Good morning and happy Friday!
This week’s newsletter briefly discussed the Argentina outlook 100 days into Milei’s term.
This week’s World Politics Review column highlighted Bolsonaro’s coup plot as an example of sore losers around the hemisphere attempting to hold on to power after losing elections.
I’m taking Semana Santa off from the newsletter. Back in early April!
Here is this week’s reading list.
Reading List
Reuters - Mexican wave of nearshoring firms is all at sea
InSight Crime - Mexico Fentanyl Production Migrates North as Chapitos Death Threats Loom
NYT - A Mexican Drug Cartel Targets Retirees and Their Timeshares
Economist - AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico’s missing people
El Pais - Nicolás Maduro, 11 years on: unpopular, but comfortable in power
International Crisis Group - The Unsolved Crime in “Total Peace”: Dealing with Colombia’s Gaitanistas
NPR - It's not easy being Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first left-wing president
Bloomberg - How the Top Oil Trader’s Brazen Corruption Was Caught on Tape
Americas Quarterly - Ecuador's War on Drug Gangs: A Mixed Picture So Far
Americas Quarterly - Honduras’ Anti-Corruption Push Has Stalled
The Intercept - Honduras Ratchets Up Battle With Crypto-Libertarian Investors, Rejects World Bank Court
El Salvador Perspectives - Bitcoin Update from El Salvador
Foreign Affairs - The Costs of El Salvador’s Crime Crackdown: Bukele Has Reduced Homicides—but Eroded Democracy
NYT - Chasing Clicks in the Jungle: Right-Wing Influencers Descend on the Darién Gap
Bloomberg - Communist Cuba Is on the Brink of Collapse
Financial Times - The simple idea behind LatAm’s star economy
Foreign Policy - Haiti Is Facing an Insurgency, Not a Gang Problem
Foreign Affairs - Playing Both Sides of the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend.