Rewriting Mexico’s Security and Energy Agendas
October 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 Ca...
13 Okt 202140min
What to Expect When Expecting the Brazilian Elections
We'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...
30 Sep 202138min
El Salvador's Bitcoin Gamble
On 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...
16 Sep 202128min
The Midway Point for Mexico's AMLO
Luis 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 int...
1 Sep 202133min
How to Vaccinate a Hemisphere
Acquiring 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 ...
5 Aug 202128min
Pedro Castillo Gets the Keys to Peru’s Castle
Journalist 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 chang...
22 Jul 202131min
What Happened to Latin America's Anti-Corruption Push?
In 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 th...
23 Jun 202132min
A Complicated Copa América
The 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 force...
11 Jun 202126min
