35 West
The CSIS Americas Program podcast looks at the politics and policies of the 35 countries in the Western Hemisphere. It especially focuses on U.S. engagement with the region, whether on trade, diplomacy, or security issues like drugs and terrorism. Guests include top policymakers from the U.S. and other countries.
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Best of 35 West: Venezuela’s Cryptocurrency Exp...
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Moises Rendon to discuss why cryptocurrencies have become so popular in Venezuela, and how they are transforming the humanitarian sector.
21 min
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Pedro Castillo Captured the Imagination of Peru...
Margarita R. Seminario and Dr. Jo-Marie Burt of George Mason University discuss how a rural schoolteacher and union leader like Pedro Castillo captured the imagination of poor, rural, indigenous Peruvians.
35 min
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Time to Press “Reset” and Sketch a Path Forward...
Haiti on a good day is highly complex. The recent set of events triggered by the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse created a power vacuum and threw the Caribbean nation into even deeper turmoil.
22 min
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Fishing for Solutions: Combatting Illegal, Unre...
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Michael Eddy to discuss Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in the Western Hemisphere.
20 min
105
Building the Future: Gender Equity and Global F...
Please enjoy this special Building the Future episode with 35 West host Margarita R. Seminario on inclusive access to finance for women.
26 min
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Best of 35 West: An Inclusive Response to Venez...
Margarita R. Seminario and Logan Coleman discuss the challenges faced by Venezuelan youth and women in the Caribbean, an often-overlooked host destination for migrants.
28 min
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Nicaragua’s IN-credible Elections
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Dr. Jennie K. Lincoln, a Senior Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at The Carter Center on peace initiatives, to discuss the deterioration of democracy, human rights, and governance in Nicaragua.
28 min
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Enfoque de género y el proceso de paz de Colomb...
In this special Spanish-language episode, Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Juanita Millán Hernández, the only woman in the Colombian military's delegation to the negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC.
21 min
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Renewables Transition in the Americas: Could Bi...
In this special guest host episode, Dan Runde, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Americas Program, sits down with Ricardo Mussa, CEO of Raízen, a Brazilian integrated energy company focused on bioenergy and renewables.
24 min
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Understanding Gang Disengagement and Breaking t...
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Jose Miguel Cruz to discuss the results of two USAID-funded studies prepared with Democracy International on gang disengagement in Guatemala and Honduras.
23 min
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An Inclusive Response to Venezuela Migrants in ...
Margarita R. Seminario and Logan Coleman discuss the challenges faced by Venezuelan youth and women in the Caribbean, an often-overlooked host destination for migrants.
28 min
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Election Watch 2021: Peru's General Election / ...
In this special Spanish-language episode, Margarita R. Seminario discusses Peru's 2021 elections with Piero Corvetto, the Head of Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE).
18 min
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Venezuela’s Cryptocurrency Experiment
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Moises Rendon to discuss why cryptocurrencies have become so popular in Venezuela, and how they are transforming the humanitarian sector.
21 min
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Tracking the Disruption of Electoral Processes ...
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Gerardo Berthin, Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Programs at Freedom House.
20 min
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Venezuela's Security Crisis: The Colombian Pers...
Moises Rendon and Ambassador Francisco Santos Calderón discuss the humanitarian impact of the Venezuelan migrant crisis playing out in neighboring Colombia.
24 min
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The Biden-Harris Agenda for Latin America: What...
Moises Rendon sits down with CSIS Senior Advisor Ambassador William Brownfield to discuss developments in Venezuela, Chile, and Colombia.
35 min
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Forced Labor & Environmental Degradation in the...
In this special Spanish-language episode, Margarita sits down with Pilar Velasquez to discuss informal and illegal gold mining and its connection to environmental degradation and forced labor in the Andean region.
35 min
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How Can Latin America Achieve Equity and Social...
Margarita R. Seminario and Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian discuss food insecurity, poverty, gender disparities, and other barriers to social inclusion in Latin America.
21 min
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How USAID is Prioritizing the Rights of Indigen...
Luis Felipe Duchicela outlines the barriers that the international development community has historically faced in assisting indigenous communities, and how those barriers helped shape USAID's new policy.
26 min
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The Responsibility to Protect Venezuelans
Moises Rendon and Elisabeth Pramendorfer discuss how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) applies to the case of Venezuela
29 min
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Combatting trafficking in persons in the Andean...
Margarita R. Seminario and Ambassador John C. Richmond discuss trafficking in persons in the Andean region, and particularly in the context of the informal mining sector.
25 min
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Reducing Crime and Poverty: A Conversation with...
In this special Spanish-language episode of 35 West, Dan Runde, Senior Vice President and the Director of the CSIS Americas Program, sits down with María Eugenia Vidal, the former Governor of the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.
37 min
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Inside the Orange Economy
Viceminister Felipe Buitrago Restrepo shares his experience in designing policies to promote the orange economy in Colombia.
28 min
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Unpacking USAID's Efforts in Venezuela: A Discu...
"Estamos con Ustedes": USAID Acting Administrator John Barsa on Understanding USAID's Role in Venezuela
20 min
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What Can the Private Sector Do to Help Venezuela?
Maria Moreno and Moises Rendon talk about the private sector's response to the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela
25 min