Catherine Osborn spoke to The World about Rio's Charme dance culture and weekly dance meet-up after reporting on the iconic overpass event for Americas Quarterly.

“The most striking thing to me is that [Lorenzo Mendoza’s] still committed to Venezuela despite being able to take his company elsewhere,” says AS/COA's Guillermo Zubillaga on the Empresas Polar CEO.

AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth calls the latest wave of sanctions "a clear, and well deserved, tightening of the screws on the regime as it has cast off even the pretense of democracy".

"The need for infrastructure […] is probably the most critical conversation," said BlackRock's Larry Fink in conversation with Federico Sturzenegger, Chairman of Argentina's Central Bank, at a conference at AS/COA. 

"[Argentina] lacks strong institutions after the 2001 crisis and more than a decade of Peronism, and inflation remains uncomfortably high. But the mood among investors, at least, is very upbeat," says FT's Senior Investment Commentator John Authers in reference to AS/COA's Argentina Investment Conference.  

“Por primera vez siento que los argentinos hemos aprendido de nuestros errores, que sabemos que hay que terminar con las estafas, la corrupción,” subrayó el Presidente de Argentina Mauricio Macri en entrevista con Charlie Rose en AS/COA. 

El presidente de Argentina, Mauricio Macri, recibió hoy la medalla de oro de AS/COA por su "liderazgo transformador" en su país y en el conjunto del hemisferio occidental.