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Hearing on "China’s Expanding Interests in Latin America: Development, Leverage, Coercion, and Crime"

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253, and Webex

Livestream will appear here

Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Joshua Hodges and Commissioner Reva Price

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks

9:40 AM – 11:05 AM: Panel I: China’s Evolving Strategies to Build Influence in Latin America

Margaret Myers, Senior Advisor, Asia and Latin America Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Parsifal D’Sola, Founder and Executive Director, Andrés Bello Foundation—China Latin America Research Center
Victoria Chonn Ching, Non-Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council

11:05 AM – 11:15 AM: Break

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Panel II: Vectors of Chinese Influence

Francisco Bencosme, Former China Policy Lead, U.S. Agency for International Development
Ramon Escobar, Managing Director, Actum
Henry Ziemer, Associate Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

12:45 PM – 12:50 PM: Closing Remarks

12:50 PM: Adjourn