Friday Reading List - 23 August 2024
If Brazil bans kites with razor wire, then it will create black markets for kite smuggling.
Good morning and happy Friday from Dallas, Texas!
This week’s World Politics Review column was about the president vs vice president fight in Ecuador. Latin America gets a lot of president vs VP battles.
This week’s newsletter was on Mexico’s security situation after the El Mayo arrest. I didn’t even touch on the judicial reform, which is also a hot topic. Maybe next week.
Reading List
Washington Post - As repression in Nicaragua deepened, one bank kept the money flowing
NYT - Nicaragua Shutters 1,500 NGOs, Many of Them Churches
Confidencial - How Ortega’s Repression Impacts the Children of Political Prisoners
InSight Crime - A Cold War Is Raging Inside the Sinaloa Cartel Following El Mayo's Capture
Latin American Policy: Deceitful autocratization: Subverting democracy through electoral reform in Mexico
FT - Mexico’s judges strike over López Obrador’s plan to fire them
NYT - Mexico’s Judges Vote to Strike, Opposing Overhaul of Legal System
Americas Quarterly - The Fading Effort to Stop AMLO’s Judicial Reform
Reuters - Mexico's planned judicial reform is 'major risk' to democracy, says US ambassador
Bloomberg - Citi, Deutsche Issue Financing to Help Pemex Cover Unpaid Bills - Bloomberg
Bloomberg - Pemex's Next CEO Is Mexico's $100 Billion Question
Bloomberg - Brazil and Mexico Are Playing a Dangerous Inflation Game
Bloomberg - Brazil's Lula Is Running Huge Budget Deficits and Scaring Off Investors
(That’s a lot of Bloomberg articles in a row!)
InSight Crime - Technology Is Increasingly at the Heart of Criminal Operations in Brazil
AP - Plaything or peril? Brazilian kites are endangering lives and prompting a push for a national ban
FT - Scandals plunge Milei’s Peronist rivals into crisis
CSIS - A Question of Staying Power: Is the Maduro Regime’s Repression Sustainable?
Armando.info - Cómo privatizar unas elecciones
Reuters - US drafts list of 60 Venezuelans for possible sanctions over election, sources say
Reuters - Dozens forced to quit Venezuela's PDVSA over political views, workers say
Reuters - Hess Guyana's secret value becomes part of Exxon arbitration, sources say
InSight Crime - Marset's Inner Circle Crumbles as the Elusive Uruguayan Trafficker Evades Capture
NYT - U.S. Sanctions Former Haitian President for Drug Trafficking
Inforbae - Cómo América Latina se convirtió en la fábrica de espías ilegales de Vladimir Putin
NYT - Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Weapons Strategy Focusing on China
Bloomberg - A $2 Trillion Reckoning Looms as Ports Become Pawns in Geopolitics
Foreign Affairs - Condoleezza Rice: The Perils of Isolationism
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!
