Good morning and happy Friday from Washington DC. I’m passing through town after spending last weekend in Shenandoah National Park.
Here are the links to the three newsletters I published this week
Monday - Northern Triangle - Homicide rates rebound
Tuesday - Peru - Castillo declared president
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile Primary Results)
Additionally, here is a link to last Friday’s reading list (with no paywall).
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Bloomberg - Latin America’s Covid Crisis Is Leaving Schoolchildren Behind
Bloomberg - Census Delays Threaten Latin America’s Vulnerable
Guardian - Deadly coral disease sweeping Caribbean linked to wastewater from ships
InSight Crime - Human Smugglers Profit From Despair of Haitian Migrants in Brazil
CSIS - Development Solutions to Address Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Brookings Institution - How can the US support democracy and development in Latin America? (Podcast)
Financial Times - Lula keeps policies a mystery on Brazil comeback trail
Financial Times - Drought puts Amazon at risk of ‘large-scale dieback’, researchers warn
CNN - Illegal gold miners threaten fragile way of life, deep in Amazon rainforest
CNN - Brazil's scandal-plagued President may face a reckoning as lawmakers consider impeachment
Washington Post - YouTube removes videos posted by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that spread coronavirus misinformation
Economist - Brazil’s brain drain is getting worse
Guardian - ‘Hunger has returned’: Covid piles further misery on Brazil’s vulnerable
HuffPost - Top Brazilian General Reportedly Backs Bolsonaro Effort To Undermine 2022 Elections
Reuters - 'No banana republic': Brazil's politicos guarantee 2022 vote after bombshell story
Guardian - Revealed: murdered journalist’s number selected by Mexican NSO client
Washington Post - How Mexico’s traditional political espionage went high-tech
Washington Post - Opinion: Who will be Mexico’s next president? The current one has too much say.
Economist - Mexico’s middle class is struggling
InSight Crime - Fake Vaccination Certificates: The Next COVID-19 Forgery in Mexico
Reuters - New self-defense militia appears in Chiapas, Mexico to fight organized crime
Proceso - Pegasus Project: la red de empresas que vendió Pegasus al gobierno de Peña Nieto
WOLA - Negotiating a Return to Democracy in Venezuela: Insights From the Participants in the 2019 Oslo-Barbados Talks
El País - El Koki, the Venezuelan gang leader challenging Maduro’s security forces
Reuters - China's CCPC takes centre stage in Iran, Venezuela oil trade-sources
Wilson Center - Venezuela’s Bolivarian Armed Force: Fear and Interest in the Face of Political Change
Americas Quarterly - Colombia’s Protests Could Create an Opening for the Center
BBC - Pedro Castillo: qué es la economía popular con mercados que propone el presidente electo de Perú (y por qué genera incertidumbre)
Bloomberg - Argentina Chides Russia as Vaccine Delays Hurt Government
New York Times - Argentina Formally Recognizes Nonbinary People, a Latin American First
El Faro - Bukele's Plan — Launching National Cryptocurrency by Year's End
CNN - What the US really needs to do about Cuba and Haiti
Wall Street Journal - Killing of Haiti’s President Risks New Gang Violence in Caribbean Nation
Wall Street Journal - Assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse Clashed With Some Business Magnates
Miami Herald - Biden appoints special envoy to Haiti with an eye toward elections this year
Washington Post - ‘A powder keg about to explode’: Long marginalized Afro Cubans at forefront of island’s unrest
Washington Post - Cuba’s communist authorities have long feared change. Street protests show the risk of resisting it.
Guardian - About 100 CIA officers and family have been sickened by Havana syndrome
NBC News - U.S. accuses China of abetting ransomware attack
PBS Frontline - Introducing ‘The Pegasus Project’
The Fix - The next disruption: AI and Machine Learning in emerging market newsrooms
26 July, Wilson Center - The Future of Health in Latin America: Getting to Work on the Workforce
27 July, Inter-American Dialogue - Crisis in Haiti – Finding a Response to Violence and Political Turmoil
28 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Bogotá
28 July, AS/COA - Skilling Latin America's Workforce and Boosting Employment Opportunities: A Call to Action
28 July, Inter-American Dialogue - Deepening Cooperation and Coordination on Health Policy in the Americas
29 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Montevideo
29 July, Wilson Center - Going Digital: The Future of Digital Trade in Latin America
30 July, AS/COA - Science, Safety, Stakeholders: Regulating for the 21st Century in the Americas
5 August, WOLA - Vicious Cycle: Forced Crop Eradication and the Never-Ending War on Drugs
10-11 August, Wilson Center - Seventh Annual Building a Competitive U.S.- Mexico Border
12 August, William J. Perry Center - China's Growing Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
17 August, Wilson Center - Getting Closer to Distance Learning: Online Education in Latin America
26 August, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Buenos Aires
Have a great weekend.
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Friday Reading List - 23 July 2021
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Good morning and happy Friday from Washington DC. I’m passing through town after spending last weekend in Shenandoah National Park.
Here are the links to the three newsletters I published this week
Monday - Northern Triangle - Homicide rates rebound
Tuesday - Peru - Castillo declared president
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile Primary Results)
Additionally, here is a link to last Friday’s reading list (with no paywall).
This newsletter is supported by paying subscribers. Please subscribe to receive additional content.
Reading List
Bloomberg - Latin America’s Covid Crisis Is Leaving Schoolchildren Behind
Bloomberg - Census Delays Threaten Latin America’s Vulnerable
Guardian - Deadly coral disease sweeping Caribbean linked to wastewater from ships
InSight Crime - Human Smugglers Profit From Despair of Haitian Migrants in Brazil
CSIS - Development Solutions to Address Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Brookings Institution - How can the US support democracy and development in Latin America? (Podcast)
Financial Times - Lula keeps policies a mystery on Brazil comeback trail
Financial Times - Drought puts Amazon at risk of ‘large-scale dieback’, researchers warn
CNN - Illegal gold miners threaten fragile way of life, deep in Amazon rainforest
CNN - Brazil's scandal-plagued President may face a reckoning as lawmakers consider impeachment
Washington Post - YouTube removes videos posted by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that spread coronavirus misinformation
Economist - Brazil’s brain drain is getting worse
Guardian - ‘Hunger has returned’: Covid piles further misery on Brazil’s vulnerable
HuffPost - Top Brazilian General Reportedly Backs Bolsonaro Effort To Undermine 2022 Elections
Reuters - 'No banana republic': Brazil's politicos guarantee 2022 vote after bombshell story
Guardian - Revealed: murdered journalist’s number selected by Mexican NSO client
Washington Post - How Mexico’s traditional political espionage went high-tech
Washington Post - Opinion: Who will be Mexico’s next president? The current one has too much say.
Economist - Mexico’s middle class is struggling
InSight Crime - Fake Vaccination Certificates: The Next COVID-19 Forgery in Mexico
Reuters - New self-defense militia appears in Chiapas, Mexico to fight organized crime
Proceso - Pegasus Project: la red de empresas que vendió Pegasus al gobierno de Peña Nieto
WOLA - Negotiating a Return to Democracy in Venezuela: Insights From the Participants in the 2019 Oslo-Barbados Talks
El País - El Koki, the Venezuelan gang leader challenging Maduro’s security forces
Reuters - China's CCPC takes centre stage in Iran, Venezuela oil trade-sources
Wilson Center - Venezuela’s Bolivarian Armed Force: Fear and Interest in the Face of Political Change
Americas Quarterly - Colombia’s Protests Could Create an Opening for the Center
BBC - Pedro Castillo: qué es la economía popular con mercados que propone el presidente electo de Perú (y por qué genera incertidumbre)
Bloomberg - Argentina Chides Russia as Vaccine Delays Hurt Government
New York Times - Argentina Formally Recognizes Nonbinary People, a Latin American First
El Faro - Bukele's Plan — Launching National Cryptocurrency by Year's End
CNN - What the US really needs to do about Cuba and Haiti
Wall Street Journal - Killing of Haiti’s President Risks New Gang Violence in Caribbean Nation
Wall Street Journal - Assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse Clashed With Some Business Magnates
Miami Herald - Biden appoints special envoy to Haiti with an eye toward elections this year
Washington Post - ‘A powder keg about to explode’: Long marginalized Afro Cubans at forefront of island’s unrest
Washington Post - Cuba’s communist authorities have long feared change. Street protests show the risk of resisting it.
Guardian - About 100 CIA officers and family have been sickened by Havana syndrome
NBC News - U.S. accuses China of abetting ransomware attack
PBS Frontline - Introducing ‘The Pegasus Project’
The Fix - The next disruption: AI and Machine Learning in emerging market newsrooms
Upcoming Events
26 July, Wilson Center - The Future of Health in Latin America: Getting to Work on the Workforce
27 July, Inter-American Dialogue - Crisis in Haiti – Finding a Response to Violence and Political Turmoil
28 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Bogotá
28 July, AS/COA - Skilling Latin America's Workforce and Boosting Employment Opportunities: A Call to Action
28 July, Inter-American Dialogue - Deepening Cooperation and Coordination on Health Policy in the Americas
29 July, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Montevideo
29 July, Wilson Center - Going Digital: The Future of Digital Trade in Latin America
30 July, AS/COA - Science, Safety, Stakeholders: Regulating for the 21st Century in the Americas
5 August, WOLA - Vicious Cycle: Forced Crop Eradication and the Never-Ending War on Drugs
10-11 August, Wilson Center - Seventh Annual Building a Competitive U.S.- Mexico Border
12 August, William J. Perry Center - China's Growing Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
17 August, Wilson Center - Getting Closer to Distance Learning: Online Education in Latin America
26 August, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Buenos Aires
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend.