| | Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs is headed by Acting Assistant Secretary of State J. Curtis Struble, who is responsible for managing and promoting U.S. interests in the region by supporting democracy, trade, and sustainable economic development, and fostering cooperation on issues such as drug trafficking and crime, poverty reduction, and environmental protection.
 
| | | Highlights |  What are Americans doing to achieve human rights objectives?
Read Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2002-2003 - a report that for the first time in a systematic way captures the tireless work of the U.S. Government to promote democratic structures and respect for human rights." [full text of preface; briefing]
 Slavery and bondage still persist in the early 21st Century. Millions of people around the world still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves. Read the 2003 Trafficking in Persons Report. Secretary Powell's statement.
The Secretary Travels to Chile and Argentina.
Read Secretary Powell's Intervention at the Plenary of the OAS: "My friends; tyrants, traffickers and terrorists cannot thrive in an inter-American community of robust democracies, healthy citizenries and dynamic economies." [full text] Travel Page Press Briefing en route to San Juan. Press briefing after the OAS meeting.
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