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LatAm in Focus: Mafalda, Argentina's Feisty Heroine, Now Speaks English
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Listen to translator Frank Wynne discuss bringing Quino’s beloved comic strip to U.S. audiences this year.

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LatAm in Focus: How a U.S. Tax Could Hit Latin American Remittances
June 26, 2025
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Will a new levy slow the flow of funds to Latin America? CEMLA’s René Maldonado covers shifting remittance trends in the region.  

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The Igarapé Institute’s Laura Trajber Waisbich outlines the country’s proactive approach to foreign policy in an increasingly tense global context.

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LatAm in Focus: The New Era of U.S.–China Competition in Latin America
May 14, 2025
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Margaret Myers of SAIS explains how both Beijing and Washington are recalibrating their approach to engagement with the region.

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LatAm in Focus: Could the 2026 Vote Be Peru’s Political Reset?
April 24, 2025
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Bloomberg’s Marcelo Rochabrún and Universidad del Pacifico’s Javier Albán analyze what to expect a year ahead of the presidential vote.

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LatAm in Focus: Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa
April 17, 2025
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Listen to this bonus episode of a conversation between the Peruvian writer and legendary translator Edith Grossman, recorded at Americas Society in 2012.

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LatAm in Focus: Top Mexican CEOs on the Depth of U.S.-Mexico Integration
April 10, 2025
/ Luisa Leme / Gladys Gerbaud

Private and public sector leaders share how Mexican investments are driving jobs and growth across industries—from steel to baked goods.

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LatAm in Focus: Trade and Tensions—Latin America Braces for Trump's Tariffs
March 27, 2025
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Ahead of April 2, trade expert Kellie Meiman Hock explains the motivators behind the shift in U.S. trade policy and what tariffs mean for the region.

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LatAm in Focus: Drugs, Guns, and Dollars—Unpacking the Cartels' FTO Designation
March 13, 2025
/ Luisa Leme / Chase Harrison / Gladys Gerbaud

FTI’s Pablo Zárate and ITAM’s Cecilia Farfán-Méndez explain what the U.S. security policy shift means for bilateral business and North American relations.

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LatAm in Focus: What Brazil Can Teach the Americas About Immigration
February 28, 2025
/ Luisa Leme / Khalea Robertson

Migration experts Diego Chaves-González and João Jarochinski Silva explore Latin America’s reception of migrants, highlighting a novel strategy in Brazil.

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LatAm in Focus: The Durability of Mano Dura in Ecuador
February 13, 2025
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Brookings’ security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown explains President Noboa’s security challenge. Will his Bukele-like hardline approach pay off?

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LatAm in Focus: Did Trump's Day One Set the Tone for Latin America?
January 23, 2025
/ Luisa Leme / Gladys Gerbaud

Juan Cruz Díaz, Brian Winter, and Carin Zissis discuss the region's place in Trump's inauguration and first executive orders.

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LatAm in Focus: The Soft Power of Latin American Music
December 12, 2024
/ Luisa Leme / Khalea Robertson

Americas Society’s Music Director Sebastián Zubieta shares his passion for the music and musicians that embody the eclectic traditions of the region.

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LatAm in Focus: Lula, Sheinbaum, and Milei on a Shifting Global Stage
November 20, 2024
/ Fabrizio Ricalde / Chase Harrison

Three experts from the Latin American members of the G20 discuss how leaders are navigating Trump’s return and U.S.-China competition in the region.

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LatAm in Focus: Latin America's Companies of Tomorrow, Today
November 7, 2024
/ Luisa Leme

Business leaders from Riverwood Capital, Rappi, and VTEX talk about investing in the region and what it takes to build billion-dollar companies.

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LatAm in Focus: What Do Brazil's Municipal Elections Say About Polarization in the Region?
October 17, 2024
/ Luisa Leme

Political analyst Thomas Traumann examines gains by the opposition, as well as Lula's scenario for 2026 amid deep political divides.

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LatAm in Focus: Could a Referendum Rattle Uruguay's Presidential Election?
October 3, 2024
/ Luisa Leme / Khalea Robertson

Nicolás Saldías of the Economist Intelligence Unit profiles the frontrunners and discusses the stakes of a pension question on the October 27 ballot.

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LatAm in Focus: What Brazil's Twitter Ban Tells Us about Internet Laws in Latin America
September 19, 2024
/ Luisa Leme / Chase Harrison

NetLab’s Marie Santini and University of Palermo’s Agustina Del Campo cover the X shutdown and the regional panorama of social media regulation.

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LatAm in Focus at 200: What Do We Know about Electoral Trends in the Americas?
August 29, 2024
/ Carin Zissis / Luisa Leme / Chase Harrison

In episode 200, Pew’s Mark Hugo Lopez, AQ’s Brian Winter, and AS/COA’s Carin Zissis talk electoral shifts in Mexico, the U.S., and across Latin America.

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LatAm in Focus: Venezuela's Electoral Battle on the Ground and Online
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Caracas-based journalist Tony Frangie Mawad and ProBox Executive Director Mariví Marin Vázquez explore what’s at stake in the July 28 election.

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