Friday Reading List - 6 June 2025
Hypothetically, given the state of US politics, what happens if Judge Moraes files an extradition request today for the billionaire CEO of a certain social media company?
Good morning from Vienna, Virginia.
This week’s articles and newsletters
WPR - Sheinbaum Knows That Mexico Can’t Count on Trump ‘Chickening Out’
Monday - Potential Brazil Sanctions and other US Policy news in LatAm
Tuesday - How my analysis has changed regarding Latin America in 2025
Wednesday - Mexico - Comments on the judicial election results
Thursday - Six stories - Venezuela vs Guyana and Chile, Colombia vs Guatemala, Mexico vs Peru and Ecuador, and thoughts about inter-state conflict in the region.
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Reading List
Foreign Policy - What Will China Do Next in Latin America?
Newsweek - China Dominates 'Dark' Network Behind Global Fishing Crisis - Newsweek
Foreign Affairs - The War on Trees: How Illegal Logging Funds Cartels, Terrorists, and Rogue Regimes
Guardian - Podcast: Missing in the Amazon
AP - Hugo Aguilar elected Mexico's first Indigenous Supreme Court justice in 170 years
WSJ - Mexico’s Judicial Election Puts Spotlight on Former President’s Son
Bloomberg - Carlos Slim Is Quietly Becoming Pemex’s Partner of Last Resort
AP - Brazil's Lula signs law to expand affirmative action, boosting quotas for Blacks in government jobs
Bloomberg - Bolsonaro’s Plan to Stage a Trumpian Comeback Might Save Lula’s Presidency
Bloomberg - Brazil's Economy Is Primed for a Dose of Mileinomics
FT - Tug of war over Trump’s Venezuela policy leaves investors guessing
Guacamaya - “Interim Government” and “AN 2015” Allegedly Embezzled $320 Million from Venezuela’s Central Bank
Crisis Group - Venezuela: Last Rites for an Electoral Route out of Conflict?
Armando.info - Una ruta del contrabando de oro venezolano quedó retratada en Islas Caimán
InSight Crime - Is Venezuela Using Criminals to Provoke Guyana?
Al Jazeera - Colombia rejects Guatemalan court’s arrest warrants for top officials
Bloomberg - Ecopetrol Spying Probe Adds Fuel to Colombia Corruption Storm
ACLED - Ecuador’s Noboa declared war on 22 gangs. In his new term, he faces many more.
Americas Quarterly - Momentum for Red Tape Reform in Chile Picks Up
Redaccion Regional - La mafia de la palma mata de nuevo
El Faro - Honduran Agrarian Reform Talks Continue with Elections in Full Swing
El Faro - ¿Qué fue lo que dijo The Economist que hizo estallar a Bukele y su jefe de espías?
FT - Panama port owner charts course to placate Donald Trump and China
AP - Protesters and police clash in eastern Panama
Atlantic Council - US interests can benefit from stronger congressional ties with the Caribbean
Miami Herald - Cuba telecom firm hikes prices, cites debt – yet military owner has millions of dollars
FT - Haitian gangs threaten to topple last government stronghold
Foreign Policy - Haiti Is Burning, but There Is a Path Forward
Miami Herald - Trump hits Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti with travel bans amid immigration crackdown
Reuters - White House taps special ops vet for key Latin America post, sources say
Persuasion - Mexico and the Road U.S. Democrats Can Never Take
Foreign Affairs - The End of the Long American Century: Trump and the Sources of U.S. Power
Upcoming events
6 June, CSIS - Justice on the Ballot? The Impact of Mexico's Judicial Reform on the Rule of Law and Business Environment
6 June, Atlantic Council - A deep dive into US-Guatemala economic and security cooperation
11 June, Inter-American Dialogue - Eleventh Annual Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border Conference
12 June, AS/COA - Book Talk: How to Save the Amazon by Dom Phillips
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!