The Obama administration should take steps to aid Cuba's burgeoning businesses, writes AS/COA’s President and CEO Susan Segal for U.S. News & World Report.

At  a discussion in AS/COA, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, dismissed the views that China may be edging the United States out of Latin America’s markets.

La subsecretaria de Estado para el Hemisferio Occidental, Roberta Jacobson, habló sobre la respuesta de EE.UU. a la situación en Venezuela durante una presentación en AS/COA.

AS/COA’s Cuba Working Group filed a recommendation memo urging President Barack Obama to order reforms that would support the incipient entrepreneurship sector in Cuba.

Aunque Estados Unidos tiene un interés más reducido en Venezuela debido a “menos incentivos”, su intercambio petrolero no cesará, explica el Director de Energía del COA, Christian Gómez Jr.
 

COA’s Eric Farnsworth comments on Ecuador’s expulsion of U.S. Defense Department employees attached to the U.S. Embassy in Quito.

Both governments are building relations with the region based on their priorities, not competition, writes COA’s Eric Farnsworth for China-US Focus.