Good morning from Vienna, VA.
Monday - Peru - Fujimori goes populist and gets a political honeymoon
Wednesday - Other forms of US leverage - Visa restrictions have become a preferred option.
Thursday - Brazil - Lula is the favorite, but here are seven ways he could lose
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AP News - After Killing Hundreds in Boat Strikes, US Military Expands Campaign on Land in Latin America
InSight Crime - The InSight Take: The Shield of the Americas Grows, But Does It Have a Strategy?
New Yorker - Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America
Chaufa - Argentina Renews RMB Swap & Noboa Meets Xi
New York Times - Trump’s Other Hold on the Americas: The Visa
El País - Trump Extends His Military Tentacles in Latin America
El Universal - Argentina autoriza deportación de Fernando Farías Laguna; podría llegar a México en las próximas horas
Contra la Corrupción - Finabien confirma contratos de red oculta de pagos y Morena prefiere esconderlos
The Guardian - The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. It devastated mom-and-pop businesses instead
Bloomberg - Mexico’s Urban Chaos Can Be Tamed by a High-Rise Revolution
Bloomberg - As Global Waterways Face Squeeze, Mexico Pitches CIIT as Alternative Corridor
Bloomberg - Mexico Weighs Tougher Trade Rules for China as US Talks Grind On
Mexico Political Economist - Against the USMCA
AP News - Avocado Pickers in Mexico Welcome Restart of Exports to US, but Security Fears Remain
El País - The Albanian Mafia Operating Casinos for the Sinaloa Cartel
AP News - Brazil’s Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro Return to Their Strongholds to Kick Off Presidential Campaigns
Wall Street Journal - Brazil’s Right Has a New Bolsonaro
The Economist - The Big Democracy Where Lawmakers Are Mightier Than the Executive
Bloomberg - Brazil Election: Lula Seen as Frontrunner Over Flavio Bolsonaro
Reuters - Brazil’s Lula Extends Comeback as Approval Ticks Up
Reuters - US Considers New Sanctions on Brazilian Judge, FT Reports
Brazilian Report - A Passport to the Future?
Al Jazeera - Venezuela Says 131 Political Prisoners Freed Amid Post-Maduro Talks
Caracas Chronicles - What We Know About the Venezuelan Prisoners Being Released
Efecto Cocuyo - Dinorah Figuera: En septiembre se discutirán garantías políticas y civiles en la mesa
Efecto Cocuyo - ONG exigen que nuevos TSJ y CNE sean escogidos antes de diciembre
Caballeros - Stuck in the Pottery Barn
Americas Quarterly - Venezuela’s Overwhelming Electricity Crisis
Bloomberg - Trump’s Venezuela Fixer Is Promoting America First Oil Deals
Bloomberg - Harry Sargeant’s Venezuela Oil Exit Offers Clues About Country’s Next Phase
Politico - US oil producers set to ink production deals with Venezuela
Bridges of Baseball - Trump’s Path to a Nobel: A Diplomatic Grand Slam in Venezuela
USNI News - Report to Congress on Venezuela and U.S. Policy
Bloomberg - Cocaine Crackdown Opens a New Era of Jungle Warfare in Colombia
Financial Times - The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
AP News - A Triple Crisis: Earthquake Takes a Heavy Toll on Colombia’s Impoverished and Neglected Region
Latin America Reports - Violence Spikes in Colombia Conflict Zones Amid De la Espriella Offensives
Latin America Reports - De la Espriella Faces Controversy Over Earthquake Aid in Colombia
Reuters - Between Cartel Threats and US Airstrikes, Ecuador’s Fishermen Have Nowhere to Hide
CFR - Unclaimed Boat Strikes in Ecuador: Has Trump’s Operation Southern Spear Opened a Hidden Front?
WOLA - The Implications of One Year of U.S. Boat Strikes
CNN - Mysterious Bomb-Dropping Drones Sank Their Fishing Boats, Survivors Say. Who Was Behind the Attacks?
Bloomberg - Ecuador Courts Chinese Money While Teaming Up With US Military
SCMP - Xi Hits Out at Outside Interference in Latin America Meeting With Ecuador’s President
Primicias - Daniel Noboa expresó a Xi Jinping su intención de ampliar las exportaciones de Ecuador a China
Diligence - El difícil equilibrio de Noboa entre China y EE.UU.
El Comercio - Facultades legislativas: tras cuatro sesiones del Consejo de Ministros, el pedido sigue sin llegar al Congreso
Bolivia Brief - Comments on a Difficult Week for President Paz
Reuters - Bolivia Lawmakers Force Economy Minister’s Removal in Setback for President Paz
The Guardian - Fernando Cerimedo: Adviser to Far-Right Latin American Leaders Arrested for Allegedly Plotting to Kill Girlfriend
Bloomberg - Chile’s Economy Unexpectedly Stalls in Fresh Setback for Kast
BioBioChile - Así es el Estado de Excepción que propone Kast: dura hasta 240 días sin pedir autorización al Congreso
China y América Latina - Commodities, Networks and Problematic Projects – China’s Uneven Advance in Chile
Bloomberg - Argentina Job Losses Are Milei’s Big Political Risk
Buenos Aires Herald - Milei Says Freedom Faces ‘Domestic Enemies,’ Calls for Stronger Military
El País - From Clothing to Yerba Mate and Cell Phones, Smuggled Goods Flood Argentina
MercoPress - Uruguay’s Only Industrial Brewer Negotiates Cutting 80 Jobs or Ending Production
The Paraguay Post - Marco Rubio Jokes About Bombing Paraguay
Revista Factum - Amigos y socios de los Bukele: los nuevos latifundistas del golfo de Fonseca y otras áreas naturales
El Faro - Empresa dirigida por el compadre de Bukele ganó contrato por $420 mil con Doctor SV
El Salvador Perspectives - The El Faro Interviews
ContraCorriente - El milagro de Juan Orlando y la impunidad que le deja a Honduras
ContraCorriente - Campañas digitales de desprestigio buscan silenciar a los defensores ambientales en Honduras
Orlas Review - Ortega and the Fear of Elections
Confidencial - Opositores en el exilio visualizan una ‘transición’ de dos años en Nicaragua
Divergentes - El hermano de Natalie Harp, la ‘impresora humana’ de Trump, vive ‘en paz’ bajo la dictadura Ortega-Murillo
Tico Times - Panama Canal Cuts Ship Traffic as El Niño Drought Worsens
Washington Post - ICE Begins Deporting Haitians Who Lost TPS Back to Homeland
Le Nouvelliste - Security on the Eve of the Elections
Miami Herald - With Talks Between Cuba and U.S. Stalled, Prospects for Regime Change Fade
New York Times - Cuba Is Out of Time
Confidencial - Cien años de Fidel Castro
Confidencial - Estados Unidos acaba con el TPS para nicaragüenses y 12 nacionalidades más
Atlantic Council - The Oil Shock Is Sorting Latin America. The Dividing Line Is Institutions, Not Barrels.
Orlas Review - What Happened to Latin America’s Old Right?
Americas Quarterly - Latin America’s Fading Demographic Tailwind
New York Times - Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic
The Economist - The South American Hipster Language Cooler Than Spanish
AP News - Archaeologists Unveil Skeletal Remains Believed to Be Ritual Offering in Lima - Likely a former president.
Have a good weekend!
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