The Expat Files: Living in Latin America

The Expat Files: Living In Latin America - 1.9.26

#1- The Maduro capture and after effects in a few words:

 

#2- Gringos looking for love in Latin America:

 

#3- Why do so many beautiful Latina women have unattractive, low-value husbands and boyfriends?

 

#4- How to lose 2 points on your gringo attractiveness scale:  

 

#5- Those ultra, ultra, super cheap gringos and expats who make all of us look bad: 

 

#6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files: Living in South America - Episode 1488

Descriptions - EXPAT FILES SHOW #1488, FRI, JAN 02 (01-02-26): 

 

#1- What expats need to know about Chat GPT and other AI platforms:

 

#2- Expat Insider seminar stories that will amaze you:

 

#3- When the will to “get out of dodge” diminishes with time:

 

#4- Will your wife or significant other thwarts your Plan B efforts:  

 

#5- No good deed goes unpunished (that goes for Latin America too): 

 

#6- 10 most dangerous jobs:

 

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files: Living in Latin America

#1- The ins and outs and proper steps to having your SS check deposited in your Latin American Bank Account:

 

#2- Why despite your natural resistance and repusion to brain numbing USA buerocracy …you really need to set up a personal account on the US Social Security website:

Setting up a personal account on the SS  website will eliminate a lot of headaches when things go wrong (and they will go wrong eventually)

 

#3- DYK that in order to get residency in certain Latin American countries, there are multiple dreaded vaccine requirements?

Yes, this is bad news, but some countries like Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador don’t enforce those rules at all….

 

#4- Disgusting Latin American culinary surprises you will encounter:  

 

#5- Tips for gringos and expats who are able to buy Latin American properties with CASH: 

 

#6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

EXPAT FILES SHOW #1486 - 12-19-25

#1- 3rd world optimism versus reality:

 

#2- Why 3^rd world countries remain 3^rd world as 1^st world countries slwly slip into 3^rd world status:

 

#3- How Latinos score on the big 5 personality traits as compared to gringos and expats:  

 

#4- Getting the Nobel piece (of shit) prize:  

 

#5- Latin Americans have a certain idea of what your previous life in the USA was like…. and it is all wrong:

 

#6- Latin American party etiquite:    

 

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

 

The Expat Files: Living In South America #1485, FRI, DEC 12 (12-12-25):

#1- Expat landlords in Latin America:

Is being a landlord worth the hassle?

#2- 3rd world landlord rental property dilemmas you won’t encounter in the 1^st world:

 

#3- Why Latin American real estate deals don’t seem to make sense to gingos and expats:

You need to look beyond the obvious. Chances are you're not analyzing the secondary factors...

 

#4- Yo must get it into your head that Latin America is a “renter’s” market:  

 

#5- How smart Latin American real estate owner’s low-ball their property tax bills:

 

#6- Why it's true that for most Latinos owning a home is practically the only way to beat inflation:    

 

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

 

The Expat Files: Living in Latin America - #1484, FRI, DEC 05 (12-05-25):

#1- Latina eating habits that bug gringos and expats:

Should you mention them or hold your tongue?

 

#2- Poor food safety and bad hygiene habits in Latino markets:

 

#3- The foolish dating app traps gringos and expats routinely fall for:  

 

#4- Guilty pleasures -Part 2:  

 

#5- The Latin American minimum wage battles:

 

#6- Data shows we are about 20% worse looking and less handsome than we think we are:

Is that good or bad news?     

 

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files Show #1483

#1- The downside of being bilingual:

Yes, it's true, some people say there is a downside…

#2- The 3^rd world inferiority complex:

#3- The “not so obvious’ signs that you are experiencing a 3^rd world country:

By the way, the USA is moving along on that fast track path…

#4- Driving self-defense tips when on the road in Latin America:  

#5- A word about gringo fashion sense or lack of it, sometimes referred to as the Gringo / Latino  “bling” gap:

#6- Latin American “Acts of God”(or not);

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files Show 11.21.25

#1- DYK there groups of expat gringos holding no kings protesters in Latin America?

WTF?

#2- Travel… the best education in the world:

#3- The things your cleaning lady gets away with behind your back:  

#4- No one likes a gringo “know it all”:  

#5- Why is it so many fakebook expat groups seem to be made up of vocal, cringy,anti-capitalist, anti-trump wokesters?

Thankfully though, they're found almost exclusively on the gringo tourist trail…     

#6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files 11-14-25

#1- Guilty pleasures:

I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours…

#2- The dark side of love and romance in Latin America:

#3- TEN more good reasons to get the hell out of Dodge:  

#4- Do Latina women lie when they openly compliment average gringo men on their looks and tell them that they are sooo handsome…

#5- How Latinas classify and rate other Latinas:

Often times Latinas are their own worst critics…

#6- comparing Latin American Junk food versus typical American junk food:

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

EXPAT FILES SHOW FRI, NOV 07 (11-07-25)

#1- The cost of dying in Latin America:

 

#2- What about wills, testaments and powers of attorney in Latin America:

 

#3- You won’t believe the crazy differences between Latino funerals held in the campo (out in boonies) versus a typical funerals held in the city:  

 

#4- Being a weekday Catholic in Latin America:

Its awful confusing and definitely not logical…

 

#5- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com