Friday Reading List - 1 July 2022

Good morning and happy Friday! Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week as well as the Twitter Space event we held on Wednesday with Patricia Vásquez on the outlook for the Lithium Triangle. 

• Monday - Ecuador - Anti-government protests enter third week

• Tuesday - Region - Fuel prices driving protests

• Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Mexico and Peru)

• Thursday - Odds and Ends (Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, US)

• Twitter Spaces - Lithium Triangle Recording 

We will not be publishing on Monday due to the holiday. Have a great long weekend. 

Reading List 

World Politics Review - Delivering Change Won’t Be Easy for Latin America’s New Wave of Leaders

Foreign Affairs - Latin America’s Lessons for a Post-Roe United States

Americas Quarterly - The Lessons from Latin America’s COVID-19 Turnaround

New York Times - When Brazil Banned Abortion Pills, Women Turned to Drug Traffickers

Bloomberg - Bolsonaro’s Brawl With a Top Justice Tests Brazil’s Democracy

Americas Quarterly - Jungmann: There Will Not Be a Coup in Brazil

The Economist - More Brazilians are dying in floods and downpours

Americas Quarterly - Can AMLO’s Popularity Survive a U.S. Recession?

Bloomberg - AMLO’s Lithium Grab and War on Green Energy Will Hurt North America

The Economist - ​​At least 100,000 people are missing in Mexico

Insight Crime - Betrayals, In-Fighting, Mysteriously Vanished Leader - Is Jalisco Cartel on the Brink? 

Diálogo Chino - The Mayan Train is set to change the anatomy of Mexico’s southeast

El Universal - Las olimpiadas del homicidio

El País - Las otras órdenes de abatir que rodean el ‘caso Tlatlaya’

Washington Post - Venezuela tapped 1.5 million phone lines. It’s just the start, experts warn.

Rest of World - A U.S. company created a crypto community in Venezuela. Now it has thousands of volunteers

Caracas Chronicles - Opposition Primary Elections Announced for 2023

Asociación Control Civil Ciudadano - El crecimiento de la red de empresas militares en Venezuela. Informe actualizado . ¿Hacia dónde avanza la FANB?

Bloomberg - Three Signs Show That Argentina Is Heading to a Devaluation

Reuters - Analysis: Argentina's economic crisis whack-a-mole goes into overdrive

Rest of World - Argentina’s Supreme Court backs Google, says “right to be forgotten” can infringe on freedom of information

The Guardian - Jubilation and hope as convention puts final stamp on Chile’s new draft constitution

Americas Quarterly - At Risk: The Future of “Extractivism” in Colombia and the Andes

Financial Times - Gustavo Petro: from ‘Comrade Aureliano’ to Colombian president

El País - Latin America, quo vadis?

Washington Post - With the world distracted, Cuba cracks down on dissident artists

La Silla Vacía - Los 8 cambios que necesita el país según la comisión de la verdad

Americas Quarterly - Ecuador Protests Weaken a Struggling Guillermo Lasso

The Guardian - El Salvador to escalate its security crackdown after death of police officers

LA Times - He’s one of Guatemala’s last independent judges. Will he be forced to flee too?

Human Rights Watch - Honduras: Rights Agenda for the Castro Administration

The Guardian - ‘I couldn’t have the baby’: Honduras’s poor suffer most from draconian abortion laws

Foreign Policy - Peru’s Democracy Is Dying

Miami Herald - Haiti’s brain drain: Educated youth are leaving the country as fast as they can

Washington Post - How green became the color of abortion rights

WOLA - The Tragedy in Texas Was Avoidable,Just Like Hundreds of Other Migrant Deaths on U.S. Soil This Year

Washington Post - A grisly tragedy shows there are no ‘open borders’ for migrants

The Intercept - Cryptocurrency titan Coinbase providing “geo tracking data” to ICE 

Upcoming Events

1 July, Global Americans - Post-Summit of the Americas Assessments for the Hemisphere: A Caribbean Perspective

5 July, IISS - Latin America’s governance challenge

6 July, Wilson Center - Preparations and Challenges ahead of Brazil's 2022 Presidential Election

7 July, Wilson Center - Shared Risk, Shared Opportunity: Critical Minerals and the Transatlantic Climate Bridge

13 July, AS/COA - 2022 Latin American Cities Conferences: Bogotá

20 July, William J. Perry Center - Caribbean Maritime Security Strategy