This week on Americas Now: The melting of the Jamapa glacier in Mexico
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Glaciers worldwide are melting due to climate change, leaving the central highlands’ snow-peaked mountains in Mexico increasingly bare. Alasdair Baverstock reports from the highest mountain.
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Cryptocurrencies have existed for a short time, but their rise has been rapid and, at times, very volatile. We wanted to know more about cryptocurrencies being adopted in Latin America. At the New York Stock Exchange, I met with Silvina Moschini, the founder of Unicoin, a relatively young crypto audited and backed by assets.
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Argentina is the Latin American country that has won the most Oscar nominations for best foreign film. It has a vibrant film industry, but finding funding to produce cinematic productions is becoming more challenging. Joel Richards met with several filmmakers to find new ways to finance these projects. One of them is the country’s most famous actor, Diego Peretti.
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Since the pandemic, the number of truck drivers in the U.S. has been drastically reduced. Thousands of these drivers decided to retire early, which has resulted in supply chain problems and increased consumer goods costs. Now, the industry recruits and trains new truck drivers, many coming from Mexico. Mike Kirsch met with one of them.
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