This spring's events touch Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Venezuela, exploring early music to big band to chamber opera.
“He’s always been an agent of unity in the opposition," said AS/COA's Guillermo Zubillaga in McClatchy about Carlos Vecchio.
Maduro’s refusal hasn’t kept aid entirely out of the country.
Tensions between Jair Bolsonaro and Hamilton Mourão reveal a deeper battle for the new government’s soul.
Without independent players, corruption and crime will continue to plague Mexico.
From chanting against everything mainstream to focusing on specific players, citizen protests can change the face of politics in the region – again.
“We have not really exhausted the diplomatic channels,” says Guillermo Zubillaga, head of the AS/COA Venezuela Working Group.
"This is going to be a full reconstruction of a collapsing country," said AS/COA vice president on BBC.
Council of the Americas and its more than 220 member corporations strongly support the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.