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Mexico Matters

Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Mexico Matters podcast series highlights key developments in Mexico and their impact on the United States.

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Listen to Mexico Matters, a Government & Organizations podcast by Center for Strategic and International Studies. Stream 57 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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It's the Monopolies, Stupid

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Adolfo Babatz, Founder and CEO of Clip, the company that transformed the Mexican streetscape by not onl...

49:22Apr 9, 2026

AI: Leapfrogging into the Future

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Jimena Pardo and Federico Antoni, Managing Partners of Hi Ventures, a Venture Capital fund investing in...

40:10Oct 21, 2025

Can the U.S. Win the Narcos War?

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Ioan Grillo, a journalist and prolific author specializing in organized crime and drug trafficking. The...

47:27Sep 11, 2025

Breaking All the Rules

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Juan Carlos Baker, former USMCA negotiator and Director General for North America at the Ministry of th...

44:27Aug 4, 2025

Benefiting Cartels by Law 

In this episode, Mariana speaks with former Supreme Court Minister, Jose Ramon Cosío about the implications of the judicial constitutional r...

27:02Jul 7, 2025

More Carrots and Less Sticks

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Dr. Ryan Berg, director of the Americas Program at CSIS, about China’s increased presence in Latin Amer...

35:55May 15, 2025

What Mexico Has to Offer

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Alan Bersin, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California and US Border Czar under Pres...

45:05May 9, 2025

Everything is Relative—including Tariffs

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Luis de la Calle, renowned economist, former NAFTA negotiator and the CEO of CMM Asociados. They discus...

35:10Mar 14, 2025

Are Tariffs THE Right Weapon?

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Kevin Brady, former U.S. Rep. (R-TX) and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Kenneth Sm...

46:28Feb 11, 2025

America and the World under Trump 2.0

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Dr. Hamre, President and CEO of CSIS and Seth Jones, President of the Defense and Security Department a...

49:32Jan 27, 2025

Trump is Not The Enemy, Narcos Is

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology...

35:57Dec 9, 2024

Trump vs Harris: Who is best for what?

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Alan Stoga, Chairman of the Tallberg Foundation and Host of the New Thinking for a New World podcast, a...

46:38Nov 4, 2024

Wait and See

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Carlos Peyrelongue, head of Mexico Equity Research for Bank of America, about the state of the country...

41:22Oct 14, 2024

Picking Winners and Losers

In this episode, Mariana speaks with Alejandra Palacios, former head of Mexico’s antitrust agency, COFECE, and Andrea Durkin, VP for interna...

44:25Oct 2, 2024