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."

"[T]here is a chance of fundamentally repositioning the United States in hemispheric affairs in a manner consistent with its own core interests and the aspirations and ongoing changes of the region itself, to mutual benefit and reward," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth in Latin American Policy.

The combined vote of Peru’s two first-round winners only totaled 54 percent. Now Humala and Fujimori have to fight to expand their vote share.

"China has taken over as Brazil’s largest trading partner, but how good is that for Brazil?" writes COA's Vice President Eric Farnsworth for Poder360.