“It’s untenable to have a free-trade agreement with the Nicaraguan regime right now,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to the Miami Herald

“I think the United States has finally come around to recognizing that it’s not just about trading commodities,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Foreign Policy

"It’s low-hanging fruit for Biden while Lula needs all the help he can get," said AS/COA's Cecilia Tornaghi on efforts to save the Amazon to the Los Angeles Times.

“Even though these are two leaders with a lot in common, their underlying world views and national interests are quite different, and Ukraine is a big one,” said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The New York Times.

“Lula wants to point to Biden as someone who defeated an authoritarian, anti-constitutional threat and lived to tell about it,” said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The Washington Post.

"We are going back to normal and normal is two big continent-sized democracies who have shared interests but also a history of not seeing eye-to-eye," said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The Washington Post.