Senior U.S. diplomat Shapiro to replace Davidow in October
La Jolla — The Board of Directors of the Institute of the Americas has announced the appointment of Ambassador Charles S. Shapiro to be the organization’s new president. Ambassador Shapiro, a career diplomat, is well known to those who follow U.S. policy in the region. Like his predecessor, Jeffrey Davidow, he served as ambassador to Venezuela.
Davidow and his wife Joan will continue to reside in San Diego as he takes up new responsibilities as a Senior Counselor to the Washington-based Cohen Group. » Read more
Significant Improvement in
US-Mexico Bilateral Relations
In a front page interview in the May 29 El Universal, Mexico’s largest ciriculation newspaper, Institute president Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow says that the change in recent years in how Mexico and the United States deal with each other has been positive and significant. The level of cooperation in anti-narcotics efforts that exists today was unimaginable just ten years ago, he noted. For the entire interview click here.
20th Annual La Jolla Conference features new themes in hemispheric energy dynamic
Pedro Sánchez Ministry of Energy and Mines (Peru) at the La Jolla Energy Conference. |
LA JOLLA – Thirty speakers representing US and Latin American governments, international financial institutions, international corporations, national oil companies, think tanks and consultants highlighted the 20th Annual La Jolla Latin American Energy Conference on May 16-18.
The impact of China’s need for energy resources, the potential for Cuban oil and gas, Brazil’s energy self-sufficiency and coming role as an oil exporter, and the impact of unconventional methods for exploiting the region’s natural gas reserves — all topics barely acknowledged just a few years ago — were featured at the center of this year’s conference. » Read more
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