This Week in the Americas Episode 20. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 8/17/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Wednesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes:

3:00 Wealthy Americans are flocking to Florida at four times the rate of any other state

9:00 More celebrities hiring private security as crime surges around Los Angeles: 'In fear for their life'

17:10 HBO's The Anarchists - Episode 3 - Propaganda Breakdown and Backstory

27:30 Why Are Border Smugglers Trafficking Bologna?

29:15 Government sets new education plan in motion with pilot in 960 schools.

34:20 Mexico Sees Its Energy Future in Fossil Fuels, Not Renewables

38:50 Mexico President to Bypass Congress to Keep Army in Streets.

40:25 CFE lanza paquetes de internet y telefonía móvil; estos son sus precios

This Week in the Americas Episode 19. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 8/10/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Wednesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes:

3:40 Arrest of Jalisco cartel plaza chief triggers fiery backlash in 2 states

9:35 ¡Surge la tortilla pirata! ¿Qué es y cómo identificarla?

10:45 “Nos vamos a volver vegetarianos por necesidad” Mexicanos optan por vegetales ante Altos Precios de la Carne. Officially an overall increase in 8%. 

12:18 México y Brasil brillan entre los mercados bursátiles del mundo

16:05 Beach destinations see summer tourist numbers exceed those of 2019

18:45 Colombia to let citizens use digital ID for contactless cross-border travel in South America

19:57 Colombia Enlists Ripple Labs to Put Land Deeds on Blockchain

20:40 Mercado Libre to Expand Crypto Trading Across Latin America

27:45 Official Statement From Peter Schiff in Response to the OCIF Settlement on Euro Pacific Bank

36:22 Mexico: Inflation hits 21-year high ahead of rate decision

This Week in the Americas Episode 18. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 8/1/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes:

3:08 Name change urged for gorditas: it’s discriminatory, say critics.

6:10 The government didn't do anything': Mexican, Brazilian monkeypox responses draw concern. 

11:18 New Mexico mammoths among best evidence for early humans in North America

14:47 The Fuel Thefts That AMLO Tried to End Are Getting Worse Again.

19:40 Trudeau leaves Canada for two-week tropical vacation in Costa Rica 

23:30 Denuncian morenistas compra de votos e intervención del gobierno estatal durante elección interna en Morelos

25:50 Alcaldías aumentan los "Pulsos de vida" para proteger a las mujeres

30:11 Iran Seeks to Increase Its Influence in Latin America, Experts Warn

32:55 Abandoned in Mexico, 94 migrants escape trailer before suffocating.

37:00 LA Times Today: Why the FBI is investigating surrogates in Mexico.

This Week in the Americas Episode 17. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 7/27/2022 on TNT Radio.

Show notes:

4:30 Californians and other Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some locals want them to go home

6:00 The Bay Area exodus has come to Mexico — is it hurting locals?

14:17 How the Path to Homeownership Runs Through Mexico

16:21 Cartels, safe houses, and WhatsApp ransoms: US-Mexico migrant smuggling is now worth $13bn.

26:30 Secretaría de Salud: Protestan en la CDMX por la viruela del mono

28:30 U.S. Trade Complaint Against Mexico Puts López Obrador in a Corner

31:30 Plan contra inflación de AMLO reduce 48% el precio del sulfato de amonio: Sader

32:15 Cuba starts accepting Russia’s Mir payment cards

40:42 Iran to Grow Food on a Million Hectares in Venezuela

This Week in the America’s Episode 16. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 7/19/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes:

2:30  Scarcity of bottles, high aluminum prices create beer shortages

5:27 Mexico’s capture of drug kingpin could be signal to US

15:10 Guardia Nacional tiene flota de drones, pero poco personal que los sepa volar

17:53 Los nuevos trenes chinos para el Metro tendrán 35% de manufactura mexicana; así son

21:27 Water situation is critical in 4 states: Conagua

27:20 Moody’s baja la calificación soberana de México

28:50 58% of Mexicans are in favor of the possession of firearms in homes.

38:30 Inversiones de ‘nearshoring’ no alcanzan a disipar riesgo de recesión: IMEF

This Week in the America’s Episode 15. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 7/12/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes: 

0:53 “The Anarchists” HBO Series

8:00 Jill Biden forced to apologize after saying Latinos unique as ‘breakfast tacos’

12:00 Luis Echeverria, Mexico leader blamed for massacres, dies

14:00 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST TO LAUNCH IN LATIN AMERICA

17:00 Mexico agrees to invest $1.5B in 'smart' border

21:00 AMLO Condemns Texas Plan to Use National Guard for Migrants

29:00 Officials remove massage therapists from Nayarit beach

31:45 COVID: Positive positive cases higher than the first wave

36:05 Nayib Bukeles Failed Bitcoin Experiment in El Salvador

38:15 Bitcoin ATM operates in Cancún but outside jurisdiction of financial authorities.

This Week in the America’s Episode 14. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 7/5/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes: 

2:00 - Regulator in Puerto Rico suspends operations of Euro Pacific Bank.

13:37 - López Obrador to campaign to ‘tear down the Statue of Liberty’ if the US convicts Julian Assange

15:45 - Mexico Leader To End Daylight Saving, Keep “God’s Clock”

17:38 - Senior Catholic Church leader says government should not shirk its responsibility to provide security.

21:05 - 3 Texas counties to declare border emergency over ‘unprecedented’ crisis.

21:55 - Even the Globalist United Nations Believes that the US’s Southern Border with Mexico is the Most Dangerous Land Crossing in the World.

25:25 - AMLO opens new refinery but production could be more than a year off.

28:28 - 5G development in Latin America

32:42 - Guadalajara’s smart city plan

38:00 - Parents in Hidalgo demand to eliminate virtual classes.

41:45 - Aeromar adds new flights between Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara

This Week in the America’s Episode 12. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 6/28/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes: 

3:20 - Liberals leaving the US because of Roe vs Wade

11:20 - 50 migrants die in trailer abandoned in San Antonio heat

17:20 - The Importance of Colombia’s Election

24:00 - Mexican students prefer to work for large corporations or the government

31:20 - Pirates Are Holding Up Mexico’s Oil Rigs at Gunpoint

33:10 - Big business could wipe out Mexico’s sacred psychedelic peyote cactus

34:20 - Energy: US preparing a ‘coup’ of the energy sector in Mexico

38:50 - Russia’s digital nomads head for Latin America

42:10 - Cocaine, meth and pot-laced snacks found in suitcase full of candy in Jalisco

This Week in the Americas, Episode 12. Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 6/21/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes: 

6:15 - Gun buyback in Mexico

8:30 - Petro’s win in the Colombian Election

23:20 - Cameras used to punish littering in Guadalajara

27:00 - World Cup 2026 to bring us closer to the North American Union

31:27 - AMLO blames foreign interests for his corruption accusations

36:30 - Private companies providing potable water to homes

39:13 - US Congressional report on Crime and Drug trafficking in Mexico

41:15 - Mexico pushing for self-sufficiency in energy and food production.

Sources: 

• Seguridad en Jalisco: Cambia su revólver por un microondas en Guadalajara
• DeSantis Warns of ‘Disastrous’ Consequences of the Election of Marxist Gustavo Petro in Colombia
• Marco Rubio’s Tweet
• Blinken’s Tweet
• Guadalajara: Tras instalación de cámaras, detienen a 14 por tirar bolsas de basura en Puntos Limpios
• AMLO ve manos extranjeras en acusación sobre sus presuntos nexos con el narco
• Guadalajara considering a plan to bring drinkable tap water to all homes
• Congressional research Service: Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations 
• Ante temor por recesión en EU, México apostará por autosuficiencia energética y en alimentos: AMLO

Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 6/14/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.

Show notes: 

1:30 - Californians and Canadians fleeing to Mexico and causing gentrification

12:13 - Migrants staying in Mexico rather than going to the US

16:00 - Mexico to eliminate daylight savings time

18:15 - Nicaragua expanding military ties with Russia

22:00 - Global inflation rising

26:09 - Heist of the century in Colima and crime in Mexico

29:45 - Netflix is planning a ‘Squid Game’ reality show 

32:35 - AMLO slams NATO policy in Ukraine

35:50 - Mexican utility companies receiving bad ESG scores

41:05 - BRICS getting their act together

42:10 - Border Patrol encounters 169 unaccompanied children

43:20 - US lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel

Sources: 

• Why Californians are fleeing to Mexico
• 62% of Americans working from home plan to migrate to a new country.
• Charted: Money Can Buy Happiness After All
• WEF: Psychologists say a good life doesn’t have to be happy, or even meaningful
• Instead of picking strawberries in US, former migrants cultivate them in Oaxaca
• Mexico to Eliminate Daylight Saving Time
• Nicaragua’s Ortega strains US relations by expanding military ties with Russia
• Prices of construction materials shot up almost 20% in a year
• Heist of the century in Mexican seaport: Thieves carry off 20 containers without firing a bullet.
• Attacks against wholesalers shut down chicken sales in Guerrero capital
• Netflix is planning a ‘Squid Game’ reality show with a record $4.56 million cash prize
• Mexican president slams NATO policy in Ukraine
• Pemex y CFE en el umbral de riesgo severo en criterios ESG: México Evalúa
• Border Patrol encounters 169 unaccompanied children
• US lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel