Friday Reading List - 5 May 2023
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Here are this week’s links and upcoming events.
Reading List
World Politics Review - Latin America Needs to Start Preparing for AI’s Economic Impact
AS/COA - How Latin American Journalists Are Overcoming Hurdles in 2023
Reuters - Latin American election influence operation linked to Miami marketing firm
Foreign Policy - China Is Exploiting a U.S. Police Void in Latin America
Global Americans - U.S. Diplomacy Unbound: The Splendid Cities Summit of the Americas 2023
Economist - The green revolution will stall without Latin America’s lithium
Bloomberg - Latin America’s New Lithium Bounty Unearths an Old Problem
El País - To effectively manage migration — go bigger
WOLA - “We can’t deter our way out of this”: a view from the Honduras-Nicaragua border
Wall Street Journal - The End of Title 42 Border Policy Puts Migrants in a Quandary
Foreign Policy - Brazil Is Ukraine’s Best Bet for Peace
Guardian - Brazil’s battle to reclaim Yanomami lands from illegal miners turns deadly
New York Times - If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It
Washington Post - As fentanyl crisis grows, U.S.-Mexico divide deepens
Wall Street Journal - Mexico’s Immigration Chief Indicted Over Detention Center Fire
Forbes - Foreign Executives Need To Do Human Rights Due Diligence In Mexico
El País - Experimentos humanos en Tijuana y Mexicali: los carteles prueban el fentanilo con drogadictos
Aristegui Noticias - Elecciones estatales 2023: el PRI en peligro y la Presidencia en la mira
El Universal - El CJNG y la toma de la frontera tamaulipeca
Reuters - Venezuela's oil tankers at risk of sinking, fires, spills, report finds
Washington Post - Juan Guaidó says he felt U.S. pressure to get on plane to Miami
Wall Street Journal - Quality of Venezuelan gas raises alarm as cars catch fire amid widespread shortages
Economist - Javier Milei, an Argentine libertarian, is rising in the polls
Clarín - EE.UU. le mandó un mensaje a la Argentina y mostró preocupación por el avance de China en la región
Mongabay - In a Bolivian protected area torn up for gold, focus is on limiting damage
WLRN - Petro's Guaidó blunder was a reminder he's botching his 'revolución'
Americas Quarterly - Ecuador’s Political Crisis: Three Scenarios
Americas Quarterly - U.S. Citizens Are Getting Caught Up in El Salvador’s Mass Arrests
Guardian - Dominican investigative journalist targeted with NSO spyware, report says
Center for Economic and Policy Research - How Haiti’s Assassination Plot Unraveled, Minute by Minute and Text by Text
Global Americans - Quo Vadis Paraguay?
Voz de América - Los hijos de Ortega y sus roles en la política de Nicaragua
Confidencial - Ejército “forrado” con incremento del 381.9% del presupuesto y más de 5100 nuevos efectivos
Upcoming Events
5 May, CSIS - A Conversation with Juan Guaidó, Former Interim President of Venezuela
5 May, Institute of the Americas - Geothermal across the Americas – A Three-Part Webinar Series exploring the potential of geothermal
8 May, Inter-American Dialogue - Unlocking Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean
9 May, Wilson Center - Solutions for Sustainable Food Systems in Brazil
9 May, Harvard Kennedy Center & Irregular Warfare Initiative - PRC Gray Zone Activities in the Western Hemisphere
10 May, CSIS - Rule of Law and Democracy in Brazil, a discussion with Justice Luís Roberto Barroso
11 May, CSIS - Political Prisoners and the Future of Nicaragua
11 May, AS/COA - BRAVO Dialogues: The Road to One Trillion Trees
15 May, Brookings - The future of the US-Brazil relationship
23 May, Wilson Center - The Inner-Workings of the Mexican Supreme Court: Opening the Black Box
23 May, Institute of the Americas - Webinar sobre la Huella Ecológica de la Industria Marítima
1-2 June, Inter-American Dialogue, OAS, CAF Development Bank of Latin America - 26th Annual CAF Conference
21 June, Wilson Center - Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border Conference
27-28 June, Institute of the Americas - Brazil Energy and Sustainability Roundtable