Friday Reading List - 21 June 2024
Gone camping....
Good morning and happy Friday!
I pre-set this email on Thursday afternoon and am spending the weekend at Cub Scout camp in Virginia in what’s expected to be 98 degree heat. Right now is when I’ll miss camping in the mountains outside of Bogota where it was always raining but the temperature was perfect.
For World Politics Review this week, I wrote about Peru’s declining democracy.
Here is this week’s reading list and upcoming events.
Reading List
Inter-American Dialogue - Feeling the Stones: Chinese Development Finance to Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023
Financial Times - Latin America is the victim of protectionist contagion
Americas Quarterly - Latin America’s Murder Rates Reveal Surprising New Trends
El Pais - Las guerras del agua: cinco frentes que el cambio climático abre en América Latina
Americas Quarterly - The U.S. Counterweight in Mexico
Bloomberg - Mexico 2025 Deficit Is Potentially Wider Than Forecast, Claudia Sheinbaum Says
Reuters - Brazil's Lula demands faster action against organized crime in the Amazon
Reuters - Brazil joins race to loosen China's grip on rare earths industry | Reuters
Caracas Chronicles - Game Theory and Venezuelan Politics: Unity Is The Game
New Yorker - Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos
CPJ - Drug-related violence fuels an exodus of Ecuador’s press - Committee to Protect Journalists
CNN - Ecuador hit by nationwide blackout, leaving 17 million in the dark
World Politics Review - Arce and Morales Are Now Battling for Control of Bolivia's Courts
Economist - Javier Milei has turned Argentina into a libertarian laboratory
Carl Moses - Some Reflections on Six Months of Milei in Argentina and the World
Reuters - Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
Upcoming events
25 June, CSIS - Escalation in Haiti: Reaching Women and Girls Impacted by Humanitarian Crisis
27 June, Wilson Center - Tenth Annual Building a Competitive US-Mexico Border Conference
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!