Overview
Elections for representatives to Chileâs Constitutional Convention take place on April 11. What impact will they have on the countryâs institutions? What are the economic implications facing the market at this critical moment in Chile s history? What political impact will the Constitutional Convention have on the presidential elections?
Join AS/COA on March 2 for an insightful discussion.
Speakers
Maria Luisa Puig, Director of Latin America, Eurasia Group
Ariane Ortiz-Bollin, Vice President and Senior Analyst, Moodyâs
Susan Segal, President and CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas
This event will be in English.
Event Registration:Â Juan Serrano-Badrena |Â jserrano@as-coa.org
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AS/COA Applauds President Duque s Move to Grant Legal Status to 1.7 Million Venezuelans
“President Duque has set a high bar for the Americas and the world in giving protective status to these Venezuelan refugees,” said AS/COA s Susan Segal.
February 9, 2021 Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) applauds Colombian President Iván Duque for his decision to give temporary legal status to more than 1.7 million Venezuelan refugees who have fled to his country.
“President Duque has set a high bar for the Americas and the world in giving protective status to these Venezuelan refugees,” said AS/COA President and CEO Susan Segal.
By Reuters Staff
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - It is incumbent on the United States to support a capital increase at the Inter American Development Bank, the bank’s president said on Thursday.
“The IDB is the lender of preference of the region, and if the IDB doesn’t step up and have the resources to do so the region is going to look for alternatives,” said Mauricio Claver-Carone, who took the reigns of the development bank in October as its first-ever U.S. president.
“So it behooves the United States and it behooves the United States Congress to support a capital increase for the bank.”
January 27, 2021
International responses to the death of Colombia’s defense minister on Tuesday were warm, but political vultures are lurking from the sky and lobbyists are seeking inroads.
Radical critics of Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who died of health complications due to COVID-19 on Tuesday, refused to allow the family to grief in peace with vile attacks on social media.
Think tanks and lobbyists from Colombia and the United States glorified the controversial defense minister, but refused to acknowledge the existence of victims of human rights violations allegedly committed with the complicity of the late minister.
The responses polarized social media, mainly Twitter, where citizens, politicians and DC insiders were taking part in the public debate.
Bolsonaro Goes All In On Trump. Isolation May Await
January 12, 2021
Brazil’s government seems ready for a fight, regardless of the economic damage it may cause, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief. U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Brazil s Jair Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in March 2020. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Jair Bolsonaro has bought 210 million tickets aboard the USS Trump, and is determined to sail himself and his fellow Brazilians wherever it goes even if it’s to the bottom of the sea. That’s the inescapable conclusion from the past week, which has seen Brazil’s president, his family and his foreign minister double down on what they see as a pro-Christian, anti-globalist alliance whose power project will not be diminished merely because of a “stolen” (their word) election. The implications for the Amazon, Brazil’s place in the world and its relationship with Joe Biden are still coming into focus – but they are enormous.