Media Briefing: Summit of the Americas
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Ahead of President Obama’s trip to the 2015 Summit of the Americas in Panama, Wilson Center experts will be available for analysis and commentary on U.S. policy in the Americas – in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. What is the significance of Cuba’s participation in the Summit for the first time? Will the recent deterioration in U.S.-Venezuelan relations overshadow other substantive issues on the Summit agenda? Wilson Center experts answer questions from the media.
Event Sponsors
Speakers
Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Seattle International Foundation
Deputy Director of the Council on State Governments--Eastern Regional Conference, New York; former Director of the Polar Initiative and former Director and Senior Advisor to the Canada Institute
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more