{"podcast":{"title":"Latin America in Focus","slug":"latin-america-in-focus-50000","podcast_index_feed_id":50000,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/_DUdLkxj","website_url":"https://www.as-coa.org/podcast","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/0f4ff6c8-4785-4f1f-b924-d27657704f2d/e33b7fb1-d25f-48bd-9353-27d67b7cd942/3000x3000/latinamericainfocus3000x3000.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"AS/COA Online","episode_count":242,"summary":"Latin America in Focus is the leading English-language podcast on Latin American politics, economics, and policy. What does AI's tectonic change mean for Latin America? Are youth losing faith in democracy? Can the region power up its lithium and critical minerals prospects? Will security or foreign policy influence elections? Latin America in Focus (or LatAmFocus) takes on topics like these, giving context to the big issues affecting the Americas today. Twice a month, Americas Society / Council of the Americas Online team brings you in-depth interviews with top experts, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs on the ground in and from countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, and more. Go in depth on the latest trends in Latin American politics, regional trade and economics, foreign policy, and culture in this podcast series by Americas Society/Council of the Americas.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T14:22:56.144877+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000"},"episode":{"title":"Andrés Velasco on How Latin America Can Reboot Its Economic Rules","slug":"andr-s-velasco-on-how-latin-america-can-reboot-its-economic-rules","published_at":"2025-12-10T06:10:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000/andr-s-velasco-on-how-latin-america-can-reboot-its-economic-rules","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000","url":"https://www.as-coa.org/podcast","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5a178289-28ad-46e7-8146-1f8fbe6c0550/episodes/9a2cac90-b172-44f2-a351-6d06f6962252/audio/06be9686-d8c2-48f1-b9b3-6119d721a11c/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=_DUdLkxj","summary":"Thirty-five years after the Washington Consensus, a group of the world’s leading economists have assembled a new book formulating an alternative road map for developing economies, The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century. One of the books co-editors, prominent Chilean economist Andrés Velasco, recently stopped by the New York headquarters of Americas Society/Council of the Americas to present core principles to guide refreshed and adaptable economic policies in Latin America and beyond. In conversation with AS/COA President and CEO Susan Segal, the former finance minister of Chile and current dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science emphasized the need for greater attention to delivering well-being for all and boosting state capacity to complement private-sector efforts. Given the diversity of today’s challenges—from climate change, to AI and the future of work, to trade fragmentation and political polarization—Velasco called for economists and policymakers to be more like medical doctors: assessing symptoms before handing out prescriptions.","meta_description":"Thirty-five years after the Washington Consensus, a group of the world’s leading economists have assembled a new book formulating an alternative road map…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2478,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/latin-america-in-focus-50000/episodes/andr-s-velasco-on-how-latin-america-can-reboot-its-economic-rules/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000/andr-s-velasco-on-how-latin-america-can-reboot-its-economic-rules.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}