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