Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters published this week.
Monday - Colombia - Security Update
Tuesday - Region - The run up to the Summit
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Honduras and Chile)
Thursday - Venezuela - Failed recall attempt
Tuesday’s newsletter is available for everyone and the others are for paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing and support this newsletter.
Financial Times - Crisis of US democracy emboldens Latin American populists, says rights chief
Americas Quarterly - NEW AQ: A Lost Generation? The Challenges Facing Latin American Schools
Americas Quarterly - How to Reverse COVID’s Toll on Latin American Education
New York Times - Covid setbacks to schooling are ‘nearly insurmountable,’ the U.N. says.
Florida International University - Strategic Competition: Russian and Chinese Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Nearshore Americas - Internet Regulation in Latin America: Will Governments Screw Up a Good Thing?
Institute of the Americas - 2022 Energy Landscape & Outlook
Wall Street Journal - The Once and Future Drug War
U.S. White House - Background Press Call By Senior Administration Officials On the Summit of the Americas
Wilson Center - Fire in the Amazon—EU Policy Approaches and Climate Action in the Americas
El País - La derecha de América Latina necesita un futuro, no un pasado
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) - Panorama Social de América Latina 2021
Associated Press - Russian roar on Ukraine rings hollow to Latin America allies
Reuters - Singapore, Pacific Alliance countries sign trade agreement
Bloomberg - OECD to Vet Brazil, Argentina, Peru for Possible Membership
Washington Post - The looming question as Harris returns to Northern Triangle: Will corruption stymie progress?
Bloomberg - Harris’s Honduras Trip Returns Focus to Migration Struggles
Washington Post - Adventure awaits in Central America. Now it just needs tourists to return.
Associated Press - Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil’s ‘New Egypt’
Guardian - Christ and cocaine: Rio’s gangs of God blend faith and violence
Mongabay - Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield
Bloomberg - Farmers Hoard Crops as Dry Brazil Weather Keeps Prices Elevated
Guardian - Covid denialist and Bolsonaro ally Olavo de Carvalho died of virus, says daughter
InSight Crime - Brazil Tries to Reclaim Rio's Favelas - Ad Infinitum
Wilson Center - Wilson Center Brazil Institute Report Urges Major Investments in the Amazon to Spur Conservation
Bloomberg - Mexico’s Crown-Jewel Oil Refinery Is $3.6 Billion Over Budget
Reuters - Mexican president has cardiac catheterization, health said to be good
Mexico Today - Crime & Anti-Crime Policies in Mexico in 2022: A Bleak Outlook
Financial Times - Omicron exposes fragile state of health system in Mexico
Wall Street Journal - Mexican Journalist Who Told Country’s President She Feared for Her Life Is Killed
Washington Post - Mexico offers bodyguards and bulletproof vests to vulnerable journalists. It hasn’t been enough.
Washington Post - Opinion: As long as journalists are killed with impunity, free societies everywhere will suffer
InSight Crime - China Producers Cashing in on Online Sale of Fentanyl Precursors
Wilson Center - Seeking Process and Predictability: An Evaluation of U.S.-Mexico Relations Under President Biden
Associated Press - Mexican town protects forest from avocado growers, cartels
Proceso - Banamex, listo para entregarse a "la mafia del poder"
Economist - Russia has become a crucial ally of Venezuela’s dictatorship
Bloomberg - Life After Oil Arrives in Lake That Minted Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
Associated Press - Venezuela: Petition fell short in seeking Maduro recall vote
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - The Government of Nicolás Maduro Continues to Violate the Venezuelan People’s Rights of Participation and Non-Discrimination
InSight Crime - Why did Venezuela's Peace Zones Backfire So Badly?
Foreign Policy - As China Eyes Colombia, the United States Is AWOL
Agence France Presse - Ecuador deploys military to tackle Guayaquil crime wave
Washington Post - Peru appeals for international help to clean up major oil spill linked to the Tonga volcano eruption
Financial Times - Peru threatens Repsol unit with fines over ‘ecocide’ oil spill
CNN - The bears and the bees: How honey is helping to save the spectacled bear
InSight Crime - More Questions than Clarity Following Former Anti-Drug Chief’s Arrest in Bolivia
Guardian - German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay
Bloomberg - Nobelist Stiglitz Rebuffed After Praising Argentina’s ‘Miracle’ Economy
Bloomberg - Argentina Asks China to Expand Yuan Swap to Strengthen Reserves
Economist - The IMF cannot solve Argentina’s dysfunction
Washington Post - Worried about inflation? In Argentina, it’s a way of life.
Human Rights Watch - Chile’s New President-Elect Sets out a Feminist Government
New York Times - New Honduran Leader Loses Grip on Congress, Sapping Hope for Change
Los Angeles Times - The promise of a fresh start in Honduras is tarnished by a political crisis
Guardian - Honduran president’s fall from grace poised to end in US
Reuters - Hours out of office, Honduras ex-president gains immunity through regional post
Guardian - Behind the label: how the US stitched up the Honduras garment industry
Washington Post - Nayib Bukele trades bitcoin naked. El Salvador is paying the price.
InSight Crime - The Omnipresent Business of the MS13
Human Rights Watch - Guatemala: Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Rights
Miami Herald - After denials, Cuba admits jailing hundreds of July 11 protesters, including dozens of minors
Reuters - Haiti's allies need to help tackle spike in violence -Canada PM Trudeau
Associated Press - Official: Haiti sees rise in COVID-19 cases; few vaccinated
New York Times - Why Is Everyone Going to the Dominican Republic?
New York Times - Putin Has the U.S. Right Where He Wants It
Noahpinion - Interview: Hal Brands, international relations professor and author: All about Cold War 2
Daily Beast - African President Was Ousted Just Weeks After Refusing to Pay Russian Paramilitaries
28 January, WOLA - Cuba: The U.S. Embargo After Sixty Years
31 January, Wilson Center - Cuba: An American History
1 February, Wilson Center - Tenth Annual U.S.-Mexico Security Conference Part 2
2 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: Starting “small” in regional reactivation
2 February, AS/COA - Ensuring Access to Innovations in Healthcare
3 February, AS/COA - YPA Preview of 2022 Latin American Elections
7 February, Brookings - The border within: The economics of immigration in an age of fear
8 February, AS/COA - Confronting the Education Crisis: How to Rebuild Latin America’s Human Capital
17 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: A digital future for regional recovery
Have a great weekend!
Friday Reading List - 28 January 2022
Friday Reading List - 28 January 2022
Friday Reading List - 28 January 2022
Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters published this week.
Monday - Colombia - Security Update
Tuesday - Region - The run up to the Summit
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Honduras and Chile)
Thursday - Venezuela - Failed recall attempt
Tuesday’s newsletter is available for everyone and the others are for paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing and support this newsletter.
Reading List
Financial Times - Crisis of US democracy emboldens Latin American populists, says rights chief
Americas Quarterly - NEW AQ: A Lost Generation? The Challenges Facing Latin American Schools
Americas Quarterly - How to Reverse COVID’s Toll on Latin American Education
New York Times - Covid setbacks to schooling are ‘nearly insurmountable,’ the U.N. says.
Florida International University - Strategic Competition: Russian and Chinese Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Nearshore Americas - Internet Regulation in Latin America: Will Governments Screw Up a Good Thing?
Institute of the Americas - 2022 Energy Landscape & Outlook
Wall Street Journal - The Once and Future Drug War
U.S. White House - Background Press Call By Senior Administration Officials On the Summit of the Americas
Wilson Center - Fire in the Amazon—EU Policy Approaches and Climate Action in the Americas
El País - La derecha de América Latina necesita un futuro, no un pasado
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) - Panorama Social de América Latina 2021
Associated Press - Russian roar on Ukraine rings hollow to Latin America allies
Reuters - Singapore, Pacific Alliance countries sign trade agreement
Bloomberg - OECD to Vet Brazil, Argentina, Peru for Possible Membership
Washington Post - The looming question as Harris returns to Northern Triangle: Will corruption stymie progress?
Bloomberg - Harris’s Honduras Trip Returns Focus to Migration Struggles
Washington Post - Adventure awaits in Central America. Now it just needs tourists to return.
Associated Press - Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil’s ‘New Egypt’
Guardian - Christ and cocaine: Rio’s gangs of God blend faith and violence
Mongabay - Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield
Bloomberg - Farmers Hoard Crops as Dry Brazil Weather Keeps Prices Elevated
Guardian - Covid denialist and Bolsonaro ally Olavo de Carvalho died of virus, says daughter
InSight Crime - Brazil Tries to Reclaim Rio's Favelas - Ad Infinitum
Wilson Center - Wilson Center Brazil Institute Report Urges Major Investments in the Amazon to Spur Conservation
Bloomberg - Mexico’s Crown-Jewel Oil Refinery Is $3.6 Billion Over Budget
Reuters - Mexican president has cardiac catheterization, health said to be good
Mexico Today - Crime & Anti-Crime Policies in Mexico in 2022: A Bleak Outlook
Financial Times - Omicron exposes fragile state of health system in Mexico
Wall Street Journal - Mexican Journalist Who Told Country’s President She Feared for Her Life Is Killed
Washington Post - Mexico offers bodyguards and bulletproof vests to vulnerable journalists. It hasn’t been enough.
Washington Post - Opinion: As long as journalists are killed with impunity, free societies everywhere will suffer
InSight Crime - China Producers Cashing in on Online Sale of Fentanyl Precursors
Wilson Center - Seeking Process and Predictability: An Evaluation of U.S.-Mexico Relations Under President Biden
Associated Press - Mexican town protects forest from avocado growers, cartels
Proceso - Banamex, listo para entregarse a "la mafia del poder"
Economist - Russia has become a crucial ally of Venezuela’s dictatorship
Bloomberg - Life After Oil Arrives in Lake That Minted Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
Associated Press - Venezuela: Petition fell short in seeking Maduro recall vote
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - The Government of Nicolás Maduro Continues to Violate the Venezuelan People’s Rights of Participation and Non-Discrimination
InSight Crime - Why did Venezuela's Peace Zones Backfire So Badly?
Foreign Policy - As China Eyes Colombia, the United States Is AWOL
Agence France Presse - Ecuador deploys military to tackle Guayaquil crime wave
Washington Post - Peru appeals for international help to clean up major oil spill linked to the Tonga volcano eruption
Financial Times - Peru threatens Repsol unit with fines over ‘ecocide’ oil spill
CNN - The bears and the bees: How honey is helping to save the spectacled bear
InSight Crime - More Questions than Clarity Following Former Anti-Drug Chief’s Arrest in Bolivia
Guardian - German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay
Bloomberg - Nobelist Stiglitz Rebuffed After Praising Argentina’s ‘Miracle’ Economy
Bloomberg - Argentina Asks China to Expand Yuan Swap to Strengthen Reserves
Economist - The IMF cannot solve Argentina’s dysfunction
Washington Post - Worried about inflation? In Argentina, it’s a way of life.
Human Rights Watch - Chile’s New President-Elect Sets out a Feminist Government
New York Times - New Honduran Leader Loses Grip on Congress, Sapping Hope for Change
Los Angeles Times - The promise of a fresh start in Honduras is tarnished by a political crisis
Guardian - Honduran president’s fall from grace poised to end in US
Reuters - Hours out of office, Honduras ex-president gains immunity through regional post
Guardian - Behind the label: how the US stitched up the Honduras garment industry
Washington Post - Nayib Bukele trades bitcoin naked. El Salvador is paying the price.
InSight Crime - The Omnipresent Business of the MS13
Human Rights Watch - Guatemala: Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Rights
Miami Herald - After denials, Cuba admits jailing hundreds of July 11 protesters, including dozens of minors
Reuters - Haiti's allies need to help tackle spike in violence -Canada PM Trudeau
Associated Press - Official: Haiti sees rise in COVID-19 cases; few vaccinated
New York Times - Why Is Everyone Going to the Dominican Republic?
New York Times - Putin Has the U.S. Right Where He Wants It
Noahpinion - Interview: Hal Brands, international relations professor and author: All about Cold War 2
Daily Beast - African President Was Ousted Just Weeks After Refusing to Pay Russian Paramilitaries
Upcoming Events
28 January, WOLA - Cuba: The U.S. Embargo After Sixty Years
31 January, Wilson Center - Cuba: An American History
1 February, Wilson Center - Tenth Annual U.S.-Mexico Security Conference Part 2
2 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: Starting “small” in regional reactivation
2 February, AS/COA - Ensuring Access to Innovations in Healthcare
3 February, AS/COA - YPA Preview of 2022 Latin American Elections
7 February, Brookings - The border within: The economics of immigration in an age of fear
8 February, AS/COA - Confronting the Education Crisis: How to Rebuild Latin America’s Human Capital
17 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: A digital future for regional recovery
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!