Good morning and happy Friday.
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week:
Monday - Chile - State of emergency in the South
Tuesday - Venezuela - Saab's extradition and sanctions
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile, Colombia and Brazil)
Thursday - Ecuador - State of emergency
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U.S. State Department - Making Democracy Deliver for the Americas
Washington Post - In Latin America, Blinken calls for global sprint to show democracy can deliver
Columbia Journalism Review - Out of Focus: Too often, immigration is viewed through the narrow lens of Washington politics.
Dallas Morning News - It’s time for countries in the Americas to reach an accord to manage migration together
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - 63 Members of U.S. Congress Urge the Biden-Harris Administration to Prioritize Democracy, Human Rights, and Environmental Protection in Brazil
New York Times - Biden Needs to Overhaul the U.S. Strategy Toward Latin America. This Is How.
Americas Quarterly - Latin America’s Evolving Relationships with China
Americas Quarterly - How Latin American Governments Are Fighting Fake News
Financial Times - US investment drive to take on China in Latin America
Financial Times - The rule of law is disintegrating in Central America
Wilson Center - Food Insecurity in the Northern Triangle: Leveraging Agricultural Policies and Programs for the Benefit of Smallholders
U.S. Justice Department - Justice Department Anticorruption Task Force Launches New Measures to Combat Corruption in Central America
Americas Quarterly - Inside Brazil’s Dangerous Battle Over Fake News
Associated Press - Brazil senators readying call for Bolsonaro criminal charges
Bloomberg - Bolsonaro Loses Top Economic Aides After Unveiling Spending Plan
Reuters - Lula retains solid lead over Bolsonaro for 2022 Brazil race, poll shows
Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy - Tussle For The Amazon: New Frontiers In Brazil’s Organized Crime Landscape
Reuters - Rare access captures dances and feasts of Amazonian chief’s funeral ritual
Bloomberg - Bolsonaro’s Privatization Talk Masks Struggle to Unload Petrobras Refineries
Globo - CPI identifica organização com sete núcleos para disseminar fake news sobre Covid
Business Insider Mexico - Mexico’s powerful Jalisco cartel is flexing its muscles at opposite ends of Latin America
Atlantic - ‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’
Financial Times - How a public-private partnership helped Mexico fight Covid
Economist - As Mexico ages, public services are not keeping up
Washington Post - Biden administration says it’s ready to restore ‘Remain in Mexico’ along border next month
Washington Post - Border arrests have soared to all-time high, new CBP data shows
Washington Post - Mexico is home to millions of illegal American cars. A new amnesty has set off a nationwide debate.
InSight Crime - How Mexico's Cartels Use Video Games to Recruit Children
CSIS - Bringing Supply Chains Back to Mexico
Milenio - En Tamaulipas ocurren el 40 por ciento de los enfrentamiento registrados a nivel nacional
Gobierno de México - Informe de Seguridad
Wall Street Journal - Mexican Steelmaker Explores U.S. Bankruptcy to Challenge Chairman’s Pemex Settlement
Newsweek - Iran Fortifies West Hemisphere Ties, Will Sign 20-Year Deal with Venezuela
Washington Post - Opinion: A businessman with close ties to Maduro is in U.S. custody. Venezuela’s anger explains why this matters.
New York Times - In Venezuela, a Rum Maker Offers Gangsters a Life Outside of Crime
InSight Crime - The Coast of Sucre - Venezuela's Most Dangerous Place for Piracy
Associated Press - US targets graft in Venezuela’s flagship food box program
New York Times - Colombians Are Uniting Around Land Reform. Here’s Why.
Bloomberg - Oil-Rich Guyana Wants to Build a 135-Mile Undersea Gas Pipeline
Bloomberg - Amazonian Oil Bans Prompt Ecuador to Widen Bank-Credit Network
Economist - Pedro Castillo, Peru’s new president, tries to seem less left-wing
InSight Crime - The Drug Lord and the Governor's Daughter - Quadruple Homicide in Paraguay
Bloomberg - Argentines Are Desperate for Dollars
Emol - Multitudinaria manifestación, saqueos y actos de violencia: Los hechos que marcaron el segundo aniversario del 18-O
Wall Street Journal - World Bank Mishandled Sexual-Harassment Claims, Internal Tribunal Says
Bloomberg - Bitcoin Is Part of the Pitch as El Salvador Courts IMF Deal
America Magazine - El Salvador’s death squads have new targets but continue their bloody work
InSight Crime - El Salvador's Bitcoin Bonuses Bilked by Hackers
El Faro - La comunidad sin agua, pero con bitcoin
El Faro - Honduras: Las tres agresiones contra la diputada Olivia Zúniga Cáceres
Criterio - Con encuestas falsas buscan llegar a la presidencia en Honduras
New York Times - ‘It’s Terror’: In Haiti, Gangs Gain Power as Security Vacuum Grows
Miami Herald - As missionaries remain hostage, U.S. has few options to deal with Haiti’s violence crisis
Associated Press - Desperate Haitians suffocate under growing power of gangs
Wall Street Journal - Gangs Threaten to Tip Haiti Into a Failed State
Washington Post - Gang leader reportedly threatens to kill kidnapped American missionaries
Miami Herald - In Haiti, armed gangs tax the poor, extort the rich and do the bidding of the powerful
Miami Herald - Key suspect arrested in Haitian president’s assassination. Nation’s police chief resigns
InSight Crime - Haiti Kidnappings Target Foreigners in Evolution of Security Crisis
Washington Post - Stripped naked, beaten, forced to shout ‘Viva Fidel!’: Inside Cuba’s crackdown on dissent
Rest of World - Cuban memers are using sarcasm to avoid jail time
U.S. National Intelligence Council - Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040
Foreign Affairs - America’s Crypto Conundrum: Protecting Security Without Crushing Innovation
Economist - Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care? Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash
25 October, AS/COA - Risks to the Americas of Corrosive Capital from China
25 October, Wilson Center - Pathways for Sustainable Development in the Amazon
26 October, AS/COA - Democracy Dialogues: A Conversation with Carlos Chamorro
26 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Frameworks for Professional Competencies for Early Childhood Teachers in Latin America and the Caribbean
28 October, WOLA - Colombian Women Speaking Truth to End Violence: Testimonies and Recommendations to Colombia’s Truth Commission under the Peace Accord
29 October, WOLA - On a War Footing: How Armed Forces’ Counter-Drug Mission Threatens Human Rights and Alters Democracies’ Delicate Civil-Military Balance
2 November, Wilson Center - Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
3 November, AS/COA - Fake News and Elections: How to Reduce the Threat
9 November, William J. Perry Center - The Power of Digital Technology in 21st Century Geopolitics
17 November, AS/COA - Navigating the China-U.S. Divide: A Challenge for Latin America
Have a great weekend!
Friday Reading List - 22 October 2021
Friday Reading List - 22 October 2021
Friday Reading List - 22 October 2021
Good morning and happy Friday.
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week:
Monday - Chile - State of emergency in the South
Tuesday - Venezuela - Saab's extradition and sanctions
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile, Colombia and Brazil)
Thursday - Ecuador - State of emergency
This newsletter is supported by paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing for $9 per month or $90 per year.
Reading List
U.S. State Department - Making Democracy Deliver for the Americas
Washington Post - In Latin America, Blinken calls for global sprint to show democracy can deliver
Columbia Journalism Review - Out of Focus: Too often, immigration is viewed through the narrow lens of Washington politics.
Dallas Morning News - It’s time for countries in the Americas to reach an accord to manage migration together
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - 63 Members of U.S. Congress Urge the Biden-Harris Administration to Prioritize Democracy, Human Rights, and Environmental Protection in Brazil
New York Times - Biden Needs to Overhaul the U.S. Strategy Toward Latin America. This Is How.
Americas Quarterly - Latin America’s Evolving Relationships with China
Americas Quarterly - How Latin American Governments Are Fighting Fake News
Financial Times - US investment drive to take on China in Latin America
Financial Times - The rule of law is disintegrating in Central America
Wilson Center - Food Insecurity in the Northern Triangle: Leveraging Agricultural Policies and Programs for the Benefit of Smallholders
U.S. Justice Department - Justice Department Anticorruption Task Force Launches New Measures to Combat Corruption in Central America
Americas Quarterly - Inside Brazil’s Dangerous Battle Over Fake News
Associated Press - Brazil senators readying call for Bolsonaro criminal charges
Bloomberg - Bolsonaro Loses Top Economic Aides After Unveiling Spending Plan
Reuters - Lula retains solid lead over Bolsonaro for 2022 Brazil race, poll shows
Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy - Tussle For The Amazon: New Frontiers In Brazil’s Organized Crime Landscape
Reuters - Rare access captures dances and feasts of Amazonian chief’s funeral ritual
Bloomberg - Bolsonaro’s Privatization Talk Masks Struggle to Unload Petrobras Refineries
Globo - CPI identifica organização com sete núcleos para disseminar fake news sobre Covid
Business Insider Mexico - Mexico’s powerful Jalisco cartel is flexing its muscles at opposite ends of Latin America
Atlantic - ‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’
Financial Times - How a public-private partnership helped Mexico fight Covid
Economist - As Mexico ages, public services are not keeping up
Washington Post - Biden administration says it’s ready to restore ‘Remain in Mexico’ along border next month
Washington Post - Border arrests have soared to all-time high, new CBP data shows
Washington Post - Mexico is home to millions of illegal American cars. A new amnesty has set off a nationwide debate.
InSight Crime - How Mexico's Cartels Use Video Games to Recruit Children
CSIS - Bringing Supply Chains Back to Mexico
Milenio - En Tamaulipas ocurren el 40 por ciento de los enfrentamiento registrados a nivel nacional
Gobierno de México - Informe de Seguridad
Wall Street Journal - Mexican Steelmaker Explores U.S. Bankruptcy to Challenge Chairman’s Pemex Settlement
Newsweek - Iran Fortifies West Hemisphere Ties, Will Sign 20-Year Deal with Venezuela
Washington Post - Opinion: A businessman with close ties to Maduro is in U.S. custody. Venezuela’s anger explains why this matters.
New York Times - In Venezuela, a Rum Maker Offers Gangsters a Life Outside of Crime
InSight Crime - The Coast of Sucre - Venezuela's Most Dangerous Place for Piracy
Associated Press - US targets graft in Venezuela’s flagship food box program
New York Times - Colombians Are Uniting Around Land Reform. Here’s Why.
Bloomberg - Oil-Rich Guyana Wants to Build a 135-Mile Undersea Gas Pipeline
Bloomberg - Amazonian Oil Bans Prompt Ecuador to Widen Bank-Credit Network
Economist - Pedro Castillo, Peru’s new president, tries to seem less left-wing
InSight Crime - The Drug Lord and the Governor's Daughter - Quadruple Homicide in Paraguay
Bloomberg - Argentines Are Desperate for Dollars
Emol - Multitudinaria manifestación, saqueos y actos de violencia: Los hechos que marcaron el segundo aniversario del 18-O
Wall Street Journal - World Bank Mishandled Sexual-Harassment Claims, Internal Tribunal Says
Bloomberg - Bitcoin Is Part of the Pitch as El Salvador Courts IMF Deal
America Magazine - El Salvador’s death squads have new targets but continue their bloody work
InSight Crime - El Salvador's Bitcoin Bonuses Bilked by Hackers
El Faro - La comunidad sin agua, pero con bitcoin
El Faro - Honduras: Las tres agresiones contra la diputada Olivia Zúniga Cáceres
Criterio - Con encuestas falsas buscan llegar a la presidencia en Honduras
New York Times - ‘It’s Terror’: In Haiti, Gangs Gain Power as Security Vacuum Grows
Miami Herald - As missionaries remain hostage, U.S. has few options to deal with Haiti’s violence crisis
Associated Press - Desperate Haitians suffocate under growing power of gangs
Wall Street Journal - Gangs Threaten to Tip Haiti Into a Failed State
Washington Post - Gang leader reportedly threatens to kill kidnapped American missionaries
Miami Herald - In Haiti, armed gangs tax the poor, extort the rich and do the bidding of the powerful
Miami Herald - Key suspect arrested in Haitian president’s assassination. Nation’s police chief resigns
InSight Crime - Haiti Kidnappings Target Foreigners in Evolution of Security Crisis
Washington Post - Stripped naked, beaten, forced to shout ‘Viva Fidel!’: Inside Cuba’s crackdown on dissent
Rest of World - Cuban memers are using sarcasm to avoid jail time
U.S. National Intelligence Council - Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040
Foreign Affairs - America’s Crypto Conundrum: Protecting Security Without Crushing Innovation
Economist - Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care? Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash
Upcoming events
25 October, AS/COA - Risks to the Americas of Corrosive Capital from China
25 October, Wilson Center - Pathways for Sustainable Development in the Amazon
26 October, AS/COA - Democracy Dialogues: A Conversation with Carlos Chamorro
26 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Frameworks for Professional Competencies for Early Childhood Teachers in Latin America and the Caribbean
28 October, WOLA - Colombian Women Speaking Truth to End Violence: Testimonies and Recommendations to Colombia’s Truth Commission under the Peace Accord
29 October, WOLA - On a War Footing: How Armed Forces’ Counter-Drug Mission Threatens Human Rights and Alters Democracies’ Delicate Civil-Military Balance
2 November, Wilson Center - Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
3 November, AS/COA - Fake News and Elections: How to Reduce the Threat
9 November, William J. Perry Center - The Power of Digital Technology in 21st Century Geopolitics
17 November, AS/COA - Navigating the China-U.S. Divide: A Challenge for Latin America
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!