{"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/5a178289-28ad-46e7-8146-1f8fbe6c0550/7b171ca4-4b5f-4a8f-acbf-4a1425085bee/3000x3000/podcast-cover.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"AS/COA Online","episode_count":237,"summary":"Go in depth on the latest trends in Latin American politics, economics, and culture in this podcast series by Americas Society/Council of the Americas.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000"},"episode":{"title":"How a U.S. Tax Could Hit Latin American Remittances","slug":"how-a-u-s-tax-could-hit-latin-american-remittances","published_at":"2025-06-26T04:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000/how-a-u-s-tax-could-hit-latin-american-remittances","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/5e3a0204-9735-4642-a8e2-8492b9f80e70/audio/774fef6b-a889-4071-aa63-40ace43421c1/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=_DUdLkxj","summary":"Tucked inside the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill is a proposed tax of 3.5 percent on remittances that could have major consequences for how much money Latin American immigrants can send home to their loved ones—and how they send it. “Immigrants are going to absorb that tax in order to keep sending money to their families [or] they could change the channels they use,” says René Maldonado, coordinator of CEMLA’s remittances program and consultant for the IDB’s migration unit.","meta_description":"Tucked inside the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill is a proposed tax of 3.5 percent on remittances that could have major consequences for how…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1759,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/latin-america-in-focus-50000/episodes/how-a-u-s-tax-could-hit-latin-american-remittances/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/how-a-u-s-tax-could-hit-latin-american-remittances.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}