Friday Reading List - 15 September 2023
Links and articles
Good morning and happy Friday! Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar.
This week’s newsletter outlined three possible scenarios for Venezuela over the next 15 months, and the impact of each outcome on future US policy.
As a reminder, I am teaching the Analyzing Protests course again in early October. Click here to sign up.
Here is this week’s reading list and upcoming events.
Reading List
World Politics Review - Argentina Shows the Limits of BRICS’ De-Dollarization Dreams
New York Times - ‘A Ticket to Disney’? Politicians Charge Millions to Send Migrants to U.S.
Financial Times - Organised crime groups are hurting Latin America’s economy, says IMF
Economist - Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence
Diplomatic Courier - Bolstering U.S. National Interests Through Heightened Regional Trade
Reuters - Mercosur splits dampen EU outlook for trade deal as window narrows
Road to the Casa Rosada - Argentina Politics Update - 13 September 2023
Council on Foreign Relations - Latin America This Week: September 7, 2023
Global Witness - Standing firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the frontlines of the climate crisis
AP - Pro-Bolsonaro rioters on trial for storming Brazil’s top government offices
Foreign Policy - Why the U.S.-Mexico Relationship Could Get Even Worse
Bloomberg - Mexico’s Moment: The Biggest US Trading Partner Is No Longer China
Bloomberg - Mexico Presidential Candidate Galvez Wants Sweeping Energy Reforms
Mexico Today - Opinion | What We Learned from the Testimony of the DEA Administrator – Part II
Foreign Policy - The U.S. Military Can’t Solve the Fentanyl Crisis
Reuters - Venezuelan activists' convictions, court moves alarm advocates as elections loom
Financial Times - Venezuelan bonds rally as investors bet on detente with Washington
Washington Post - Maduro says Venezuela will send astronauts to moon in Chinese spaceship
Miami Herald - Colombia has a part-time president. Petro needs to explain all those absences | Opinion
Foreign Affairs - Why Washington Still Needs Colombia
InSight Crime - Un antiguo sicario de Escobar sigue el camino de la 'Paz Total' en Medellín, Colombia
NPR - The Sunday Story: A rare look inside locked-down Nicaragua
LA Times - Costa Rica, the once-peaceful land of 'pura vida,' battles violence as cocaine trade grows
Guardian - ‘We should treat it as a war’: Ecuador’s descent into drug gang violence
Reuters - Analysis: Peru clings to copper No. 2 spot but investment pipeline stalls
Americas Quarterly - A Last Hope for Chile’s New Constitution?
InSight Crime - Why Chinese Mafias Are Moving Into Chile
Americas Quarterly - The Tough Road Ahead for Guatemala’s President-Elect
Americas Migration Brief - September 11, 2023
Bloomberg - What Happened to Africa Rising? It’s Been Another Lost Decade
Upcoming Events
18 September, Wilson Center - Understanding the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis: US-Mexico Solutions
18 September, Atlantic Council / Inter-American Dialogue - What’s next for the international response to Venezuela?
18 September, Migration Policy Institute - 20th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
18 September, Georgetown Americas Institute - A Conversation with Samanta Schweblin
19 September, CSIS - Digital Report Launch: Tracking Transatlantic Drug Flows through the Caribbean to Europe
19 September, Harvard University - Guatemala’s 2023 Elections
19 September, Wilson Center - Unlocking Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean
20 September, Harvard University - El Descenso de Nicaragua a la dictadura: Perspectivas de cuatro exiliados políticos
27 September, CSIS - The Future of Latin America’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
27-28 September, Wilson Center - The Rules-Based Order in Antarctica and Global Challenges
28 September, AS/COA - Who's Educating Whom? Unpacking Fashion Consumer and Supplier Dynamics
29 September, Wilson Center - Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints (Book Launch)
2-6 October, Hxagon - Analyzing Protests