When the ambassador to Panama resigned his post, U.S. diplomacy lost one of its most talented Latin America hands.

The bilateral relationship need not be defined by conflict, writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth for China-US Focus.

In this podcast, Mark Feierstein, NSC senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs in the Obama White House, lays out a multi-pronged strategy for pressuring the Maduro regime ahead of 2018 elections.

"The Trump administration has a policy goal for Venezuela, but is split on how to pursue it," said Mark Feierstein, former senior director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, at AS/COA's Venezuela panel. 

Ending NAFTA will not "bring back an earlier time," says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in prepared testimony to members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

Listen: CUNY's Edwin Meléndez sees a rising solidarity within the Puerto Rican diaspora and the possibility of a new political era.