"The question is whether both nations will look for an opportunity to work toward a truly ambitious agenda," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Forbes.com.

As long as Mexican women continue to face high levels of violence and inequality, they will keep demanding change, writes Carin Zissis for World Politics Review.

"In the Western Hemisphere, leadership must mean partnership," writes AS/COA's Steve Liston in The Banker.

"Luis Arce's victory signals that renewal is possible," writes AS/COA's Brendan O'Boyle on Bolivia's president-elect in The New York Times.

"Many of the region’s nations continue to face large funding gaps," co-writes AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes for Reuters Breakingviews.

"Promoting democracy successfully in the hemisphere...means we first acknowledge this powerful sentiment applies even more consequentially to us," writes AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth in Univision.