Somewhere / Anywhere
Somewhere / Anywhere takes Spain and Latin America as a baseline and builds outward. Geopolitics, economics, technology—through incentives, institutions, and state capacity. Cosmopolitan by instinct, liberal by method, unsentimental about trade-offs.
This podcast is for listeners who take the world as what it is. Hosted by Rasheed and Diego.
Episodes
17 episodes
The Origins of Spain's Popular Party (PP) — Part 1
Spanish Political Parties Series, Part 1 of 8Why does Spain's Partido Popular speak so many different political dialects at once — Madrid's free-market libertarianism, Galicia's institutional conservatism, the Christian democrac...
Percival Manglano on Madrid, Power, and the Courage to Reform
Percival Manglano is one of the most underrated operators in modern Spanish politics. As Minister of Economy and Finance for the Community of Madrid, he passed three budgets in a single year, cut spending into the teeth of the worst recession s...
Pedro Schwartz: A Life in Spanish Liberal Thought | The Scars of Freedom
In this episode of Somewhere, Anywhere, we step outside the studio and into the home of one of Europe’s most important classical liberal thinkers: Pedro Schwartz. What follows is less an interview than a conversation across gene...
Esperanza Aguirre on Governing Madrid
Madrid didn’t become “Madrid” by accident. The late nights, the density, the sense that the city is competing for talent rather than managing decline. In this episode, Diego and I sit down with Esperanza Aguirre, former President of the Communi...
Tyler Cowen on Latin America
In this wide-ranging conversation, Tyler Cowen joins Rasheed and Diego to examine Latin America's structural challenges, cultural strengths, and economic future.Why do some countries remain trapped in political psychodrama while others q...
The EU's Real Weakness Isn't Brussels — It's Member States
In this episode of Somewhere/Anywhere, Rasheed and Diego engage in a wide-ranging debate on the political economy of Europe, the structure of the European Union, and the persistent confusion about where authority, responsibility, and fai...
Inside Spanish Bullfighting: Tradition, Ritual & Why It Endures
Why has Bullfighting survived the modernization of Madrid? It is usually encountered at a distance through stereotypes, political arguments, or half-remembered images. In this episode, Rasheed and Diego talk through the experience at g...
Mario Vargas Llosa: The Political Thought of a Classically Liberal Nobel Laureate
When Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima on 13 April 2025, the Hispanic world lost its most articulate apostle of classical liberalism. This episode dissects not the novels — brilliant though they are — but the ideas that powered them. We trace his...
Ecuador's Right-Wing Turn: Noboa, Crime & the Collapse of the Left"
Ecuador is one of the rare Latin-American economies that has zero price-tag chaos — and that’s thanks to its quarter-century embrace of the U.S. dollar. In 1999 the sucre collapsed, inflation hit 37 percent a year and banks went belly-up;...
Spain’s Open-Borders Bet: Immigration Boom—Miracle or Meltdown?
🚨 This podcast episode is a celebration of Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism: a real-world demonstration that open markets and open minds can deliver prosperity. 🔑 In 1990 less than 1% of the Spanish population were foreign residents....
Bolivia Bank-Run 2025: 72 Hours to Default?
Bolivia was once celebrated as South America's economic success story—rich in natural gas, flush with exports, and rapidly reducing poverty. Today, it's spiraling into crisis: crippling fuel shortages, disappearing reserves, soaring debt, and p...
Spain’s "Rocket Economy": Out of Fuel and Falling Fast
🚨 The Economic Boom Propaganda has to END 🚨 Ever heard about the "economic rocket" the Spanish government is bragging about? It is a hoax. Instead of soaring upward, Spain is spiraling into debt, joblessness, and misery— fas...
Javier Milei, Part 2: Where His Culture War and Libertarianism Go Wrong
🔴 Is Javier Milei a genuine libertarian, or is he drifting dangerously close to populist conservatism? In this episode, we dive deep into the ideology of Argentina's self-identified anarcho-capitalist President, Javier Milei, unpacking the crit...
Javier Milei, Part 1: Can Argentina Survive His Economic Shock Therapy?
What's really happening in Argentina under President Javier Milei? In this episode, we take a deep dive into the controversial "Chainsaw Reforms" introduced by President Milei, a radical set of policies aimed at drastically reshaping Argentina’...
Why Spain’s Transition to Democracy Remains Controversial
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Capitalismo Podcast, a new series dedicated to exploring the political economy of the Hispanic world entirely in English.In this first episode, co-hosts Diego Sánchez de la Cruz and Rasheed Griffit...