On February 3, 2011, Americas Society will premier its latest exhibit featuring artist Arturo Herrera. The exhibition, titled Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) and curated by Gabriela Rangel (Americas Director of Society Visual Arts) is guaranteed to touch upon all the senses of the spectator.
"China promises only a commercial relationship without political or policy interference," writes COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth in an article for Current History that explores China's emerging role in Latin America's development and economic growth.
Nowhere is the "south-south" model of market integration more evident than in emerging links between Asia and Latin America, argues Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno in the Financial Times.
An April 2009 raid by Bolivian counterterrorist forces is again being called into question.
In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, AS/COA Board Member Thomas McLarty III says a strongly concerted effort to ratify pending trade agreements will remind voters that President Obama "sees America as confident and innovative enough to remain the global economy's True North."
Bernard Aronson, former assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, argues in The Washington Post that delaying the ratification of free-trade agreements with Colombia and Panama sends Latin America a message: "Friends of the United States get thrown under the political bus."
In an article for The Huffington Post, AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini argues that U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America should "move on from focusing on internal politics or development objectives to understanding the nature of shifting international coalitions."