Lulinha: Brazil Prosecutor Wants Lula’s Son Probes Out of Top Court
Brazil's Prosecutor-General asked the Supreme Court to move the Lulinha inquiries to a lower court, as messages reveal a US$121...
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Brazil’s Dario Durigan Pledges a Fiscal Squeeze if Lula Wins Again
Dario Durigan says a fourth Lula term would keep Brazil's spending framework and deliver a fiscal effort worth about 2%...
August 20, 2026
Brazil Bad-Loan Provisions Hit US$9.1 Billion as Defaults Climb
Brazil bad-loan provisions at the four biggest banks reached about US$9.1 billion in the second quarter as household and farm...
August 20, 2026
Colombia Gold Mine Collapse Kills 13 Miners in Nariño
A Colombia gold mine collapse in Policarpa, Nariño killed 13 artisanal miners and injured seven, laying bare the risks of...
August 20, 2026
Colombia Power Grid Lost 1,700 Megawatts When the Earthquake Hit
The Colombia power grid lost about 1,700 megawatts and 1.5 million customers after the August 10 quake. What broke, and...
August 20, 2026
Chile Referendum Idea Raised on Security Reform, Then Dropped
A Chile referendum on Kast's security reform was floated by allies, then ruled out by his own ministers. What the...
August 20, 2026
Mexican Peso Hits a Two-Year High, Closing Below 17 to the US Dollar
The Mexican peso closed near 16.96 to the US dollar on August 20, its strongest in over two years, as...
August 20, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief August 20, 2026: Japan Sold More Than Ever And Still Came Up Short
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 20: Japan set records for both exports and imports in July yet posted a third...
August 20, 2026
Europe Intelligence Brief August 20, 2026: Sweden Held Still And Warned It Might Have To Raise
Europe Intelligence Brief for August 20: Sweden held its policy rate at 1.75% for a seventh meeting and said an...
August 20, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief August 20, 2026: The Treasury Rewrote Its Own Buyback Plan
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 20: the Treasury will double its long-dated buyback operations from 9 September, after...
August 20, 2026
Continental Resources Joins a US$4 Billion Argentina Shale Venture
Continental Resources agreed to take 50% of Mercuria's Phoenix Global Resources, with over US$4 billion planned for Argentina's Vaca Muerta...
August 20, 2026
Brazil’s Electoral Court Bars Pablo Marçal From Debates, TV Time and Public Funds
Brazil's electoral court barred Pablo Marçal from debates, free radio and TV time and public campaign money while judges weigh...
August 20, 2026
Mexico’s State Power Company Wants to Borrow Up to US$1.2 Billion at Home, Some of It for Forty Years
The CFE peso bond plan would raise up to 20 billion pesos, about US$1.2 billion, in three tranches — one...
August 20, 2026
Chile Stopped Two Highway Awards Just Before Signing, and Spain’s Builders Are Getting Nervous
Two Chile road concessions in Biobío were halted at the last procedural step on budget grounds, unsettling the Spanish groups...
August 20, 2026
SQM Will Spend US$3 Billion by 2028, Most of It on One Salt Flat
The SQM investment plan puts about US$3 billion of capital spending into 2026-2028, centred on the Salar Futuro lithium project...
August 20, 2026
Venezuela’s Oil Minister Went to Houston and Signed Two Deals
Venezuela oil deals were signed in Houston with SLB and Hunt Oil, as the oil minister told investors the country...
August 20, 2026
Argentina Just Told Banks How to Lend Dollars to Companies That Do Not Earn Them
The new Argentina dollar lending rules cap non-exporter loans at 15% of a bank's foreign-currency deposits. The central bank governor...
August 20, 2026
Brazil’s Top Court Extends Its Domestic-Violence Protections Beyond the Home
Brazil's Supreme Court ruled that Maria da Penha protective measures can apply to violence against women with no domestic or...
August 20, 2026
Rio’s Former Assembly Speaker Goes on Trial Over a Tipped-Off Police Raid
The Rodrigo Bacellar trial proceeds at the STF over alleged obstruction of a Comando Vermelho investigation, after a judge allegedly...
August 20, 2026
Brazil Court Orders Retailer Casas Bahia to Rehire Workers
A Brasilia labor judge ordered Casas Bahia to reverse its August mass layoffs within five days, as a Sao Paulo...
August 20, 2026