{"podcast":{"title":"Borders: Conversations on Global South Capital and Geopolitics","slug":"borders-conversations-on-global-south-capital-and-geopolitics-7872364","podcast_index_feed_id":7872364,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/610105/rss","website_url":"https://vesper.vc/borders/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/0/0/e/400eadebb579460216c3140a3186d450/Borders_Podcast_Cover_-20260313-d105hb3s33.png","author":"Vesper","episode_count":15,"summary":"Hosted by Mr. Andrew J. Henderson, Borders is a long-form conversation series exploring how power, capital, and influence actually move across the world. Much of the modern global economy is being shaped far beyond the traditional centers of Western media attention. Across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America, new markets, institutions, and power structures are quietly taking form. Each episode features a thoughtful conversation with founders, investors, policymakers, and operators working directly inside these environments; people building companies, infrastructure, financial systems, and cultural institutions in places where the future is being negotiated in real time. Rather than debate or commentary, Borders is structured as a calm, exploratory conversation. Episodes move deliberately, allowing guests to explain how markets, incentives, and societies actually function on the ground; often revealing dynamics that rarely appear in headlines. Guests range from frontier-market investors and bank executives to infrastructure developers, reform-minded policymakers, and founders building new industries across emerging regions. 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Rather than debating politics inside fixed national rules, Prospera asks a more radical question: what if the rules themselves are the product? If governance can be redesigned like software or a company, can better law actually outperform the nation‑state? Early in the conversation, Erick explains how Honduras' post‑crisis search for investment opened the door to a Hong Kong–style special jurisdiction, backed by private capital but embedded in Honduran sovereignty. From there, they walk through what Prospera looks and feels like on the ground, why it runs on common law and arbitration, how it became the first place to allow full Bitcoin unit‑of‑account operations, and how the project fits into nearshoring, BPO, and broader Central American development. In this episode, Andrew and Erick discuss: Why Prospera exists at all - Honduras opened the door to a privately run, Hong Kong‑style jurisdiction so it could test whether better rules, not just more aid, could drive real development. How Prospera treats governance as a service: a common‑law framework, for‑profit arbitration in place of traditional courts, and a revenue‑share deal where Honduras earns without putting up capital. What life and work in Prospera look like today, and more about the resort‑meets‑startup hub on Roatán that blends tourism, young founders, crypto and biotech companies, and a growing community of remote workers. How Prospera plugs into global money and crypto: Bitcoin approved as legal tender and usable as a full unit of account, plus clear, entrepreneur‑friendly rules for crypto and financial firms. Where the real economic upside lies: bilingual Honduran t…","meta_description":"Mr. Henderson sits down with Erick Brimen, co-founder and CEO of Prospera, a privately governed jurisdiction on the Honduran island of Roatán. 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