"There isn't a young, fresh, new voice," says COA's Eric Farnsworth about the two presidential candidates of the upcoming Dominican Republic elections, adding "So what you have is both candidates trying to position themselves as the one who is most competent and trustworthy to run the government."

"The solution is not the prisons, but how we can bring the youth onto the academic and employment sectors through a comprehensive integration policy," said the technical secretary to El Salvador's president Alexander Segovia during a May 18 discussion at COA.

"The U.S. government is clearly trying to demonstrate a new, more fluid relationship with some elements of the [Cuban] regime," says AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini.

In an interview with NY1 Noticias, Argentine author Andrés Neuman discusses his latest novel, Traveler of the Century, winner of the prestigious Alfaguara Prize, and which he will present at Americas Society on May 10. (en español)

During COA's 42nd Washington Conference, U.S. House of Representatives speaker John A. Boehner said he wants to see the whole Western Hemisphere as a "free enterprise zone [with] free markets, free trade, and free people."

Ahead of the IV Summit of the Americas taking place April 14-15, AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini speaks to NY1 Noticias about the disparity between the diverse economic and political realities in Latin America and U.S. policy towards the region. (en español)

"There was a huge anticipation, expectation that the U.S. would fundamentally change policy towards the [Latin American] region, but those expectations were unfounded and indeed many people in the region were disappointed that things did not change overnight from traditional U.S. approaches to the hemisphere," says COA's Eric Farnsworth speaking about the United States' policies towards Latin America over the past three years.