Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Y Bolivia sabe que la inundación es grave.

En diciembre del 2025, las lluvias en Santa Cruz dejaron decenas de muertos.

Y aquí les quiero dar un poco de contexto.

El Niño es un fenómeno climático natural que aparece cada dos a siete años y se calienta en el océano Pacífico y cambian los, los vientos, la presión, las lluvias de todo el planeta, y esto suele atraer un clima extremo.

I also have Nico Cespedes, who is our managing director.

And together, we have been building a partnership with UPSA, the university in Santa Cruz, where our offices are on Design Build Lab.

So thanks for joining me today, Santiago and Nico.

Sure.

Let's see how it happens.

And they didn't put any barriers into making this happen.

Yeah, I think ultimately we did go through, we thought about how can we build a shop here in the US? We thought about how do we need to build a shop there in Santa Cruz, which ultimately that's where the majority of our people are.

So that was the goal.

He was an Argentinian political consultant, went to Mar-a-Lago a lot, works with Don Jr. and Brad Parscale and this whole MAGA network over here.

On August 17, 2026, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, his pregnant partner, Bolivian lawyer and activist Nadia Beller, 33 years old, was shot multiple times outside a hotel by two men posing as fast food delivery drivers.

She survived.

Ceramido was arrested the next day at the airport while apparently trying to escape.

But, yeah, and if you weren't in Southeast Asia, then, yeah, it would be Central or South America somewhere.

And, you know, in one of those, you could go live in, like, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

You could live like a king.

You know, I would not want to live in La Paz simply for multiple reasons.

Putting Kylian Mbappé right up in the clouds there.

And the third group match against Senegal will be at the Estadio Ramon Tahuichi in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, which is actually Bolivia's largest city, not the capital La Paz.

I didn't know that before this episode.

That has a much lower altitude than the other venues at 416 meters.

And basically slept on my best friend's couch for about a month while I put up my hand to volunteer with the organization that she had told me about, which was being held through the University of Noor.

It's called the Universidad Noor in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

and Bolivia.

So I started volunteering with them and just showed up every day and was like, Hey, I'm here.

He was a manipulator.

This was in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

I think about 15, maybe 20 years ago.

A long time ago.

He met an American girl.

They got educated here, California.

Then they came back to Bolivia, Santa Cruz.

And I said, so why do you live here? He says, very simply.

My sort of Challenger.

But of course, you've got Fernley, Zumkehr, Nardi, Mo, Jeré, uh, others in action in Albia, Rohan, Maya, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, San Gregorio de Canti- uh, de Cantania, uh, all in action this week at the ATP Challenger level.

So a lot to like, plenty for us to discuss day in, day out as our coverage continues here on the Mini Break Podcast feed.

Of course, we'll have two more Great Shot Podcast feed, uh, two more episodes on the Great Shot Podcast feed talking all things college tennis this week.

If you're wondering, Boston, they changed their name from the Americans to the Red Sox in 1907.

1976, a cargo jet, it crashed on takeoff in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Killed all three of the, on the cargo jet.

It killed 97 people on the ground.