-- The Americas

--12/08/08  Scenesetter: Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas Ministerial in Panama, December 10, 2008; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- Video
--11/10/08  Preview of U.S. Priorities for APEC; Ambassador Patricia Haslach, U.S. Senior Official for APEC, Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- Video
--08/11/08  A Preview of the 2008 Americas Competitiveness Forum, August 17-19 in Atlanta, Ga; Carlos M. Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce; foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- View video
--07/01/08  The Merida Initiative: Our Partnership Moves Forward; John P. Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy ; Foreign Press Center ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- View Video
--05/20/08  A Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/27/08  Update on Pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia; Ambassador Susan Schwab, U.S. Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/22/08  Remarks on President Bush's Economic Agenda; Christopher A. Padilla, U.S. Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/22/08  The Western Hemisphere: 2007 in Review and Looking Ahead to 2008; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - Video
--11/16/07  The Merida Initiative: United States-Mexico-Central America Security Cooperation; Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/12/07  Roundtable on U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez's Upcoming Trip to Panama, Peru and Colombia ; Carlos M. Gutierrez , U.S. Secretary of Commerce ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/06/07  U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance: Update on Hurricane Felix; Ky Luu, Director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/29/07  Pre-APEC Roundtable; Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, United States Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/24/07  Upcoming Travel to El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico; Anna Escobedo Cabral, U.S. Treasurer; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/30/07  President Bush's Meeting with Brazilian President Lula Da Silva at Camp David; Dan Fisk, Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs, National Security Council; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/31/07  Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez's Upcoming Trip to Mexico and Efforts to Promote Free Trade, Economic Growth and Security in the Western Hemisphere; Carlos M. Gutierrez , Secretary of Commerce ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/25/07  U.S. Policy on the Future of Cuba After Fidel Castro ; Caleb McCarry, Cuba Transition Coordinator; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/16/07  Update on Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative; Bob Jacksta, Executive Director of Passenger Security and Facilitation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, DHS; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official transcript
--01/12/07  Upcoming Visit to U.S.-Mexico Border Region to Identify Ways of Improving Trade Efficiency Along the Border; David Bohigian, Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/13/06  APEC Preview; Senior Administration Officials, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/06  APEC Ministerial and Summit Meetings; Ambassador Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/20/06  U.S.-Mexico Trade Relationship; David Bohigian, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/23/06  U.S. Policy Toward Cuba; Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/01/06   Recent Trip to Peru on Friday July 28, 2006 and Broader Hemispheric Issues; Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/30/06  Poverty Reduction Efforts in Latin America and the Agenda for the Annual IDB meetings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ; Clay Lowery, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Transcript of briefing
--11/17/05  Progress Report on Anti-Drug Efforts in Colombia ; John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/01/05  Natural Disasters: U.S. Assistance to Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Cuba; , ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/13/05  Millennium Challenge Corporation's Compact with Honduras; Ricardo Maduro Joest, President of the Republic of Honduras; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/05  Millennium Challenge Corporation's Decision on the Honduras Compact; Paul Applegarth, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/05/05  Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative; Frank Moss, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/22/05  Trilateral Meeting - U.S.-Canada-Mexico on March 23, 2005; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/09/05  Counterterrorism Efforts in the Organization of American States; Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05  Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York  -- Official Transcript
--11/17/04  The President's Trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting in Santiago, Chile; Senior Administration Officials, ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/05/04  Four G8 Compact Countries Announce their Plans to Combat Corruption; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC  -- Official Transcript
--10/01/04  U.S. Assistance to Hurricane Victims in Haiti and Other Caribbean Nations; Adolfo Franco, U.S. Agency for International Development Asst. Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/10/04  Recent Progress in Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia and Mexico; John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/16/04  A Preview of the Haiti Donor's Conference; John Taylor, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/28/04  Corruption Is a Threat to Democracy and Development: One of the Issues at the Organization of American States' 34th General Assembly, June 6-8, Quito, Ecuador; Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/10/04  Current Topics in United States Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean; Peter DeShazo, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/23/04  Counterterrorism Efforts in the Organization of American States; Ambassador Cofer Black, U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/03  Special Summit of the Americas ; Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/24/03  Scenesetter for OAS Special Conference on Security, 27-28 October, 2003, Mexico City; Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/08/03  Inter-American Education Ministerial; Ambassador John F. Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/29/03  Current Developments in Colombia in the Fight Against Drug Trafficking and Narcoterrorism; John Walters, ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/11/03  Readout on OAS General Assembly (June 8-10) in Santiago, Chile; J. Curtis Struble, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/16/03  Third Regular Session Of Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism, January 22-24, 2003, San Salvador, El Salvador; Amb. Roger Noriega, U.S. Permanent Representative Before The Organization Of American States (OAS); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--11/26/02  The Secretary of Defense's Recent Trips to Santiago, Chile, to Attend The Defense Ministerial of the Americas and to The NATO Summit held in Prague, Czech Republic, and Other Defense Issues; Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript.
--10/22/02  APEC Summit: Latin American and Economic Issues; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/21/02  Scenesetter for the Visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the Trip of President George W. Bush to the APEC Summit; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/15/02  Scenesetter for the Upcoming APEC meetings in Los Cabos, Mexico; Ambassador C. Lawrence Greenwood, U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--09/16/02  Western Hemisphere Affairs; Otto Reich, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York Official Transcript.
--08/13/02  A Balanced Counterdrug Policy Within Our Hemisphere; John P. Walters, Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/19/02  USAID Initiatives in Latin America: A Readout from His Recent Trip to Colombia and Peru; Adolfo Franco, Assistant Administrator for Latin America/the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/12/02  U.S.-Mexican Labor Relations; Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/22/02  Scene Setter for Upcoming Trip to Colombia; Asa Hutchinson, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Justice; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/28/02  Narco Pollution: Illicit Drug Trade in the Andes; Rand Beers, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/28/01  The OAS Response to Terrorism; Steven Monblatt (USA), Chairperson of the OAS Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/10/01  Upcoming APEC Meetings in Shanghai, China; Lawrence Greenwood, U.S. Coordinator for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--09/07/01  Scene-Setter for Secretary Powell's Trip to Colombia; William R. Brownfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--09/07/01  U.S. Participation in the OAS Special Assembly for the Adoption of the Inter-American Democratic Charter; Amb. Roger Noriega, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/20/01  HUD's International Agenda on the Eve of the Secretary's Trip to El Salvador; Mel R. Martinez, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Opening Statement)
--04/13/01  U.S. Participation in the Summit of the Americas; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/29/01  Agenda and Logistics for the Summit of the Americas; Marc Lortie, Personal Representative of the Prime Minister of Canada for the Summit of the Americas; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/12/01  The U.S. and Its Neighbors: A Regional Overview; Peter Romero, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)