Experiencias: Isadora Zubillaga on Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom
The diplomat shares how she convinced the EU to get behind Juan Guaidó.
Podcasts
LatAm in Focus: How Data Voids Exploit the Latino Vote
Facebook Fellow and WVU PhD candidate Claudia Flores-Saviaga explains how disinformation fills online content gaps, particularly for Spanish speakers.
Experiencias: Amb. Martha Bárcena on Getting More Women Sitting at the Table
Mexico’s top diplomat in Washington shares her thoughts on rising through the foreign service ranks and the challenges for gender parity today.
LatAm in Focus: On the Ground during Chile's Year of Change
Santiago-based journalist John Bartlett talks about covering the protests and a vote to rewrite the country’s constitution, even as a pandemic bore down.
Experiencias: Michele Levy on Growing Leadership Skills
The Brazilian entrepreneur shares her advice on building out a passion project in this podcast.
LatAm Focus: The Good and Bad of COVID-19’s Education Disruption
The pandemic undercuts Latin America’s educational advances, but highlights innovations, too. Brookings’ Emiliana Vegas and Tinker Foundation’s Caroline Kronley explain.
Experiencias: Isabel de Saint Malo on Keeping Women in the Workforce
We need to be less harsh about returning to work after family leave, says Panama’s former vice president in the debut podcast episode, hosted by AS/COA’s Susan Segal.
LatAm in Focus: A Look at How Migrant Money Cushions Economies
Remittances help provide food, medicine, and even political stability. Creative’s Manuel Orozco, NYU’s Roy Germano, and Remitly’s Matt Oppenheimer talk remittance trends in pandemic times.
LatAm in Focus: How Business Schools Adapt in Times of Crisis
Even before the pandemic, turbulence in the Americas was driving a new approach to education, say Deans Joanne Li of FIU Business and Ignacio de la Vega of EGADE.
LatAm in Focus: Putting Women at the Center of Latin America's COVID-19 Response
PepsiCo’s Monica Bauer and Think Olga’s Juliana de Faria cover ways to approach pandemic recovery through a gender lens.
LatAm in Focus: The Strange Case of El Salvador's Plummeting Homicide Rate
Was President Nayib Bukele's tough-on-crime approach the solution? International Crisis Group's Tiziano Breda says there’s more to the story.
Radio Con Vos: Susan Segal sobre la renegociación de la deuda externa en Argentina
“Un acuerdo tiene que ser balanceado y justo, y creo que la oferta del gobierno lo es”, dijo la presidenta y CEO de AS/COA.
LatAm in Focus: How Uruguay Got It Right
Tales of pandemic mismanagement abound globally. PAHO’s Dr. Giovanni Escalante covers the steps Uruguay took to become a success story.
VOA: Eric Farnsworth on COVID-19 in Latin America
"It's a really tragic situation across the region," said the AS/COA vice president.
LatAm in Focus: Shining a Light on Police Abuse in Mexico
World Justice Project’s Roberto Hernández, a lawyer and co-director of Presunto culpable, delves into the country’s high rate of police torture as well as progress shown by “islands of integrity.”
LatAm in Focus: How Brazil Could Slow Its Coronavirus Outbreak
Harvard University’s Marcia Castro explains how the country, now seen as the pandemic’s epicenter, could reverse course.
PRI: Guillermo Zubillaga on the Agreement Between Guaidó and Maduro to Fight Coronavirus
It's notable that this is the first time the two administrations have come together, the head of the AS/COA Venezuela Working Group said.
LatAm in Focus: The Myth of the Monolithic Latino Vote
In this episode, we dig into the data on this U.S. voting bloc with Mark Hugo Lopez of the Pew Research Center.
LatAm in Focus: How Is the Coronavirus Changing Brazil?
Listen to three past guests share how COVID-19 has redrawn the scenario for Brazil’s China ties, the battle against misinformation, and Amazon deforestation.
VOA: Eric Farnsworth - "Regional Coordination of Pandemics Needs to Be Strengthened"
"Most countries at this point are just wrapped up in their own domestic crises," said the AS/COA vice president about the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America.
