Podcast

Greg talks with Jennifer Piscopo, Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College and Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. She is an expert on gender quotes and political representation of women in Latin America. How has representation improved over time? How did gender quotas get going in the first place? How has this changed sexist attitudes, if at all? You have to listen to find out.

In Episode 5, Greg talks with Colin Snider, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, about Brazil. Did the country experience a coup? Can the PT recover from this? Was the World Cup a terrible idea or just a bad one?

In Episode 4 of Understanding Latin American Politics: The Podcast, Greg talks with Robert Karl, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, about the historical context of the failed referendum in Colombia. Note: go buy his book when it comes out next year.

In Episode 3, Greg discusses the Colombia peace agreement and upcoming referendum with Adam Isacson, Senior Associate for Regional Security Policy at the Washington Office on Latin America. It includes a bit of Thomas Friedman-like analysis. But only a bit.

In Episode 2, Greg talks to Mike Allison, who is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Scranton. He also blogs at Central American Politics. The topic is Nicaraguan politics: what is Daniel Ortega doing and why is he doing it? Apologies for some audio problems as the bugs in this podcast continue to get worked out.

In this first episode, I discuss developments in Venezuela, which includes Chinese debt and bad jokes by Nicolás Maduro about the “Maduro diet.”