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Friday Reading List - 15 October 2021
Friday Reading List - 15 October 2021
Friday Reading List - 15 October 2021
Good morning and happy Friday. Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week.
Monday - Mexico - OFAC sanctions target synthetic substances
Tuesday - Region - Democracy is not delivering
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile, Region)
Thursday - Brazil - Telecommunications sector prepares for upcoming 5G auction
Thanks to the paying subscribers who support this newsletter. Tuesday’s newsletter on regional democracy polling is available to everyone and the other three newsletters are only available to paying subscribers. If you’d like to subscribe, it’s $9 per month or $90 per year.
Reading List
Economist - Latin America’s economies have an opportunity to grow
Financial Times - How Latin America became tech’s next big frontier
Bloomberg - Latin America’s Surging Prices Spell Hard Work for Central Banks
Reuters - Latin America rebound not enough to recover from COVID-19, says report
New York Times - Caribbean nations struggle with vaccination efforts.
CNN - A migration crisis is ballooning in Latin America
CNN - Nearly 19,000 children crossed the dangerous Darien Gap on foot this year
Reuters - Mexico warns migration will not slow without more U.S. investment in Central America
InSight Crime - Contraband Chinese Cigarettes Take Latin America by Storm
United Nations University - Contract clientelism: How infrastructure contracts fund vote-buying
Miami Herald - Who controlled account that got $92M in bribes? Leak sheds new light on Odebrecht scandal
Associated Press - Brazil’s inflation hits double digits, punishing the poor
Bloomberg - Fertilizer Price Shock Threatens Crop of World's Key Corn Supplier
Bloomberg - In Brazil, Worst Drought in Decades Felt At Gigantic Dam
Washington Post - Bolsonaro’s veto of plan to distribute free tampons, pads defies global efforts to make period care less onerous
InSight Crime - The Intimate Relationship Between Cocaine and Illegal Timber in Brazil's Amazon
Bloomberg - Mexico’s Energy Grid Risks Fading to Black
NBC News - Violent crimes rise in Mexico; 94.8% go unpunished
InSight Crime - Weapons Trafficking Rife on Mexico's Social Media
Bloomberg - Chemical Maker Probed by U.S.-Mexico on Precursor Allegation
Financial Times - Students and schools feel the strain in Mexico’s pandemic
New York Times - Mexico City Replaces a Statue of Columbus With One of an Indigenous Woman
Associated Press - In Mexico, children as young as 10 recruited by drug cartels
Associated Press - Mexico’s anti-corruption effort takes a PR blow
Business Insider - Mexico's war on cartels has created 400 new gangs that are taking on the police and cartels that are left
CNN - Europe on collision course with US over Venezuela elections
InSight Crime - The Battle for Apure: Chavismo and the ex-FARC
Bloomberg - Spike in Venezuela Covid Cases Bucks Decline in South America
Yahoo! Finance - Bitcoin will be accepted as payment in Venezuela’s main airport
Bloomberg - Venezuela Burns Scarce Cash to Prop Up Its Revamped Currency
Axios - Freed Venezuelan opposition leader sees hope for elections breakthrough
Amnesty International - Curaçao: Authorities continue to deny protection to people fleeing the crisis in Venezuela
Armondo.Info - Cuando China despertó, José Simón Elarba todavía estaba allí
Miami Herald - As Guyana finds more oil reserves, it wants border dispute with Venezuela settled
Wall Street Journal - Havana Syndrome Hits at Least Five U.S. Families Connected to Embassy in Colombia
Washington Post - By boat, by motorbike, by foot: The journey to vaccinate Colombia’s remotest communities
InSight Crime - Dissident FARC Guerrillas Repeatedly Try to Assassinate Colombia Governor
Adam Isacson - Notes from Colombia
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - Deepening Rights and Humanitarian Crises in Colombia
Global Americans - The long and winding road to Colombia’s presidency
Economist - Guillermo Lasso’s battle against populism in Ecuador
ICIJ - Chilean President Sebastián Piñera to be criminally investigated due to Pandora Papers revelations
Guardian - Chile president Piñera faces impeachment after Pandora papers leak
DW - Argentina: How 'anarcho-capitalist' Javier Milei is stirring up politics
Associated Press - US: Nicaragua’s elections ‘have lost all credibility’
International Crisis Group - Nicaragua: Dealing with the Dangers of a One-Sided Poll
Americas Quarterly - Could Honduras Shift Left? A Look at Xiomara Castro
Proceso Digital - La Policía y el constante acecho del crimen que les vincula
Associated Press - Guatemala transfers prosecutor who pursued former dictator
Al Jazeera - Cuba calls National Defence Day on date of planned protests
Miami Herald - Cuban activists say pro-democracy march will go ahead despite government’s disapproval
Washington Post - More than 100 Haitians found in trailer in Guatemala as desperate efforts to reach U.S. continue
OCCRP - How a Russian Mobile App Developer Recruited Phones into a Secret Ad-Watching Robot Army
New York Times - As Western Oil Giants Cut Production, State-Owned Companies Step Up
Upcoming Events
15 October, Global Financial Integrity - Report Launch: Financial Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
15 October, UC San Diego - Different Name, Same Path? What to Expect of the U.S.-Mexico High Level Security Dialogue
19-20 October, CAF - 25th Annual CAF Conference
21 October, AS/COA - 10th Annual AS/COA Women's Hemispheric Network Conference
21 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Brazilian Democracy at Risk?
26 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Frameworks for Professional Competencies for Early Childhood Teachers in Latin America and the Caribbean
28 October, WOLA - Colombian Women Speaking Truth to End Violence: Testimonies and Recommendations to Colombia’s Truth Commission under the Peace Accord
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!