North American leaders meet at annual summit, Colombia's armed forces experience a new shake-up, and Brazil's Senate begins process to consider marijuana decriminalization. Read these stories and more.

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.

“Unless the leaders strive to make progress such meetings often become opportunities that are missed,” notes COA’s Eric Farnsworth on the North American Leaders Summit.

En una conferencia organizada por AS/COA, el senador Robert Menendez favoreció una mayor integración hemisférica que impulse el crecimiento y el desarrollo de EE.UU., México y el resto de Latinoamérica.
 

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

COA's Eric Farnsworth comments on strained relations between NAFTA country leaders ahead of the North American Leaders’ Summit in Toluca, Mexico.