In conjunction with the opening of the UN General Assembly, Americas Society and Council of the Americas hosted a series of public programs with presidents of Latin Americas. Access materials from the events.

Indigenous Bolivians from the country's Amazonian lowlands are fighting a presidential plan for a transoceanic highway.

President Hugo Chávez’s announcement he was being treated for cancer has raised questions about Venezuela’s capacity to transition after 12 years under a strongly vertical political power structure.