To the delight of the North Carolina Partners of Americas, Cochabamba Partners’ president Ms. Rosario Claros visited our state in July. She was kept busy, traveling from the mountains to the sea, with numerous meetings of both public and private organizations of strategic value to the Partnership. Among them she gave a talk at the EPA (Environmental protection Agency) in Research Triangle Park on the environmental degradation of the Department of Cochabamba and touched on air quality issues which was of particular interest as the RTP office leads EPA on air quality issues for the entire United States.