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.
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“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.
"Hay como un nuevo entusiasmo para hablar de América Latina" tras su creciente importancia económica para los Estados Unidos, revela Eric Farnsworth de AS/COA.