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Friday Reading List - 6 August 2021
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Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters published this week:
Monday - Colombia/Venezuela - Border security issues
Tuesday - Region - August 2021 Covid update
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile,Mexico)
Thursday - Mexico - Firearm lawsuit
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Reading List
Bloomberg - U.S. Should Look South for Better Supply Chains
New York Times - Indigenous people face a unique risk that is poorly understood, a W.H.O. official said.
Los Angeles Times - The pandemic plunged millions of Latin Americans into poverty. Young people are inheriting the consequences
Bloomberg - U.S. and Colombia Can Bring Order to Caribbean Chaos
Guardian - ‘Mega-drought’ leaves many Andes mountains without snow cover
CSIS - COP26: The Perfect Opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean to Champion a Just Transition to Net Zero
Wilson Center - Reaction to the Biden Administration's Collaborative Migration Management Strategy
Reuters - Brazilian business leaders, in letter, rebuke Bolsonaro's 'authoritarian adventures'
CNN - Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro will be investigated over unproven voter fraud claims
InSight Crime - Guns in the Gulf – Mexico’s Navy Called to Protect Against Pirates
New York Times - ‘We’re Living in Hell’: Inside Mexico’s Most Terrified City
Financial Times - Mexico’s dangerously selective pursuit of justice
Los Angeles Times - In drought-plagued northern Mexico, tens of thousands of cows are starving to death
Foreign Policy - Mexico’s School Closures Are Increasing Inequality
Associated Press - Mexico to call out national guard to protect gas trucks
El País - México demanda a 11 compañías en Estados Unidos por facilitar el tráfico ilegal de armas
Washington Post - What’s behind Venezuela’s covid numbers? A police state, obfuscation and economic paralysis.
New York Times - It’s Not Too Late for the Land of Mercenaries (Colombia)
Amnesty International - Colombia: Violent repression, paramilitarism, illegal detention and torture of peaceful protesters in Cali
Global Americans - Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Trade Relations: A Historical Perspective (Ecuador)
Economist - Is Evo Morales staging a comeback in Bolivia?
Wall Street Journal - Chile Workers at World’s Biggest Copper Mine Vote to Strike
U.S. State Department - U.S. Visa Actions Supporting Democracy and Combatting Corruption in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador
Vice - El Salvador is Trying to Control MS-13 by Doubling its Army
Financial Times - IMF warns against using crypto as national currency ahead of El Salvador launch
Amnesty International - Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega's candidacy is a reminder of how impunity prevails in the country
Americas Quarterly - Despite Protests, Guatemala’s President May Be Stronger than Ever
InSight Crime - Documents Reveal Attempts to Curb Guatemala's Anti-Corruption Unit
Guardian - Why the internet in Cuba has become a US political hot potato
Reuters - Latin America's resurgent left and Caribbean spurn U.S. policy on Cuba
Miami Herald - U.S. special counsel lays blame on DEA in bungled Haiti drug-trafficking case
El País - La exportación de mercenarios: el ‘caso Haití'
Zero Day - Pegasus Spyware: How It Works and What It Collects
Guardian - ‘It’s quite feasible to start a war’: just how dangerous are ransomware hackers?
New York Times - Russia’s New Form of Organized Crime Is Menacing the World
New York Times - No Work, No Food: Pandemic Deepens Global Hunger
Economist - The people's panopticon The promise of open-source intelligence
Upcoming Events
10-11 August, Wilson Center - Seventh Annual Building a Competitive U.S.- Mexico Border
11 August, Atlantic Council - Exploring humanitarian frameworks for Venezuela: Learning from Iraq’s UN program failure
12 August, William J. Perry Center - China's Growing Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
13 August, Inter-American Dialogue - Data for Change – The Use of Official Information in the Educational Community
17 August, Wilson Center - Getting Closer to Distance Learning: Online Education in Latin America
19 August, AS/COA - A Conversation with Roberto Campos Neto
24 August, NYU - Confronting Escalating Cyber Attacks: Strategies for Addressing Future Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
26 August, AS/COA - 2021 Latin American Cities Conferences: Buenos Aires
14 September, Center for Global Development - Capital Flow Volatility in Latin America—Will Next Time Be Different?
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!