Good morning and happy Friday!

Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.

• Monday - Mexico Security Update - January 2021

• Tuesday - China's Latin America diplomacy grows more aggressive

• Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Panama, Ecuador, Paraguay) 

• Thursday - Venezuela - Pandemic response and vaccine access will be the center of politics in the coming months

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Reading list

Foreign Policy has a new weekly Latin America newsletter. Here is this week’s edition.

Foreign Affairs - Latin America’s Darkest Hour: Can Biden Heal a Fractured Hemisphere?

Americas Quarterly - The Pandemic’s Big Winner? Transnational Crime

Americas Quarterly - School’s Out in Most of Latin America. Gangs Are Thrilled.

Americas Quarterly - How Transnational Crime Is Mutating in the Age of COVID-19 in Latin America

Bloomberg - Latin America’s Schools Are Flunking Covid

Univision - Biden's immigration policy needs anti-corruption focus in Central America

New York Times - Biden’s Promise of Immigration Reform Raises Hopes in Latin America

Reuters - Russia warns of delays in Sputnik V vaccine supply to Latin America

New York Times - Hola, President Biden. Latin America Has a Message for You.

Vice - Biden’s Clean Energy Push Could Actually Destroy Land in Latin America

Economist - The wind-power boom set off a scramble for balsa wood in Ecuador

Transparency International - Corruption Perceptions Index 2020: Americas

Miami Herald - The feared ripple effect of the new CDC testing requirement for U.S. travelers

CNN Brasil - Exclusivo: ‘Faz falta’, diz Mourão sobre diálogo com Bolsonaro

Associated Press - Thousands take to streets protesting Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Reuters - Raging virus, few shots. How Brazil missed its chance to secure COVID-19 vaccines

Intercept - Prometeram proteger sua privacidade. Agora vazaram suas informações.

Financial Times - Brazil’s economic dilemma: public debt restraint or sluggish recovery

Washington Post - The Amazonian city that hatched the Brazil variant has been crushed by it

ONEA - Pemexleaks: El Robo De Información Que La Petrolera Quiso Ocultar

New York Times - Mexicans Worry That Even Getting Covid Won’t Make Their Leader Take It Seriously

Washington Post - Mexico’s pandemic policy: No police. No curfews. No fines. No regrets.

Washington Post - Opinion: La FGR no debe dejar impune a Lozoya

Mexicanos Contra La Corrupción Y La Impunidad (Mcci) - Corrupción: Algunos Protagonistas

Wilson Center - Re-Building a Complex Partnership: The Outlook for U.S.-Mexico Relations under the Biden Administration

El Faro - Virus-proof: COVID19, Crime, and Lethal Conflict in Mexico

Bloomberg - Politics Could Imperil Probe of Narco Access to U.S. Chemicals

Human Rights Watch - Mexico: Public Accountability, Privacy Under Threat

World Politics Review - Can Biden Succeed Where Trump’s Venezuela Policy Failed?

Council on Foreign Relations - Top Conflicts to Watch in 2021: Economic, Political, and Humanitarian Catastrophe in Venezuela

Reuters - EU states no longer recognise Guaido as Venezuela's interim president

New York Times - Colombians Ask: Who Would Dare Patent Panela?

Economist - Thanks to Colombia’s state liquor monopoly, a black market is booming

Guardian - 'Nowhere is safe': Colombia confronts alarming surge in femicides

InSight Crime - Bolivia Rivers Become Increasingly Popular Drug Trafficking Routes

Al Jazeera - The ‘spiralling crisis’ pushing Hondurans to flee north

Bloomberg - World’s First Wind Tax Leaves Green Developers Scratching Heads

Associated Press - Battling COVID-19 proving deadly for Peru’s doctor corps

Miami Herald - Cuba detects South African COVID-19 variant amid virus uptick

Associated Press - Strikes, violence overwhelm Haiti’s crumbling judiciary

FiveThirtyEight - Why Fights Over The COVID-19 Vaccine Are Everywhere On Facebook

Wall Street Journal - New Playbook for Covid-19 Protection Emerges After Year of Study, Missteps

Defense One - Three Steps to Fight Online Disinformation and Extremism

Upcoming events

2 February, Wilson Center - Ninth Annual US-Mexico Security Conference: Part 2

2 February, MIT - Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Latin America

3 February, FIU - Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing Conference

4 February, AS/COA - Interview with Mauricio Claver-Carone

5 February, CSIS - Conversation with Martha Bárcena, Outgoing Ambassador of Mexico to the U.S.

11 February, Institute for the Americas - China Stakes Its Claim in Latin American Energy: What It Means for the Region, the US and Beijing

12 February, Wilson Center - Corruption in Central America: Challenges, Defeats, and Glimmers of Hope

Thanks for reading

Have a great weekend!