Friday Reading List - 19 May 2023
Articles to read. Upcoming events. And a new weekly newsletter on Argentina.
Good morning and happy Friday! This week we covered the latest in a series of political standoffs in Argentina between the judicial branch and the Fernández administration. You can read that newsletter here:
We also announced a weekly newsletter about Argentina’s elections that you can sign up for here.
Here are this week's links and upcoming events.
Reading List
AP - Ecuador’s president ends impeachment proceedings against him by dissolving National Assembly
Washington Post - After dissolving legislature, Ecuador’s president says he’s leaving, too
Americas Quarterly - Ecuador’s Lasso Dissolves Congress
LA Times - What happened to Ecuador? How crime and power struggles brought a democracy to the brink
New York Times - One Secret to a Latin American Party’s Dominance: Buying Votes
International Crisis Group - Latin America Wrestles with a New Crime Wave
Council on Foreign Relations - Latin America’s Moment Returns
REDD Eye - May 15th, 3 minutes roundup of headlines from around the region
Buenos Aires Times - To vote or not to vote
Road to the Casa Rosada - Argentina Politics Update - 17 May 2023
Bloomberg - Argentina’s Problem Is Economic Malpractice, Not the Peso
Americas Quarterly - Bolivia’s Faded Star
Wall Street Journal - As Oil Giants Retreat Globally, Smaller Players Rush In
Financial Times - Barranquilla shakes off industrial past in bid to protect biodiversity
AP - Colombian rebel leader says peace talks are ‘on pause’
Reuters - Deep in the Amazon, scientists race against time to identify unknown pathogens
Al Arabiya - Why the next pandemic could emerge from Brazil’s Amazon, home to thousands of bats
Reuters - Analysis: Jet-setting Lula risks losing focus on Brazil issues, allies say
Al Jazeera - In Brazil, prisons without guards offer inmates path to recovery
Economist - Mexico’s gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
Insight Crime - Is Mexico’s CJNG Pushing the Gulf Cartel from Tamaulipas?
Bloomberg - Mexico's Safest State Is Seeing a Real Estate Boom
World Politics Review - The Solution to South America’s Migrant Crisis Lies in Venezuela
Wilson Center - Margarita Island, and Venezuela’s Washed Up Tourism Industry
El País - Going home to Venezuela after years of exile: ‘It’s a different country’
Responsible Statecraft - Democrats clash with Biden over sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela
El Faro - Las dos caras del modelo Bukele: el precio de un país sin pandillas
Foreign Affairs - Why America Is Struggling to Stop the Fentanyl Epidemic
Washington Post - Fans went to admire El Salvador’s gang crackdown — and got arrested
Guardian - ‘They found hell’: innocent foreigners caught in El Salvador’s mass arrests
New York Times - Why Some Countries Find It Hard to Move Away From Fossil Fuels
New York Times - Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power
Goldman Sachs - The rise of geopolitical swing states
AP - Takeaways of AP’s report on Chinese loans pushing poor countries to brink of collapse
Upcoming Events
23 May, Wilson Center - The Inner-Workings of the Mexican Supreme Court: Opening the Black Box
23 May, WOLA - Bottom-up transitional justice processes, 6 years of progress in Colombia
23 May, Institute of the Americas - Webinar sobre la Huella Ecológica de la Industria Marítima
24 May, Inter-American Dialogue - At a Crossroads: China’s Post-Pandemic Economic Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean
24 May, Inter-American Dialogue - Peru at the Crossroads: Political Crisis, Human Rights Abuses, and What’s Next?
25 May, Wilson Center - Beyond Debt Traps: The Co-Production of China-Latin America Relations
1-2 June, Inter-American Dialogue, OAS, CAF Development Bank of Latin America - 26th Annual CAF Conference
6 June, Center for Global Development - Revamping the Regional Health Approach: A Conversation with PAHO Director Jarbas Barbosa
6 June, Inter-American Dialogue - Riesgos ante el cambio climático para la República Dominicana
21 June, Wilson Center - Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border Conference
25 May, Wilson Center - Beyond Debt Traps: The Co-Production of China-Latin America Relations
27-28 June, Institute of the Americas - Brazil Energy and Sustainability Roundtable