Friday Reading List - 10 June 2022
Good morning and happy Friday! Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week.
Tuesday - Ecuador - Two points on mining risk
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Mexico, Colombia and Chile)
Colombia Risk Analysis and Hxagon are holding a webinar about Colombia’s elections on 15 June. It’s an opportunity to discuss the election and the potential policies of the next president. The cost is $100. You can sign up here or here. Video will be available for those who sign up but can’t make the time. We’re also available if your organization would rather hold a private call. Feel free to reach out if that is the case or you have any other questions.
Reading List
The Economist - Some Latin American economies have benefited from the war in Ukraine
Financial Times - The US’s lack of ambition risks losing Latin America
Reuters - Under Biden, China has widened trade lead in much of Latin America
World Politics Review - Latin America Is Paying the Cost of Its Zombie Regionalism
Financial Times - Why the US must start caring about Latin America
Americas Quarterly - A Speech Biden Won’t Give at the Summit of the Americas
Inter-American Dialogue - Climate Adaptation in the Northern Triangle: How the United States Can Foster Locally Led and Sustainable Change
Observer Research Foundation - Latin America: The last frontier for India’s foreign policy
Bloomberg - Headhunt for Latin American Tech Talent Follows Wave of Startup Layoffs
Wall Street Journal - Fertilizer Price Surge Drives Brazil to High-Tech Alternatives
AP - Crime, impunity surge in Amazon’s Javari Valley
New York Times - Threats, Then Guns: A Journalist and an Expert Vanish in the Amazon
The Guardian - Dom Phillips: editors around world urge Bolsonaro to do more to find missing journalist
CSIS - Six Things for Biden and Bolsonaro to Discuss on the Summit Sidelines
New York Times - ‘We Need More Protection:’ Violence in Rural Mexico Ensnares Doctors
Washington Post - A U.S. murder suspect fled to Mexico. The Gringo Hunters were waiting.
The Guardian - Venezuela sanctions aren’t working. Don’t repeat the mistakes of the Cuba embargo
Bloomberg - Venezuela’s Capitalist Playground Has $200,000 Ferraris and a Bustling Casino
Global Americans - South Korea as a Partner for Democracy and Prosperity for the Western Hemisphere
InSight Crime - Argentina Police Fail to Break Chinese Mafia
New Yorker - Can Chile’s Young President Reimagine the Latin American Left?
Bloomberg - Chile Argues It Can Bring Change Without Scaring Investors
Reuters - Colombia's extractive industries watching election warily
Washington Post - Why Colombia can’t build the infrastructure it needs
La Silla Vacía - Lo que diferencia a Petro de Rodolfo en paz y seguridad
Washington Post - The Trump-like TikTok star who could be Colombia’s next president
The Guardian - ‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands into despair
El Faro - Bukele va perdiendo la apuesta por el bitcoin
RCP - Guatemala 2021: Reconsolidating impunity and Reversing Democracy
Americas Quarterly - Slow but Steady for Honduras’ New President
InSight Crime - Connections to Paraguay Prosecutor's Murder Stretch from Colombia to Brazil
Washington Post - Lawyers for migrants say U.S. officials slowed family reunifications
New York Times - How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?
Upcoming Events
10 June, Atlantic Council - The joint future of the Caribbean working with Latin America
10 June, Institute of the Americas - Geothermal across the Americas
13 June, GU Americas Institute - What to Expect from the Colombian Presidential Elections
14 June, Inter-American Dialogue - Findings of Task Force on Climate Adaptation in the Northern Triangle
14 June, Migration Policy Institute - Promising Alternatives to Irregular Migration: Expanding Temporary Worker Programs in Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica
15 June, Colombia Risk and Hxagon - Colombia - Analyzing the Presidential Election
15 June, Wilson Center - The Impact of Violence Against Women on Central American Migration
22 June, Wilson Center - Eighth Annual Building a Competitive U.S.- Mexico Border Conference