XVI Annual CAF Conference

On September 5-6, 2013, leaders and analysts from around the Western Hemisphere gathered for a conference sponsored by CAF, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Dialogue. The wide-ranging discussion about the region’s economy, political trends, drug policies, challenges to development and relationship with China and Africa drew an audience of some 500 government officials, politicians, diplomats, economists, journalists, scholars, students and business executives.