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Friday Reading List - 18 December 2020
Friday Reading List - 18 December 2020
Friday Reading List - 18 December 2020
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 - A Pandemic Christmas Season in Latin America
Tuesday - The coming reemergence of Latin America's middle class
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Peru and Brazil)
Thursday - Biden’s Mexico and Brazil Challenges
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Reading List
The Hill - How Joe Biden must build an all Americas foreign policy to lead
Reuters - In Latin America, a Biden White House faces a rising China
The Diplomat - How Latin America Can Make the Most of the US-China Competition
CSIS - The Latin America That Will Engage the New Administration
Wilson 360 Podcast - Biden's Americas Strategy
Atlantic Council - Dealmaking with China amid global economic uncertainty: Opportunities, risks, and recommendations for Latin America and the Caribbean
Bloomberg - Cash Sent to Latin American Families Defies Forecasts for Plunge
InSight Crime - PCC Investigation: Introduction and Major Findings
New York Times - ‘Playing With Lives’: Brazil’s Covid Vaccine Plan Is Mired in Chaos
Associated Press - Swift backlash for Brazil students targeting misinformation
Economist - Brazil faces hard spending choices in 2021
Washington Post - As Mexico’s Security Deteriorates, The Power Of The Military Grows
WSJ - Mexico Passes Law Curbing Operations of Foreign Security Agents
New York Times - She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One
Washington Post - Los casos impunes de Felipa, Pío, Bartlett, Sandoval y Robledo muestran la corrupción en México
Houston Chronicle - In Mexico, US energy firms face a 'slow rolling expropriation'
Mexico Today - AMLO’s energy policy discouraged Tesla to build factory in Mexico
Vice - Mexico’s Government Got Millions After Deepwater Horizon. So Where Did All the Money Go?
Nexos - El horizonte de América Latina. Entrevista con Michael Reid
Financial Times - Mexico’s central bank wins respite on dollar-buying bill
Los Angeles Times - Unwelcome in other countries, Americans are fleeing lockdowns and flocking to Mexico
Americas Quarterly - AMLO Faces a Moment of Truth in 2021
Reuters - Venezuela wields a powerful “hate” law to silence Maduro’s remaining foes
CNN - Joe Biden faces a key decision on Venezuela
International Crisis Group - Disorder on the Border: Keeping the Peace between Colombia and Venezuela
El País - Juan Guaidó: “No reconocer la figura del presidente interino sería validar la tesis de la dictadura”
Reuters - Empty desks litter Venezuelan state offices in low-pay exodus
Bloomberg - Maduro Cranks Up Pressure on Venezuelan Human Rights Groups
Wilson Center - Venezuelan Migrants Under COVID-19: Managing South America’s Pandemic Amid a Migration Crisis
Vice - Venezuela's Socialist Regime Is Mining Bitcoin In a Bunker to Generate Cash
BBC - Chilean navy ships monitor huge Chinese fishing fleet
Bloomberg - Chilean Lawmakers Push for Restrictions on Chinese Buying Spree
Guardian - Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
BBC - No pickers, no coffee: How Covid threatens Colombia's harvest
Americas Quarterly - Cuba’s Racial Reckoning, and What It Means for Biden
Miami Herald - Is democracy in Haiti eroding? The president’s new intelligence agency has many uneasy
War on the Rocks - A Bargain Worth Making? Bukele And The Gangs Of El Salvador
Rest of the World - Guatemalan protests were fading, until a shady troll network got to work
Univision - Corruption, weak institutions and natural disasters: is there hope for Honduras to rebuild?
Univision - Oped: Picking up the pieces in Central America
NPR - Even Disaster Veterans Are Stunned By What's Happening In Honduras
New York Times - I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We’re Being Hacked.
Upcoming events
19 January 2021 - Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum
28 January 2021 - Technology. Behaviour. Data. (TBD) Conference 2021
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!