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Friday Reading List - 11 December 2020
Friday Reading List - 11 December 2020
Friday Reading List - 11 December 2020
Good morning and happy Friday!
Below are links to interesting articles I’ve read in the past week as well as a list of upcoming events related to Latin America.
Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.
Monday - Argentina faces a prolonged economic crisis in 2021
Tuesday - Invitation to Monday’s event for paying subscribers
Wednesday - Politics and polls (Argentina, Venezuela)
Thursday - The Biden administration will increase anti-corruption efforts in Central America
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Reading List
Bloomberg - Devastated by Covid, Latin America Is Now Unprepared for Vaccine
Atlantic Council - Moving Beyond COVID-19: Vaccines and Other Policy Considerations in Latin America
Wilson Center - COVID-19 Assistance in the Western Hemisphere: The Role of SOUTHCOM
World Economic Forum - World Economic Forum Launches An Innovative Framework on Anti-Corruption Day
Inter-American Dialogue - An Assessment of China’s Administrative-Level Activity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Foreign Affairs - Latin America’s Lost Decades: The Toll of Inequality in the Age of COVID-19
Foreign Affairs - Protection Without Protectionism; Getting Industrial Policy Right
Univision - “The era of ‘maximum pressure’ is over.” Biden expected to bring more subtle, diplomatic tone to policy on Cuba and Venezuela, say experts
Center for American Progress - A Rights-Centered Paradigm for Protecting the Forcibly Displaced
WOLA - How Biden Can Reverse Trump's Disastrous Migration Policies
Economist - Natural and political disasters in Central America
Reuters - Bolsonaro turns to military allies to set Brazil's coronavirus vaccine policy
Washington Post - The coronavirus has come roaring back into Brazil, shattering illusions it wouldn’t
Reuters - Brazil looks for legal options to ban China's Huawei from 5G: sources
Financial Times - Brazil’s borrowing binge gives investors the jitters
Financial Times - Amazon fires fuel investor concern
Financial Times - Special Report Brazil: The Road to Sustainability
Associated Press - Mexican president wants to restrict US agents in Mexico
Wall Street Journal - Mexican Cartels Are Now Cooking Chinese Chemicals in Dutch Meth Labs
Guardian - 'It's a free-for-all': how hi-tech spyware ends up in the hands of Mexico's cartels
Guardian - Revealed: how Mexico's Sinaloa cartel has created a global network to rule the fentanyl trade
Guardian - ‘They’re culpable’: the countries supplying the guns that kill Mexico’s journalists
TechCrunch - With investors expecting a Latin American cryptocurrency boom, Mexico’s Bitso raises $62 million
Washington Post - A murder in Veracruz: Slain journalist’s story a portrait of a violent, corrupt era in Mexico
Americas Quarterly - AMLO’s Broken Campaign Promise: Demilitarizing Mexico
Rolling Stone - Inside Operation Gideon, a Coup Gone Very Wrong
Control Ciudadano - Militares venezolanos sancionados por la comunidad internacional
New York Times - Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies
New York Times - ‘On Social Media, There Are Thousands’: In Cuba, Internet Fuels Rare Protests
Miami Herald - Cuba says it will open its economy to majority-owned foreign investments
CNN - Could Trump's exit make it easier for Cuba to fight drug crime?
El Espectador - Tras la pista de policías aliados con narcos y de fuga de información reservada
Economist - Too big to jail: the Colombian drug lord who snitched his way to freedom
Global Americans - Rebuilding after Iota: a chronicle of an abandonment foretold
Bloomberg - Covid Layoff Ban Backfires in One of World’s Worst Job Markets (Argentina)
La Nación - Joe Biden, amigo de América Latina
Vice - MS-13 Is Getting Rich From Chemically-Altered Weed That's 'More Addictive Than Cocaine'
Bloomberg - Treasury Sanctions Programs Face Broad Review From Biden Team
Foreign Affairs - The Strategies Are Foreign, but the Corruption Is American
Upcoming events
14 December 1PM EST - Event for Latin America Risk Report. Link to register is available to paying subscribers here.
15 December, Chatham House - Expanding UK-Latin American Trade: Opportunities and Bottlenecks
15 December, Inter-American Dialogue - Economic Recovery and Rebuilding the Social Fabric in Latin America and the Caribbean
15 December, CSIS - A Partnership for Taiwan and Latin America: The Creative Economy
15 December, AS/COA - Latin America and COVID-19: From Deep Crisis to a More Inclusive and Resilient Future
16 December, Atlantic Council - Latin America-China relations in 2021: Opportunities, risks, and recommendations
16 December, Inter-American Dialogue - Ingresos mineros y petroleros, el cambio climático y la recuperación verde
17 December, AS/COA - Latin American Cities Conferences: Lima
19 January 2021 - Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum
28 January 2021 - Technology. Behaviour. Data. (TBD) Conference 2021
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!