COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth outlines why the vice president’s tour is part of “a long-overdue strategy of hemispheric engagement in 2013.”
Colombia
FARC negotiations, security, and the economy may prove important as President Juan Manuel Santos hints at a run for a second term.
At AS/COA’s panel on the Pacific Alliance, Colombia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Carlos Urrutia expressed that "we understand the [bloc] as much more than a trade agreement."
In a country that has already combined its stock exchange with Chile and Peru...
La visita del vicepresidente representa “una evolución del interés nacional de E.E. U.U. en una región y una diplomacia cambiantes”, escribe Christopher Sabatini para El Tiempo.
"The Administration suddenly realizes there is now an economic power broker element in Latin America," points out AS/COA’s Christopher Sabatini on Vicepresident Joe Biden’s trip to the region.
There is a sense that if the U.S. doesn’t "step up its game" in Latin America other global powers like China will take advantage, comments AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.