Good morning. Happy Friday. 

Here are the links to the four newsletters I published this week.

• Monday - Crime and Security Updates (Colombia-Venezuela border, Mexico)

• Tuesday - Cuba - Protestas, Patria y Vida

• Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Peru, Mexico)

• Thursday - Region - IMF forecasts

Tuesday’s newsletter on Cuba was free for everyone. The rest are available to paying subscribers. Please consider subscribing to support this newsletter and to receive additional content.

FYI: There is a Twitter poll at the bottom of today’s newsletter.

Also, I’m planning to do a webinar later this month for paying subscribers. Info and invite coming soon.

Reading List

Americas Quarterly - Today’s Latin America Has No Female Presidents. It’s Not Going Well.

Financial Times - Latin America’s selective pursuit of justice weaponises the law

CNN - 'Don't put your kids' lives at risk': US ramps up ad campaign in Latin America fighting against disinformation

New York Times - ‘We Are Doomed’: Devastation From Storms Fuels Migration in Honduras

NBC - 'We're defeated': Climate migrants fleeing storm-stricken Central America struggle to find refuge

Bloomberg - Border Crisis Needs More Than Money

Wall Street Journal - Covid-19 Shut Schools Across Latin America, and Children Joined Gangs

Bloomberg - Tax-the-Rich Initiatives Gain Support Across Latin America

Mongabay - Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

InSight Crime - Digging Into Dirty Gold Across the Americas

CSIS - Reimagining the U.S. Strategy in the Caribbean

Global Americans - Disinformation or goodwill: The Russian COVID-19 vaccine strategy

Washington Post - Brazil has become South America’s superspreader event

Financial Times - Brazilians’ love affair with tech leaves them vulnerable to data theft

New York Times - La guardia pretoriana de AMLO

Wall Street Journal - How an Obscure Fertilizer Deal Enriched a Mexican Billionaire

Guardian - 'An atmosphere of terror': the bloody rise of Mexico's top cartel 

El Economista - Alemania multa a fabricantes de armas Heckler & Koch por ventas a cárteles de México

Atlantic Council - Digital Autocracy: Maduro's control of the Venezuelan information environment

Caracas Chronicles - The Oil Pendulum and the Absent Questions About the Venezuelan Oil Industry

Responsible Statecraft - Sooner or later, Biden will need to take Venezuela talks off the back burner

InSight Crime - Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Adds to Venezuela Money Laundering Risk

CSIS - Venezuela’s Ecological Death Spiral: Formulating a Global Response

Associated Press - Oil trader admits to role in major Ecuador bribery scheme

Guardian - 'Narcos are looking for me': deadly threats to Peru's indigenous leaders

Brookings Institution - Climate, violence, and Honduran migration to the United States

Confidencial - The Nicaraguan Opposition’s Dilemma: Abstention or Participation

Guardian - Haiti has no Covid vaccine doses as violence looms larger than pandemic

Miami Herald - ‘When we aren’t killed, they kidnap us.’ Riding a bus in Haiti now a dangerous quest

War on the Rocks - The Longest Telegram: A Visionary Blueprint For The Comprehensive Grand Strategy Against China We Need (Satire)

Washington Post - Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies

White House Drug Control Office - The Biden-Harris Administration’s Statement of Drug Policy Priorities for Year One

Washington Post - Opinion: The pandemic has shown that workers in the informal economy need a safety net, too

Vanity Fair - “We Are Hoarding”: Why the U.S. Still Can’t Donate COVID-19 Vaccines to Countries in Need

Upcoming Events

12 April, Canning House - COVID-19 in Latin America: April 2021 Update

12 April, Wilson Center - Environmental Leadership: Latin American Perspectives on the Climate Crisis

12 April, U Chicago - Understanding the Paradox of Violence in Venezuela

14 April, Institute of the Americas - México Próspero – A Presentation by Tatiana Clouthier, Mexico’s Secretary of Economy

14 April, Inter-American Dialogue - The Covid-19 Pandemic and Prison Policy in Latin America

15 April, AS/COA - Women's Hemispheric Network Conference: Mexico City

15 April, Inter-American Dialogue - The Costs of and Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Education Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

16 April, Inter-American Dialogue - From Trump to Biden – What Has Changed in the United States and Mexico

20 April, AS/COA - The Impact of COVID-19 on Illicit Trade Networks

29 April, Inter-American Dialogue - Energy Transition in Latin America – The Role of the Private Sector

Thanks for reading

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12:38 PM ∙ Apr 9, 2021

Have a good weekend.