Friday Reading List - 29 July 2022
Good morning and happy Friday! Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week. As a reminder, we dropped the paywall on Monday’s newsletter, and Tuesday’s is available to all subscribers as well.
Monday - Mexico - H1 2022 Security Update
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Region, Brazil, Chile)
Thursday - Odds and ends
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Reading List
IMF - Shifting Global Winds Pose Challenges to Latin America
Americas Quarterly - Why Latin America Lost at Globalization—and How It Can Win Now
Insight Crime - Plundered Oceans: IUU Fishing in Central American and Caribbean Waters
Global Americans - Climate Change and Illicit Economic Activities
The Economist - Latin America’s energy subsidies are good politics but bad policy
Rest of World - TikTok’s biggest rival in South America is pushing creators to make videos about domestic abuse
Washington Post - Stop the ‘steal’? Brazil’s Bolsonaro looks poised to start it.
Bloomberg - Brazil’s Democracy Needs More Friends in High Places
Washington Post - The God of São Félix: He’s been called a deforester and killer. Now he’s called mayor.
The Guardian - Outrage in Brazil as Jair Bolsonaro avoids five charges related to Covid response
Estadão - TikTok se consolida como canal de discussão política e vira foco dos candidatos à Presidência
Washington Post - Inside the long, fraught quest to recapture Mexican drug lord Caro Quintero
Bloomberg - Taps Run Dry: Heat and Drought Ravage Monterrey, Mexico
Reuters - The border's toll: Migrants increasingly die crossing into U.S.
LA Times - Californians and other Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some locals want them to go home
Rest of World - Mexican scam loan apps will edit your face onto X-rated photos and send them to your family
World Politics Review - Don’t Count on a Thaw in U.S.-Venezuela Relations
Global Americans - Reforma de la ley de ejercicio del periodismo: ¿qué busca el chavismo ahora?
Insight Crime - How Tren de Aragua Controls the Destiny of Migrants from Venezuela to Chile
New York Times - The Barbados Rebellion: An Island Nation’s Fight for Climate Justice
The Guardian - ‘We must not show fear’: Colombia’s children learn to defend their way of life – a photo essay
Cambio - MexiCali: el auge de los narcos mexicanos en el Valle del Cauca
Insight Crime - El Salvador Arrests Thousands but Gangs Keep Their Guns
El Faro - Corruption Cannot Hide Behind Sovereignty Claims
The Intercept - Nayib Bukele’s Broken Bitcoin Promise
Insight Crime - Haiti Migrants Dying Off Bahamas, Puerto Rico in Human Smuggling Disasters
Global Americans - The Evolution of Peru’s Multidimensional Challenges, Part II: Transnational Organized Crime
The Economist - Peru is becoming ever more volatile under Pedro Castillo
WOLA - U.S. Drug Policy Disconnect: Starting Harm Reduction at Home, Deep Into ‘Drug War’ Abroad
Upcoming Events
29 July, Brookings - The future of the US-Colombia relationship: A conversation with Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzón
29 July, Georgetown Americas Institute - Extraction and Exploitation: The Effects of Mining on Religious Communities
9 August, Wilson Center - The Awakening of Rare Diseases in Latin America