Latin Pulse: 6.12.2015
from Latin Pulse Hosted by Rick Rockwell
Trade and financial concerns provide the central themes this week on Latin Pulse as the program focuses on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the debt crisis in Puerto Rico. With the U.S. Congress split over the TPP, the program debriefs an economic expert on how the proposed trade pact will have an impact on jobs in Latin America, the U.S. and Asia too. The program also unravels the key issues related to the debt problems of Puerto Rico. The news segment of the program covers the ongoing debate between Argentina and the U.K. over disputed islands in the South Atlantic. The program includes in-depth interviews with: Rob Scott of the Economic Policy Institute; and Mauro Guillen of the Lauder Institute of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; Producer: Jim Singer; and Production Assistant: Sierra Hancock. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.) (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.) podcast news Latin America trade politics finance economics Argentina Puerto Rico Chile Mexico United States United Kingdom Falkland Islands Peru labor NAFTA globalization education TPP Barack Obama Trans-Pacific Partnership debt crisis Las Malvinas David Cameron Hector Timmerman healthcare pharmaceuticals Canada copyright law welfare taxes U.S. Congress Alejandro Garcia Padilla
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