Friday Reading List - 1 November 2024
When we link to lots of articles, we win.
Good morning. Here are this week’s newsletters:
Monday - Trump vs Harris on Venezuela Policy
Tuesday - Map - Do Latin American countries prefer Trump or Harris?
Wednesday - Uruguay election results (for paying subscribers)
Thursday - Six Stories - Six brief comments on the Bolivia assassination attempt; Pemex; Brazil’s municipal elections; Argentina’s currency printing and more (for paying subscribers)
For World Politics Review this week, I covered the BRICS summit and the Brazil-Venezuela dispute there. I followed up on that in Thursday’s newsletter with additional comments.
Assuming I can get the technology to work correctly, I will hold an online chat or Q&A thread via the Substack website/app next week for paying subscribers. It will be about the US elections and their impact on Latin America, because that will be a trendy topic.
Reading List
Economist - Triple trouble awaits Mexico if Donald Trump wins
Washington Post - Eduardo Verástegui and the challenges of MAGA-style populism in Mexico
NYT - Mexico’s New President, Claudia Sheinbaum, Faces First Major Crisis (judicial reform)
WSJ - A Mayor’s Beheading Shows Who Runs This Mexican City: The Gangs
AP - US imposes sanctions on top members of the armed wing of a Mexican fentanyl-trafficking cartel
InSight Crime - Cash and Violence: Organized Crime Fights to Control Brazil’s Municipal Vote
Guardian - Marielle Franco murder: ex-police jailed for decades over crime that shook Brazil
NYT - The New Threat to Brazil’s Forests: Chemicals
Wilson Center - Brazil’s Critical Minerals and the Global Clean Energy Revolution
Wilson Center - Brazil’s Economic Optimism Meets Political Complexity
Americas Quarterly - Venezuela’s Record Political Prisoners Await the Unknown
Wired - The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President
Bloomberg - Corruption Dwarfs Every Other Issue for Colombians in New Poll
Bloomberg - Killings and Prison Torture Raise Alarms Over Gang Crime in Chile
Joeseph Weiman - Orsi Likely To Win, Referendums Failed: What Uruguay’s First Round Told Us
AP - Why Argentina's public universities are paralyzed by protests
WSJ - A Financier Penned a Crime Novel. Prosecutors Want to Know How Much Was Fiction.
Confidencial - Trump vs. Harris on Central America: A Choice Between Immigrant Expulsion or Exclusion
World Politics Review - Central America Has a Lot Riding on the U.S. Presidential Election
CSIS - The Burgeoning Regional Appeal of Mano Dura Crime-Fighting Strategies
AP - Mexican fuel flows to Cuba as the island faces blackouts and the loss of Russian and Venezuelan oil
Americas Quarterly - Why Cuba Is in the Dark
Miami Herald - Haiti government faces questions as gangs launch new attacks
WSJ - The Dominican Republic’s Plan for Haitian Refugee Wave: Deport 10,000 a Week
CSIS - Why Are Latin American Dictators Seeking Membership in BRICS+?
NYT - The Game Theory of Democracy
Thanks for reading
Have a great Day of the Dead weekend!
