Good morning and happy Friday!

Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week

• Monday - Region - Food prices are up, impacting instability, politics and migration

• Tuesday - Ecuador's election and regional political trends

• Wednesday - Politics and Polls (El Salvador, Haiti, Chile, Mexico) 

• Thursday - Venezuela - The tone of the US policy debate changes

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Reading List

InSight Crime - The Cocaine Pipeline to Europe

Vice - COVID Test Forgery Schemes Are Popping Up Around Latin America

Boston Globe - A lifeline for Central America

Gordon Institute - Hopelessness & Corruption

Agenda Pública - Biden Y Centroamérica

CNN - Biden administration moves to terminate Trump-era migration agreements

New Yorker - Can Biden Reverse Trump’s Damage to Latin America?

New York Times - President Biden Should Not Underestimate Challenges in Latin America

InSight Crime - Loan Sharks Circle as Latin America Reels From Pandemic

Americas Quarterly - Vaccine Diplomacy: A New Cold War

Institute of the Americas - China Stakes Its Claim in Latin American Energy: What It Means for the Region, the U.S. and Beijing

CSIS - Accelerating Economic Growth and Strengthening the Middle Class in Latin America

Associated Press - Desperation grows in battered Honduras, fueling migration

Reuters - Pandemic may cost women a decade of gains in Latin America

Guardian - Brazil: missionaries 'turning tribes against coronavirus vaccine'

Associated Press - Brazil’s wealthy cause a stir trying to score quick vaccines

New York Times - ‘The Death Market’: Oxygen Shortage Leaves Mexicans to Die at Home

Amnesty International - Mexico: Vaccination registry excludes important sectors of the population by requesting CURP and jeopardizes public health

Financial Times - Mexico’s dangerous addiction to fossil fuels

Reuters - Mexico social media plan is a 'definite violation' of North American trade deal, industry says

InSight Crime - Top Mexico Tax Official Fired for Permitting Money Laundering

Semana - Exclusivo: Así se mueven Iván Márquez, Santrich, Romaña y el Paisa en Venezuela

Washington Post - Maduro touts miracle cure to mask massive problem: Venezuela can’t (or won’t) get vaccines

Bloomberg - Colombia Trading Like Junk Shows Dilemma Facing Poor Nations

Global Financial Integrity - The Gold Standard: Addressing Illicit Financial Flows in the Colombian Gold Sector through Greater Transparency

Associated Press - Colombia failing to protect human rights defenders

Economist - Why Colombia’s social leaders are being murdered

Economist - Heir, banker, cyclist: Ecuador’s high-stakes election

Confidencial - The “Model” of Corruption and Impunity in Nicaragua

Wilson Center - The Uses of Sanctions in Foreign Policy: Nicaragua’s Elections 2021

New York Times - Biden Charts a New Course in Guatemala

Wall Street Journal - U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Honduras President for Taking Drug-Related Bribes

Wilson Center - The Uses of Sanctions in Foreign Policy: Nicaragua’s Elections 2021

Associated Press  - Sources: Biden officials snub Salvadoran leader in DC trip

Vice - Drug Cartels Used Australian Banks to Launder $380m

Financial Times - How the race for renewable energy is reshaping global politics

Council on Strategic Risks - The Unraveling of Ecological and Natural Security and What the United States Can Do About It

BBC - How vaccinating monkeys could stop a pandemic

New York Times - How the United States Lost to Hackers

Upcoming events

17 February, Wilson Center - U.S. Counter-Drug Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Is it Working?

17 February, CSIS - An Armchair Conversation with Mauricio Claver-Carone

18 February, Wilson Center - A Conversation with President Francisco Sagasti of Peru

24 February, Wilson Center - Rethinking Brazilian Development: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil

24 February, Boston University - China’s Global Energy Finance & China-Latin America Development Finance Database Updates

Thanks for reading

The newsletter is taking Monday off. Back on Tuesday. Have a good weekend!