Good morning and happy Friday from Chicago! I’ll be on vacation next week in Michigan, but the newsletter should still go out as usual.
This week’s newsletter covered the potential impact the increasing violence in Mexico could have on the security narrative ahead of next year’s presidential election.
https://boz.substack.com/p/mexico-update-july-2023
Here is this week’s reading list and upcoming events.
Reading List
World Politics Review - Mottley’s Climate Advocacy Offers a New Model of Leadership
New York Times - How a Peaceful Country Became a Gold Rush State for Drug Cartels
Americas Quarterly - Why Latin America Still Deserves a Role on Ukraine
Global Americans - Russia’s Latin American Policy and the June 2023 Rebellion
International Crisis Group - New Dawn or Old Habits? Resolving Honduras’ Security Dilemmas
Economist - Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
Reuters - U.S. probing Exxon contractor in Guyana for smuggling drugs, gold
Wall Street Journal - The Country With the Highest Murder Rate Now Has the Highest Incarceration Rate
USIP - What’s at Stake in Guatemala’s Election Pause?
Wall Street Journal - Court Ruling Upends Guatemalan Election
Americas Quarterly - Did Latin America’s Progressives Become Too “Woke”?
Bloomberg - Lula Puts an Ally on Track to Lead the Central Bank He’s Fought
AP - Brazil’s lower house finds compromise in a major reform of the country’s ‘dysfunctional’ tax system
Washington Post - Declaring war on Mexican cartels is popular. That doesn’t mean it’s smart.
New York Times - Number of Migrants at the Border Plunges as Mexico Helps U.S. to Stem Flow
Washington Post - Mexico arrested 2 cartel suspects. Thousands besieged a state capital.
AP - Mexico’s president breaks with tradition in quarrel with scrappy opposition upstart
Americas Quarterly - Can Xóchitl Gálvez Save Mexico’s Opposition?
US Treasury - Treasury Sanctions Illicit Fentanyl Network Run by Key Sinaloa Cartel Family Members
InSight Crime - Rise of the Criminal Hybrid State in Venezuela
Reuters - Venezuela's opposition to propose using oil exports proceeds to pay creditors
Reuters - U.S. appeals court upholds Venezuela creditors ability to sue
Road to the Casa Rosada - Argentina Politics Update - 12 July 2023
Americas Migration Brief - July 10, 2023
Rest of World - Argentina’s Mercado Pago is like Venmo plus investing
Americas Quarterly - Malene Alleyne Wants Faster Change for the Caribbean
Global Americans - Orwell’s Shadow? Chile’s Disinformation Commission Sparks Suspicion
World Politics Review - The Global Order Might Be Big Enough for the U.S. and China
New York Times - ‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China - The New York Times
Upcoming Events
17 July, Georgetown Americas Institute - The Frontiers of Nearshoring in Mexico: Transforming Concept into Reality
17 July, Atlantic Council - Visions of change: A conversation with Delsa Solórzano
18 July, Wilson Center - New Perspectives on US-Brazil Relations
19 July, Wilson Center - Colombia’s Frontline Environmental Defenders: Afro-Colombians and the Pacific Coast
19 July, Wilson Center - Reforming the Multilateral Development Banks for Global Structural Challenges in a Post-Pandemic World
20 July, CSIS - A U.S. Mineral Strategy for Global Energy Transition
25 July, AS/COA - 2023 Latin American Cities Conferences: Bogotá
9 August, AS/COA - 2023 Latin American Cities Conferences: Santiago
22 August, Institute of the Americas - Argentina Energy Roundtable
22 August, AS/COA - 2023 Latin American Cities Conferences: Brasília
24 August, AS/COA - 2023 Latin American Cities Conferences: Buenos Aires
2-6 October, Hxagon - Analyzing Protests (use coupon code EARLY20 for a 20% discount)