Listen: Former Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan says migration tensions will be an early test for Mexico’s incoming president. Plus, Speyside Mexico’s Amy Glover on the chances for positive change.
Podcasts
Aos Fatos’ Tai Nalon explains how the country’s 2018 elections proved a new, complex relationship between voters, news, and government.
Listen: J.P. Morgan’s Emy Shayo discusses the country’s main economic woes and the policies proposed by the president-elect’s pick for finance minister, Paulo Guedes.
Listen: Some 300,000 migrants transit Mexico each year. UT Austin’s Stephanie Leutert tells AS/COA Online’s Carin Zissis about the country’s overburdened system—and how to improve it.
The short answer? They don’t want to go to jail, says past and future presidential candidate Julio Guzmán of the Purple Party.
Listen: How many Puerto Ricans died is a source of controversy. George Washington University epidemiologist Dr. Ann Goldman talks about the report at the center of it all.
Listen: AS/COA Brazil experts Brian Winter and Roberto Simon cover the race and why leading candidates Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad represent competing visions of a “better” past.
Listen: Venezuela welcomed immigrants for decades. Now Latin America has “the opportunity and the responsibility” to welcome Venezuelans, says Human Rights Watch’s Tamara Taraciuk Broner.
Listen: With work to be done to build a counterweight, President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party has plenty of room to push through priorities, says Odracir Barquera.
Entrepreneurial couple Idania del Rio and Leire Fernández share the adventures and hurdles involved with launching the island’s first independent fashion label.
Listen: Daniel Ortega has consolidated power through a web of corruption, says political analyst Javier Arguello.
Demographic shifts will change everything, from Latin American migration to the United States to nativism as a political strategy, explains Princeton’s Douglas Massey.
AS/COA's CEO and president spoke with J.P. Morgan about what investors think about Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the frontrunner in Mexico's election.
Nación321’s Pancho Parra talks about why the youngest voters back the oldest candidate and their expectations for the future.
Mexican pollster Jorge Buendía explains why Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s poll lead keeps growing, and how the election is redefining political rivalries.
“It’s not that we don’t trust anyone anymore. It’s that we trust those who are like us,” said Llorente & Cuenca’s Luisa García at an AS/COA YPA event.
Hablamos con emprendedores sobre el impacto de las medidas que han tomado los gobiernos de los Estados Unidos y de Cuba.
Listen: Experts from 100 Resilient Cities and the Getty Research Institute cover how the past and future connect in the urban areas that the vast majority of Latin Americans call home.
Northwestern’s Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez explains why the international private sector might be more effective than sanctions at bringing change to the South American country.
In light of the VIII Summit in Lima, AS/COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth covers the issues on the table and ways the event can become more effective.