Friday Reading List - March 24, 2023
Webinar invite, links to interesting articles, and events coming up soon
Good morning and happy Friday!
This week’s newsletter covered the impact of recent global banking problems including the failure of SVB on Latin America.
As a reminder, Boz will be teaching a week-long course on analyzing protests in late April. As of this week, the course only has five more spots available. Thanks to everyone who has signed up so far. We are offering 20% off the enrollment fee with the discount code HX20 until April 1st. You can view the course page and sign-up here, and please feel free to reach out to info@hxagon.com with any questions.
We’ll also be holding another free webinar next Wednesday, March 29th, discussing Monitoring Information About Protests as well as some Q&A about Latin American protest movements. You can register here.
Here are this week’s links and upcoming events.
Reading List
World Politics Review - Taiwan Needs a New Approach in Latin America
Economist - The Americas face a historic opportunity. Will the region grasp it?
Reuters - US states, Caribbean nations back Mexico's appeal in arms lawsuit
Pro Davinci - Carolina Jiménez: “La resistencia continua en las condiciones más precarias”
Foreign Policy - Paraguay Election 2023 Could Oust Ruling Colorado Party
Financial Times - Uruguay’s difficult history is still being largely ignored
Americas Quarterly - Can Argentina’s Time Bomb Be Defused?
Bloomberg - 100% Inflation in Argentina Opens the Door for a Presidential Upset
Vox - What it looks like when a country doesn’t trust its banks
Reuters - Argentina to push state entities to give up dollar bonds -ministry official
AP News - Brazil police foil gang plot targeting Carwash judge Moro
Americas Quarterly - Q&A: Brazil’s Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira on the “Lula Doctrine”
Wall Street Journal - Brazil Moves to Take Back Guns After Surge in Purchases
Small Wars Journal - Perspective: War with the Cartels is More Complicated than it Sounds
Wall Street Journal - Countries Compete to Lure Manufacturers From China
Americas Quarterly - Mexico Is Killing Its Golden Goose
Reuters - Exclusive: Amid U.S. pressure on fentanyl, Mexico raises drug lab raids data
New York Times - Americans’ Old Car Batteries Are Making Mexican Workers Sick
Reuters - Exclusive: Middlemen have left Venezuela's PDVSA with $21.2 billion in unpaid bills
Bloomberg - Power Struggle and Missing Billions Roil Venezuelan Ruling Elite
New York Times - Ferraris and Hungry Children: Venezuela’s Socialist Vision in Shambles
Reuters - Venezuela's Maduro to replace oil minister, police arrest officials in corruption sweep
Wall Street Journal - In Peru, Protests Reveal Deep Social Divide
New Yorker - What’s the Path Forward for Haiti
Americas Quarterly - Countering El Salvador’s Democratic Backsliding
CSIS - Taking Exception to States of Exception
Washington Post - Costa Rica, laid-back land of ‘pura vida,’ succumbing to drug violence
AP News - War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.
The Baffler - Honduran Hydra
Confidencial - A cinco años de la masacre de 2018, la dictadura no ha realizado ni una sola investigación
AP - Dominican police arrest 19 in high-profile corruption case
Bloomberg - Bolivia’s Currency Crisis Deepens as Dollar Become Hard to Find
New York Times - An Independent Barbados
New York Times - A ‘New Cold War’ Looms in Africa as U.S. Pushes Against Russian Gains
Upcoming Events
24 March, Wilson Center - Crisis in Venezuela: Implications for Democracy, Human Rights, and the Environment
24 March, University of Oklahoma - State Responses to Gangs and Criminal Violence in Central America
27 - 29 March, Global Private Capital Association - GPC Conference
28 March, Atlantic Council - Fostering a fourth democratic wave: A playbook for countering the authoritarian threat
28 March, CSIS - The 2023 Forum on Business and Democracy
29 March, Hxagon - Live Exercise: Monitoring Information About Protests
29 March, Global Financial Integrity & Vance Center - Preventing Money Laundering: What Steps Can Governments Take to Prevent Crypto-Related Financial Crimes?
29 March, Inter-American Dialogue - Meet the Experts: Risks and Opportunities for Industries of the Energy Transition
3 April, Wilson Center - Corruption, Accountability and Democracy in Brazil: Challenges and Solutions
4 April, AS/COA - YPA Preview of 2023 Latin American Elections
11 April, Georgetown Americas Institute - Seeking Truth: The Challenges and Achievements of Colombia’s Truth Commission
12 April, AS/COA - 2023 Latin American Cities Conferences: Santo Domingo
14 April, AS/COA - 8th Women's Hemispheric Network Conference in Miami
18-20 April, Institute of the Americas - Madrid Energy Conference 2023
24-28 April, Hxagon Training (hosted on Maven) - Analyzing Protests
2 May, AS/COA - 53rd Annual Washington Conference on the Americas
2-3 May, FIU - Hemispheric Security Conference
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!