Friday Reading List - 9 September 2022
Good morning and happy Friday! Here are the links to the three newsletters we published this week.
Tuesday - El Salvador - One year of Bitcoin
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Chile's referendum vote)
Thursday - Brazil - What we learned from the independence day rallies
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Reading List
The Guardian - Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says
Americas Quarterly - The Fastest Way to Improve ESG in Latin America: Women on Boards
El Faro - Nexos entre Los Huistas de Guatemala, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación y disidentes de las FARC
New York Times - On Brazil’s Bicentennial, Softer Rhetoric From a President
The Economist - Win or lose, Jair Bolsonaro poses a threat to Brazilian democracy
Folha - Bolsonaro pode ter cometido crimes eleitorais no 7 de Setembro, dizem especialistas
The Guardian - Can Mexico’s 43 missing students get justice at last – or will politics prevail?
Americas Quarterly - Is Mexico’s Security Policy Backfiring?
Reuters - Exclusive: Mexico state utility bought coal from uninspected mines, including fatal site -records
Brookings - The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG — Part IV: Europe’s cocaine and meth markets
Animal Político - En 29 estados se dicta más prisión preventiva de forma automática que justificada; delitos como robo, los más procesados
Reuters - In Venezuelan oil town, solar-powered car offers escape from fuel lines
Rest of World - Argentina’s 4chan taken down by admins after would-be assassin suspected as frequent user
The Economist - Questions surround a gun attack on Argentina’s vice-president
World Politics Review - Chile’s Constitutional Reform Effort Isn’t Over
The Economist - Common sense prevails as Chileans reject a new constitution
The Guardian - Chileans rejected the new constitution, but they still want progressive reforms
World Politics Review - Colombia’s Marginalized Communities Are Counting on Petro to Deliver
Insight Crime - Criminal Crossroads: Drugs, Ports, and Corruption in the Dominican Republic
New Yorker - The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President
El Salvador Perspectives - Bukele's Bitcoin gambit one year later
Reuters - A year on, El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is stumbling
Univision - Nicaragua’s descent to darkness
Confidencial - La guerra de Daniel Ortega contra el periodismo: 54 medios cerrados
AP - Paraguay seeks clues in slaying of journalist in border city
Americas Quarterly - Peru’s Troubles Go Well Beyond Castillo
AP - Challenges mount against Peru’s president, his family
Insight Crime - Behind the Manhunt for Sebastián Marset, Founder of the First Uruguayan Cartel
New York Times - The U.S. Has Led the War on Drugs Abroad for Decades, and It’s Been a Staggering Failure
Upcoming Events
9 September, Insight Crime - The Threat of IUU Fishing in Latin America and the Caribbean
9 September, WOLA - A Compounding Crisis: Domestic Shortcomings, U.S. policies, and the Impact on Everyday Cubans
13 September, Wilson Center Mexico Institute - 200 Years of Bilateral Relations: The Perspective of the U.S. Ambassadors
14 September, Atlantic Council - Leaders of the Americas: A conversation with José Gregorio Baquero, CEO of CMI Foods
14 September, Inter-American Dialogue - Competing Visions for Economic and Security Partnership in the Pacific — What Role for Latin America?
14 September, Inter-American Dialogue - Social Impact Investing – Trends in Latin American & the Caribbean Amid Turbulent Times
15 September, Center for Global Development - Multilateral Development Banks’ Capital Adequacy Frameworks: Options for Reform?
19 September, Wilson Center Mexico Institute - Roundtable Discussion on the National Guard: The Militarization of Mexican Security
20 September, Migration Policy Institute - 19th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
22 September, The George Washington University - The 24th Federal Forecasters Conference
28-29 September, Institute of the Americas - XXXI La Jolla Energy Conference
6 October, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies - Climate Migration and Security in the Western Hemisphere
10, October, Brookings - Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order
13 October, CSIS - 2022 Global Development Forum
18 October, Institute of the Americas - Geothermal across the Americas Part II: supplying sustainable low carbon energy in Latin America