At the 2001 Washington Conference on the Americas, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Kohler, discussed how the International Monetary Fund intends to become more efficient in helping to resolve and avoid financial crises. He later stated the importance of getting investment capital from the rest of the world in impoverished countries.

Speaking at the 2000 Washington Conference on the Americas, President Bill Clinton discusses the importance of open trade within the Americas and the benefits of continuing forward to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005. Clinton also focuses on Columbia's increasing drug industry issue and stresses the importance of the United States helping the Colombian government.

This catalogue is based on a historic study of the ceramic tradition in Puebla, Mexico with a summary of contemporary ceramic practices. It includes essays by Margaret Connors McOuade and Jaime Contreras Castro as well as an exhibition checklist.

This bilingual catalogue of the retrospective exhibition of the seminal Mexican painter includes essays by Elizabeth Ferrer, Olivier Debroise, and Elena Poniatowska.

At the 25th Washington Conference on the Americas, Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, speaks of the financial crisis in Mexico. Camdessus discusses why it occurred, how it was solved, and the significance of the first major economic crisis of the 21st century.