Good morning and happy Friday.
Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.
Monday - Haiti - Relief efforts hampered by deteriorating security
Tuesday - El Salvador - Constitutional reform
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Argentina, Region)
Thursday - Brazil - Political unrest
Tuesday’s newsletter is available to everyone and the other newsletters went to paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing for $9 per month.
New York Times - Biden Faces a Trade-Off: Stop Corruption, or Migration?
Economist - Democracy is quickly eroding in Central America
Washington Post - Exodus: How mass migration and its ripple effects are upending lives across Latin America: A story in photographs.
New York Times - The W.H.O. will address inequities by making vaccines in Latin America.
Reuters - Mexico seeks to convince U.S. to invest in Central America, not just migration curbs
Associated Press - Brazil’s Indigenous march to pressure court on land ruling
Financial Times - Bolsonaro pushes the limits of democracy in Brazil
Financial Times - Brazil’s ‘third way’ candidates gear up to challenge Bolsonaro
Guardian - Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade
Reuters - Brazil governors concerned over Bolsonaro support among military police
Vice - How Trump's Trade Deal Accidentally Made Mexican Labor Rights Great Again
Vice - A Brutal Mexican Turf War Is Sending Thousands of People to the US Border
Associated Press - Mexico: help for US on migrants “can’t go on forever”
World Politics Review - U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Are at Rock Bottom—and Likely to Stay There
Reuters - Analysis: Venezuela sees refinery debt swap as model for future deals
Reuters - Venezuela swapped PDVSA oil for food, then punished the dealmakers
McClatchy - American couple tries to pressure Venezuela to stop ‘white torture’ of imprisoned nephew
Slate - The Venezuelans Trying to Escape Their Country Through Video Game Grunt Work
Vice - The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies
McClatchy - 2 South Florida men, a gold mine deep in the rain forest and a mother lode of misery
Rio Times - “International support for Colombia with Venezuelan migrants is lacking” says U.S. senator
World Politics Review - Despite a Strong Start, Ecuador’s Lasso Has His Work Cut Out for Him
Washington Post - Genocide prosecution of former president tests Bolivia’s justice system
InSight Crime - Mass Deforestation in Paraguay Destroys National Parks
Americas Quarterly - Why Argentina’s Politics Are Surprisingly Stable
Financial Times - Argentina’s president tries to contain fallout from lockdown party photos
Amnesty International - Nicaragua: Enforced disappearance is the new tactic for repression
Wall Street Journal - El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment
Slate - Nayib Bukele is Latin America's first millennial dictator.
Washington Post - How these Hondurans are trying to rebuild after two devastating hurricanes
Miami Herald - Cuba’s private-sector law comes with restrictions — and a ban on Cuban American investment
New York Times - He Guarded Haiti’s Slain President. And He Was a Suspect in a Drug Inquiry.
Miami Herald - Gang violence has hindered aid for earthquake victims. So a truce was called — for now
Guardian - Haiti needs help, but ‘not from aid workers who never leave their SUVs’
New York Times - Spies for Hire: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship
31 August, Inter-American Dialogue - English for Employment – English Language Learning in Technical and Professional Education
8 September, AS/COA - The State of Democracy in the Americas with Luis Almagro
8 September, Inter-American Dialogue - Workforce Development in the Post-Pandemic
9 September, AS/COA - Environmental, Social, and Governance Standards as Drivers of Recovery
14 September, Center for Global Development - Capital Flow Volatility in Latin America—Will Next Time Be Different?
27 September, Wilson Center - The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties
5 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Fifth Annual Latin America Energy Conference – Transition and Recovery
Via Caracas Chronicles, this was the best political-economy analysis about Latin America I saw this week:
I’m tempted to turn that into a serious newsletter next week. Have a great weekend.
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Friday Reading List - 27 August 2021
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Good morning and happy Friday.
Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.
Monday - Haiti - Relief efforts hampered by deteriorating security
Tuesday - El Salvador - Constitutional reform
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Argentina, Region)
Thursday - Brazil - Political unrest
Tuesday’s newsletter is available to everyone and the other newsletters went to paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing for $9 per month.
Reading List
New York Times - Biden Faces a Trade-Off: Stop Corruption, or Migration?
Economist - Democracy is quickly eroding in Central America
Washington Post - Exodus: How mass migration and its ripple effects are upending lives across Latin America: A story in photographs.
New York Times - The W.H.O. will address inequities by making vaccines in Latin America.
Reuters - Mexico seeks to convince U.S. to invest in Central America, not just migration curbs
Associated Press - Brazil’s Indigenous march to pressure court on land ruling
Financial Times - Bolsonaro pushes the limits of democracy in Brazil
Financial Times - Brazil’s ‘third way’ candidates gear up to challenge Bolsonaro
Guardian - Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade
Reuters - Brazil governors concerned over Bolsonaro support among military police
Vice - How Trump's Trade Deal Accidentally Made Mexican Labor Rights Great Again
Vice - A Brutal Mexican Turf War Is Sending Thousands of People to the US Border
Associated Press - Mexico: help for US on migrants “can’t go on forever”
World Politics Review - U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Are at Rock Bottom—and Likely to Stay There
Reuters - Analysis: Venezuela sees refinery debt swap as model for future deals
Reuters - Venezuela swapped PDVSA oil for food, then punished the dealmakers
McClatchy - American couple tries to pressure Venezuela to stop ‘white torture’ of imprisoned nephew
Slate - The Venezuelans Trying to Escape Their Country Through Video Game Grunt Work
Vice - The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies
McClatchy - 2 South Florida men, a gold mine deep in the rain forest and a mother lode of misery
Rio Times - “International support for Colombia with Venezuelan migrants is lacking” says U.S. senator
World Politics Review - Despite a Strong Start, Ecuador’s Lasso Has His Work Cut Out for Him
Washington Post - Genocide prosecution of former president tests Bolivia’s justice system
InSight Crime - Mass Deforestation in Paraguay Destroys National Parks
Americas Quarterly - Why Argentina’s Politics Are Surprisingly Stable
Financial Times - Argentina’s president tries to contain fallout from lockdown party photos
Amnesty International - Nicaragua: Enforced disappearance is the new tactic for repression
Wall Street Journal - El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment
Slate - Nayib Bukele is Latin America's first millennial dictator.
Washington Post - How these Hondurans are trying to rebuild after two devastating hurricanes
Miami Herald - Cuba’s private-sector law comes with restrictions — and a ban on Cuban American investment
New York Times - He Guarded Haiti’s Slain President. And He Was a Suspect in a Drug Inquiry.
Miami Herald - Gang violence has hindered aid for earthquake victims. So a truce was called — for now
Guardian - Haiti needs help, but ‘not from aid workers who never leave their SUVs’
New York Times - Spies for Hire: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship
Upcoming events
31 August, Inter-American Dialogue - English for Employment – English Language Learning in Technical and Professional Education
8 September, AS/COA - The State of Democracy in the Americas with Luis Almagro
8 September, Inter-American Dialogue - Workforce Development in the Post-Pandemic
9 September, AS/COA - Environmental, Social, and Governance Standards as Drivers of Recovery
14 September, Center for Global Development - Capital Flow Volatility in Latin America—Will Next Time Be Different?
27 September, Wilson Center - The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties
5 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Fifth Annual Latin America Energy Conference – Transition and Recovery
Thanks for reading
Via Caracas Chronicles, this was the best political-economy analysis about Latin America I saw this week:
I’m tempted to turn that into a serious newsletter next week. Have a great weekend.