Friday Reading List - 3 January 2025
Happy New Year from the Sonoran Desert!
Good morning and Happy New Year!
This week’s World Politics Review column was a preview of 2025 in Latin America.
In late December, I recorded a Wilson Center podcast looking back at Latin America’s political trends in 2024.
This week’s newsletters:
Monday - Trump wants Latin America to be actively anti-China
Thursday - Six Stories - comments on Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, and El Salvador
The publishing schedule was slower due to the holidays the past two weeks. Back to the usual schedule on Monday. Paying subscribers receive more content and it is going to be a busy year. If you work for an organization that needs additional analysis about Latin America, please subscribe.
Reading List
InSight Crime - Networks Replace Cartels in Cocaine Trade
Washington Post - A global boom in cocaine trafficking defies decades of anti-drug efforts
FT - A new Monroe doctrine is unlikely to work for the US in South America
Foreign Policy - What Awaits Latin America in 2025?
NYT - Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab in Mexico
World Politics Review - Mexico Is Doing the United States’ Dirty Work on Migration
Rolling Stone - Here’s What Trump’s Mexico Invasion Plan Could Look Like
FT - Mexico left with 500mn-litre tequila lake after demand slows
Der Spiegel - The Funeral of Democracy (Venezuela)
Reuters - Argentina files ICC complaint against Venezuela over officer's arrest
Al Jazeera - Maduro and Trump: Two inaugurations for two rivals on a collision course
Mongabay - An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’
NYT - Hydropower Was Ecuador’s Answer to Climate Change. Until the Drought Hit.
Bloomberg - Argentina Weighing New Loans From Either Investment Funds or IMF
Economist - Failure to prepare for climate change is costing Honduras dear
Confidencial - Ten News Items that Marked 2024 in Nicaragua
The Hill - The nexus of organized crime and foreign meddling threatens Latin America
Economist - Why Spanish firms have cooled towards Latin America
NYT - Trump’s Falsehoods Aside, China’s Influence Over Global Ports Raises Concerns
WSJ - Africa Has Entered a New Era of War - This article is a fantastic piece of data journalism (much of the data thanks to ACLED) and I’d like to see it replicated in Latin America
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend
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