Friday Reading List - 5 August 2022
Good morning and happy Friday! Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week.
Tuesday - Guatemala - Giammattei’s crackdown
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Mexico)
Thursday - Odds and ends
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Reading List
New York Times - As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short Honeymoon
Insight Crime - Plundered Oceans: IUU Fishing in South American Seas
Financial Times - Boosting civic trust is essential to Latin American economic growth
New York Times - The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land
The Guardian - Brazil ‘failing to fully investigate’ Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira murders
Financial Times - The rise of ‘03’: Bolsonaro’s third son is crucial link to Trump’s inner circle
Bloomberg - Bolsonaro Is Luring Evangelicals to Reduce Lula’s Lead in Brazil
Estadão - TSE recebe influenciadores digitais para explicar como funcionam as urnas eletrônicas
New York Times - Mexico’s Cruel Drought: ‘Here You Have to Chase the Water’
The Hill - An acid test for the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement
Insight Crime - ‘Forgiveness’ and the Sticky Question of Justice in Mexico
New York Times - Will an Investigation of a Former Mexican President Lead to Charges?
Reuters - Mexico anti-inflation subsidies come with $28 bln price tag
Bloomberg - Venezuela Tries Dialogue Over Force in Bid to Tame Food Prices
AP - US seeks possession of Venezuelan 747 grounded in Argentina
Americas Quarterly - Can Anyone Stop Argentina’s Great Unraveling?
World Politics Review - Argentina Needs More Than a ‘Super-Minister’ to Save Its Economy
Bloomberg - Argentina Is Running Out of Cash to Stave Off Devaluation
Mongabay - In world first, Chile to ban single-use food and beverage products over three years
Americas Quarterly - A New Era for U.S.-Colombia Relations
Colombia Risk Analysis - What to Expect in the First 100 Days of Gustavo Petro’s Government
WOLA - How the Petro Government and Minister Iván Velásquez can Make Colombians Safer
Foreign Policy - Cuba’s Music Industry Is Having a #MeToo Moment
The Economist - Covid-19 has damaged the reputation of Cuban health care
Reuters - In El Salvador, discrepancy over deaths and mass graves alarms critics
Insight Crime - Police Executions and Burning Courthouses: Haiti’s Judiciary Under Assault
El Faro - Los supervivientes de los Cayos Cochinos
Americas Quarterly - In Panama, Protesters Want Deeper Reform
OCCRP - Dead Body in Paraguay Is Likely Serbian Drug Smuggler
Foreign Policy - Actually, the Russian Economy Is Imploding
Upcoming Events
5 August, Atlantic Council - The Petro-Márquez Presidency: What to expect?
8 August, Inter-American Dialogue - Freedom of the Press and Democracy Under Attack in Guatemala
9 August, Wilson Center - The Awakening of Rare Diseases in Latin America
10 August, Canadian Council for the Americas - Chile's draft constitution: Indigenous peoples rights in context
18 August, AS/COA - 2022 Latin American Cities Conferences: Buenos Aires