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Jack Rico
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🎬 Entertainment Journalist + Media Strategist
🎧 Co-Host, Brown & Black (2x Webby Awards)
🎭 Pop culture through a Latino POV 🇨🇴🇺🇸
🏛️ Television Academy + IADAS Member
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January 30, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Heartbroken by this news! I never met her, but her joyful aura on camera was truly magnetic to me. I recently watched her in THE STUDIO and it was impossible not to love her.

A massive loss for fans and the Hollywood community.
January 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Who knows which way all this goes. But we're in a new era. And we're just beginning to ask questions that are going to need new answers very soon.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
PREDICTION 6: America elects its first Latino president.

The demographics make it undeniable.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
PREDICTION 5: Mexico City becomes the gateway capital. Not Miami.

With its location to both the U.S. and South America, a massive manufacturing workforce, CDMX becomes the second-most important city in the West.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
PREDICTION 4: New York becomes the capital of the new American order.

Washington and Mar-a-Lago run administration and military.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
PREDICTION 3: The Caribbean becomes the Hamptons of the Western Hemisphere.

Should Cuba fold, Wall Street developers will have their crown jewel… the world's most desirable real estate destination.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
PREDICTION 2: Spanish-language media in the US turns into heritage programming.

Univision and Telemundo become heritage and nostalgia US outlets, but serve as the gateway networks for Latin American audiences.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
PREDICTION 1: American Latinos become the center of Latino culture.

The definition of "Latino" in America will go from Latin American to American Latino. From Spanish to English. From immigrant identity to US-born identity.

"Latino" will mean American, the same way "Italian" or "Irish" does today.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
For decades, U.S. Latinos have existed in this strange limbo: "Too Latino to be American, too American to be Latino."

But today:
• 1 in 5 Americans are U.S.-born Latinos
• Majority are English-dominant & young

This reality check spills over into 6 predictions I foresee for the next decades…
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Who benefits most from this E.U. like unification of the Americas?

• Wall Street
• American tourists
• South American elites in step with U.S. interests
• The South American middle class

And one group rarely talked about: American Latinos.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
But will South America roll over and just accept Americanization?

History says yes. Rome offered citizenship. Britain offered trade. America brings prosperity and security.

If income triples across the continent, most will take the deal. Their children will have opportunities they never imagined.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Just look at these LATAM numbers:
• Argentina, Bolivia, Chile have 60% of global lithium
• Brazil has 12% of Earth's fresh water
• Peru has 2nd largest copper reserves
• Colombia is LATAM's largest coal producer
• Mexico has a top manufacturing workforce

Ripe for A.I.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
But for the AI economy to work, it needs minerals and vast resources: copper, lithium, land, labor, and energy.

Latin America has all of it. And always has.

Whoever controls these resources controls the physical infrastructure of the AI era.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Nobody knows when this geopolitical mess ends. But if we end up with a theoretical unified Americas under U.S. leadership…

you're describing the wealthiest economic bloc in human history.

An AI-powered super-continent built on Latin American resources and the almighty American dollar.
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM