ANNOUNCEMENT: After several months of making nearly all of my newsletters free (see the original announcement from mid-August here), I’m putting back up the paywall on some of my analysis. Next week, paying subscribers will receive five newsletters (one every weekday) while everyone on the free list will receive two - one on Tuesday plus this list of links on Friday.
If you are a poor college student, on the unpaid intern circuit, or otherwise cannot afford the newsletter, email me at boz@substack.com and we’ll work something out.
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Friday Reading List - 8 January 2021
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Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.
Monday - 2021 - In like a jaguar, out like a bipolar capybara
Tuesday - Lessons learned from 2020
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico)
Thursday - A shared threat to democracy
ANNOUNCEMENT: After several months of making nearly all of my newsletters free (see the original announcement from mid-August here), I’m putting back up the paywall on some of my analysis. Next week, paying subscribers will receive five newsletters (one every weekday) while everyone on the free list will receive two - one on Tuesday plus this list of links on Friday.
If you have found this newsletter useful in recent months, please consider subscribing for $9 per month or $90 per year. Thanks to everyone who has already subscribed. I really appreciate it.
If you are a poor college student, on the unpaid intern circuit, or otherwise cannot afford the newsletter, email me at boz@substack.com and we’ll work something out.
Reading list
Foreign Affairs - Biden’s Latin American Opportunity: Why the Western Hemisphere Is More Important Than Ever
The National Interest - Renew the U.S.-Latin America Partnership at the 2021 Summit of the Americas
Washington Post - To stay or to go?
Bloomberg - Latin America Emerges as China’s Favorite Hunting Ground for M&A
Financial Times - LatAm banks’ rich pickings face challenges from fintechs
Financial Times - Populists sense opportunity as Latin Americans lose faith in leaders
Bloomberg - Putin’s Allies Are Ordering Sputnik Vaccine Across Latin America
Dialogo - How China and Russia Will Continue to Exploit Weak Democratic Institutions Across the Hemisphere
OCCRP - Jair Bolsonaro: 2020 Person Of The Year In Organized Crime And Corruption
Wall Street Journal - Wave of Black Politicians Takes Office in Brazil
Wired - The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country
Washington Post - Bolsonaro sent soldiers to the Amazon to curb deforestation. Here’s how the effort failed.
SpyTalk - Bill Barr's Christmas Gift to Mexican Drug Lords
The New York Times - Hit Hard by the Pandemic, Mexico’s Drug Cartels Tweaked Their Playbook
The New York Times - Fleeing Lockdown, Americans Are Flocking to Mexico City
Human Rights Watch - US: ‘Remain in Mexico’ Harms Children, Families
Associated Press - Mexico’s president reaches the people with morning show
Financial Times - Pemex drains reserves of quick fixes as cash crunch looms
Reuters - UAE emerges as hub for companies helping Venezuela avoid U.S. oil sanctions
BBC - Deepening divisions: Venezuela's haves and have nots
Washington Post - Venezuelan opposition efforts to capture government’s foreign assets draw scrutiny
Financial Times - Venezuela: Maduro strengthens his grip on power
Bloomberg - Credit Suisse Cuts Ties With Some Venezuelan Wealth Clients
Wall Street Journal - Deal Maker for Venezuela’s Maduro Can Be Extradited to U.S., Court Rules
Semana - Bogotá se rajó en temas de seguridad en 2020
El Espectador - Aunque UCI de Bogotá están en 76,5 % de ocupación, médicos alertan que hay colapso
The New York Times - Is Peru Ungovernable?
Institute of the Americas - Balancing Potential and Challenges: A summary report based upon discussions at the Argentina Virtual Oil & Gas Roundtable
The Economist - Argentina rolls out a Russian vaccine
Financial Times - Daniel Ortega tightens screws on opponents as Nicaragua polls loom
The Guardian - Guatemala mine's ex-security chief convicted of Indigenous leader's murder
Latin America Politics and Society - How Predatory Informal Rules Outlast State Reform: Evidence from Postauthoritarian Guatemala
Miami Herald - Slew of presidential decrees have some wondering if Haiti is on the road to dictatorship
Global Americans - The 2020 Top Ten LGBT Stories from Latin America and the Caribbean
Foreign Policy - 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021
New York Times - Has Africa been spared? Researchers say the numbers of cases and deaths are probably undercounted.
The Atlantic - The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Wall Street Journal - FBI Increasingly Probes for Corruption Overseas
Foreign Policy - Tech Giants Are Giving China A Vital Edge In Espionage
Upcoming events
8 January - Substack ON [I’m spending part of today attending a conference about newsletter writing].
14 January, Global Americans - Event with Lenin Moreno
19 January 2021 - Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum
28 January 2021 - Technology. Behaviour. Data. (TBD) Conference 2021
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!