Bahia Rare Earths Project Has a Plan but No Funding Yet
Brazilian Rare Earths pitched a Bahia rare earths project worth about US$961 million. No cash is committed and no licence has been issued.
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Brazil Election Polls Converge: Lula Leads, the Runoff Is a Coin Flip
Brazil election polls from Datafolha, Nexus, PoderData and Vox converge five weeks before the vote: Lula leads the...
Jamaica Signs Three-Year Public Sector Wage Deal With Unions
Jamaica signed a public sector wage agreement running to March 2028. It brings a one-off grant and two...
Uruguay Green Hydrogen Project Advances as UTE Price Gap Narrows
Uruguay's president says UTE and HIF Global moved closer on the power tariff for the Paysandú green hydrogen...
Chile Clears Cruz Verde for Digital Medicine Sales on Mercado Libre
Chile's health institute cleared 13 Cruz Verde stores for digital medicine sales on Mercado Libre, covering non-prescription products...
Dominican Republic Senate Advances Yacht Tax Bill in First Reading
The Dominican yacht tax bill passed a first Senate reading on 26 August 2026, reviving duty-free boat imports...
Peru’s BCP Turns Its Miami Agency Into a Full Bank Branch
Peru's BCP Miami branch replaced the bank's Coral Gables agency in July, after Federal Reserve approval on 24...
Why Japan Still Hangs People, and Why This One Matters
Japan death penalty: Justice · Japan — The execution. Sunao Takami, 58, was hanged on 21 August, the...
Latin America Defense Monitor — August 22–29, 2026
Latin America Defense Monitor: Colombia bombs FARC camps in Guaviare, a US laser downs cartel drones, US troops...
YPFB Budgeted US$201 Million for Staff as Bolivia Imports 95% of Diesel
YPFB staff spending was budgeted at US$201 million for 2025. Bolivia imports 95% of its diesel and has...
Brazil Holds Its Yellow Tariff Flag for a Fifth Straight Month
Brazil keeps its yellow tariff flag for September, adding US$0.36 per 100 kWh, as reservoirs in the Southeast...
Guatemala Signs Decree Ending IUSI Property Tax on Homes
Guatemala published Decreto 18-2026 on 28 August 2026. The IUSI property tax falls to zero on homes, and...
Brazil’s Gripen F Makes Its First Flight With an Air Force Pilot Aboard
Saab confirmed the Gripen F first flight at Linköping on 28 August 2026. A Brazilian Air Force test...
Paraguay’s Guaraní Hits Its Strongest Level Against the Dollar Since 2018
Paraguay's appreciating guaraní closed near 5,990 per US dollar on 28 August 2026, its strongest level since 2018, and exporters want answers.
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Rio de Janeiro Daily Brief — Sunday, August 30, 2026
Rio de Janeiro daily brief August 30 2026: Rio de Janeiro Sunday opens with warm sun, light rain...
Brazil’s Real Slides Past 5.20 per Dollar: What It Means for Expats
Brazil's PTAX reference closed Friday at 5.2005 per dollar, its first finish above 5.20 since August 18, after...
Guatemala Scraps Its Property Tax on Homes: What Foreign Owners Need to Know
Guatemala property tax: Guatemala: Property Tax Guatemala has just scrapped the annual property tax on homes including homes...
Latin America Sports Daily for Sunday, August 30, 2026
Latin America sports August 30 2026: Football The Copa Libertadores quarter-final lineup is complete Fluminense, Estudiantes, Palmeiras, Platense,
Chile’s Maule Red Alert: What Travelers and Expats Need to Know
Chile's Colbún reservoir began a controlled spill into the Maule river and SENAPRED holds the region on red...
Vale Nihon Matsuri in Campos do Jordão, Brazil: Free Japan-and-Korea Festival Runs Through Sunday
The 12th Vale Nihon Matsuri fills Campos do Jordão's Parque Capivari in Brazil through Sunday: four days of...
American Airlines Returns to Caracas on September 3 With Two Daily Miami Flights
American Airlines' Caracas flights return September 3 with two daily Miami rotations — E175 and Boeing 737-8 —...
No Te Va Gustar Plays Mexico City Tonight: Uruguay’s Rock Giants at the Pepsi Center WTC
No Te Va Gustar plays Mexico City's Pepsi Center WTC tonight, August 29, 2026 — the Uruguayan band...
Van Gogh & Impressionistas Opens in Campina Grande, Brazil: Immersive Show Debuts in Paraíba
The immersive Van Gogh & Impressionistas exhibition opens in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil — a first for the...
Pato Fu Plays a Free Show Today in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, at the Festival Laços
Pato Fu plays a free show today, August 29, in Juiz de Fora, Brazil: the Festival Laços takes...
Tonight at Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colón, Argentina: Beethoven’s ‘Sacred’ Fourth Piano Concerto
The Teatro Colón hosts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 tonight, August 29: pianist Margarita Höhenrieder joins the Camerata...
Morismas de Bracho in Zacatecas, Mexico: 10,000 Reenact Moors vs. Christians This Weekend
The Morismas de Bracho fill Zacatecas, Mexico, August 28–30: a 190-year-old reenactment of the battle between Moors and...
Nigeria’s Kidnap Economy: Prayers, Ransoms and Empty Villages
Nigeria kidnapping ransom: Security · Nigeria — The mosque. Gunmen surrounded a mosque in Kpenya village, in Niger State's Borgu district, during Friday
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M23 Counteroffensive Shakes Congo’s South Kivu Hills
Counteroffensive Shakes Congo: Rio Times · Africa M23 rebels have launched a counteroffensive in Kalehe territory, in the...
Africa Intelligence Brief — Saturday, August 29, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 29: AU ministers draft prevention decisions in Luanda, Congo’s outbreak reaches 5,794 confirmed...
A New Fund Wants Pension Money to Build Nigeria’s Infrastructure
A new Nigeria infrastructure fund from Africa Finance Corporation seeks domestic pension money, backed by a US$253 million...
Angola’s Economy Grew 8.74% in Q2, With Diamonds Out Front
Angola GDP growth reached 8.74% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, with the non-oil economy...
Eskom’s Best Grid Year in Six Comes With a US$187 Million Caveat
Eskom diesel spending fell 82.38% to R1.04 billion this financial year, even as the utility conceded R3 billion...
Ceuta Protesters Confront Police as Migrant Standoff Deepens
Ceuta migrant protests turned violent as police cleared two beaches and demonstrators blocked Red Cross aid, a month...
Salif Keïta Cancels South African Shows Over Xenophobic Violence
Salif Keïta South Africa performances are cancelled, including a Macufe date on 12 September, over xenophobic violence against...
Uganda’s Boy King Is Dead at 34, and Tooro Has No Named Heir
King Oyo of Tooro, crowned in Uganda at the age of three and once the world's youngest monarch,...
Chad Says a Sudanese Air Strike Killed 12 at a Border Fuel Market
A Sudanese air strike in Chad killed at least 12 at a border fuel market, officials say, as...
Tunisia’s Saied Calls the Power Cuts Sabotage and Names No One
Tunisia power cuts and water outages were deliberately planned sabotage, President Kais Saied said, without naming a suspect,...
Egypt and Russia Talk Up a Reactor and an Unopened Suez Zone
Egypt Russia relations were reviewed in a ministers call covering the El-Dabaa nuclear plant and a Suez industrial...
Nigeria’s Central Bank Cut a Rate Its Market Was Pushing Higher
Nigeria treasury bills cleared at 17.15 percent for one year, a 44 basis point cut, after bids of...
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