Below are links to interesting articles I’ve read in the past week as well as a list of upcoming events related to Latin America.
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Friday Reading List - 25 September 2020
Friday Reading List - 25 September 2020
Friday Reading List - 25 September 2020
Below are links to interesting articles I’ve read in the past week as well as a list of upcoming events related to Latin America.
Three admin notes before I get to the links:
While many readers have said they like the daily newsletter, a few people have asked for a weekly update from me instead of daily emails. Doing that is more technically complicated than it should be (you probably don’t want the boring details). I’ve written to the helpful support team at Substack and I’m working on it. Hopefully in the next few weeks I’ll have a weekly option available for those who want fewer emails.
More generally, I appreciate any feedback readers have about the frequency, length and topics I’ve written about in recent weeks. This newsletter is an ongoing experiment and I’m trying to make it as interesting and useful as possible. Feel free to email me or comment on this post online.
Several more readers signed on as paying subscribers this week. Thank you! Writing this newsletter takes time and I appreciate the support. Subscriptions are $9 per month or $90 per year. If you sign up by the end of September, I will give you an additional three month credit.
I published four newsletters this week:
Monday - Venezuela security forces are a key part of the country’s high homicide rate
Tuesday - Mexico's money laundering crackdown
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru)
Thursday - Disinformation and Elections
Reading List
InSight Crime - Timber Mafias - Preying on Latin America’s Forests
Amnesty International - When Protection Becomes Repression: Mandatory Quarantines Under Covid-19 in the Americas
Financial Times - Pandemic politics: the rebound of Latin America’s populists
Bloomberg - Latin America Cities Bustle Like Covid Is Gone, But It’s Not
Asia Power Watch - Re-examining India - Latin America ties in an Asian and global context
Associated Press - US firm pleads guilty to paying bribes in Brazil, Venezuela
Americas Quarterly - Why a Trump Defeat Would Be a Disaster for Bolsonaro
Foreign Policy - Biden or Trump, the U.S.-Brazil Relationship Is Still Headed for Trouble
Estadão - Avaliação positiva de Bolsonaro sobe de 29% para 40% em nove meses, mostra pesquisa CNI/Ibope
Associated Press - Bolsonaro to world: Brazil is victim of environmental smear
Globo - Mulheres negras são as principais vítimas de homicídios
Financial Times - Mexico’s populist president faces backlash from the people
LA Times - In the ring, they were gods. Now the coronavirus is forcing lucha libre stars to sell street food
Houston Chronicle - Making Pemex great again creates risks for energy exporters and investors
Washington Post - Amid covid-19, recession and violence, Mexico’s López Obrador takes aim at his predecessors
New York Times - In the Epicenter of Mexico's Coronavirus Epicenter, Feeling Like a 'Trapped Animal'
Reuters - Mexico to hold off on possible new energy reform until next year - sources
Bloomberg - Assets Seized from Criminals Re-stolen by Mexican Officials
Economist - AMLO’s war against the intelligentsia
New York Times - Argentina Spied on Families of Lost Submarine Crew, Officials Say
ICIJ - How banks helped Venezuela’s ‘boligarchs’ extract billions
Reuters - PDVSA's customers schedule last oil cargoes amid U.S.-imposed wind-down - sources
CSIS - Covid-19 in Venezuela: How the Pandemic Deepened a Humanitarian Crisis
Washington Post - Venezuela’s broken oil industry is spewing crude into the Caribbean Sea
Reuters - U.S., Guyana to launch joint maritime patrols near disputed Venezuela border
Associated Press - Haiti's supreme court declines to swear in election council; Moise installs them anyway
Miami Herald - Trump registered his trademark in Cuba in 2008 to build hotels, casinos and golf courses
Associated Press - Wave of massacres signals new chapter in Colombia’s conflict
Guardian - Colombia: spying on reporters shows army unable to shake habits of dirty war
Daily Beast - Did Russian Spies Use Diplomatic Cover to Run a Global Cocaine-Smuggling Operation?
Washington Post - Bolivia’s left could win an upcoming election. U.S. Democrats don’t want a repeat of last year’s crisis.
Associated Press - Proposed Nicaragua law could muffle dissent
Reuters - China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
Gallup - World Grows Less Accepting of Migrants
AP - Palm oil labor abuses linked to world's top brands, banks
The Atlantic - The Blob Meets the Heartland
Upcoming Events
28 September, Institute of the Americas - The Madrid Energy Virtual Conference
29 September, Wilson Center - USMCA: Mexico's Perspective on Labor Provisions and Mexico's Labor Reforms
29 September, Wilson Center - The United States-Colombia Growth Initiative: A New Phase in Bilateral Relations?
30 September, Global Americans - Extractive Industries in the Amazon
30 September, Inter-American Dialogue - Venezuela's Humanitarian and Human Rights Crises - The Search for Innovative Responses
5 October, AS/COA - A Conversation with Admiral Craig Faller, Commander, SOUTHCOM
6 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Latin America Energy Conference
22-23 October, LAPOP - The Public and Democracy in the Americas
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!