Eurasia Group’s Patrick Esteruelas talks about how the plummeting price of oil affects Venezuela’s economy and regional diplomacy. “By all accounts, Venezuela is destroying assets much more quickly than it’s been building them,” he says.
International trade expert James Bacchus discusses AS/COA’s new Trade Advisory Group report and the need for the Obama administration “to come forward with some evidence that the United States is willing to work on a hemispheric basis.”
The managing director and head of emerging markets economic research at Deutsche Bank analyzes the regional impact of the global financial crisis in an exclusive AS/COA interview.
The global head of emerging markets and credit research at JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyzes the financial turmoil’s effects on Latin America in an exclusive AS/COA interview.
Leopoldo López Mendoza, mayor of the Chacao municipality of Caracas, was favored to win the mayoralty of the Venezuelan capital until he and hundreds of other candidates were banned from running in upcoming municipal elections. In an interview, López talks about the questionable legality of the ban and the threat posed to democracy in Venezuela.
Less than a year after Venezuela voted against a new constitution, Ecuador prepares for its own vote and Bolivia witnesses violent clashes in the midst of a reform process. AS/COA speaks with Latin American historian Alfonso Quiroz about the recent round of constitutional changes in the Andes and how they differ from reforms of the 1980s and 1990s.
Relations between Brazil and the United States offer “fertile areas” to partner in the fields of resource technology, security, and private sector cooperation.
