Americas Society/Council of the Americas

On Friday, Peru and Thailand will sign a free-trade agreement in Singapore at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum that will eliminate tariffs covering 5,000 commercial products. Last year, trade between the two countries was valued at $350

The stakes for the United States in the Honduran political crisis are higher than ever. At the end of October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton celebrated the unprecedented overturning of a coup through dialogue. That assessment has now proved naïve,

Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo spent the past week quelling coup fears after he replaced the country’s top military officials. At a November 6 ceremony where he swore in a new military commander, Lugo suggested the changes were intended to reward young, talented staff. ...

The ISATC is the training institute of Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, one of the leading opera houses in the Americas. It has been training artists for the world’s opera and ballet stages for decades. ...

Lo que realmente ha faltado en América Latina ha sido una política pública que incentive el desarrollo de nuevos proyectos, una mejor regulación y mejores fuentes de financiamiento. ...

Lo único que le faltaba al clima de guerra fría que se desató entre Colombia y Venezuela por una reciente serie de asesinatos, deportaciones y capturas de ciudadanos de ambos países—señalados algunos de ser espías y paramilitares—era la propuesta del

Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez says she was detained and beaten Friday, as she and fellow bloggers were walking to an anti-violence protest. She and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo were forced into a car in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, where she says three

Deposed leader Manuel Zelaya faces roadblocks to regaining office, but two U.S. officials who saw their jobs put on hold over the Honduran stalemate may finally see the path cleared to take their posts. ...

Just south of Honduras, in Nicaragua, another constitutional crisis is brewing over re-election. And while attention is focused on Honduras, many of the actors that stood on the sidelines leading up to the June 28 coup in Honduras are standing on the

This week activists from around the hemisphere will come to Arequipa, Peru, for the First Latin American Legal Congress on Reproductive Rights—a conference sparked, in part, by recent policy changes affecting abortion rights. ...

Join us to celebrate Review’s special “Inca Garcilaso” issue, featuring guest academic editor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (CUNY) and guest creative editors Isaac Goldemberg (Hostos Community College/CUNY) and Miguel-Angel Zapata (Hofstra). ...

Presented as part of Iberoamérica: Our Way(s)* (November 5 – 13), organized by The Museum of Modern Art.‘TropiChat: Ibermedia’ is presented in partnership with Queen Sofía ...

On December 9, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will formally announce the establishment of a Brazilian Truth Commission. Brazil is the only country in Latin America that has not yet held trials or investigated deaths, disappearances and torture