Good morning and Happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week.
Monday - Haiti - Unity Summit convenes to discuss country's political future
Tuesday - The Omicron Wave will disrupt Latin America
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Mexico and Colombia)
Thursday - El Salvador - Surveillance of journalists and civil society
Tuesday’s newsletter on the Omicron Wave had thousands of readers. Thanks everyone for sharing it. The other newsletters were for paying subscribers only. Please consider subscribing to support the newsletter and receive additional content.
Human Rights Watch - Latin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms
Washington Post - Millennial politicians are shaking up Latin America. Here’s how they differ from the old guard.
El Pais - How South America became a global leader in Covid-19 vaccination
Associated Press - PAHO: Omicron to become dominant variant in Americas shortly
Guardian - Omicron dims optimism as South America enters pandemic’s third year
Global Americans - U.S. Policy Toward Latin America: One Year into the Biden Administration
Diplomat - China’s New Year Ambitions for Latin America and the Caribbean
New Lines Magazine - In Latin America, Backers of Leftist Dictatorships Look the Other Way
Wall Street Journal - Why the Catholic Church Is Losing Latin America
Associated Press - Families separated at border now fear extortion attempts
Washington Post - Buenos Aires hits 106 degrees amid severe South American heat wave
Wilson Center - On the Horizon 2022
Global Americans - USAID in Central America: Less Is Better
La Silla Vacía - Desinformación Antivacunas En Facebook Circula En Grupos Religiosos O Esotéricos
Associated Press - Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon gold seeps into supply chains
Reuters - Lula holds big lead in Brazil as voters worry about inflation, COVID-19
The Intercept_ - Bolsonaro Gave Brazil’s Army New Powers. The Generals Won’t Give Them Up Easily.
Financial Times - Bolsonaro crafts new social media strategy ahead of Brazil election
InSight Crime - Sun, Samba and Smuggled Soybeans in Brazil
InSight Crime - How Brazil's Port of Santos Became Cocaine's World Trade Center
Human Rights Watch - Brazil: Protect Voting, Speech Rights: Amazon Deforestation Soars
Reuters - Brazil faces another year of high food inflation due to drought
Veja - BlackRock não coloca mais um centavo no Brasil na era Bolsonaro
Washington Post - Mexico has refused to close its borders during the covid-19 pandemic. Does that make sense?
InSight Crime - The Horrors of Zacatecas Could Happen Anywhere in Mexico
InSight Crime - The Three Criminal Fronts Sparking Violence in Sonora, Mexico
New York Post - Mexico’s deadliest cartel is dropping bombs from a drone onto rival camps in new turf war
Associated Press - US to close Gulf ports to Mexican fishing boats for poaching
Natural Gas Intelligence - Constitutional Reform Unlikely in 2022, but Mexico Energy Sector Risk Still High, Analysts Say
Caracas Chronicles - From Interim to Indefinite: the Life and Times of the Caretaker Government
Associated Press - Opposition wins revote for governor in heartland of Chavismo
Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights - Best, Worst, and Status Quo Scenarios for 2022 in Venezuela
Global Americans - What Venezuela’s Opposition Can Learn from the Barinas Victory
National Public Radio (NPR) - Why the kids of Venezuela aren't getting enough to eat
Reuters - Venezuela ramps up gasoline, food supply to Cuba -documents
Americas Quarterly - Is Gustavo Petro Leaving Behind Colombian Progressives?
Global Americans - Six Challenges Facing Colombia in 2022
Washington Post - A toddler died sleeping outside in a months-long housing protest. Now his brother is sick.
World Politics Review - Colombia’s ‘Peace Dividend’ Isn’t Paying Off
Reuters - At least 78 rights defenders killed in Colombia in 2021 - UN
National Geographic - On the Trail of Colombia’s Sloth Cartel: A notorious sloth cartel kingpin vanished. We tried to find him.
Guardian - ‘Babies here are born sick’: are Bolivia’s gold mines poisoning its indigenous people?
InSight Crime - Landlocked Paraguay Becoming Major Cocaine Link to Europe
New York Times - Mining of Lithium, Key to the Climate Fight, Faces New Scrutiny in Chile
Financial Times - Argentina heads towards latest IMF deadline with little sign of progress
Bloomberg - South Atlantic Oil Is Newest Crusade of Argentina Green Movement
The Hill - A four-step response to Nicaragua's dictatorial inauguration
Washington Post - Opinión: El autoritarismo se afianzó en El Salvador y la oposición sigue sin comprender el bukelismo
El Faro - Fiscalía allana oficinas de fiscales que realizaron la investigación Catedral
Financial Times - Young Hondurans leave their country behind to find a future abroad
New York Times - Haitian Prime Minister Had Close Links With Murder Suspect
Center for Economic Policy and Research - Capacity Development for Whom? An Agenda for USAID Reform in Haiti
Foreign Policy - The Case for Cyber-Realism: Geopolitical Problems Don’t Have Technical Solutions
Financial Times - China applies brakes to Africa lending
World Politics Review - Russia’s ‘Return’ to Africa Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
New York Times - Steve Bannon Is On to Something (great Ezra Klein column on the importance of participating in politics, not just watching it)
14 January, AS/COA - Democracy Dialogues: A Conversation with Arturo Sarukhan
20 January, Center for Global Development - Climate Change and Migration: Taking Global Commitments a step Forward
24 January, Wilson Center - Challenges Facing Mexico's National Electoral Institute: A Conversation with President Councilor Lorenzo Córdova
26 January, William J. Perry Center - Armed Forces of the English-Speaking Caribbean: A Conversation with Dr. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
27 January, Atlantic Council - Road to the Summit. Responding to the next disaster: Building health and climate resilience in the Americas
2 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: Starting “small” in regional reactivation
Have a great weekend!
Reading List - 14 January 2022
Reading List - 14 January 2022
Reading List - 14 January 2022
Good morning and Happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week.
Monday - Haiti - Unity Summit convenes to discuss country's political future
Tuesday - The Omicron Wave will disrupt Latin America
Wednesday - Politics and Polls (Mexico and Colombia)
Thursday - El Salvador - Surveillance of journalists and civil society
Tuesday’s newsletter on the Omicron Wave had thousands of readers. Thanks everyone for sharing it. The other newsletters were for paying subscribers only. Please consider subscribing to support the newsletter and receive additional content.
Reading List
Human Rights Watch - Latin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms
Washington Post - Millennial politicians are shaking up Latin America. Here’s how they differ from the old guard.
El Pais - How South America became a global leader in Covid-19 vaccination
Associated Press - PAHO: Omicron to become dominant variant in Americas shortly
Guardian - Omicron dims optimism as South America enters pandemic’s third year
Global Americans - U.S. Policy Toward Latin America: One Year into the Biden Administration
Diplomat - China’s New Year Ambitions for Latin America and the Caribbean
New Lines Magazine - In Latin America, Backers of Leftist Dictatorships Look the Other Way
Wall Street Journal - Why the Catholic Church Is Losing Latin America
Associated Press - Families separated at border now fear extortion attempts
Washington Post - Buenos Aires hits 106 degrees amid severe South American heat wave
Wilson Center - On the Horizon 2022
Global Americans - USAID in Central America: Less Is Better
La Silla Vacía - Desinformación Antivacunas En Facebook Circula En Grupos Religiosos O Esotéricos
Associated Press - Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon gold seeps into supply chains
Reuters - Lula holds big lead in Brazil as voters worry about inflation, COVID-19
The Intercept_ - Bolsonaro Gave Brazil’s Army New Powers. The Generals Won’t Give Them Up Easily.
Financial Times - Bolsonaro crafts new social media strategy ahead of Brazil election
InSight Crime - Sun, Samba and Smuggled Soybeans in Brazil
InSight Crime - How Brazil's Port of Santos Became Cocaine's World Trade Center
Human Rights Watch - Brazil: Protect Voting, Speech Rights: Amazon Deforestation Soars
Reuters - Brazil faces another year of high food inflation due to drought
Veja - BlackRock não coloca mais um centavo no Brasil na era Bolsonaro
Washington Post - Mexico has refused to close its borders during the covid-19 pandemic. Does that make sense?
InSight Crime - The Horrors of Zacatecas Could Happen Anywhere in Mexico
InSight Crime - The Three Criminal Fronts Sparking Violence in Sonora, Mexico
New York Post - Mexico’s deadliest cartel is dropping bombs from a drone onto rival camps in new turf war
Associated Press - US to close Gulf ports to Mexican fishing boats for poaching
Natural Gas Intelligence - Constitutional Reform Unlikely in 2022, but Mexico Energy Sector Risk Still High, Analysts Say
Caracas Chronicles - From Interim to Indefinite: the Life and Times of the Caretaker Government
Associated Press - Opposition wins revote for governor in heartland of Chavismo
Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights - Best, Worst, and Status Quo Scenarios for 2022 in Venezuela
Global Americans - What Venezuela’s Opposition Can Learn from the Barinas Victory
National Public Radio (NPR) - Why the kids of Venezuela aren't getting enough to eat
Reuters - Venezuela ramps up gasoline, food supply to Cuba -documents
Americas Quarterly - Is Gustavo Petro Leaving Behind Colombian Progressives?
Global Americans - Six Challenges Facing Colombia in 2022
Washington Post - A toddler died sleeping outside in a months-long housing protest. Now his brother is sick.
World Politics Review - Colombia’s ‘Peace Dividend’ Isn’t Paying Off
Reuters - At least 78 rights defenders killed in Colombia in 2021 - UN
National Geographic - On the Trail of Colombia’s Sloth Cartel: A notorious sloth cartel kingpin vanished. We tried to find him.
Guardian - ‘Babies here are born sick’: are Bolivia’s gold mines poisoning its indigenous people?
InSight Crime - Landlocked Paraguay Becoming Major Cocaine Link to Europe
New York Times - Mining of Lithium, Key to the Climate Fight, Faces New Scrutiny in Chile
Financial Times - Argentina heads towards latest IMF deadline with little sign of progress
Bloomberg - South Atlantic Oil Is Newest Crusade of Argentina Green Movement
The Hill - A four-step response to Nicaragua's dictatorial inauguration
Washington Post - Opinión: El autoritarismo se afianzó en El Salvador y la oposición sigue sin comprender el bukelismo
El Faro - Fiscalía allana oficinas de fiscales que realizaron la investigación Catedral
Financial Times - Young Hondurans leave their country behind to find a future abroad
New York Times - Haitian Prime Minister Had Close Links With Murder Suspect
Center for Economic Policy and Research - Capacity Development for Whom? An Agenda for USAID Reform in Haiti
Foreign Policy - The Case for Cyber-Realism: Geopolitical Problems Don’t Have Technical Solutions
Financial Times - China applies brakes to Africa lending
World Politics Review - Russia’s ‘Return’ to Africa Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
New York Times - Steve Bannon Is On to Something (great Ezra Klein column on the importance of participating in politics, not just watching it)
Upcoming Events
14 January, AS/COA - Democracy Dialogues: A Conversation with Arturo Sarukhan
20 January, Center for Global Development - Climate Change and Migration: Taking Global Commitments a step Forward
24 January, Wilson Center - Challenges Facing Mexico's National Electoral Institute: A Conversation with President Councilor Lorenzo Córdova
26 January, William J. Perry Center - Armed Forces of the English-Speaking Caribbean: A Conversation with Dr. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
27 January, Atlantic Council - Road to the Summit. Responding to the next disaster: Building health and climate resilience in the Americas
2 February, Atlantic Council - #ProactiveLAC: Starting “small” in regional reactivation
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!