Friday Reading List - 22 September 2023
Links and events
Good morning and happy Friday! This week’s newsletter assesses Mexico’s ruling Morena party’s internal divisions and the surge of opposition candidate Xochitl Gálvez.
As a reminder, I am teaching the Analyzing Protests course again in early October. Click here to sign up.
Here is this week’s reading list and upcoming events.
Reading List
World Politics Review - Lula Might Already Be Torpedoing Brazil’s G-20 Leadership
Americas Quarterly - Courts, a Last Line of Defense for Latin American Democracies
CSIS - Tracking Transatlantic Drug Flows: Cocaine's Path from South America across the Caribbean to Europe
Bloomberg - The Americas Can’t Handle Immigration a la Carte
Foreign Policy - Toward a Paradigm Shift on Mental Health in Latin America
Foreign Policy - Who Should Lead the Global South?
AP - Brazil’s Lula pitches his nation — and himself — as fresh leader for Global South
Reuters - Analysis: Lula struggles to revive Brazil's 'soft power' amid US-China tensions
Confidencial - Ortega and Murillo: A Threat to Regional Democracy
World Politics Review - GOP Calls to Invade Mexico Are More Than Just a Political Stunt
New York Times - Mexico Feels Pressure of Relentless Migration From South America
New York Times - U.S. Wants to Keep Migrants Away From the Border by Moving It South
Americas Migration Brief - September 18, 2023
InSight Crime - Venezuela Could Be Supplying Colombia’s Cocaine Labs With Scarce Precursor
Road to the Casa Rosada - Argentina Politics Update - 20 September 2023
AP - Argentina’s former detention and torture site added to UNESCO World Heritage list
Bloomberg - Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Argentine Elite Are Now Fans of Javier Milei
Washington Post - How to match Bukele’s success against gangs? First, dismantle democracy.
Bloomberg - Cocaine Is Set to Overtake Oil to Become Colombia’s Main Export
AP - Colombia’s president has a plan for ‘total peace.’ But militias aren’t putting down their guns yet
Guardian - I spent nine years in a Colombian women’s prison. This is what I learned
Americas Quarterly - What Caused Peru’s Economic Downfall?
LA Times - Costa Rica, the once-peaceful land of ‘pura vida,’ battles violence as cocaine trade grows
Washington Post - Haiti wants foreign help against the gangs. The details worry all sides.
Bloomberg - The Global Economy Enters an Era of Upheaval
Upcoming Events
23 September, Inter-American Dialogue - Special Address by Chilean President Gabriel Boric
26 September, Brookings - USMCA: Past, Present, Future
27 September, Wilson Center - Challenging Autocracy from the Front Lines
27 September, CSIS - The Future of Latin America’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
27-28 September, Wilson Center - The Rules-Based Order in Antarctica and Global Challenges
28 September, AS/COA - Who's Educating Whom? Unpacking Fashion Consumer and Supplier Dynamics
29 September, Wilson Center - Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints (Book Launch)
2-6 October, Hxagon - Analyzing Protests
11-12 October, Institute of the Americas - La Jolla Conference
17 October, Wilson Center - Building a High Quality US-Mexico Pharmaceutical Supply Chain