El Chasqui Newsletter: Get the Latin American Scoop
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May 13: Summit invites and crypto dips
May 6: 100 days of Xiomara Castro, 1 month to the Summit, and 24 basic Mexican goods
April 29: Meet the VP nominees in Brazil and Colombia
April 22: Immigration, lithium, economic growth, and more
April 8: Lasso's tricky year and AMLO's electric dreams
April 1: Costa Rica in the runoff and Peru in the running
March 25: Total recall? Referendums in Mexico and Uruguay
March 18: U.S. sanctions regimes on autocratic regimes
March 11: Brazilian beans, Costa Rican polls, Pokémon in Chile
March 4: Who's soft on Putin? A Latin American scorecard
February 18: Colombia's triple-header
February 11: Moscow diplomacy, mercurial Bolivia, Mexican skating
February 4: Lithium’s potential and Bolsonaro’s diplomacy
January 28: Brazilian polls, Castillo’s quotes, and a generation of learners
January 21: The great unknown in Costa Rica's elections
January 14: Covid variants and democratic variance
December 17: The best vaccinators, the best risk, and the best recs
December 10: Democratic summits and political orphans
December 3: And the winners are…
November 19: Chile’s up to bat. Honduras is on deck.
November 12: A vote foretold, a race redrawn, a die cast
November 5: Youth voters, criminal gloaters, and coal promoters
October 29: It’s election season
October 22: Good news, bad news, fake news
October 15: Mexico’s fresh agreement and Nicaragua’s stalemate
October 8: All the Chilean and Colombian candidates
October 1: Anti-vote and pro-vaccine
September 24: A LatAm Eye on UNGA
September 17: Bicentennial blowback and a September surprise
September 10: High-level dialogue and low-level vaccinations
July 30: Tensions, boosters, downgrades, and a champion skater girl
July 23: Peru's castle, Colombia's keg, Chile's cookie
July 16: Donation diplomacy, Chile’s tea leaves, and Cuba’s crisis
July 9: Culprits, capital flight, and Cannes
July 2: Gamma, Lambda, Delta, and USMCA
June 25: A model election, a ghost company, and a bear
June 18: Constitutions, corruption, and cabbage milk
June 11: The Copa, crypto, and Chiquitín
June 4: Elections In Mexico And Peru, And Political Pups, Too
May 21: Maduro's signals, Peru's polls, and El Salvador’s cinema
May 14: Taiwan, tax reforms, and tres leches
May 7: Earth, Space, and Taxes
April 30: The VP, data privacy, and cryptocurrency
April 23: Big investment, modest deliveries, and the smallest monkey
April 16: Biden is hosting, Peruvians are voting, Aymarans are climbing
April 9: Peru and Ecuador are off to the races
March 26: Vaccines, votes, and Von Diaz recipes
March 19: Peru decides, Chile plants, Mexico cumbias
March 12: Travel, rare horses, and a lizard
March 5: Parity, playlists, and pins
February 26: Deconstructing chavismo and diplomatic lemonade
February 19: Bukele, blackouts, and the bad guys
February 12: Covid milestones, Moïse, and migrants
February 5: On elections, vaccinations, and axolotls
January 29, 2021: El Chasqui gets a makeover