Highlights from the Summit of the Americas
Reading Time: 3 minutes LOS ANGELES—The Ninth Summit of the Americas is underway, with leaders from around the hemisphere gathering in Los Angeles. Below, AQ has compiled highlights and top initiatives...
View ArticleCareful Messaging and Few Specifics at the Summit of the Americas
Reading Time: 3 minutes LOS ANGELES — At 2022’s Summit of the Americas, the U.S. hosts are in the spotlight, doing their best to paper over tension surrounding the event’s guest list and convince...
View ArticleBrazil’s Election: A Looming Crisis for Washington
Reading Time: 6 minutes While the dominant plotline of last week’s Summit of the Americas was the leaders who didn’t attend the event, one president who was present—and even had a widely anticipated...
View ArticleMexico and Washington Can Disagree Without the World Ending
Reading Time: 4 minutes MEXICO CITY — Inside Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s decision not to attend last week’s Summit of the Americas has sparked a flurry of hand-wringing over the...
View ArticleA New Era for US-Colombia Relations
Reading Time: 4 minutes After leftist Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s presidential runoff on June 19, top U.S. officials have hastened to embrace him. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted his...
View ArticleAQ Podcast: The White House’s Juan Gonzalez on Mexico Relationship, Venezuela...
Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. President Joe Biden is in Mexico this week, at a time when the administration is facing a host of issues around Latin America. In this special episode, Brian Winter and...
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Cautious Hopes for a Breakthrough in Venezuela
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hopes that an election in Venezuela next year might resolve the country’s political divisions and revive a moribund economy have reemerged as the Biden administration and...
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The U.S.-Venezuela Agreement: Big Hopes and Big Questions
Reading Time: 4 minutes CARACAS—In less than 72 hours, Venezuela’s outlook has changed. On Tuesday, the government and the opposition’s Unitary Platform inked a new political agreement, setting the...
View ArticleAQ Podcast: The White House’s Juan Gonzalez on the Venezuela-U.S. Deal
Reading Time: < 1 minute Correction appended below. In this special edition of the Americas Quarterly Podcast, an interview with Juan S. Gonzalez, the White House’s top Latin America official, about...
View ArticleDid Biden’s Latin America Summit Offer Too Little, Too Late?
Reading Time: 3 minutes SÃO PAULO — On November 3, U.S. President Joe Biden hosted the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP) summit in Washington, D.C., a U.S.-led forum aiming to bolster...
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