Good morning and Happy Friday! Here are the four newsletters published this week.
Monday - Mexico - Review of 2021 security data
Tuesday - Mexico - A violent January signals a violent 2022
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia)
Thursday - Peru - New cabinet signals Castillo's unpreparedness
Tuesday’s newsletter is always available to everyone and we lifted the paywall on Monday’s newsletter so that you can see the maps that Lucy created using the government data.
The newsletter is supported by paying subscribers.
Wall Street Journal - Covid-19’s Economic Fallout Batters Latin America
Bloomberg - All Roads Lead to Recession for Biggest Latin American Economies
Bloomberg - Latin America’s Job Market Will Take Years to Recover From Covid
Transparency International - CPI 2021 For The Americas: A Region In Crisis
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime - Part of the landscape
InSight Crime - InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up
Associated Press - South America squid left exposed amid surge in China fishing
Wall Street Journal - Deadly Mining Disaster Still Tests Vale Three Years Later
Wall Street Journal - Mining Towns Live in Fear of Another Deadly Dam Collapse
Bloomberg - Top Brazil Hedge Funds See Traders Embracing Lula’s Comeback
Guardian - Outrage as Bolsonaro confirms Russia trip despite Ukraine crisis
Financial Times - Brazil’s battle against Covid quack remedies
Reuters - Brazil's top court subpoenas Bolsonaro in leaked documents case
Reuters - Brazil's Bolsonaro presses Peru's Castillo on road through rainforest to access Pacific
Reuters - Brazil spent less than half its 2021 environmental enforcement budget
New York Times - G.M. workers in Mexico pick an independent union, a trade deal test case.
Americas Quarterly - Mexico’s Energy Reform: 3 Risks to Investors
Mexicanos Contra La Corrupción Y La Impunidad (MCCI) - Así Vive En Houston El Hijo Mayor De Amlo
Expansión Política - Colosio Riojas, la “figura emergente” que genera nuevos escenarios rumbo a 2024
Reuters - Smuggled Colombian gasoline flows slow as Venezuelan output bounces
Bloomberg - Venezuela Opposition Proposing Sanction Relief to Woo Maduro
Caracas Chronicles - Drafting a Basic Map of Armed Actors in Venezuela
InSight Crime - How Criminals Take Advantage of Venezuela's Food Aid System
Bloomberg - After 99.99% Plunge, Venezuela’s Bolivar Has Finally Stabilized
InSight Crime - Are Arrests of Venezuela Officials Simply For Show?
InSight Crime - The Smuggler's Dilemma - Black Market Oil from Venezuela or Colombia
CNN - US begins quietly flying Venezuelan migrants to Colombia under controversial border policy
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - Colombia Begins 2022 with Alarming Violence
El Tiempo - Inteligencia develó unión de disidencias al mando de un nuevo secretariado
Washington Post - Landslide and floods in Ecuador’s capital kill 24, cover neighborhoods in mud after punishing rain
Americas Quarterly - Uruguay’s Controversial Turn Towards Law and Order
Americas Quarterly - Máximo Kirchner’s Big Gamble
Washington Post - Argentina is the tango partner the IMF can’t quit
Economist - Argentina’s Peronists squabble over an agreement with the IMF
Bloomberg - Chile Vote Marks First Step in Long Path to Seizing Mines
Foreign Policy - Panama’s Success Is Defying Political Science
InSight Crime - Panama, Costa Rica: Major Waypoints For Cocaine to Europe
Confidencial - How ‘Daniel Ortega’ became the secret password to get into the U.S
Washington Post - Nicaragua strips universities’ legal status in new attack on dissent
Bloomberg - Costa Rica’s Growth Problem Can Be Fixed, Presidential Front-Runner Figueres Says
Univision - A top cop feared by drug traffickers to be Honduras' new security minister
InSight Crime - New Minister, But Security Challenges Await Honduras President
The Intercept - Fearing Corruption Charges, Honduran Defense Minister Requests Asylum From Biden
Foreign Policy - How Honduras’s Congress Split in Two
Bloomberg - Honduras Says it Seeks to Reprofile, Not Restructure Debt
El Faro - Cracks in the Nuevas Ideas Legislative Bloc
Economist - Foreign aid has done little to help Haiti
Associated Press - Digital warfare tech at sea helping US foes evade sanctions
New York Times - The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon
Bloomberg - Drug Traffickers Blamed for Latest Coup Attempt in Guinea-Bissau
Daily Beast - Notorious Russian Mercenaries Pulled Out of Africa Ready for Ukraine
7 February, Brookings - The border within: The economics of immigration in an age of fear
8 February, AS/COA - Confronting the Education Crisis: How to Rebuild Latin America’s Human Capital
9 February, WOLA - Feeding the Fire: How Prohibition and the Drug War Fuel Corruption and Organized Crime in Latin America
17 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: A digital future for regional recovery
17 February, Inter-American Dialogue - Play in Colombia – Education, Family and Public Spaces
25 February, Institute of the Americas - Dr. Moisés Naím on The Revenge of Power
Have a great weekend!
Friday Reading List - 4 February 2022
Friday Reading List - 4 February 2022
Friday Reading List - 4 February 2022
Good morning and Happy Friday! Here are the four newsletters published this week.
Monday - Mexico - Review of 2021 security data
Tuesday - Mexico - A violent January signals a violent 2022
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia)
Thursday - Peru - New cabinet signals Castillo's unpreparedness
Tuesday’s newsletter is always available to everyone and we lifted the paywall on Monday’s newsletter so that you can see the maps that Lucy created using the government data.
The newsletter is supported by paying subscribers.
Reading List
Wall Street Journal - Covid-19’s Economic Fallout Batters Latin America
Bloomberg - All Roads Lead to Recession for Biggest Latin American Economies
Bloomberg - Latin America’s Job Market Will Take Years to Recover From Covid
Transparency International - CPI 2021 For The Americas: A Region In Crisis
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime - Part of the landscape
InSight Crime - InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up
Associated Press - South America squid left exposed amid surge in China fishing
Wall Street Journal - Deadly Mining Disaster Still Tests Vale Three Years Later
Wall Street Journal - Mining Towns Live in Fear of Another Deadly Dam Collapse
Bloomberg - Top Brazil Hedge Funds See Traders Embracing Lula’s Comeback
Guardian - Outrage as Bolsonaro confirms Russia trip despite Ukraine crisis
Financial Times - Brazil’s battle against Covid quack remedies
Reuters - Brazil's top court subpoenas Bolsonaro in leaked documents case
Reuters - Brazil's Bolsonaro presses Peru's Castillo on road through rainforest to access Pacific
Reuters - Brazil spent less than half its 2021 environmental enforcement budget
New York Times - G.M. workers in Mexico pick an independent union, a trade deal test case.
Americas Quarterly - Mexico’s Energy Reform: 3 Risks to Investors
Mexicanos Contra La Corrupción Y La Impunidad (MCCI) - Así Vive En Houston El Hijo Mayor De Amlo
Expansión Política - Colosio Riojas, la “figura emergente” que genera nuevos escenarios rumbo a 2024
Reuters - Smuggled Colombian gasoline flows slow as Venezuelan output bounces
Bloomberg - Venezuela Opposition Proposing Sanction Relief to Woo Maduro
Caracas Chronicles - Drafting a Basic Map of Armed Actors in Venezuela
InSight Crime - How Criminals Take Advantage of Venezuela's Food Aid System
Bloomberg - After 99.99% Plunge, Venezuela’s Bolivar Has Finally Stabilized
InSight Crime - Are Arrests of Venezuela Officials Simply For Show?
InSight Crime - The Smuggler's Dilemma - Black Market Oil from Venezuela or Colombia
CNN - US begins quietly flying Venezuelan migrants to Colombia under controversial border policy
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - Colombia Begins 2022 with Alarming Violence
El Tiempo - Inteligencia develó unión de disidencias al mando de un nuevo secretariado
Washington Post - Landslide and floods in Ecuador’s capital kill 24, cover neighborhoods in mud after punishing rain
Americas Quarterly - Uruguay’s Controversial Turn Towards Law and Order
Americas Quarterly - Máximo Kirchner’s Big Gamble
Washington Post - Argentina is the tango partner the IMF can’t quit
Economist - Argentina’s Peronists squabble over an agreement with the IMF
Bloomberg - Chile Vote Marks First Step in Long Path to Seizing Mines
Foreign Policy - Panama’s Success Is Defying Political Science
InSight Crime - Panama, Costa Rica: Major Waypoints For Cocaine to Europe
Confidencial - How ‘Daniel Ortega’ became the secret password to get into the U.S
Washington Post - Nicaragua strips universities’ legal status in new attack on dissent
Bloomberg - Costa Rica’s Growth Problem Can Be Fixed, Presidential Front-Runner Figueres Says
Univision - A top cop feared by drug traffickers to be Honduras' new security minister
InSight Crime - New Minister, But Security Challenges Await Honduras President
The Intercept - Fearing Corruption Charges, Honduran Defense Minister Requests Asylum From Biden
Foreign Policy - How Honduras’s Congress Split in Two
Bloomberg - Honduras Says it Seeks to Reprofile, Not Restructure Debt
El Faro - Cracks in the Nuevas Ideas Legislative Bloc
Economist - Foreign aid has done little to help Haiti
Associated Press - Digital warfare tech at sea helping US foes evade sanctions
New York Times - The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon
Bloomberg - Drug Traffickers Blamed for Latest Coup Attempt in Guinea-Bissau
Daily Beast - Notorious Russian Mercenaries Pulled Out of Africa Ready for Ukraine
Upcoming Events
7 February, Brookings - The border within: The economics of immigration in an age of fear
8 February, AS/COA - Confronting the Education Crisis: How to Rebuild Latin America’s Human Capital
9 February, WOLA - Feeding the Fire: How Prohibition and the Drug War Fuel Corruption and Organized Crime in Latin America
17 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: A digital future for regional recovery
17 February, Inter-American Dialogue - Play in Colombia – Education, Family and Public Spaces
25 February, Institute of the Americas - Dr. Moisés Naím on The Revenge of Power
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!