If the violence worsens in Venezuela ultimately “even the center-left in Latin America are going to have to stand up and recognize this is outrageous what's going on,” suggests COA’s Eric Farnsworth.

During Venezuela's protests, Leopoldo López's incarceration gave the opposition leader more legitimacy, writes COA's Eric Farnsworth in the Huffington Post.

O encarceramento de Leopoldo López deu legitimidade ao líder opositor, escreve o Eric Farnsworth do COA para o Estado de São Paulo.

“What makes the protests particularly volatile is that other avenues to express these demands have been closed down,” explains AS/COA’s Christopher Sabatini.
 

At an AS/COA forum, the governor of Buenos Aires Daniel Scioli charted a moderate position by affirming he was not a fan of neither populism nor liberalism.

En un foro en AS/COA el gobernador de Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli, realizó un análisis optimista de la marcha de la economía del país pidiendo a su vez que se "dejen atrás los extremos”.

Durante una presentación en AS/COA, el gobernador de Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli, afirmó que la Argentina verá “una dinámica distinta, con créditos destinados a la infraestructura”.