Good morning and happy Friday. Thanks to those who attended yesterday’s webinar on Mexico security issues.
Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.
Monday - Mexico - National guard deployed to Zacatecas
Tuesday - Honduras - Xiomara Castro’s election
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile and Peru)
Thursday - Colombia - Peace process at five years
Tuesday’s newsletter on Honduras has no paywall and was one of the most read this year. Thanks to everyone who read and shared it. The other newsletters are for paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing for $9 per month or $90 per year.
Foreign Affairs - Triangle of Corruption: Why Washington Needs to Get Tough on Central American Kleptocrats
Miami Herald - Latin American democracies need to meet citizens’ basic needs. Here’s how Biden can help
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - Full Committee Hearing: U.S. Policy on Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Regional Overview Of Food Security And Nutrition
Bloomberg - Nearly 60 Million Latin Americans Starve as Pandemic Pushes Hunger to 20-Year High
Economist - Latin America waits for tourists to return
Associated Press - Mexico, US announce plan for aid to Central America
CEEEP - The Coming Xiomara Castro Presidency in Honduras: Implications for the US and the Region
Bloomberg - Brazil Slips Into Recession as Post-Pandemic Recovery Cut Short
Financial Times - Asset managers fail to act on pledges to divest from Brazil over deforestation
Financial Times - Brazil hits out at EU ‘protectionism’ behind planned anti-deforestation law
Washington Post - Small children are climbing 60-foot trees to harvest your açaí
Washington Post - Brazil’s far-right Bolsonaro reaches for an unlikely title: President of the Poor
InSight Crime - 4 Reasons Why Ruin of Brazil’s Amazon Keeps Getting Worse
Atlantic - A Crackdown on Illegal Gold Dredging in Brazil
Bloomberg - A Mexican Crypto Startup Wants to Make Cash Remittances Cheaper
Rest of World - One man’s quest to put Mexico City’s iconic street food vendors onto Google Maps
Economist - Mexico could benefit from China’s exclusion from supply chains
El Universal - Militarizando México
El Universal - Tres años, cinco apuntes
Aristegui - Sembrando vida y la fábrica de chocolates | Investigación especial
Bloomberg - Maduro Win Soured by Weakness in Venezuela’s Socialist Heartland
Wall Street Journal - Venezuela Governor’s Election Ruling Sparks Outcry
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) - Trail of Venezuela’s Stolen Billions Leads to Caribbean Luxury Properties
BBC - Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment
Bloomberg - Maduro Ousts EU Mission to Venezuela After Election Crackdown
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - A Long Way to Go: Implementing Colombia’s peace accord after five years
Reuters - Colombia ex-rebels grow disillusioned with FARC party 5 years after peace
International Crisis Group - A Fight by Other Means: Keeping the Peace with Colombia’s FARC
Colombia Risk Analysis - Special Report: 2021 Subnational Risk Index
Wall Street Journal - U.S. Targets Colombian Guerrilla Splinter Groups With Terrorist Listing
Guardian - ‘They can’t silence us’: the female lawyers defending Colombia’s environment
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Ecuador has obligation to ensure security inside prisons, UN experts
Guardian - Plans to mine Ecuador forest violate rights of nature, court rules
World Politics Review - Lasso’s Honeymoon Comes to a Crashing Halt in Ecuador
CNN - Sexual violence and abortion restrictions in Paraguay are fueling an epidemic of childhood pregnancy: Amnesty
Bloomberg - Argentina Pitches Its Weak Currency to Attract ‘Digital Nomads’
New York Times - Macri, Ex-President of Argentina, Is Charged With Illegal Surveillance
Guardian - Chilean environmental activist who opposed dam projects found dead
Nicaragua Investiga - Costa Rica cumple 73 años sin ejército (En Nicaragua el militarismo ensombrece el panorama)
Reuters - Amid Bukele's bitcoin hype, not all Salvadorans 'Feel the Bit'
El Faro - Senador Menéndez: “Nicaragua y El Salvador no deberían gozar de preferencia comercial”
ElSalvador.com - 500 personas estarían siendo espiadas por el gobierno salvadoreño
Economist - Honduras looks to elect its first female president
Washington Post - Opinion: After backing coups and corruption, the U.S. now has a chance to do the right thing in Honduras
Guardian - Honduras president-elect’s China pledge puts Taiwan and US on edge
Global Americans - Honduras Elects First Woman President in Break with Political Culture
InSight Crime - Social Insecurity: The Case of IGSS-Pisa in Guatemala
New York Times - My Group Can Save Haiti. Biden Is Standing in Our Way.
Miami Herald - Stolen court safe held secrets of a high-profile killing. Can justice survive in Haiti?
InSight Crime - US Guns Flow into Haiti, Fuel Gang Violence
Brookings - Haiti needs a new, improved UN mission
New York Times - Could Covid Lead to Progress? Mass tragedies sometimes have unexpected consequences.
ZDNet - Hackers could steal encrypted data now and crack it with quantum computers later, warn analysts
Foreign Affairs - Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Reuters - African nations mend and make do as China tightens Belt and Road
Guardian - Activists call for revolution in ‘dated and colonial’ aid funding
6 December, Wilson Center - Mayors Delivering Democracy Daily
7 December, Wilson Center - Pathways to Justice: Gender-Based Violence and the Rule of Law
8 December, Atlantic Council - A plan for Colombia's COVID-19 recovery and why it matters for the United States
8 December, Wilson Center - Addressing Governance Challenges in Haiti: The Role of the International Community
10 December, AS/COA - Global Energy Crisis: The Outlook for Latin America
14 December, Inter-American Dialogue - Recovering Schooling and Learning After Covid-19 in LAC Series #1 – Early Warning Systems
16 December, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Lima
16 December, Inter-American Dialogue - Toward Pandemic Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean—Exploring New Dimensions of Japan-US-LAC Interregional Cooperation
Have a great weekend.
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Friday Reading List - 3 December 2021
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Good morning and happy Friday. Thanks to those who attended yesterday’s webinar on Mexico security issues.
Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.
Monday - Mexico - National guard deployed to Zacatecas
Tuesday - Honduras - Xiomara Castro’s election
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile and Peru)
Thursday - Colombia - Peace process at five years
Tuesday’s newsletter on Honduras has no paywall and was one of the most read this year. Thanks to everyone who read and shared it. The other newsletters are for paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing for $9 per month or $90 per year.
Reading List
Foreign Affairs - Triangle of Corruption: Why Washington Needs to Get Tough on Central American Kleptocrats
Miami Herald - Latin American democracies need to meet citizens’ basic needs. Here’s how Biden can help
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - Full Committee Hearing: U.S. Policy on Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Regional Overview Of Food Security And Nutrition
Bloomberg - Nearly 60 Million Latin Americans Starve as Pandemic Pushes Hunger to 20-Year High
Economist - Latin America waits for tourists to return
Associated Press - Mexico, US announce plan for aid to Central America
CEEEP - The Coming Xiomara Castro Presidency in Honduras: Implications for the US and the Region
Bloomberg - Brazil Slips Into Recession as Post-Pandemic Recovery Cut Short
Financial Times - Asset managers fail to act on pledges to divest from Brazil over deforestation
Financial Times - Brazil hits out at EU ‘protectionism’ behind planned anti-deforestation law
Washington Post - Small children are climbing 60-foot trees to harvest your açaí
Washington Post - Brazil’s far-right Bolsonaro reaches for an unlikely title: President of the Poor
InSight Crime - 4 Reasons Why Ruin of Brazil’s Amazon Keeps Getting Worse
Atlantic - A Crackdown on Illegal Gold Dredging in Brazil
Bloomberg - A Mexican Crypto Startup Wants to Make Cash Remittances Cheaper
Rest of World - One man’s quest to put Mexico City’s iconic street food vendors onto Google Maps
Economist - Mexico could benefit from China’s exclusion from supply chains
El Universal - Militarizando México
El Universal - Tres años, cinco apuntes
Aristegui - Sembrando vida y la fábrica de chocolates | Investigación especial
Bloomberg - Maduro Win Soured by Weakness in Venezuela’s Socialist Heartland
Wall Street Journal - Venezuela Governor’s Election Ruling Sparks Outcry
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) - Trail of Venezuela’s Stolen Billions Leads to Caribbean Luxury Properties
BBC - Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment
Bloomberg - Maduro Ousts EU Mission to Venezuela After Election Crackdown
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - A Long Way to Go: Implementing Colombia’s peace accord after five years
Reuters - Colombia ex-rebels grow disillusioned with FARC party 5 years after peace
International Crisis Group - A Fight by Other Means: Keeping the Peace with Colombia’s FARC
Colombia Risk Analysis - Special Report: 2021 Subnational Risk Index
Wall Street Journal - U.S. Targets Colombian Guerrilla Splinter Groups With Terrorist Listing
Guardian - ‘They can’t silence us’: the female lawyers defending Colombia’s environment
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Ecuador has obligation to ensure security inside prisons, UN experts
Guardian - Plans to mine Ecuador forest violate rights of nature, court rules
World Politics Review - Lasso’s Honeymoon Comes to a Crashing Halt in Ecuador
CNN - Sexual violence and abortion restrictions in Paraguay are fueling an epidemic of childhood pregnancy: Amnesty
Bloomberg - Argentina Pitches Its Weak Currency to Attract ‘Digital Nomads’
New York Times - Macri, Ex-President of Argentina, Is Charged With Illegal Surveillance
Guardian - Chilean environmental activist who opposed dam projects found dead
Nicaragua Investiga - Costa Rica cumple 73 años sin ejército (En Nicaragua el militarismo ensombrece el panorama)
Reuters - Amid Bukele's bitcoin hype, not all Salvadorans 'Feel the Bit'
El Faro - Senador Menéndez: “Nicaragua y El Salvador no deberían gozar de preferencia comercial”
ElSalvador.com - 500 personas estarían siendo espiadas por el gobierno salvadoreño
Economist - Honduras looks to elect its first female president
Washington Post - Opinion: After backing coups and corruption, the U.S. now has a chance to do the right thing in Honduras
Guardian - Honduras president-elect’s China pledge puts Taiwan and US on edge
Global Americans - Honduras Elects First Woman President in Break with Political Culture
InSight Crime - Social Insecurity: The Case of IGSS-Pisa in Guatemala
New York Times - My Group Can Save Haiti. Biden Is Standing in Our Way.
Miami Herald - Stolen court safe held secrets of a high-profile killing. Can justice survive in Haiti?
InSight Crime - US Guns Flow into Haiti, Fuel Gang Violence
Brookings - Haiti needs a new, improved UN mission
New York Times - Could Covid Lead to Progress? Mass tragedies sometimes have unexpected consequences.
ZDNet - Hackers could steal encrypted data now and crack it with quantum computers later, warn analysts
Foreign Affairs - Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Reuters - African nations mend and make do as China tightens Belt and Road
Guardian - Activists call for revolution in ‘dated and colonial’ aid funding
Upcoming Events
6 December, Wilson Center - Mayors Delivering Democracy Daily
7 December, Wilson Center - Pathways to Justice: Gender-Based Violence and the Rule of Law
8 December, Atlantic Council - A plan for Colombia's COVID-19 recovery and why it matters for the United States
8 December, Wilson Center - Addressing Governance Challenges in Haiti: The Role of the International Community
10 December, AS/COA - Global Energy Crisis: The Outlook for Latin America
14 December, Inter-American Dialogue - Recovering Schooling and Learning After Covid-19 in LAC Series #1 – Early Warning Systems
16 December, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Lima
16 December, Inter-American Dialogue - Toward Pandemic Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean—Exploring New Dimensions of Japan-US-LAC Interregional Cooperation
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend.