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Latin America's Moment. This is a guest post by Stephanie Leutert, a research associate here at the Council on Foreign Relations, who works with me in the Latin America Studies program. Secretary John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden recently announced the new State Department directed {*style:<a href=' Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund{*style:</a>*}. It ambitiously aims to have 100,000 U.S. students in Latin America and 100,000 Latin American students in the United States by 2020. This initiative builds on the increasing interest in the region; during the 2011-2012 school year over 44,000 U.S. students headed south. Still these growing numbers hide the changing geographic interests, including the increasing popularity of Brazil and Costa Rica and the steep declines in semesters abroad in Mexico. Home | Just the Facts - U.S. military aid to Latin America and the Caribbean. American Academy in Rome. American Academy in Berlin. Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut : Startseite.

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