"The debate matters: how Humala chooses to govern will directly impact Peru’s ability to sustain its historically high growth," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth for Latin Business Chronicle.

Speculation surrounds how Peru's next president Ollanta Humala will govern. AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini writes in the The Huffington Post: "More than the people he chooses to populate his first round of appointments, the answer may actually lie in his formation as a military officer.

"These reforms—if implemented as President Correa has promised—will vest the executive with a troubling degree of discretionary power over two areas key for democratic stability," says AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini of the Ecuadorean referendum that would give the president increased control over the media and judiciary.

AS/COA President and CEO Susan Segal shares her tribute to Gerardo Miguel Rosenkranz, the Latin America-focused angel investor who "impacted the life of so many young entrepreneurs in the region."

"The clamor from non-European nations is now for the new IMF managing director to be drawn from an emerging market nation," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth for The Huffington Post.

"Guatemala is on the brink." writes COA's Eric Farnsworth for Poder360. "A multinational donor strategy designed to lock in policy, no matter who the next president is, would be the most promising place to begin."

Following her remarks at COA's Washington Conference, the assistant secretary of state writes in a post for U.S. State Department's DipNote that "the United States' road to recovery lies right here in our region."