Friday Reading List - 13 May 2022

Good morning and happy Friday! Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week. 

• Monday - Bolivia - The trial of Jeanine Añez

• Tuesday - Region - The pre-Summit mess

• Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Costa Rica and Brazil)

• Thursday - Colombia - Paro Armado

Thank you to everyone who supports this newsletter. As a reminder, we are holding a webinar with our colleagues at Colombia Risk Analysis at 12pm ET on May 30, the day after Colombia’s first round, to discuss the country’s presidential election. 

Reading List

Politico - Biden’s Americas summit is drawing jeers and threats of boycott

New York Times - Biden’s Summit of the Americas Is Threatened by Boycotts, Confusion

Americas Quarterly - What the Summit of the Americas Mess Really Tells Us

Bloomberg - Latin America’s Unicorns Face a Reckoning as VCs Flee Risk

Washington Post - Russia’s top propagandist in Latin America has a change of heart

The Guardian - What Latin American feminists can teach American women about the abortion fight

Americas Quarterly - What’s Ahead for India and Latin America?

Bloomberg - Bolsonaro Woos Rural Brazil With Land and Guns to Catch Lula

The Economist - Evangelicals are key to Brazil’s upcoming election

BBC - The black evangelical women who'll decide who governs Brazil

The Economist - South America’s biggest gang has immense sway in Brazil

Folha de São Paulo - Quem é o empresário que lidera a corrida pelo ouro em terras indígenas

Washington Post - Why do journalists in Mexico keep getting killed?

Reuters - U.S. anti-drugs agency pulls plane from Mexico in fresh cooperation blow

Bloomberg - Mexico’s Hottest Resort Towns Struggle With Covid Travel Boom

El País - Guerra abierta entre la Fiscalía de Nuevo León y Samuel García por la ola de feminicidios

NPR - Mexican border town sees an increase in sales of abortion drugs to women from the U.S.

The Guardian - Welcome to the jungle: inside Mexico’s groundbreaking natural art gallery

Politico - Nicolás Maduro Tries a New PR Campaign: Going Woke

Reuters - From the Maldives to Venezuela: how Iran gets oil to an ally

Bloomberg - Record Iranian Oil Flows to Venezuela Signal Production Rebound

Miami Herald - Venezuelan migrant mothers try to regain custody of children taken by their fathers

Reuters - ​​Old gas canisters fuel deadly blasts in Venezuela homes

Reuters - In Venezuela, inflation and dollarization deepen schism between private and state employees

Bloomberg - Millonarias inversiones: la apuesta de los vinos bolivianos de Tarija

The Economist - The front-runner for Colombia’s election faces death threats

Reuters - Mexican cartels swap arms for cocaine, fueling Colombia violence

El País - Colombia racista 

AP - Chile’s Boric attempts relaunch as honeymoon ends abruptly

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Costa Rica’s New Populist President Could Be a Lesson in Democracy—or a Worrying Trend

The Guardian - Costa Rica declares national emergency amid ransomware attacks

New York Times - Outside the Walls of a Salvadoran Prison, ‘We’re All Crying Mothers’

Rest of World - A crypto-libertarian paradise just lost an existential battle with Honduras

Insight Crime - Illegal Coal Mine Killings Prompt Peruvian Authorities to Act

Insight Crime - Paraguay Grapples with Criminal Sophistication After Prosecutor's Slaying

Washington Post - Prosecutor on his honeymoon is gunned down by hit men at beach

New York Times - QAnon Joins Vigilantes at the Southern Border

Upcoming Events

13 May, Wilson Center - A Townhall with Colombian Vice-Presidential Candidates: What’s next for the United States’ close regional ally?

16 May, CSIS - What Lies Ahead for the Zones for Employment and Economic Development in Honduras?

16 May, Wilson Center - Convocation 2.0 Report Presentation | Strengthening the U.S.-Mexico Relationship

17-20 May, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy - 7th Annual Hemispheric Security Conference

19 May, AS/COA - Trade and Environment: What Do Policymakers and Companies in the Americas Need to Know?

19 May, BU Global Development Policy Center - Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

23-24 May, Chatham House - Latin America 2022

26 May, AS/COA - Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America

30 May, Colombia Risk and Hxagon - The Day After The First Round

6-7 June, CGS Quito - Mining Conference 2022

Boz will be presenting at the inaugural Copper Gold Symposium Mining Conference in Quito, Ecuador. 

8 June, Wilson Center - Safeguarding Democracy in the Americas: How to Strengthen the Inter-American Democratic Charter, 20 Years after Its Adoption