Ep 11: This Week in the Americas: Californians are flocking to Mexico!
Hrvoje and I do an update on last week’s news in the Americas. Recorded 6/14/2022 on TNT Radio. Tune in every Tuesday at 6 pm CST to listen live.
Show notes:
1:30 - Californians and Canadians fleeing to Mexico and causing gentrification
12:13 - Migrants staying in Mexico rather than going to the US
16:00 - Mexico to eliminate daylight savings time
18:15 - Nicaragua expanding military ties with Russia
22:00 - Global inflation rising
26:09 - Heist of the century in Colima and crime in Mexico
29:45 - Netflix is planning a ‘Squid Game’ reality show
32:35 - AMLO slams NATO policy in Ukraine
35:50 - Mexican utility companies receiving bad ESG scores
41:05 - BRICS getting their act together
42:10 - Border Patrol encounters 169 unaccompanied children
43:20 - US lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel
Sources:
- Why Californians are fleeing to Mexico
- 62% of Americans working from home plan to migrate to a new country.
- Charted: Money Can Buy Happiness After All
- WEF: Psychologists say a good life doesn’t have to be happy, or even meaningful
- Instead of picking strawberries in US, former migrants cultivate them in Oaxaca
- Mexico to Eliminate Daylight Saving Time
- Nicaragua’s Ortega strains US relations by expanding military ties with Russia
- Prices of construction materials shot up almost 20% in a year
- Heist of the century in Mexican seaport: Thieves carry off 20 containers without firing a bullet.
- Attacks against wholesalers shut down chicken sales in Guerrero capital
- Netflix is planning a ‘Squid Game’ reality show with a record $4.56 million cash prize
- Mexican president slams NATO policy in Ukraine
- Pemex y CFE en el umbral de riesgo severo en criterios ESG: México Evalúa
- Border Patrol encounters 169 unaccompanied children
- US lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel