Good morning and happy Friday.
Here are the links to the four newsletters published this week.
Monday - Haiti - Power vacuum emboldens gang violence
Tuesday - Nicaragua and Honduras - Alliance of kleptocrats
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Thursday - Venezuela - ICC investigation
Tuesday’s newsletter on Nicaragua and Honduras is free for everyone and the other three are for paying subscribers. Thanks to the paying subscribers who support this newsletter.
Economist - Revulsion at Venezuela is fuelling the hard right in Latin America
Dialogue - Climate Change In The Northern Triangle: Recommendations for US Assistance
Americas Quarterly - Could the U.S. and China Spoil Latin America’s Rebound?
Guardian - Latin American countries join reserves to create vast marine protected area
Axios - The race for green cash for Latin America
New York Times - With scant vaccine supplies, the W.H.O. presses Latin America and the Caribbean to hold off on boosters.
InSight Crime - LatAm Synthetic Drug Trade Booming: UNODC Report
Wilson Center - Can U.S. Anti-Violence Models Succeed in Mexico and the Northern Triangle?
Financial Times - Amazon populations under threat from floods, fires and drought
Financial Times - Jair Bolsonaro’s faults go well beyond the pandemic
Foreign Affairs - Democracy Is Dying in Brazil: To Stop Bolsonaro, the Opposition Must Unite
Americas Quarterly - Fake News, Brazil and Jair Bosonaro (Podcast)
Washington Post - U.S. missionaries have long tried to convert the ‘unreached’ in the Amazon. Now Indigenous groups are fighting back.
Washington Post - Brazil, once a champion of environmentalism, grapples with new role as climate antagonist
Economist - Brazil wants more from COP26 than it is willing to give
The Border Chronicle - On 'Remain in Mexico' and Leaving the Biden Administration: An Audio Interview with Stephanie Leutert
CNN - Drug violence sparks chaos at popular tourist resort in Mexico
Guardian - Could landlocked south Texas help a backlogged US supply chain?
CSIS - The Bicentennial Framework for Security Cooperation: New Approach or Shuffling the Pillars of Mérida?
Miami Herald - Guaido’s reign in danger as Venezuelan opposition moves to ditch him
Argus Media - Venezuela adapts to US sanctions with rising oil flow
Mexicanos Contra La Corrupción - La Otra Trama Oscura De Las Redes De Maduro En México
International Crisis Group - A Broken Canopy: Deforestation and Conflict in Colombia
Wall Street Journal - New Galápagos Conservation Efforts Aim to Counter China Fishing Fleet
InSight Crime - 3 Reasons Why Coca Crops Are Through the Roof in Peru
InSight Crime - Panama's Gang Wars Growing Worryingly Vicious
CSIS - Panama’s Maritime Business and the Evolving Strategic Landscape
CBS 60 Minutes - "It's completely Orwellian": How Daniel Ortega tightened his grip on power in Nicaragua
Business Insider - Facebook says it just uncovered one of the largest troll farms ever — run by the government of Nicaragua
OCCRP - Nicaragua's Forgotten Deforestation Crisis
International Crisis Group - Nicaragua: Dealing with the Dangers of a One-Sided Poll
Bloomberg - Costa Rica Targets Transport for ‘Dramatic’ Cut in CO2 Emissions
Reuters - A corruption-busting Honduran prosecutor took on the president. It didn’t end well.
Guardian - ‘So many have gone’: storms and drought drive Guatemalans to the US border
Associated Press - UNICEF: Gangs in Haiti are targeting schools and students
Washington Post - Misinformation online is bad in English. But it’s far worse in Spanish.
RAND Corporation - Commercial and Military Applications and Timelines for Quantum Technology
8 November, WOLA - No hay negocio: Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Cuban Entrepreneurs
9 November, William J. Perry Center - The Power of Digital Technology in 21st Century Geopolitics
9 November, Wilson Center - Democratization in Venezuela: Thoughts on a New Path
10 November, Fitch Solutions - Turbulent Times Ahead For Latin American Politics?
10 November, Inter-American Dialogue - Playtime during Childhood – The State of Game in Colombia
10 November, WOLA - The Road Ahead: Exploring the Situation in Cuba
16 November, Wilson Center - The Pulse of Democracy in the Americas: Results from the 2021 AmericasBarometer Study
17 November, AS/COA - Navigating the China-U.S. Divide: A Challenge for Latin America
Have a great weekend!
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Friday Reading List - 5 November 2021
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Good morning and happy Friday.
Here are the links to the four newsletters published this week.
Monday - Haiti - Power vacuum emboldens gang violence
Tuesday - Nicaragua and Honduras - Alliance of kleptocrats
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Thursday - Venezuela - ICC investigation
Tuesday’s newsletter on Nicaragua and Honduras is free for everyone and the other three are for paying subscribers. Thanks to the paying subscribers who support this newsletter.
Reading List
Economist - Revulsion at Venezuela is fuelling the hard right in Latin America
Dialogue - Climate Change In The Northern Triangle: Recommendations for US Assistance
Americas Quarterly - Could the U.S. and China Spoil Latin America’s Rebound?
Guardian - Latin American countries join reserves to create vast marine protected area
Axios - The race for green cash for Latin America
New York Times - With scant vaccine supplies, the W.H.O. presses Latin America and the Caribbean to hold off on boosters.
InSight Crime - LatAm Synthetic Drug Trade Booming: UNODC Report
Wilson Center - Can U.S. Anti-Violence Models Succeed in Mexico and the Northern Triangle?
Financial Times - Amazon populations under threat from floods, fires and drought
Financial Times - Jair Bolsonaro’s faults go well beyond the pandemic
Foreign Affairs - Democracy Is Dying in Brazil: To Stop Bolsonaro, the Opposition Must Unite
Americas Quarterly - Fake News, Brazil and Jair Bosonaro (Podcast)
Washington Post - U.S. missionaries have long tried to convert the ‘unreached’ in the Amazon. Now Indigenous groups are fighting back.
Washington Post - Brazil, once a champion of environmentalism, grapples with new role as climate antagonist
Economist - Brazil wants more from COP26 than it is willing to give
The Border Chronicle - On 'Remain in Mexico' and Leaving the Biden Administration: An Audio Interview with Stephanie Leutert
CNN - Drug violence sparks chaos at popular tourist resort in Mexico
Guardian - Could landlocked south Texas help a backlogged US supply chain?
CSIS - The Bicentennial Framework for Security Cooperation: New Approach or Shuffling the Pillars of Mérida?
Miami Herald - Guaido’s reign in danger as Venezuelan opposition moves to ditch him
Argus Media - Venezuela adapts to US sanctions with rising oil flow
Mexicanos Contra La Corrupción - La Otra Trama Oscura De Las Redes De Maduro En México
International Crisis Group - A Broken Canopy: Deforestation and Conflict in Colombia
Wall Street Journal - New Galápagos Conservation Efforts Aim to Counter China Fishing Fleet
InSight Crime - 3 Reasons Why Coca Crops Are Through the Roof in Peru
InSight Crime - Panama's Gang Wars Growing Worryingly Vicious
CSIS - Panama’s Maritime Business and the Evolving Strategic Landscape
CBS 60 Minutes - "It's completely Orwellian": How Daniel Ortega tightened his grip on power in Nicaragua
Business Insider - Facebook says it just uncovered one of the largest troll farms ever — run by the government of Nicaragua
OCCRP - Nicaragua's Forgotten Deforestation Crisis
International Crisis Group - Nicaragua: Dealing with the Dangers of a One-Sided Poll
Bloomberg - Costa Rica Targets Transport for ‘Dramatic’ Cut in CO2 Emissions
Reuters - A corruption-busting Honduran prosecutor took on the president. It didn’t end well.
Guardian - ‘So many have gone’: storms and drought drive Guatemalans to the US border
Associated Press - UNICEF: Gangs in Haiti are targeting schools and students
Washington Post - Misinformation online is bad in English. But it’s far worse in Spanish.
RAND Corporation - Commercial and Military Applications and Timelines for Quantum Technology
Upcoming events
8 November, WOLA - No hay negocio: Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Cuban Entrepreneurs
9 November, William J. Perry Center - The Power of Digital Technology in 21st Century Geopolitics
9 November, Wilson Center - Democratization in Venezuela: Thoughts on a New Path
10 November, Fitch Solutions - Turbulent Times Ahead For Latin American Politics?
10 November, Inter-American Dialogue - Playtime during Childhood – The State of Game in Colombia
10 November, WOLA - The Road Ahead: Exploring the Situation in Cuba
16 November, Wilson Center - The Pulse of Democracy in the Americas: Results from the 2021 AmericasBarometer Study
17 November, AS/COA - Navigating the China-U.S. Divide: A Challenge for Latin America
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!