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