Greg talks with Patrick Iber, who is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso (and soon to be at the University of Wisconsin). He studies the history of U.S.-Latin American relations, and is the author of Neither Peace Nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America. They discuss that […]

Greg talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who is the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and has won numerous awards for her reporting. She has reported from all over the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq when those wars were starting, as well as the Arab Spring uprising. In terms of Latin American politics, she was Mexico […]

Greg talks with Leiv Marsteintredet, who is Associate Professor of Latin American Area Studies at the University of Oslo. His main areas of study are presidentialism and constitutionalism in Latin America. I ask him about whether presidentialism is in crisis (or whether it’s just always in crisis) and how this plays out across the region.

Greg talks with Iñaki Sagarzazu, who is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. He studies political communication, voting, and Venezuelan politics. The topic is Venezuela. Is it an autogolpe? What’s going on? Fittingly, we end on a depressing note.

Greg talks about the possibility that the Organization of American States will take some sort of action with regard to Venezuela (as meetings take place literally today). There a lot of prescriptions out there, but rarely do they take the major obstacles into consideration. Many thanks to Xanda Lemos, a History Ph.D. student at Emory, […]

Greg talks with Silvia Borzutzky, who is Teaching Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Carnegie Mellon University. She has written extensively on social security and health policies in Chile, as well as Chilean politics (including with me!). She has a forthcoming book with Palgrave entitled Human Rights Policies in Chile: The Unfinished Struggle […]

Greg talks with Robert Funk, who is assistant professor of political science at the Instituto de Asuntos Públicos of the Universidad de Chile. He’s in the Chilean media a lot and elsewhere as well, and in the past year or so explaining to Latin American audiences what Donald Trump is all about. That’s the precisely […]

Greg talks with Elizabeth Stein, who is the Mark Helmke postdoctoral scholar of global media, development and democracy and a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies. The topic is presidential attacks on media in Latin America, with comparison to Donald Trump. Be sure to check out her recent piece […]

Greg talks with Stephanie Slaughter, who is Associate Professor of Spanish at Alma College, about President Trump and Latinx engagement on social media. She just published an article in The Latin Americanist on the topic: “#TrumpEffects: Creating Rhetorical Spaces for Latinx Political Engagement.”

Greg talks with James Bosworth, a consultant who is well known in the Latin American politics blogosphere for Bloggings by Boz, which is even older than my blog. The topic is Ecuador’s presidential election. Wikileaks even gets into the conversation.