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Six Facts to Understand Mexico's 2025 Judicial Elections

3 weeks ago | as-coa.org | Carin Zissis

From candidate totals to voter turnout, learn about the country’s unprecedented election. Mexico kicked off June by taking an unprecedented step: holding a national election to select the members of not only its Supreme Court, but also hundreds of federal and state-level judges and magistrates.
Tracking Trump and Latin America: Trade—Reciprocal Tariff Rates Announced | AS/COA

2 months ago | as-coa.org

What does the U.S. president's “America First” trade policy mean for the region? AS/COA is monitoring the new administration's approach.
LatAm in Focus: Trade and Tensions—Latin America Braces for Trump's Tariffs | AS/COA

Mar 27, 2025 | as-coa.org

Ahead of April 2, trade expert Kellie Meiman Hock explains the motivators behind the shift in U.S. trade policy and what tariffs mean for the region.
Tracking Trump and Latin America: Trade—Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil | AS/COA

Mar 25, 2025 | as-coa.org

What does the U.S. president's “America First” trade policy mean for the region? AS/COA is monitoring the new administration's approach.
In Mexico, the Push for a National Care System Is Gaining Momentum

Mar 24, 2025 | as-coa.org | Carin Zissis

As Mexico faces tariff threats and stagnant growth, "closing the workforce gap represents an economic opportunity," writes AS/COA's Carin Zissis in WPR. At the heart of unpaid care work in Mexico lies a paradox: The labor sustains the economy, even as it creates barriers to women joining the workforce.
AS/COA Insider: Eric Farnsworth on Trump's Tariffs on Canada and Mexico | AS/COA

Mar 4, 2025 | as-coa.org

This "is a rethinking of what trade really is and the importance of it to the United States," said the AS/COA vice president.
Tracking Trump and Latin America: Trade—Tariffs on Canada and Mexico Go into Effect | AS/COA

Mar 4, 2025 | as-coa.org

What does the U.S. president's “America First” trade policy mean for the region? AS/COA is monitoring the new administration's approach.
2025 Elections in Latin America and Canada: A Preview

Jan 8, 2025 | as-coa.org | Chase Harrison

The world enters 2025 with shifted North American leadership. President-elect Donald Trump readies to take office in the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation days into the new year. And Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum hits 100 days in office on January 9. They will be joined by new leaders across the hemisphere, as four countries—Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Honduras—will pick presidents in 2025. Will new faces emerge?
Latin America Is About to Become a Priority for U.S. Foreign Policy

Dec 9, 2024 | as-coa.org | Brian Winter

"Trump's top domestic priorities depend heavily on policy toward Latin America," writes AS/COA's Brian Winter in Foreign Affairs. While traveling throughout Latin America in recent years, visitors heard the same refrain: Washington isn’t paying enough attention to the region. Business leaders, academics, and politicians on both the left and the right agreed that the United States lacked a clear strategy for engagement and was losing influence and economic opportunities, especially to China.
Remarks to the Peruvian Congress: Expanding Trade, Promoting Development, Growing Together

Nov 25, 2024 | as-coa.org | Eric Farnsworth

To take the case I know best, that is, the bilateral trade relationship with the United States. Peru shows the potential for what openness to the world can truly do. The U.S.-Peru trade promotion agreement has been in effect for some 15 years.