"The vast physical distance of the Pacific Ocean separating Australia and Latin America is no longer a barrier for business engagement," writes AS/COA's Zoe Dauth for the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
"The risk is that the region will return to a status quo," write AS/COA's Brendan O'Boyle and Brian Winter in The Washington Post.
Few options exist to restore a disrupted democracy and, writes AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth in The National Interest, in a worst-case scenario, the country could “cease to function as a political entity fully governed from Caracas.”
AS/COA Online offers regular updates on the course charted by the new administration in Latin America’s largest country.
"O precedente guatemalteco pode ajudar a iluminar o debate no Brasil sobre o que significaria, na prática, o reconhecimento de Jerusalém", analisa Roberto Simon, da AS/COA, na Folha de S. Paulo.
In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office December 1. Through regular updates, AS/COA covered the start of what the new leader calls the country's Fourth Transformation.
"The key is to keep the Maduro regime on the defensive," writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in The National Interest.
