To start 2022, we have put together a brief survey for readers. I appreciate those of you who already took the time to provide thoughts and feedback. If you haven’t filled it out yet, please take 2-3 minutes and let us know how we can improve the newsletter this year.
Tuesday’s newsletter on the pandemic was free for everyone as usual. Less typical, I dropped the paywall on Wednesday’s newsletter a day after it was sent to subscribers so that others could read it because the question of whether the region is shifting to the left or voting against incumbents has been a fairly active discussion this week.
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Friday Reading List - 7 January 2022
Friday Reading List - 7 January 2022
Friday Reading List - 7 January 2022
Friday Reading List - 7 January 2022
Good morning and happy Friday!
To start 2022, we have put together a brief survey for readers. I appreciate those of you who already took the time to provide thoughts and feedback. If you haven’t filled it out yet, please take 2-3 minutes and let us know how we can improve the newsletter this year.
Survey link is here: https://forms.gle/U5XnpNQtq5JhTXGeA
Here are the links to the four newsletters published this week:
Monday - Region - Security in 2022
Tuesday - Latin America in 2022 - Omicron and then post-pandemic politics
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Upcoming Elections)
Thursday - Brazil - Bolsonaro's insurrection focus
Tuesday’s newsletter on the pandemic was free for everyone as usual. Less typical, I dropped the paywall on Wednesday’s newsletter a day after it was sent to subscribers so that others could read it because the question of whether the region is shifting to the left or voting against incumbents has been a fairly active discussion this week.
If you want to support this newsletter and receive additional content, please consider subscribing.
Reading List
Bloomberg - Latin America’s New Economic Model May Emerge in Chile
InSight Crime - GameChangers 2021: How IUU Fishing Plundered Latin America's Oceans
InSight Crime - Latin American Governments Easy Prey for Ransomware During COVID-19
New York Times - Leftists Are Ascendant in Latin America as Key Elections Loom
CNN - Democracy had a tough year in Latin America. But it's not all doom and gloom
CNN - Many Latin American countries now have higher vaccination rates than Europe and North America
Cambridge Review of International Affairs - Designing suspension clauses to defend democracy: lessons from negotiating the OAS's Washington Protocol
Wilson Center - Uncovering the Deforestation and Climate Risks of Chinese and EU Soy and Beef Imports from South America
Washington Post - Sérgio Moro went from Brazil’s sheriff to Bolsonaro’s useful idiot. Can he pull off a presidential bid?
Reuters - Brazil stops tracking savanna deforestation despite rising destruction
Financial Times - Brazil’s economic outlook buoyed by big-ticket investments
Bloomberg - Brazil’s Omicron Toll Begins to Show Even Amid Data Blackout
Americas Quarterly - All Eyes on Brazil’s Military as Election Approaches
Wall Street Journal - Bank of Mexico Plans to Launch Digital Currency by 2024
Economist - Mexico’s energy reforms will damage the economy and the rule of law
Washington Post - In coronavirus-hit Mexico, many women are ‘determined to not have babies’
Associated Press - Mexico asks USMCA dispute resolution panel on auto content
Axios - Indigenous communities in Mexico replace corn crops with cannabis
InSight Crime - Mexico Ablaze as Jalisco Cartel Seeks Criminal Hegemony
Wall Street Journal - Venezuela’s U.S.-Backed Opposition Frays as Nicolás Maduro Tightens Grip
Atlantic - How Venezuela Became One Big Casino
Bloomberg - Venezuela Doubles Crude Oil Exports Defying U.S. Sanctions
New York Times - Colombia Can’t Afford to Abandon Peace
Financial Times - Ecuador’s president vows indigenous groups will not block mining projects
Bloomberg - Drop in Cannabis Prices Creates an Opportunity for Paraguay
Guardian - Rocky road: Paraguay’s new Chaco highway threatens rare forest and last of the Ayoreo people
Associated Press - ExxonMobil discovers more oil off Guyana’s coast
Guardian - China opens embassy in Nicaragua for first time since 1990 after Taiwan ties cut
El Faro - El "bróker" de los criptobonos: “Hablé con Yusef Bukele sobre el plan para los bonos Bitcoin”
World Politics Review - Castro Will Have Her Hands Full Cleaning Up Honduras’ Mafia State
Economist - Why it is so tricky to buy a bulb of garlic in Cuba
Guardian - Cuba’s vaccine success story sails past mark set by rich world’s Covid efforts
Reuters - Haitian prime minister survives weekend assassination attempt -PM's office
Miami Herald - Fearing certain death in Haiti, a suspected assassin gambled on cooperating with the FBI
Miami Herald - Top suspect in Haiti assassination probe in U.S. custody in Miami
FIU Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy - Contactless, Crypto, and Cash: Laundering Illicit Profits in the Age of COVID-19
Harvard Business Review - How Corporate Intelligence Teams Help Businesses Manage Risk
Noahpinion - Interview: Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport (great read on ports and the supply chain crisis)
Washington Post - China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
Washington Post - Smuggled Iranian fuel and secret nighttime transfers: Seafarers recount how it’s done
Upcoming Events
7 January, WOLA - The Challenges to Peace in Arauca, Colombia
10 January, CSIS - Road to the 2022 Summit of the Americas: Trade and Investment
11 January, Wilson Center - The Alliance for Development in Democracy: A Conversation with Three Foreign Ministers
12 January, Canadian Council for the Americas - 12th Annual Economic & Political Outlook for the Americas
12 January, CSIS - Assessing the Impact of Artisanal and Small-Scale and Illegal Mining in the Amazon
14 January, AS/COA - Democracy Dialogues: A Conversation with Arturo Sarukhan
26 January, William J. Perry Center - Armed Forces of the English-Speaking Caribbean: A Conversation with Dr. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
Thanks for Reading
Have a great weekend.