Good morning and happy Friday! I wrote in World Politics Review about how Milei Is Planning to Shake Up Argentina’s Foreign Policy, Too.
Here is this week’s reading list and upcoming events.
Reading List
LAPOP - Pulse of Democracy
Americas Quarterly - Do Latin America’s Top Prosecutors Have Too Much Power?
Global Americans - Reevaluating the Threat: Terrorism in Latin America
El País - How to regulate ‘the Wild West’ of carbon markets in Latin America
Road to the Casa Rosada - Argentina Politics Update - 29 November 2023
Americas Migration Brief - November 27, 2023
Bloomberg - Latin America’s Biggest Economies See Unemployment Tick Down
Americas Quarterly - Lula’s Security Policy is Rehashing Old Ideas
Wall Street Journal - Brazil Charts $100 Billion Path to Be Global Oil Power
BBC - COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals
Economist - To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it
Reuters - Venture capital firm NXTP to target Brazil, Mexico tech startups with $98 mln fund
GIS - Mexico takes stock of five years of AMLO
Reuters - How Mexico muddies the waters on fighting climate change
Economist - Why Chinese companies are flocking to Mexico
New York Times - Growing Numbers of Chinese Migrants Are Crossing the Southern Border
Bloomberg - Oil Executives Flock to Venezuela, Braving Risk of US Snapback Sanctions
Miami Herald - He does it all: military captain, lawmaker, alleged boss of cartel drowning U.S. in drugs
CSIS - On the Uses and Misuses of Venezuela Sanctions
Americas Quarterly - Guyana Official: Venezuela’s Actions Are an “Unprecedented” Challenge
Financial Times - Colombia’s leader promised ‘total peace’. Then violence surged
New York Times - Baseball Flourishes in Colombia’s Capital. But Not Because of Colombians.
El Faro - Crypto Turmoil Pushes Bukele Back Toward Traditional Financial Institutions
Bloomberg - Guatemalan Town Invests Remittance Dollars to Deter Migration
Washington Post - How TikTokers and Swifties became political power brokers in Guatemala
Americas Quarterly - Haitians Want International Help, But Done the Right Way
Tico Times - Costa Rica’s Rising Costs Deter Tourists
Global Americans - Lessons from Ecuador on Emigrant Engagement
Bloomberg Línea - Millonarios chilenos donan a campaña a favor de nueva Constitución
Loop - Bermuda receives greenlight to push forward with full CARICOM membership
New York Times - Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China
New York Times - Henry Kissinger, the Hypocrite
Atlantic - The People Who Didn’t Matter to Henry Kissinger
Upcoming Events
1 December, CSIS - Democracy and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua
1 December, Georgetown Americas Institute - Great Power Competition in the Americas
4 December, CSIS - Prospects and Pitfalls for Security Assistance in Haiti
5 December, Atlantic Council - Venezuela 2024: A democratic opportunity
6 December, Inter-American Dialogue - Mobilizing Youth for Democracy and Human Rights
6 December, Brookings - Tackling global corruption to strengthen democracy and security
6 December, Center for Global Development - Weathering the Storm: How Emerging Markets Can Handle Shocks and Volatile Capital Flows
6 December, CSIS - Progress and Possibility: Reflecting on 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
7 December, Center for Global Development - The Future of Development and the Environment
9 January, Canadian Council of the Americas - 14th Annual Economic and Political Outlook for the Americas