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Until You Run Out of Other People’s Money 
Dec 19, 2025 36 min

Until You Run Out of Other People’s Money 

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Juan Pablo Spinetto, an opinion columnist at Bloomberg covering Latin America business, economic affairs and politics, about President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first...

AI: Leapfrogging into the Future
Oct 21, 2025 40 min

AI: Leapfrogging into the Future

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Jimena Pardo and Federico Antoni, Managing Partners of Hi Ventures, a Venture Capital fund investing in AI startups in Latin America. They discuss how a second ...

Can the U.S. Win the Narcos War?
Sep 11, 2025 47 min

Can the U.S. Win the Narcos War?

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Ioan Grillo, a journalist and prolific author specializing in organized crime and drug trafficking. They discuss how and why security cooperation between t...

Breaking All the Rules
Aug 04, 2025 44 min

Breaking All the Rules

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Juan Carlos Baker, former USMCA negotiator and Director General for North America at the Ministry of the Economy, about the impact tariffs have had on Mexico an...

Benefiting Cartels by Law 
Jul 07, 2025 27 min

Benefiting Cartels by Law 

In this episode, Mariana speaks with former Supreme Court Minister, Jose Ramon Cosío about the implications of the judicial constitutional reform pushed by President Claudia Sheinbaum and passed by...

More Carrots and Less Sticks
May 15, 2025 35 min

More Carrots and Less Sticks

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Dr. Ryan Berg, director of the Americas Program at CSIS, about China’s increased presence in Latin America, transforming itself from a distant economic par...

What Mexico Has to Offer
May 09, 2025 45 min

What Mexico Has to Offer

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Alan Bersin, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California and US Border Czar under President Obama and Luis Rubio, a leading Mexican political a...

Brazil’s Protectionist Model Should Be No Guide for the US
Apr 23, 2025 29 min

Brazil’s Protectionist Model Should Be No Guide for the US

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Pedro Pullen Parente, a remarkable Brazilian public servant and businessmen.  Pedro was previously Minister of Planning, Chief of Staff, Minister of M...

Everything is Relative—including Tariffs
Mar 14, 2025 35 min

Everything is Relative—including Tariffs

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Luis de la Calle, renowned economist, former NAFTA negotiator and the CEO of CMM Asociados. They discuss the future of globalization, the current perceptio...

Are Tariffs THE Right Weapon?
Feb 11, 2025 46 min

Are Tariffs THE Right Weapon?

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Kevin Brady, former U.S. Rep. (R-TX) and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Kenneth Smith Ramos, former USMCA Chief negotiator for Mexico, abou...

America and the World under Trump 2.0
Jan 27, 2025 49 min

America and the World under Trump 2.0

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Dr. Hamre, President and CEO of CSIS and Seth Jones, President of the Defense and Security Department at CSIS. They discuss the role America has had historicall...

Trump is Not The Enemy, Narcos Is
Dec 09, 2024 35 min

Trump is Not The Enemy, Narcos Is

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She is ...

Trump vs Harris: Who is best for what?
Nov 04, 2024 46 min

Trump vs Harris: Who is best for what?

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Alan Stoga, Chairman of the Tallberg Foundation and Host of the New Thinking for a New World podcast, about the importance of the U.S. elections, the state of U...

Wait and See
Oct 14, 2024 41 min

Wait and See

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Carlos Peyrelongue, head of Mexico Equity Research for Bank of America, about the state of the country that President Claudia Sheinbaum has inherited from her p...

Picking Winners and Losers
Oct 02, 2024 44 min

Picking Winners and Losers

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Alejandra Palacios, former head of Mexico’s antitrust agency, COFECE, and Andrea Durkin, VP for international policy at the National Association of Manufacturer...

Keep those Plates Spinning in the Air
Aug 15, 2024 40 min

Keep those Plates Spinning in the Air

On this episode, Mariana speaks with General David Petraeus, former CIA Director, Retired Army General, Partner of KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, about the major and minor challenges...

Impartiality, If You Can Keep It
Jul 24, 2024 45 min

Impartiality, If You Can Keep It

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Kenneth Smith Ramos, former Chief Negotiator of USMCA from the Mexican side and partner of AGON, about how the Constitutional Reforms proposed by President Lope...

It's More Than Grit: Moving the Economic Needle
Jun 24, 2024 33 min

It's More Than Grit: Moving the Economic Needle

In this crossover with It's More Than Grit: The Making of an Entrepreneur, a new podcast from CSIS, Linda Rottenberg, Co-founder and CEO of Endeavor, joins Mariana Campero and co-host Andrew Schwar...

Power is the Greatest Aphrodisiac
Jun 12, 2024 44 min

Power is the Greatest Aphrodisiac

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra, a political science expert from Monterrey Tec, about Claudia Sheinbaum’s landslide victory in the Mexican elections and explains wh...

Mexico Imposes Tariffs on China
May 16, 2024 43 min

Mexico Imposes Tariffs on China

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Juan Carlos Baker, former USMCA negotiator on the Mexican side and CEO of Ansley International Consultants, about the facts behind the recent Chinese investment...