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 - Latin America should prepare for even more coronavirus spread

• Tuesday - Who will be the first Latin American president kicked off Twitter?

• Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Polling about Covid vaccines)

• Thursday - Three things I got wrong on Venezuela

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Reading list

Reuters - In Central America, tensions rise as soldiers aim to stop migrants

Univision - Entrevista exclusiva: Kamala Harris habla de reforma migratoria y asegura que todos los inmigrantes tendrán acceso a la vacuna

Financial Times - Latin American economy faces painful road back from coronavirus slump

Economist - Joe Biden will shift gears in Latin America

BBC - Protecting fragile ecosystems from lithium mining

Chatham House - Future Nostalgia: Latin America in 2021

Reuters - COVID-19 tests: Central America's latest tool to stop migrant caravans

Americas Quarterly - Bolsonaro Goes All In On Trump. Isolation May Await

Human Rights Watch - Brazil: Institutions Stand Up to Bolsonaro

Economist - Why Ford is leaving Brazil

Brookings - Order From Chaos: Crime And Anti-crime Security Policy In Mexico In 2020

El País - Los hospitales de Ciudad de México bordean el colapso por la segunda ola

Wall Street Journal - 29 Family Members Fell Ill With Covid. Mexico Didn’t Count Them.

Financial Times - Populist Amlo’s tight grip on Mexico finances holds back Covid stimulus

InSight Crime - Mexico’s Fentanyl Crisis Reached New Heights in 2020

Reuters - Mexico softens rules for controversial new foreign agents law

Associated Press - Mexican president mounts campaign against social media bans

Associated Press - NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate

Reuters - Venezuela women's groups halt abortion services after activist arrest

Bloomberg - Pacific Island Nation Tells Venezuela ‘That Oil Tanker Isn’t Ours’

Brookings - MAGAzuelans: Trump’s last line of defense

Financial Times - US development bank strikes deal to help Ecuador pay China loans

Americas Quarterly - “Terruqueo” and Peru’s Fear of the Left

Reuters - Colombia struggles to keep social leaders safe

Univision - Honduran president planned to shove drugs "right up the noses of the 'gringos',” according to witness in New York drug case

InSight Crime - El Salvador Protects Accounts of Suspected Money Launderers

Confidencial - Elecciones 2021: La Rebelión de Abril ante la crisis

The New York Times - Guerrilla Leader, Drug Baron, Gold Magnate … and Now Social Reformer?

Washington Post - As spending climbs and revenue falls, the coronavirus forces a global reckoning

The Guardian - Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption

OCCRP - ‘They Are Finishing the Trees’: Chinese Companies and Namibian Elites Make Millions Illegally Logging the Last Rosewoods

C4ADS - Signals In The Noise: Preventing Nuclear Proliferation With Machine Learning & Publicly Available Information

Axios - Newly declassified report lays out U.S. strategy in Asia

Upcoming events

15 January 2021 (TODAY!), AS/COA - Interview with Guaido and Venezuelan civil society leaders

19 January 2021 - Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum

28 January 2021 - Technology. Behaviour. Data. (TBD) Conference 2021

Thanks for reading

Have a great weekend!