35 West

Center for Strategic and International Studies

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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207 episodes
Updated July 23

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Jul 22, 2021 · 20 min
Fishing for Solutions: Combatting Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Michael Eddy to discuss Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in the Western Hemisphere.
Jul 8, 2021 · 26 min
Building the Future: Gender Equity and Global Financial Inclusion
Please enjoy this special Building the Future episode with 35 West host Margarita R. Seminario on inclusive access to finance for women.
Jun 24, 2021 · 28 min
Best of 35 West: An Inclusive Response to Venezuela Migrants in the Caribbean
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.
Jun 10, 2021 · 28 min
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.
May 27, 2021 · 21 min
Enfoque de género y el proceso de paz de Colombia: Una conversación con Juanita Millán Hernández
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.
May 13, 2021 · 24 min
Renewables Transition in the Americas: Could Bioenergy Be The Future?
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.
Apr 29, 2021 · 23 min
Understanding Gang Disengagement and Breaking the Cycle of Encierro, Destierro y Entierro
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.
Apr 15, 2021 · 28 min
An Inclusive Response to Venezuela Migrants in the Caribbean
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.
Apr 1, 2021 · 18 min
Election Watch 2021: Peru's General Election / Elecciones 2021: Las elecciones generales de Perú
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).
Mar 18, 2021 · 21 min
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.
Feb 18, 2021 · 20 min
Tracking the Disruption of Electoral Processes in the Digital Age
Margarita R. Seminario sits down with Gerardo Berthin, Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Programs at Freedom House.
Feb 4, 2021 · 24 min
Venezuela's Security Crisis: The Colombian Perspective
Moises Rendon and Ambassador Francisco Santos Calderón discuss the humanitarian impact of the Venezuelan migrant crisis playing out in neighboring Colombia.
Jan 21, 2021 · 35 min
The Biden-Harris Agenda for Latin America: What Can We Expect?
Moises Rendon sits down with CSIS Senior Advisor Ambassador William Brownfield to discuss developments in Venezuela, Chile, and Colombia.
Jan 7, 2021 · 35 min
Forced Labor & Environmental Degradation in the Mining Industry
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.
Dec 10, 2020 · 21 min
How Can Latin America Achieve Equity and Social Inclusion?
Margarita R. Seminario and Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian discuss food insecurity, poverty, gender disparities, and other barriers to social inclusion in Latin America.
Nov 19, 2020 · 26 min
How USAID is Prioritizing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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.
Nov 5, 2020 · 29 min
The Responsibility to Protect Venezuelans
Moises Rendon and Elisabeth Pramendorfer discuss how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) applies to the case of Venezuela
Oct 22, 2020 · 25 min
Combatting trafficking in persons in the Andean region
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.
Oct 8, 2020 · 37 min
Reducing Crime and Poverty: A Conversation with María Eugenia Vidal
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.
Sep 24, 2020 · 28 min
Inside the Orange Economy
Viceminister Felipe Buitrago Restrepo shares his experience in designing policies to promote the orange economy in Colombia.