Friday Reading List - 2 February 2024
You'll need to re-live Groundhog Day several times to get through all these links
Good morning and happy Friday!
This week’s newsletter discussed the polls in Mexico.
This week’s World Politics Review column covered some recent reports about Chinese investments in Latin America.
Here is this week’s reading list and upcoming events.
Reading List
Bloomberg - Traders Line Up for ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ Emerging Markets Bet
ProPublica - Did Drug Traffickers Funnel Millions of Dollars to Mexican President López Obrador’s First Campaign?
InSight Crime - 'Operation Polanco': How the DEA Investigated AMLO's 2006-Presidential Campaign
El Universal - Avionazo en El Clan genera disputa por 30 mil millones
International Crisis Group - Fear, Lies and Lucre: How Criminal Groups Weaponise Social Media in Mexico
New Yorker - Can the Government of Mexico Bring the U.S. Gun Industry to Book?
WOLA - Elections and Human Rights in Mexico: 3 Key Issues
Bloomberg - Four Factors to Watch in Mexico’s Sweeping 2024 Elections
Bloomberg - Brazil’s Fiscal Woes Could Ruin Lula’s Big Year
Economist - Can Lula fix Brazil’s fiscal mess?
Financial Times - Brazil’s imports of Russian oil products soar
AP - Brazil, facing calls for reparations, wrangles with its painful legacy of slavery
Politico - The world's biggest meat processor — a major polluter — is coming to Wall Street
AP - Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law
InSight Crime - Venezuela 2024: Elections and Criminal Consolidation
US State Dept - Venezuela: Sanctions Actions and Supporting Democracy
Reuters - Return of US oil sanctions on Venezuela to hit revenue, fuel imports
International Crisis Group - Venezuela: The Perilous Path to a Key Election
O Globo - ‘Maduro está descontrolado’, alerta líder da oposição da Venezuela, que teme cancelamento das eleições (Interview with Machado)
Caracas Chronicles - The Barbados Agreement Is Full of Traps. But the Opposition Still Has a Chance.
El Tiempo - Número de desplazados en Colombia creció un 7 % en 2023 y el de confinados se disparó
Americas Quarterly - In Colombia, Petro Faces Challenges on All Sides
Americas Migration Brief - The migratory implications of Ecuador’s crisis
War on the Rocks - How does Ecuador’s Internal Armed Conflict End?
World Politics Review - Anti-China Sentiment Could Sink a Free Trade Deal With Ecuador
Latin America Bureau - The plunder of Bolivian gold
VOA - Se intensifica la presión contra los bloqueos de rutas en Bolivia, Evo Morales pone condiciones
WSJ - Argentina’s President Promised a Free-Market Revolution, and Says He’s Delivering
El Cohete a la Luna - Castigos eléctricos (Argentina)
AP - Guatemala's new president to ask for society's help in face of opposition from entrenched powers
VOA (Chinese) - Guatemala weighs diplomatic ties with Taiwan under U.S. gaze
Bloomberg - El Salvador Election: Bukele Seeks Second Term on Popular Crime Policy
Reuters - Short on cash, El Salvador doubles down on Bitcoin dream
AP - El Salvador VP acknowledges mistakes in war on gangs but says country is 'not a police state'
Project Brazen - Daniel Ortega: Once Radical, Now Rogue
Reuters - Panama ex-president's return to office endangered by graft sentence
Miami Herald - White House battles Republicans over Haiti force funding
Washington Post - Gangs are using rape as a weapon in Haiti. Justice is elusive.
Bloomberg - GDP, Economic Data Show US Beating China in Cold War II
Economist - Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada’s elections?
NYT / Ezra Klein Podcast - ‘The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen’ Boz’s comment: Many people have asked me why I think the Democrats are likely to win in 2024 in the US. This podcast interview with Simon Rosenberg strongly matches my analysis on the subject.
Upcoming Events
5 February, Wilson Center and almost every other think tank in the DC area - A Conversation with Mexican Presidential Candidate Xóchitl Gálvez
6 February, Inter-American Dialogue - Wall Street's Influence on Democracy in Latin America
14 February, Atlantic Council - A new era for US-Guatemala economic relations
16 February, Inter-American Dialogue - Perspectives on Remittances in 2024
19 February, Wilson Center - A Brazilian Perspective on the G20: Debriefing the First Ministerial Meeting
Thanks for reading
Happy Groundhog Day! I asked for an AI logo for today that had groundhog and a capybara being friends. And Dall-E did a good job.
Have a great weekend!