Friday Reading List - 5 April 2024
Articles and event links
Good morning and happy Friday!
I’ll be in Miami next week to speak on a panel at the LARC/OSAC conference. Hope to see a few of you there.
My World Politics Review column on Monday discussed the presidential insults being thrown around Latin America. The WSJ followed up with a front page article on the topic later in the week. Always good to be ahead of the curve.
Here is this week’s reading list and upcoming events.
Reading List
Economist - Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
Bloomberg - AMLO Spends Like Never Before to Set Up Successor's Victory in Mexico
AP - Mexico’s likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate threats
Global Americans - The Destruction of Mexico's Foreign Policy
LA Times - What will Mexico City do when its water taps run dry? (a few weeks old, but I missed it when it ran and it’s good)
Bloomberg - Crime Supplants Economy as Brazilians' Top Worry, Rattling Lula
Americas Quarterly - Maduro Gets His Wish: A Divided Venezuelan Opposition
Global Americans - Has Election Observation Evolved for the Better?
InSight Crime - Is Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua ‘Invading’ the US?
La Silla Vacia - Los coletazos de la cacería de opositores del chavismo en Colombia
InSight Crime - Q&A: How the AGC Threatens Colombia’s Plans for Total Peace
Bloomberg - Colombia Health Reform: Petro Moves to Take Over Private Insurer EPS Sanitas
Americas Quarterly - Peru’s Brewing Migration Storm
National Interest - China’s Pursuit of Copper Is Changing Latin America
Bloomberg - Giving Up China Is Hard, Even for Argentina's Anarcho-Capitalist
Americas Quarterly - Argentina's Biggest Challenge
Foco - Prospectivas en Guatemala: Corto, Mediano y Largo Plazo
NYT - Is This the Silicon Valley of Latin America?
NYT - Sexual Assault of Migrants in Panama Rises to Level Rarely Seen Outside War
NACLA - Beyond Transportation, Panama's Diablos Rojos Are Treasured Rolling Artwork
WSJ - U.S. Guns Flow Into Haiti as Gangs Push to Take Control
Washington Post - When Haiti's gangs shop for guns, the United States is their store
Foreign Affairs - How to Take on Haiti’s Gangs
NYT - Son of Dominican Republic Politician Is Fatally Shot in Houston, Police Say
Guardian - Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation (interesting details about illicit money moving through the Caribbean, Dominica in particular)
Washington Post - 'Havana syndrome' might have been a Russian attack. The US can't stop investigating.
Upcoming Events
5 April, WOLA - Elections without Democracy: Scenarios for Venezuela, A Conversation with Eugenio Martínez
8 April, Wilson Center - Election Series | Discussing Mexico's First Presidential Debate
11 April, Inter-American Dialogue - New Infrastructure—Emerging Trends in Chinese Investment in Latin America
18 April, Wilson Center - OECD Expansion in Latin America | Wilson Center
18 April, Wilson Center - https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/election-series-border-policy-organized-crime-and-migration-between-mexico-and-us
2 May, Wilson Center - https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/lithium-triangle-be-or-not-be-successful
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend.