Friday Reading List - 28 April 2023
Good morning and happy Friday! On Tuesday we covered the state of play in Argentina’s upcoming presidential election.
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Here are this week’s links and upcoming events.
Reading List
Americas Quarterly - Thinking Abroad: Latin America’s Foreign Policies
Foreign Policy - China Is Exploiting a U.S. Police Void in Latin America
World Politics Review - In Latin America, the U.S. Is Getting Competition With China All Wrong
Time - 10 Commandments for the U.S. to Save Its Relationship With Latin America From China
Wilson Center - Latin America’s Lithium: Critical Minerals and the Global Energy Transition
Small Wars Journal - Hezbollah’s Global Networks and Latin American Cocaine Trade
Insight Crime - Across the Americas, Governments Aim to Rein in Flow of Guns
Americas Quarterly - Under Lula, Brazil Can Take On Regional Leadership. Will It?
Foreign Policy - Why Lula’s Visit to Beijing Matters More Than Macron’s
Americas Quarterly - Brazil Needs a Feminist Foreign Policy
BBC - Goldman Prize honours indigenous woman who stopped mining giant
Guardian - Mexico army ignored cartel warnings before mass student kidnapping, emails show
Washington Post - U.S. indictments trace fentanyl supply lines from China to Mexico
Vice - Brazen Killing of Alleged Narco in Mexico City Unusual in ‘Safe Haven’ Capital
Economist - The battle to control Mexican telecoms
Economist - Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocrat, is winning
Insight Crime - In Lara, Venezuela, Criminal 'Colectivos' Control Public Services
Natural Gas Intelligence - Is Argentina Poised to Become a Regional, Even Global, Natural Gas Energy Hub?
Washington Post - The poetic governance of Chile’s firebrand president
Wall Street Journal - Lithium Miners Slump as Chile Unveils State-Led Policy
Americas Quarterly - As Concern Over Crime Rises, Chile’s Boric Shifts Right
CSIS - Are Petro and Biden Syncing? Key Takeaways from the Bilateral Meeting
El País - Petro se aleja del pragmatismo y da un volantazo a la izquierda
LA Times - They left gangs and found God. But they weren’t spared in El Salvador’s crackdown
Foreign Policy - When Abortion Bans Are Too Popular to Overturn
World Politics Review - Panama’s Popular Discontent Is Still Simmering
The Guardian - Paraguay looks for change as election looms. But that’s not on the ballot
Insight Crime - Corruption Takes Center Stage in Paraguay Presidential Election
GJIA - Political Protests in Peru: Causes, Complications, and Remedies
Foreign Policy - Justice in Peru Is a Danger for Its Politics
Upcoming Events
28 April, Atlantic Council - Paraguay’s elections and implications for the US, China, and Taiwan in LAC
28 April, Wilson Center - Addressing the Converging Risks of Climate, Insecurity, and Migration in Central America
28 April, CSIS - Debt Transparency in Developing Countries
28 April, AS/COA - AS/COA Women's Hemispheric Network Conference: Mexico City
1 May, Georgetown Americas Institute - Targeting the Messenger: A Conversation with Colombian Investigative Journalist Ricardo Calderon
2 May, AS/COA - 53rd Annual Washington Conference on the Americas
2-3 May, FIU - Hemispheric Security Conference
5 May, Institute of the Americas - Geothermal across the Americas – A Three-Part Webinar Series exploring the potential of geothermal
8 May, Inter-American Dialogue - Unlocking Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean
9 May, Harvard Kennedy Center & Irregular Warfare Initiative - PRC Gray Zone Activities in the Western Hemisphere
11 May, CSIS - Political Prisoners and the Future of Nicaragua
23 May, Wilson Center - The Inner-Workings of the Mexican Supreme Court: Opening the Black Box
23 May, Institute of the Americas - Webinar sobre la Huella Ecológica de la Industria Marítima
1-2 June, Inter-American Dialogue, OAS, CAF Development Bank of Latin America - 26th Annual CAF Conference
21 June, Wilson Center - Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border Conference
27-28 June, Institute of the Americas - Brazil Energy and Sustainability Roundtable