The responsible next steps are "clear" in regards to Venezuela, says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth.

“The most important thing that came out of the dinner was the photograph showing the president and the vice president of the United States sitting down with regional leaders to talk about Venezuela,” noted AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth.

El Presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, dijo que los paises de la Alianza del Pacífico han hecho esfuerzos para homologar sus políticas y convertirse en una economía integrada atractiva para la inversión, en un foro de AS/COA.

"We are trading as a group of countries in agreement on free trade," said Mexico's Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Videgaray who spoke at AS/COA's Pacific Alliance panel alongside the presidents of Colombia and Chile, and Peru's trade minister. 

En el foro de AS/COA y la Alianza del Pacífico, el Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México, Luis Videgaray, expresó que los cuatro países buscan profundizar su integración financiera y aumentar el atractivo de la región para las inversiones.

AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth discussed U.S. sanctions on Venezuela underlining that “it’s about raising the cost of behavior by the government in Caracas that the international community has clearly rejected.” 

“For Janot and his team…this is like unloading one last cannon barrage on their way off the battlefield," said AS/COA's Brian Winter on additional corruption charges against two former presidents of Brazil.