent president to illegal fishing to agro-tech, AS/COA Online dives into under-covered—but important—issues facing Latin America in a year of competing headlines.
Embracing this difficult moment to build resilience should be top of mind, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director tells AS/COA’s Susan Segal.
The Argentine collector remembers her grandmother’s lessons and shares some of her own.
IHS Markit’s Steven Knell and Escopo Energia’s Lavinia Hollanda explain how the region can turn the current moment into an opportunity to develop renewable energy.
The diplomat shares how she convinced the EU to get behind Juan Guaidó.
Facebook Fellow and WVU PhD candidate Claudia Flores-Saviaga explains how disinformation fills online content gaps, particularly for Spanish speakers.
Mexico’s top diplomat in Washington shares her thoughts on rising through the foreign service ranks and the challenges for gender parity today.
Santiago-based journalist John Bartlett talks about covering the protests and a vote to rewrite the country’s constitution, even as a pandemic bore down.
The Brazilian entrepreneur shares her advice on building out a passion project in this podcast.
The pandemic undercuts Latin America’s educational advances, but highlights innovations, too. Brookings’ Emiliana Vegas and Tinker Foundation’s Caroline Kronley explain.
We need to be less harsh about returning to work after family leave, says Panama’s former vice president in the debut podcast episode, hosted by AS/COA’s Susan Segal.
Remittances help provide food, medicine, and even political stability. Creative’s Manuel Orozco, NYU’s Roy Germano, and Remitly’s Matt Oppenheimer talk remittance trends in pandemic times.
Even before the pandemic, turbulence in the Americas was driving a new approach to education, say Deans Joanne Li of FIU Business and Ignacio de la Vega of EGADE.
PepsiCo’s Monica Bauer and Think Olga’s Juliana de Faria cover ways to approach pandemic recovery through a gender lens.
Was President Nayib Bukele's tough-on-crime approach the solution? International Crisis Group's Tiziano Breda says there’s more to the story.
“Un acuerdo tiene que ser balanceado y justo, y creo que la oferta del gobierno lo es”, dijo la presidenta y CEO de AS/COA.