Economists from the Buenos Aires-based think tank shared their perpectives on the Argentine economy.

Protests in southern Chile over proposed fuel increases cast a spotlight on rising energy costs and echoed recent Bolivian demonstrations.

Argentina’s Mar del Plata played host to the twentieth Ibero-American summit, where leaders signed a declaration defending democracy and creating a path to boost access to education.

The dispute over Argentina's decision to grant political amnesty to a Chilean ex-guerilla fighter "will have no lasting impact, though it does reveal growing differences within the region that will continue to spark friction," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for World Politics Review.

It is with great sadness that Americas Society and Council of the Americas share news that former President Néstor Kirchner, who governed Argentina from 2003 to 2007, died unexpectedly of a heart attack on the morning of October 27, 2010.

Americas Society and Council of the Americas hosted private and public programming during United Nations General Assembly week with the presidents of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Read remarks delivered at AS/COA's 2010 Latin American Cities Conference by Argentine Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti. (en español)