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Rewriting Mexico’s Security And Energy Agendas
Latin America in Focus - October 14, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsOctober 2021 opened with big shifts in areas high on Mexico’s agenda: security and energy. Both issues are, arguably, the most crucial to the country’s future course. In conversations with AS/COA’s Carin Zissis, UC San Diego’s Cecilia Farfán-Méndez covers what’s new—and not so new—in an updated U...
Rewriting Mexico’s Security and Energy Agendas
Latin America in Focus - October 13, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsOctober 2021 opened with big shifts in areas high on Mexico’s agenda: security and energy. Both issues are, arguably, the most crucial to the country’s future course. In conversations with AS/COA’s Carin Zissis, UC San Diego’s Cecilia Farfán-Méndez covers what’s new—and not so new—in an updated ...
What to Expect When Expecting the Brazilian Elections
Latin America in Focus - September 30, 2021 20:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWe're one year out from Brazil's October 2022 presidential vote, but there are a lot of clues about the shape of the race already. IDEIA Big Data’s Mauricio Moura tells AS/COA Online's Luisa Leme how Jair Bolsonaro’s approval ratings, the pandemic, technology, and Brazilians' lack of interest ...
El Salvador's Bitcoin Gamble
Latin America in Focus - September 16, 2021 20:45 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn September 7, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt a cryptocurrency as official legal tender. But while President Nayib Bukele has grown accustomed to high levels of popularity, citizens marked the country’s September 15 bicentennial by protesting his Bitcoin decision. Th...
The Midway Point for Mexico's AMLO
Latin America in Focus - September 01, 2021 20:27 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsLuis Rubio, president of México Evalúa, joins AS/COA’s Carin Zissis to dig into how President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will work with a newly elected legislature as he shapes his legacy halfway into his presidency, as well as how U.S.-Mexico relations do—and don’t—work as a check on the Mexic...
How to Vaccinate a Hemisphere
Latin America in Focus - August 05, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsAcquiring hundreds of millions of vaccines is one thing. Getting them in the arms of hundreds of millions of Latin Americans is another. But partnerships with the private sector, existing vaccination networks, and the potential for boosted domestic production could upgrade the pandemic outlook f...
Pedro Castillo Gets the Keys to Peru’s Castle
Latin America in Focus - July 22, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsJournalist Mitra Taj and legal expert Alonso Gurmendi discuss the bumpy road ahead for Peru’s president elect, who faces opposition in Congress and among Lima’s elite, but whose presidency could change the face of the country’s politics and redefine the left. Opinions expressed in this podcast ...
What Happened to Latin America's Anti-Corruption Push?
Latin America in Focus - June 23, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsIn recent years, Latin America’s political pendulum has swung from building strong institutions toward electing strong leaders. The shift weakened the region’s nascent anti-corruption movement, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t bright spots. AS/COA Vice President and Americas Quarterly Editor-i...
A Complicated Copa América
Latin America in Focus - June 11, 2021 13:55 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe 2021 Copa America kicks off June 13 in an almost empty stadium in Brasília. The tournament was slated to take place in Argentina and Colombia, but a combination of Covid-19 and social unrest forced them to give it up. Still, with Brazil struggling to overcome the pandemic, politicians, playe...
A Pre-Midterm Pulse Check on the Mexican Electorate
Latin America in Focus - May 27, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWith Mexicans casting ballots for roughly 21,000 seats nationwide, the June 6 elections give voters a chance to assess President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s political movement nearly halfway through his presidency. El Financiero pollster and ITAM political scientist Alejandro Moreno tells AS/C...
Chile’s Busy Electoral Calendar
Latin America in Focus - May 10, 2021 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsChile kicks off its electoral cycle in May with a vote for local, gubernatorial, and constitutional delegates and concludes with the selection of its next president. Isabel Aninat of Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago joins AS/COA Online’s Luisa Horwitz to discuss what’s at stake in each vote...
The Push for Data Protection in Brazil
Latin America in Focus - April 29, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe transition to a fully digital world for many Brazilians reaffirmed data protection as a fundamental right. Still, concerns over both data privacy and protection loom large for the country after the recent implementation of a new data protection law and ahead of next year’s general elections....
The Story behind Joaquín Orellana's Musical Sculptures
Latin America in Focus - April 14, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsSonarimba, imbaluna, sinusoido, ululante. Joaquín Orellana’s musical sculptures have unusual names, formed by mixing words to describe the sounds they create. Co-curators Sebastian Zubieta and Diana Flatto tell us about the career of Guatemalan composer and artist featured in The Spine of Music....
Voter Fatigue in Ecuador and Peru
Latin America in Focus - March 30, 2021 19:03 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsEcuadorans were hoping for something new. Peruvians simply want a government that will work. In both countries, which hold elections on April 11, voters are largely unenthused by traditional politics—but have few viable alternative options. We preview both countries’ April 11 elections in conver...
How the Pandemic Boosted Financial Inclusion
Latin America in Focus - March 16, 2021 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThere may be few silver linings to the pandemic, but accelerated financial inclusion in Latin America is one of them. In this episode, Luz Gomez and Arturo Franco of Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth tell AS/COA Online’s Carin Zissis how COVID-19 compressed a decade’s worth of financial i...
Madeleine Albright and Mack McLarty on Democratic Resiliency in the Americas
Latin America in Focus - March 05, 2021 15:45 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratings“I hate to say this, but democracy is not in good shape at the moment,” says former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in conversation with ex-White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty. In light of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the two discuss their thoughts on how the United ...
Washington's Shifts on Central America Policy
Latin America in Focus - February 18, 2021 20:17 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsJoe Biden pledged a shift from Donald Trump’s policies when it comes to Central America, particularly on issues like migration, democracy promotion, and corruption. In this episode, we speak to Salvadoran journalist Nelson Rauda of El Faro about the differences between the two presidents' approa...
Vaccines and Variants a Year into the Pandemic
Latin America in Focus - February 03, 2021 21:42 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsFebruary marks a year since the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in Latin America. Now the pandemic has entered a new phase, one in which countries are trying to roll out vaccines as quickly as they can even as variants threaten to undermine the protection those vaccines offer. In this epi...
What’s on the Horizon for U.S.-Mexico Ties in a Biden Administration
Latin America in Focus - January 19, 2021 22:16 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsFrom tensions over the U.S. investigation against a Mexican general to reversing the Trump administration's immigration policy, there are plenty of pressing topics on the U.S.-Mexico agenda. COMEXI President and Mexico’s ex-Deputy Minister for North America Sergio Alcocer tells AS/COA’s Carin Zi...
Three Stories You May Have Missed in 2020
Latin America in Focus - December 21, 2020 20:28 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsFrom an absent president to illegal fishing to agro-tech, AS/COA Online dives into under-covered—but important—issues facing Latin America in a year of competing headlines. In this episode: AEI’s Ryan Berg talks about the deepening crackdown on Nicaragua’s opposition, Pew’s Dawn Borg Costanzi co...
IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva on Preventing another Lost Decade in Latin America
Latin America in Focus - December 16, 2020 20:48 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsLatin America should use the current crisis to “push for a greener, digital, and more inclusive future for the region,” said International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. In this conversation with AS/COA President and CEO Susan Segal, the economist outlined the structural r...
Latin America’s Potential for a Green Recovery
Latin America in Focus - December 02, 2020 14:33 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWith growing climate change concerns and the rising cost of oil extraction and production, governments around the world are considering reactivating their economies with more sustainable and less fossil fuel-reliant investments. IHS Markit’s Steven Knell and Escopo Energia’s Lavinia Hollanda exp...
How Data Voids Exploit the Latino Vote
Latin America in Focus - November 18, 2020 00:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsIf there isn’t quality, factual content on a topic, trolls and bots will be there to fill the gap with disinformation on online platforms. Claudia Flores-Saviaga, a Facebook fellow and PHD candidate at West Virginia University, tells AS/COA’s Carin Zissis what that meant for Latino voters in the...
On the Ground during Chile’s Year of Change
Latin America in Focus - November 02, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsUnrest, a pandemic, polarization, and an election. In 2020, we could be referring to a number of countries. But in this episode, we’re talking about Chile’s transformational year, beginning with an October 2019 protest against a transit-fare hike that sparked a movement to rewrite the country’s ...
The Good and Bad of COVID-19’s Education Disruption
Latin America in Focus - October 21, 2020 17:25 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsMost Latin American countries have yet to reopen schools as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. What does it mean for Latin America’s present and future human capital development? Brookings Institution’s Emiliana Vegas and Tinker Foundation’s Caroline Kronley cover the problems, but also the silv...
A Look at How Migrant Money Cushions Economies
Latin America in Focus - September 30, 2020 20:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsRemittances help pay medical bills and keep people fed in times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In Latin America, where many work informally and don’t have access to government assistance, the cash migrants send to their loved ones can even boost political stability and provide a buffe...
How Business Schools Adapt in Times of Crisis
Latin America in Focus - September 16, 2020 15:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe pandemic is upending education as we know it. But even before COVID-19 hit, political unrest sparked by economic and social inequality proved the desire for a conscientious approach to business. In this episode, Joanne Li of FIU Business and Ignacio de la Vega of Tecnológico de Monterrey’s E...
Putting Women at the Center of Latin America's COVID-19 Response
Latin America in Focus - August 26, 2020 17:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWomen were already struggling to achieve gender equity in Latin America. Then along came COVID-19, threatening jobs and bringing new burdens at home. PepsiCo’s Monica Bauer and Think Olga’s Juliana de Faria talk about the hurdles, as well as the opportunities arising for women in the region duri...
Putting Women At The Center Of Latin America S COVID - 19 Response
Latin America in Focus - August 26, 2020 17:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWomen were already struggling to achieve gender equity in Latin America. Then along came COVID-19, threatening jobs and bringing new burdens at home. PepsiCo’s Monica Bauer and Think Olga’s Juliana de Faria talk about the hurdles, as well as the opportunities arising for women in the region durin...
The Strange Case of El Salvador's Plummeting Homicide Rate
Latin America in Focus - July 29, 2020 14:34 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWas President Nayib Bukele’s tough-on-crime approach the reason behind El Salvador’s murder rate dropping 60 percent during his first year in office? International Crisis Group’s Tiziano Breda tells AS/COA Online’s Carin Zissis there’s more to the story. Read the report co-authored by Breda tit...
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