LAC fellow and Head of the Social Sciences Division, Timothy Power visited the Organisation of American States in Washington DC on 9 March 2022 in the company of Governor Eduardo Leite of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Governor Leite and OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro held a wide-ranging conversation about hemispheric affairs and the defense of democracy. Pictured from left to right: Leany Lemos, president of the Banco Regional de Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul (former LAC visitor and former Global Economic Governance fellow at University College), Timothy Power, Governor Leite, Secretary General Almagro, and Marian Vidaurri, Head Advisor to the Secretary General (and an MSc graduate of the LAC and St Antony’s College, 2006).