"Whether its growth is being hailed as a major advance for Latin America or its alleged decline in the developed world is taken as a sign of the global North’s impending fall, the middle class has assumed almost totemic status in popular discussions," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for CNN-GPS. "The reality, though, is more complex."
O resultado das eleições regionais foi usado por chavistas para tentar demonstrar que o movimento está institucionalizado. Porém, "uma transformação está ocorrendo na Venezuela", escreve Eric Farnsworth da AS/COA. "Esta é uma área em particular onde Estados Unidos e Brasil têm a oportunidade de trabalhar juntos numa agenda comum".
The private sector can help improve security in Central America through reinsertion programs and initiatives targeting at-risk youth, AS/COA's Jason Marczak writes for The Miami Herald.
“A comunidade internacional, principalmente o Brasil e os Estados Unidos, deve se manter vigilante para garantir a democracia no iminente processo de transição política na Venezuela,” escreve o Vice-presidente da AS/COA Eric Farnsworth para o jornal O Estado de São Paulo.
Iconic Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was nearly 105 when he passed away on December 5, ending a career that spanned eight decades. AS/COA Online provides an overview of some of his most famous works in Brazil, Spain, and the United States.
AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth writes for PODER about the need to re-boost and expand the Atlantic alliance to include Latin America and Africa, as strategic focus shifts to Asia.
Expectations are high for closer U.S.-Mexico relations as Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto takes office, write Michael Werz and AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.