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Key Points Mexico’s December balance showed a $2.43 billion surplus in raw terms, but a $861 million deficit after seasonal adjustment. Exports jumped...
Key Points President Rodrigo Paz Pereira is pitching legal stability and published contracts to attract mining capital. Official data show mineral exp...
Key Points Ecuador lifted the SOTE transit fee for Colombian crude from $3 to $30 a barrel on January 23, 2026. The change hits shipments averaging ab...
Key Points Brazil has taken delivery of 3,170 km of China-made fiber-optic cable for three new Amazon “infovias,” with river installation expected to ...
Key Points Foreign visits fell 14.3% to 5.3 million, while Argentines traveling abroad jumped 43.1% to 11.9 million. Argentines spent about $7.164 bil...
Key Points Chevron signaled it will keep operating in Venezuela as lawmakers move to rewrite key oil rules. Output tied to Chevron is a major share of...
Central America is about to relearn an old lesson: geography is destiny, until governance rewrites the script. The narrow strip of land between two oc...
Key Points Anatel is reviewing Starlink’s request to add spectrum, including the W-band, to expand capacity. Starlink’s earlier approval to add 7,500 ...
Key Points Anatel is reviewing Starlink’s request to add spectrum, including the W-band, to expand capacity. Starlink’s earlier approval to add 7,500 ...
Key Points Embraer and Adani Defence & Aerospace signed an MoU to build a regional-aviation ecosystem in India. The plan covers assembly, local su...
Key Points Brazil’s current-account deficit widened to $68.8 billion in 2025, the biggest shortfall since 2014, mainly because the trade surplus shran...
A packed Monday mixed finals pressure, league tables, and domestic drama. In the Dominican Republic, Escogido moved within one win of the title. In Me...
Tuesday in São Paulo is a clean, culture-heavy day with a strong evening spine. The daylight lane is art and memory, split between Paulista institutio...
Key Points Japan’s higher long-term yields weaken the “cheap yen” engine behind global carry trades. Japanese investors hold about $1.20 trillion in U...
Tuesday is a clean “institutions and memory” day in Rio. Build it around two anchor blocks you can actually execute. One block is Centro, for archives...
Key Points Oil is small in GDP. It still drives exports, tax income, and investment. Output hit about 3.309 million barrels per day in October 2025. P...
Key Points A new EU–India trade pact targets big tariff cuts and deeper market access. Brussels is pairing India with Mercosur to build a wider rules-...
Key Points The current account deficit narrowed to US$3.4 billion in December 2025, from US$10.2 billion a year earlier. Net foreign direct investment...
Today’s Key Themes Ibovespa pause → Brazil stocks slipped 0.08% to 178,720.68 and broke a four-session record streak despite gains abroad. It ended a ...
Key Points The Senate’s organized-crime CPI is preparing secrecy-breaking requests tied to the Master case’s resort and legal-contract threads. Links ...