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Friday Reading List - 8 October 2021
Friday Reading List - 8 October 2021
Friday Reading List - 8 October 2021
Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.
Monday - Mexico - Violence in Guerrero
Tuesday - Region - Pandora Papers
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Mexico and Bolivia)
Thursday - Peru - Castillo cabinet shuffle
Thanks to the paying subscribers who support this newsletter. Tuesday’s newsletter on the Pandora Papers is available to everyone and the other three newsletters are only available to paying subscribers. If you’d like to subscribe, it’s $9 per month or $90 per year.
Reading List
Foreign Affairs - Latin America Needs a New Social Contract
Voice of America - Quietly Vying with US, China Boosts Trade, Investments in Latin America
InSight Crime - The Digital Gold Rush - 5 Ways Bitcoin Helps Organized Crime
ICIJ - When Latin America’s elite wanted to hide their wealth, they turned to this Panama firm
Economist - Latin American democracy is in poor but surprisingly stable health
Bloomberg - Left-Wing Rage Threatens a Wall Street Haven in Latin America
Foreign Affairs - Latin America’s Democratic Recession: How Washington Can Help Turn Things Around
World Bank Group - Semiannual Report Of Latin America And The Caribbean Region: Recovering Growth
Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy - ¿Sepa Más? Russia’s Strategic Communication in Latin America and the Caribbean
New York Times - With rich countries paying more for vaccines, the supply for Latin America is falling short, the W.H.O. says.
New York Times - Perilous, Roadless Jungle Becomes a Path of Desperate Hope
NPR - The White House sees a new $150 million loan in Ecuador as way to compete with China
Americas Quarterly - Why Uruguay’s Bet on China Matters for Latin America
Dialogo Chino - Argentina at crossroads over the future of the lithium sector
Chatham House - Migration in Latin America
CNN - Thousands protest across Brazil calling for President Bolsonaro's impeachment
Economist - Some of President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters are turning against him
Bloomberg - Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users
Financial Times - Crop of agtechs aim to overturn Brazil’s image as eco villain
Guardian - Fast track to disaster? Brazil’s Grain Train plan raises fears for Amazon
InSight Crime - Small Aircraft Feed Illegal Mining Operations in Brazil's Amazon
Economist - Mexico is finally seeing a startup bonanza
Reuters - U.S., Mexico prepare new security deal to replace Merida Initiative
BBVA - Reforma eléctrica, aprobada, pone en riesgo competencia, inversión y medio ambiente
El Universal - Viola AMLO nuevas políticas de YouTube
Proceso - Pandora Papers: El club de los millonarios mexicanos, todo queda en familias
Animal Político - El INM está en manos de los militares
Insight Crime - Venezuela's International Appetite for Stolen Luxury Cars
Intercept - U.S. Sanctions Blamed As Venezuela Laments Frozen Order For Medicine
Americas Quarterly - Dollarization Can’t Save the Venezuelan Economy
Wilson Center - Where Does the Venezuelan Opposition Go from Here?
NASA Earth Observatory - Troubled Waters
Financial Times - Colombia’s landmines are more than a legacy issue
El Tiempo - Eln y disidencias tendrían más de siete mil integrantes
Ciper - Pandora Papers: documentos de Islas Vírgenes arrojan nuevos detalles de las sociedades de Piñera en paraísos fiscales
InSight Crime - Ecuador: The New Corridor for South American Arms Trafficking
Associated Press - Nicaraguan opposition says elections “void and illegitimate”
Rest of World - A libertarian ‘startup city’ in Honduras faces its biggest hurdle: the locals
El Salvador Perspectives - Nayib Bukele's shadow cabinet of Venezuelan advisers
New York Times - Bitcoin Preaches Financial Liberty. A Strongman Is Testing That Promise.
Bloomberg - Bitcoin Launch Sparks Wave of Crypto Speculation in El Salvador
Rest of World - Can ‘freemium’ internet hotspots really bring Guatemala online?
Washington Post - Opinion: The subtle brutality of Cuba’s war on press freedom
NPR - 'The Greatest Heist In History': How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom
Miami Herald - Busted: Criminal ring behind smuggling of hundreds of Haitian children from Chile to U.S.
McClatchy - Convinced ‘Havana syndrome’ is real, Biden team issues sharper guidance for U.S. personnel
Foreign Affairs - The End of China’s Rise
Washington Post - How U.S. Sanctions Take A Hidden Toll On Russian Oligarchs
New York Times - America’s List of ‘Undemocratic and Corrupt Actors’ Just Keeps Growing
New York Times - Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants
Atlantic Council - China Pathfinder: Annual Scorecard 2021
Upcoming events
11-13 October, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime - Diálogos de resiliencia en seguridad y crimen organizado en Latinoamérica y El Caribe
12 October, Center for Global Development - Responding to the Risks of COVID-19 Debt Distress
12 October, Institute of the Americas - New Report Launch: Nationally Determined Contributions Across the Americas: A Comparative Hemispheric Analysis
13 October, FIU - ¿Hacia una nueva bipolaridad no polarizada? Conceptualización teórica e implicancias para las relaciones internacionales de América Latina
13 October, Inter-American Dialogue - Youth Employment and Sustaining Latin America’s Economic Recovery
13 October, Wilson Center - The Final Stretch to COP26: Which Future Will We Harvest? (2/2)
14 October, AS/COA - COA Symposium Panel: Tech for Good
14 October, Institute of the Americas - Latin American & Caribbean Energy Project Financing & the Path to Net Zero
15 October, Global Financial Integrity - Report Launch: Financial Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
19-20 October, CAF - 25th Annual CAF Conference
21 October, AS/COA - 10th Annual AS/COA Women's Hemispheric Network Conference
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!