"[M]ore than a bubble or even a boom, Brazil’s economic situation in the future looks more like a 'boomlet' but one that will lift Brazil to the ranks of the developed world," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for CNN's Global Public Square.
COA's Eric Farnsworth writes in a letter to the Financial Times that drug-related violence in Central America "is not just a security threat, it is also a growing threat to democracy itself."
AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini writes in The Huffington Post that a new provision in the U.S. House appropriations bill limiting Cuban-Americans' ability to visit family on the island runs counter to U.S. interests and to those of the Cuban people.
"The contrast between policy toward the United States’ former communist enemies...and its uncreative, timid, policy toward Cuba is as illogical as it is unfortunate," writes AS/COA's Senior Director of Policy Christopher Sabatini in an op-ed for The Miami Herald.
"There remains much to do, but the progress is substantial," writes former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio O. Garza in an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News, citing specific steps Mexico has taken to strengthen the rule of law.
"Every day we delay, U.S. market share in [Colombia, Panama, and South Korea] is being eroded by others who are able to trade under more favorable terms," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth in Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Both the administration and congressional Republicans must end the partisan wrangling over the Trade Adjustment Assistance program to pass pending U.S. trade pacts, write members of COA's Trade Advisory Group in The Washington Post.