Reports Urge Obama to Ease Policy on Cuba

A report by AS/COA's Cuba Working Group suggests the Obama administration to use its executive power to loosen U.S. policy towards Cuba to promote free-market activity in the island.

Blue Period

AS/COA's Gabriela Rangel notes how artist Yishai Jusidman "achieved a very difficult task to bring painterly conventions into an abstract reality that is self-referential as well as historical" in Prussian Blue on view at Americas Society.

Piden a Obama relajar restricciones a Cuba

El Consejo de las Américas publicó un reporte recomendando al Presidente Barack Obama actualizar la política estadounidense hacia Cuba para promover cambios económicos en la isla.

Ailing Chávez Returns to Caracas

AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth comments on President Hugo Chávez's suprising return to Venezuela raising new questions about his health and future leadership.