Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner chose Economy Minister Amado Boudou as her running partner for the October vote. The decision signals her confidence in his economic policies and hope of reaching young voters.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been unusually quiet during a prolonged recovery from emergency surgery while in Cuba. But energy shortages and a prison riot draw attention to the leadership vacuum back at home.
As U.S. states tussle with the federal government over who has the authority to enforce immigration law, Latin American governments’ protests grow louder.
"Additional efforts should be undertaken to expand hemispheric trade, even under current political conditions," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth for The Huffington Post.
"The debate matters: how Humala chooses to govern will directly impact Peru’s ability to sustain its historically high growth," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth for Latin Business Chronicle.
Observers wonder what's in store for Peru when Ollanta Humala takes the helm next month. His international travels and comments on key domestic issues could provide a clue.
Speculation surrounds how Peru's next president Ollanta Humala will govern. AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini writes in the The Huffington Post: "More than the people he chooses to populate his first round of appointments, the answer may actually lie in his formation as a military officer.
With Chief-of-Staff Antonio Palocci gone, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff appointed two new ministers charged with holding together the governing coalition and ushering the president’s agenda through Congress.
On June 14, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to make an official visit to Puerto Rico since JFK's stop in 1961. But Obama's trip may have been as much about Latino voters on the mainland as issues on the island.
The OAS General Assembly met in El Salvador to focus on the issue of violent crime plaguing many parts of the Americas. But regional leaders differ on how to forge new solutions.
After narrowly edging out Keiko Fujimori to win the Peruvian runoff, President-elect Ollanta Humala faces the challenge of uniting a country divided by the race.
AS/COA Online provides a guide to help understand the tight race between Keiko Fujimori and Ollanta Humala.
The Brazilian House of Deputies passed a law that would open up more of the Amazon to small farmers—a move environmentalists denounce as an invitation to accelerate already rising deforestation.
"These reforms—if implemented as President Correa has promised—will vest the executive with a troubling degree of discretionary power over two areas key for democratic stability," says AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini of the Ecuadorean referendum that would give the president increased control over the media and judiciary.
AS/COA President and CEO Susan Segal shares her tribute to Gerardo Miguel Rosenkranz, the Latin America-focused angel investor who "impacted the life of so many young entrepreneurs in the region."
With Dominique Strauss-Kahn gone, Latin Americanists eye non-European picks to head the International Monetary Fund.
Nearly two years after Honduran head of state Manuel Zelaya was forced into exile, a deal signed with current President Porfirio Lobo allows for the ousted leader's homecoming and the country's return to the OAS.
"The clamor from non-European nations is now for the new IMF managing director to be drawn from an emerging market nation," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth for The Huffington Post.
Even as more Latin Americans join the ranks of the middle class, childhood poverty rates remain stubbornly high in many of the region's countries. Treating the problem requires closing gaps on education and job access, say observers.