Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week.
Monday - Mexico - Q1 2022 Homicide Data
Tuesday - Twitter’s ownership change will alter Latin America’s political debate
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Brazil and Peru)
Thursday - Region - IMF warns of inflation and slowing growth
Thank you to everyone who supports this newsletter.
Americas Quarterly - Latin America Doesn’t Want a New Cold War
IMF - Latin America Faces Unusually High Risks
Financial Times - The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
War on the Rocks - Explaining Latin America’s Contradictory Reactions to the War in Ukraine
The Guardian - Risking it all: migrants brave Darién Gap in pursuit of the American dream
Financial Times - LatAm will squander pandemic gains without digital infrastructure push
Americas Quarterly - Dollarization Is No Silver Bullet for Latin America’s Inflation Woes
Miami Herald - U.S. can’t claim to care about Latin America when it has so few ambassadors there
Rest of World - Latin American startups fail to grant employees stock, a Rest of World survey shows
The Economist - Can Brazil help with food shortages around the world?
Bloomberg - It’s Getting Too Expensive to Export Soybeans From Top Grower Brazil
AP - Brazil’s Bolsonaro, top court on collision course
The Guardian - ‘Like a football idol’: Bolsonaro claws back support after poor Covid response
S&P - Brazil well supplied in otherwise troubled Latin America diesel market
Insight Crime - From Singing in Court to Alleged International Cocaine Deals - The Fall of Brazil's Nelma Kodama
Cointelegraph - Brazil’s Senate approves ‘Bitcoin law’ to regulate cryptocurrencies
New York Times - A Woman’s Haunting Disappearance Sparks Outrage in Mexico Over Gender Violence
Insight Crime - Elite Unit's Closure Further Evidence of Reshuffling of US-Mexico Security Cooperation
Vice - The DEA’s Elite Police Unit in Mexico Was Actually Dirty as Hell
The Faces of Conflict - On the Front Lines of the Hot Land: Mexico’s Incessant Conflict
Forbes - Back To Mexico’s Statist Energy Future
Americas Quarterly - A Major Roadblock in Future U.S.-Venezuela Talks: the ELN
Vice - The Boss of Argentina’s Notorious ‘Monkeys’ Gang Just Got Busted
Bloomberg - Just 46 Days in Office, Chile’s Leftist Leader Runs Into Trouble
Insight Crime - Chile Increasingly Worried About Weapons Trafficking from Argentina
New York Times - In El Salvador, the President Cracks Down on Civil Liberties, and Is Beloved for It
Americas Quarterly - The Evolution of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro
Insight Crime - United They Stand, Divided They Fall - Urabeños Losing Grip in Colombia
The Guardian - Disappeared: a daughter’s 40-year search for her father, taken by Guatemala’s military dictatorship
El Comercio - Encuesta Ipsos: con 7% asamblea constituyente es la última prioridad para los peruanos
The Economist - A new motorway in Paraguay could eventually rival the Panama Canal
4 May, Atlantic Council - Report launch: China’s discourse power operations in the Global South
4 May, CSIS - The Falklands at 40
12 May, AS/COA - 52nd Annual Washington Conference on the Americas
17-20 May, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy - 7th Annual Hemispheric Security Conference
19 May, BU Global Development Policy Center - Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa
23-24 May, Chatham House - Latin America 2022
30 May, Colombia Risk Analysis and Hxagon - The Day After The First Round
6-7 June, CGS Quito - Mining Conference 2022
Boz will be presenting at the inaugural Copper Gold Symposium Mining Conference in Quito, Ecuador.
8 June, Wilson Center - Safeguarding Democracy in the Americas: How to Strengthen the Inter-American Democratic Charter, 20 Years after Its Adoption
Have a great weekend!
Friday Reading List - 29 April 2022
Friday Reading List - 29 April 2022
Friday Reading List - 29 April 2022
Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week.
Monday - Mexico - Q1 2022 Homicide Data
Tuesday - Twitter’s ownership change will alter Latin America’s political debate
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Brazil and Peru)
Thursday - Region - IMF warns of inflation and slowing growth
Thank you to everyone who supports this newsletter.
Reading List
Americas Quarterly - Latin America Doesn’t Want a New Cold War
IMF - Latin America Faces Unusually High Risks
Financial Times - The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
War on the Rocks - Explaining Latin America’s Contradictory Reactions to the War in Ukraine
The Guardian - Risking it all: migrants brave Darién Gap in pursuit of the American dream
Financial Times - LatAm will squander pandemic gains without digital infrastructure push
Americas Quarterly - Dollarization Is No Silver Bullet for Latin America’s Inflation Woes
Miami Herald - U.S. can’t claim to care about Latin America when it has so few ambassadors there
Rest of World - Latin American startups fail to grant employees stock, a Rest of World survey shows
The Economist - Can Brazil help with food shortages around the world?
Bloomberg - It’s Getting Too Expensive to Export Soybeans From Top Grower Brazil
AP - Brazil’s Bolsonaro, top court on collision course
The Guardian - ‘Like a football idol’: Bolsonaro claws back support after poor Covid response
S&P - Brazil well supplied in otherwise troubled Latin America diesel market
Insight Crime - From Singing in Court to Alleged International Cocaine Deals - The Fall of Brazil's Nelma Kodama
Cointelegraph - Brazil’s Senate approves ‘Bitcoin law’ to regulate cryptocurrencies
New York Times - A Woman’s Haunting Disappearance Sparks Outrage in Mexico Over Gender Violence
Insight Crime - Elite Unit's Closure Further Evidence of Reshuffling of US-Mexico Security Cooperation
Vice - The DEA’s Elite Police Unit in Mexico Was Actually Dirty as Hell
The Faces of Conflict - On the Front Lines of the Hot Land: Mexico’s Incessant Conflict
Forbes - Back To Mexico’s Statist Energy Future
Americas Quarterly - A Major Roadblock in Future U.S.-Venezuela Talks: the ELN
Vice - The Boss of Argentina’s Notorious ‘Monkeys’ Gang Just Got Busted
Bloomberg - Just 46 Days in Office, Chile’s Leftist Leader Runs Into Trouble
Insight Crime - Chile Increasingly Worried About Weapons Trafficking from Argentina
New York Times - In El Salvador, the President Cracks Down on Civil Liberties, and Is Beloved for It
Americas Quarterly - The Evolution of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro
Insight Crime - United They Stand, Divided They Fall - Urabeños Losing Grip in Colombia
The Guardian - Disappeared: a daughter’s 40-year search for her father, taken by Guatemala’s military dictatorship
El Comercio - Encuesta Ipsos: con 7% asamblea constituyente es la última prioridad para los peruanos
The Economist - A new motorway in Paraguay could eventually rival the Panama Canal
Upcoming Events
4 May, Atlantic Council - Report launch: China’s discourse power operations in the Global South
4 May, CSIS - The Falklands at 40
12 May, AS/COA - 52nd Annual Washington Conference on the Americas
17-20 May, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy - 7th Annual Hemispheric Security Conference
19 May, BU Global Development Policy Center - Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa
23-24 May, Chatham House - Latin America 2022
30 May, Colombia Risk Analysis and Hxagon - The Day After The First Round
6-7 June, CGS Quito - Mining Conference 2022
Boz will be presenting at the inaugural Copper Gold Symposium Mining Conference in Quito, Ecuador.
8 June, Wilson Center - Safeguarding Democracy in the Americas: How to Strengthen the Inter-American Democratic Charter, 20 Years after Its Adoption
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!