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How the Dominican Republic Breaks Latin America’s Election Mold
Latin America in Focus - April 25, 2024 19:13 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe Dominican Republic’s Luis Abinader is one of the most popular leaders in Latin America, if not the world, so it may come as little surprise that Abinader appears to be on comfortable footing to win in the first round of the country’s presidential vote on May 19. But then again, the country’s...
Is Latin America Ready for Another Pandemic
Latin America in Focus - April 11, 2024 04:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsPod dek: An old adversary of Latin America is back: Dengue. The current outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease is the worst in years. Across the region, from Argentina to Brazil to Puerto Rico, images of hospitals filled with patients are coming into view. Four years after the start of the...
Is Latin America Ready for Another Pandemic?
Latin America in Focus - April 11, 2024 04:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsAn old adversary of Latin America is back: Dengue. The current outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease is the worst in years. Across the region, from Argentina to Brazil to Puerto Rico, images of hospitals filled with patients are coming into view. Four years after the start of the Covid-19...
What's on the Economic Agenda for Panama's Next President?
Latin America in Focus - March 27, 2024 04:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsPanama is facing a moment of uncertainty amid an electoral race with eight candidates, droughts affecting the Panama Canal, and fallout over massive 2023 mining protests. But Felipe Chapman, chairman and managing partner of economic and financial advisory firm INDESA, remains optimistic about hi...
4.4. Garifuna Stories In Belize With Ifeanyi Elswith
Ritmos Negros - March 24, 2024 19:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsYou are now listening to Ritmos Negros Podcast! Did you know that the Garifuna people arrived in Belize on November 19th, 1802? Come learn about Afro-Belizean history and how it relates to the Garifuna people from our special guest: Ifeanyi Elswith! Born to a Garifuna mother and Kriol father fro...
Brian A. Nichols on the Biden Administration's Latin America Policy
Latin America in Focus - March 13, 2024 04:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsJust hours before Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere Brian A. Nichols joined AS/COA in an event covering the state of U.S. policy in the Americas. In a conversation with AS/COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth, Ambassador N...
As Mexico’s Election Fires Up, a Look at Youth and Democracy
Latin America in Focus - February 22, 2024 05:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsIn Mexico’s 2024 vote, more than a quarter of eligible voters are under 30 and nearly half are under 40. That means younger voters have an opportunity to play a major role in an election not only for president, but one that will see more than 20,000 seats up for grabs. But they have to participa...
How Courts Can Make or Break Latin America's Corruption Battle
Latin America in Focus - February 08, 2024 15:56 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWhen it comes to corruption perceptions, Latin America is stagnating. And what’s one major obstacle to improvement? Judiciary independence, explains Transparency International’s Luciana Torchiaro. In this episode, she dives deep into how the region fared in her organization’s latest Corruption P...
4.3. Herencia Garífuna en Centroamérica con Arnol Guity Martinez
Ritmos Negros - February 05, 2024 21:07 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings¡Ya estás escuchando a Ritmos Negros! En este episodio, discutimos todo sobre la comunidad garífuna, la negritud en Honduras y los ritmos afrocaribeños en Centroamérica. La cultura garífuna es una mezcla de indios arawak y africanos occidentales que se formó en la isla de San Vicente y las Grana...
4.3. Garifuna Heritage in Central America with Arnol Guity Martinez
Ritmos Negros - February 05, 2024 20:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsYou are now listening to Ritmos Negros! In this episode, we discuss everything about the Garifuna community, Blackness in Honduras, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms in Central America. The Garifuna (Gah-Ri-Fu-nah) culture is a mixture of Arawak Indian, and West African that was formed in the island of...
Online Reach and Expat Votes in El Salvador’s Election
Latin America in Focus - January 25, 2024 05:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratings2024 will be a big year for Latin American elections, and the first one takes place in El Salvador. Popular President Nayib Bukele is likely to win a race that showcases his regional—and global—influence. Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas’ Roberta Braga explains how Bukele’s social med...
4.2. Analizando La Cultura De Reggaetón Con La Gata
Ritmos Negros - January 07, 2024 09:10 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsYa estás escuchando a Ritmos Negros! ¡En este episodio escuchamos a La Gata! La Gata es una artista, productora ejecutiva y crítica musical panameña-jamaicana cuyo trabajo ha cambiado el paradigma racial en el reggaetón en todos los medios. Desde reggae en español, dancehall, perreo, dembow, san...
4.2. Analyzing The Culture Of Reggaeton With La Gata
Ritmos Negros - January 07, 2024 09:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsYou are now listening to Ritmos Negros! In this episode, we hear from La Gata! La Gata is an artist, executive producer, and music critic of Panamanian-Jamaican whose work has shifted the race paradigm in Reggaeton across media. From reggae en español, dancehall, perreo, dembow, sandungueo and m...
Ten Years in, What's the Future of Mexico's Morena Party?
Latin America in Focus - December 14, 2023 05:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratings2024 doesn’t just mark Mexico’s biggest elections ever, but the tenth anniversary since Morena, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, became an official party. And it now faces a test: will it build on its expanding control or find itself reined in by Mexican voters in June 2024? I...
Beyond the Boom: Latin American Writing in Translation
Latin America in Focus - November 30, 2023 17:11 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsEarlier this year, Latin American literature lost a champion when Edith Grossman, one of the foremost Spanish language translators, passed away. Grossman not only translated some of the region's master writers, but she advocated for her profession and for the value of reading in translation. In ...
Did Colombia’s Local Elections Spell Problems for Petro?
Latin America in Focus - November 09, 2023 05:05 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn October 29, Colombians voted for mayors and governors across the country, and President Gustavo Petro’s candidates fared poorly in an election that many say served as a referendum on his leadership. Sergio Guzmán, director of Colombia Risk Analysis, talks with AS/COA Online’s Jon Orbach about...
Venezuela’s Energy Sector Primes for a Thaw
Latin America in Focus - October 26, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsOctober was a busy month for Venezuela. The United States eased sanctions on the country’s oil sector, the opposition and the Maduro regime sketched out an electoral roadmap, and María Corina Machado triumphed in the opposition primary. What does all this mean for the country’s energy sector? ...
Hold On Ep 2
Mike Parker's weekly message and Bible Study. - October 23, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMike has a new Video Blog series titled Hold On. in this series the goal is to encourage you to hold on through the struggle and know that God is there with you every step of the way. In this episode Mike shares a story about his dad being diagnosed with cancer and how God stepped in to allow so...
Can Carbon Markets Finance Brazil’s Green Transition?
Latin America in Focus - October 12, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsAs the world falters in its 2015 Paris Agreement goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Brazil is helping turn the tide. As the country’s Senate approved a bill that would regulate companies releasing more than 10,000 tons of CO2 per year, it looks to start making a profit on emissions...
Dollarization, Inflation, and Voter Frustration in Argentina
Latin America in Focus - September 28, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsArgentines face a three-horse race when they vote for a president on October 22. Each contender has distinct ideas for resolving the country’s economic and security woes. One of those candidates— libertarian Congressman Javier Milei—has brought back the idea of dollarizing the country’s economy....
4.1. Conozcan a Ana Yency - ¡Ritmos y Historias de los Afro-Salvadoreños!
Ritmos Negros - September 24, 2023 05:29 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings¡Ahora están escuchando a Ritmos Negros! ¡BIENVENIDOS A LA TEMPORADA 4! En esta nueva temporada, descubriremos los muchos "ritmos" e historias de raíz negra de Centroamérica y México. Comenzando con El Salvador, hablamos con Ana Yency, una mujer afrosalvadoreña de la etnia panune. Ella es una ac...
4.1. Meet Carlos Lara - Afro-Salvadoran Rhythms and Stories!
Ritmos Negros - September 24, 2023 05:10 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsYou are now listening to Ritmos Negros! WELCOME TO SEASON 4! In this new season, we will uncover the many Black-rooted "ritmos" and stories of Central America and Mexico. Starting off with El Salvador, we hear from Afro-Salvadoran, Queer artist Carlos Lara who is also the sub-director of the Org...
How Women Won Political Parity in Mexico—and What Comes Next
Latin America in Focus - September 14, 2023 04:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsWith Mexico’s two main political alliances selecting Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez as their 2024 contenders, it’s looking likely that the country’s next president will be a woman. But already in Mexico, women hold a range of top political seats and have achieved gender parity in Congress....
What AI’s “Tectonic Change” Means for Latin America
Latin America in Focus - July 26, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsArtificial intelligence may spark job loss fears across the Americas, but businesses and people in the region are increasingly adopting the technology. Ángel Melguizo, partner at Argia and Latin America advisor to UNESCO on ethics and AI, outlined what countries need to do to benefit from the AI...
Michael Reid on This EU-Latin American Moment
Latin America in Focus - July 12, 2023 06:20 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe second half of 2023 will see Spain take over several EU leadership posts, and Madrid has pledged to deepen its focus on EU-Latin American relations. Could this lead to aflourishing regional relations? Ahead of the EU-CELAC summit in July, author Michael Reid explained the roadblocks to tran...
Empowering North American Goals
Latin America in Focus - June 28, 2023 16:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsIn a world struggling with geopolitical uncertainty, how can North America offer a secure environment and economic stability? In this episode, conducted in collaboration with the U.S.-Mexico Foundation (USMF), we explore the answer to this question and more. USMF Managing Director Enrique Perret...
Guatemala's Electoral Crossroads
Latin America in Focus - June 07, 2023 18:58 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsGuatemalans head to the polls June 25 with their country’s democracy at a crossroads. Despite nearly two dozen presidential candidates on the ballot, three key contenders were eliminated and dozens of the country’s corruption-battling prosecutors and journalists face exile or imprisonment. What ...
3.12. Meet Joela-Abiona Rivera - Trans Stories in the Black Diaspora!
Ritmos Negros - May 28, 2023 06:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsYou are now listening to Ritmos Negros! As we wrap up Season 3 of the Ritmos Negros Podcast and head into Pride Month (June), we decided to take a little break from the music and dance content. In this episode, we hear from Joela-Abiona Rivera who is an Afro-Caribbean abolitionist, educator, & c...
Life after “Crossed Death” in Ecuador
Latin America in Focus - May 24, 2023 20:08 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 58 ratingsEcuador’s Guillermo Lasso chose to do something unprecedented on May 17, invoking a constitutional clause that dissolved the National Assembly and triggered a new set of elections for the executive and legislative branches. Now that he’s Lasso ruling by decree, what can Ecuadorans expect in this...
3.11. Conozcan a Dionis Bahamonde - ¡Tambor Venezolano!
Ritmos Negros - May 21, 2023 14:38 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings¡Ahora están escuchando a Ritmos Negros! En este episodio, hablamos con Dionis Bahamonde, percusionista del grupo San Juan USA que es la fiesta de tambores afrovenezolanos más grande de los EEUU. ¡Vengan a aprender del maestro sobre las raíces negras de Venezuela! ¡Anímanse el 2 de julio en Mi...