Mexico's President Felipe Calderón, El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined us as speakers at our annual conference.

Following her remarks at COA's Washington Conference, the assistant secretary of state writes in a post for U.S. State Department's DipNote that "the United States' road to recovery lies right here in our region."

Exploring the complexity of immigration discussions today, this compendium of articles looks at topics such as immigrants and the U.S. economy, the role of business, and next steps for the DREAM Act. U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis writes in the compendium that immigrants “pump up job growth by spurring the creation of new businesses.”

The Cuban Communist Party's Sixth Congress, held on April 16, was "a big deal in the sense that it did confirm a number of economic reforms, but politically it mounted to nothing," says AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini on Business News Network's Headline.

Mexico's Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa traveled to Washington April 29 for a security summit. While the two countries investigate next steps in the bilateral fight against transnational crime, Mexico faces illicit arms trafficking across both its northern and southern borders.

With the 2012 presidential campaign revving up, Obama hopes to build bipartisan support for comprehensive immigration reform. But opposition to a pathway for citizenship will make it tough to get a proposal through Congress.

A rising Latino politician speaks on issues of education and immigration reform at the launch of New Destinations & Hispanic Immigrants.