AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth notes that U.S.-Brazil relations are “rapidly improving” due in part to Brazil’s “lower profile on some contentious global political issues like Iran.”

Washington recognizes it needs “to contend more actively for the Americas,” comments AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth as the U.S. and China reach out to Latin America’s markets.

China’s President Xi Jinping’s trip to Latin America and the Caribbean is mainly a commercial endeavor and “not an attempt to project power,” points out AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.

AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth suggests that there is no “head-to-head race for influence” between the U.S. and China as they seek to strengthen trade ties with their Latin American partners.

At AS/COA’s forum in Charlotte, government officials and experts discussed how can cities across the U.S. reap the economic benefits spurred by immigrants in once-declining communities.

AS/COA’s Christopher Sabatini notes advances in Guatemala’s democracy despite the Constitutional Court decision annulling the genocide charges against former dictator Efraín Rios Montt.

En un foro de AS/COA en Carolina del Norte, el Embajador mexicano ante E.E.U.U., Eduardo Medina-Mora, habló del impacto de los inmigrantes en la economía local y nacional.

Vice President Joe Biden’s 2016 hopeful presidential candidacy may turn U.S.-Latin American relations into a foreign policy priority as he tours the region, points out AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.

“For the first time questions are being raised about whether [Latin America] pushed the U.S. too far away” while China expands its reach in the region, comments AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.