Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week
Monday - Haiti - Political battles and gang warfare to follow Moïse’s assassination
Tuesday - Region - Politicized gangs
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Brazil)
Thursday - Cuba - Protests grow over economic hardships
Thanks to everyone who pays to subscribe to the newsletter.
Americas Quarterly - Where Are Latin America’s Leaders? Look to Its Cities.
Washington Post - Pandemic-driven hunger is making the world more unequal
Inter-American Dialogue - Technology and Educational Innovation Post-Pandemic: A Call for Educational Transformation
Peruvian Army Center For Strategic Studies - Chinese engagement in Latin America and Europe: Comparisons and Interdependencies
The Fix - The next disruption: AI and Machine Learning in emerging market newsrooms
InSight Crime - Unclear Criteria Undermine US Corruption List in Central America
Financial Times - Latin America urgently needs vaccines from west, top official warns
CNN - Amazon rainforest is emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs in some areas, study says
Americas Quarterly - How Will Brazil Navigate the US-China Rivalry?
The Guardian - Top rightwing Brazil newspaper demands removal of Bolsonaro
Financial Times - Brazil’s Bolsonaro takes aim at election in echo of Trump
The Lancet - COVID-19 hospital admissions: Brazil’s first and second waves compared
Financial Times - Brazil’s Covid wave hits pregnant women especially hard
New York Times - Brazil President Bolsonaro Is Hospitalized and Faces Possible Surgery
Financial Times - Brazil should pay for not halting deforestation
Estadão de São Paulo - Opinião: Chega de chantagem
CNN - US-Mexico border arrests in June are the highest in at least a decade
Bloomberg - Mexico Presidential Succession Heats Up Early With Ebrard’s Bid
KENS - Growing number of migrants dying after crossing U.S.-Mexico border, report says
Financial Times - Some Mexicans fear cartels are tightening their grip on politics
Insight Crime - 'Somos.': One of Mexico's Worst Massacres Told Through its Victims
Vice - Cartels Are Turning Mexico’s Indigenous Marathoners Into Drug Mules
Associated Press - Mexico arrests former top police official for torture
El Pais - The unknown winners of Mexico’s energy reform
Economist - Mexico’s president sets up a show trial of his predecessors
Bloomberg - With Guaido Defeated and on the Run, Caracas Sinks Into Silence
Insight Crime - Is Venezuela Getting Serious About Unseating El Coqui?
Insight Crime - 5 Reasons For Record Deforestation in Colombia
Global Americans - Colombia’s potential as a global breadbasket is stymied by a lack of rural reform
Forbes - Political Risk Analysis: What Do Investors Need To Know About Colombia's 2022 Election?
New York Times - Big Dreams and False Claims: How Colombians Got Embroiled in Haiti Assassination
Reuters - Why were Colombian ex-soldiers in Haiti? Experts say they are popular mercenaries
Washington Post - In countries as different as Colombia and Lebanon, LGBTQ advocates are helping lead protests and build peace
La Silla Vacía - La Segunda Marquetalia Tiene, Por Ahora, Más Discurso Que Poder
Washington Post - Unproven fraud claims delay election result, challenge Peru’s fragile democracy
C4ADS - Due Diligence in Minerals Supply Chains: Tracing Gold From the Peruvian Amazon to Downstream Buyers
Americas Quarterly - The Mayor Who Wants to Be Uruguay’s President
Insight Crime - Nicaragua Elites and Organized Crime
El Faro - La expulsión de Daniel Lizárraga
Insight Crime - Did Guatemala Military Help Escort Sinaloa Cartel's Cocaine?
Associated Press - Loved and decried, El Salvador’s populist leader is defiant
El Faro - The Engel List, Explained
Vice - How the US Exported a Bloods and Crips Gang War to Belize
IRPI Media - Inside an organized crime clan that moved cocaine across Europe
Associated Press - For democracy, it’s a time of swimming against the tide
Washington Post - Cuba and Haiti upheaval could mean twin migration crises
Financial Times - Cuba cracks down on internet in attempt to quell protests
Foreign Policy - Cuba Doesn’t Know How to Handle the New Protests
NBC News - Why has Cuba exploded in protests? It goes beyond the U.S. embargo and the pandemic
New York Times - Cubans Denounce ‘Misery’ in Biggest Protests in Decades
New York Times - Opinion: The Day Cubans Lost Their Fear
Vice - Cuba’s Crackdown on Protesters Is Getting Even More Brutal
WSJ - Cuban Protests Were Powered by the Internet. The State Then Pulled the Plug
Americas Quarterly - How the US Could Really Help Haiti
Foreign Policy - U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again
Miami Herald - Multinational investigation widens into Haiti assassination, including who bankrolled it
Washington Post - U.S. military once trained Colombians implicated in Haiti assassination plot, Pentagon says
Miami Herald - If U.S. continues to back Haiti’s compromised politicians, nothing will improve after Moïse
New York Times - Haiti’s Power Vacuum Escalates Kingmakers’ Battle for Control
New York Times - Why Haiti Still Despairs After $13 Billion in Foreign Aid
Coda - Assassination of president plunges Haiti into conspiracy theories, rumor and fake news
Economist - The murder of Haiti’s president will worsen the country’s chaos
CNN - Moïse's assassination is a tragic reminder of Haiti's unraveling democracy
20 July, Inter-American Dialogue - Reimagining Regional Governance in Latin America
20 July, WOLA - The Challenges of Negotiating a Return to Democracy in Venezuela
20 July, William J. Perry Center - A Conversation with Mr. Daniel P. Erikson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs
21 July, Migration Policy Institute - Supporting Unaccompanied Children in the U.S. Communities Where They Live
28 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Bogotá
29 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Montevideo
10-11 August, Wilson Center - Seventh Annual Building a Competitive U.S.- Mexico Border
12 August, William J. Perry Center - China's Growing Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
26 August, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Buenos Aires
Have a good weekend
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Friday Reading List - 16 July 2021
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Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week
Monday - Haiti - Political battles and gang warfare to follow Moïse’s assassination
Tuesday - Region - Politicized gangs
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Brazil)
Thursday - Cuba - Protests grow over economic hardships
Thanks to everyone who pays to subscribe to the newsletter.
Reading List
Americas Quarterly - Where Are Latin America’s Leaders? Look to Its Cities.
Washington Post - Pandemic-driven hunger is making the world more unequal
Inter-American Dialogue - Technology and Educational Innovation Post-Pandemic: A Call for Educational Transformation
Peruvian Army Center For Strategic Studies - Chinese engagement in Latin America and Europe: Comparisons and Interdependencies
The Fix - The next disruption: AI and Machine Learning in emerging market newsrooms
InSight Crime - Unclear Criteria Undermine US Corruption List in Central America
Financial Times - Latin America urgently needs vaccines from west, top official warns
CNN - Amazon rainforest is emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs in some areas, study says
Americas Quarterly - How Will Brazil Navigate the US-China Rivalry?
The Guardian - Top rightwing Brazil newspaper demands removal of Bolsonaro
Financial Times - Brazil’s Bolsonaro takes aim at election in echo of Trump
The Lancet - COVID-19 hospital admissions: Brazil’s first and second waves compared
Financial Times - Brazil’s Covid wave hits pregnant women especially hard
New York Times - Brazil President Bolsonaro Is Hospitalized and Faces Possible Surgery
Financial Times - Brazil should pay for not halting deforestation
Estadão de São Paulo - Opinião: Chega de chantagem
CNN - US-Mexico border arrests in June are the highest in at least a decade
Bloomberg - Mexico Presidential Succession Heats Up Early With Ebrard’s Bid
KENS - Growing number of migrants dying after crossing U.S.-Mexico border, report says
Financial Times - Some Mexicans fear cartels are tightening their grip on politics
Insight Crime - 'Somos.': One of Mexico's Worst Massacres Told Through its Victims
Vice - Cartels Are Turning Mexico’s Indigenous Marathoners Into Drug Mules
Associated Press - Mexico arrests former top police official for torture
El Pais - The unknown winners of Mexico’s energy reform
Economist - Mexico’s president sets up a show trial of his predecessors
Bloomberg - With Guaido Defeated and on the Run, Caracas Sinks Into Silence
Insight Crime - Is Venezuela Getting Serious About Unseating El Coqui?
Insight Crime - 5 Reasons For Record Deforestation in Colombia
Global Americans - Colombia’s potential as a global breadbasket is stymied by a lack of rural reform
Forbes - Political Risk Analysis: What Do Investors Need To Know About Colombia's 2022 Election?
New York Times - Big Dreams and False Claims: How Colombians Got Embroiled in Haiti Assassination
Reuters - Why were Colombian ex-soldiers in Haiti? Experts say they are popular mercenaries
Washington Post - In countries as different as Colombia and Lebanon, LGBTQ advocates are helping lead protests and build peace
La Silla Vacía - La Segunda Marquetalia Tiene, Por Ahora, Más Discurso Que Poder
Washington Post - Unproven fraud claims delay election result, challenge Peru’s fragile democracy
C4ADS - Due Diligence in Minerals Supply Chains: Tracing Gold From the Peruvian Amazon to Downstream Buyers
Americas Quarterly - The Mayor Who Wants to Be Uruguay’s President
Insight Crime - Nicaragua Elites and Organized Crime
El Faro - La expulsión de Daniel Lizárraga
Insight Crime - Did Guatemala Military Help Escort Sinaloa Cartel's Cocaine?
Associated Press - Loved and decried, El Salvador’s populist leader is defiant
El Faro - The Engel List, Explained
Vice - How the US Exported a Bloods and Crips Gang War to Belize
IRPI Media - Inside an organized crime clan that moved cocaine across Europe
Associated Press - For democracy, it’s a time of swimming against the tide
Reading List Part 2 focused on Cuba and Haiti
Washington Post - Cuba and Haiti upheaval could mean twin migration crises
Financial Times - Cuba cracks down on internet in attempt to quell protests
Foreign Policy - Cuba Doesn’t Know How to Handle the New Protests
NBC News - Why has Cuba exploded in protests? It goes beyond the U.S. embargo and the pandemic
New York Times - Cubans Denounce ‘Misery’ in Biggest Protests in Decades
New York Times - Opinion: The Day Cubans Lost Their Fear
Vice - Cuba’s Crackdown on Protesters Is Getting Even More Brutal
WSJ - Cuban Protests Were Powered by the Internet. The State Then Pulled the Plug
Americas Quarterly - How the US Could Really Help Haiti
Foreign Policy - U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again
Miami Herald - Multinational investigation widens into Haiti assassination, including who bankrolled it
Washington Post - U.S. military once trained Colombians implicated in Haiti assassination plot, Pentagon says
Miami Herald - If U.S. continues to back Haiti’s compromised politicians, nothing will improve after Moïse
New York Times - Haiti’s Power Vacuum Escalates Kingmakers’ Battle for Control
New York Times - Why Haiti Still Despairs After $13 Billion in Foreign Aid
Coda - Assassination of president plunges Haiti into conspiracy theories, rumor and fake news
Economist - The murder of Haiti’s president will worsen the country’s chaos
CNN - Moïse's assassination is a tragic reminder of Haiti's unraveling democracy
Upcoming events
20 July, Inter-American Dialogue - Reimagining Regional Governance in Latin America
20 July, WOLA - The Challenges of Negotiating a Return to Democracy in Venezuela
20 July, William J. Perry Center - A Conversation with Mr. Daniel P. Erikson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs
21 July, Migration Policy Institute - Supporting Unaccompanied Children in the U.S. Communities Where They Live
28 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Bogotá
29 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Montevideo
10-11 August, Wilson Center - Seventh Annual Building a Competitive U.S.- Mexico Border
12 August, William J. Perry Center - China's Growing Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
26 August, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Buenos Aires
Thanks for reading
Have a good weekend