Argentina Runs Its Shale Oil Fields From a Buenos Aires Control Room
YPF runs a large part of Vaca Muerta from a Buenos Aires control room that reads three million data points...
August 18, 2026Section
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Naturgy Seeks 20-Year Extension for Argentine Gas License
Naturgy seeks a 20-year extension for its Argentine gas license until 2047, plus connections for 100,000 homes. The Energy Secretariat...
August 18, 2026
Argentina Prepares El Nino Flood Response With Mobile Hospitals
Argentina prepares El Nino flood response with mobile hospitals and a map of 5.4 million hectares at risk. See the...
August 18, 2026
Victoria’s Secret Opens Its First Store in Argentina’s Second City
Victoria's Secret opens at Nuevocentro Shopping in Cordoba in November, a 427 square metre store run as a franchise by...
August 18, 2026
Argentina Scraps Eight Mining Programmes in Rulebook Clean-Up
Argentina's mining secretariat has scrapped eight resolutions dating to 2008, including the PEDMA strategic plan. Signed agreements stay in force.
August 18, 2026
Ecopetrol Closes 51% Stake in Brazil’s Brava Energia for US$1.2 Billion
Ecopetrol has closed its purchase of 51% of the Brazilian oil producer Brava Energia for about US$1.2 billion, its biggest...
August 18, 2026
Colombia Tax Reform: What De la Espriella Has Promised So Far
Colombia's new president says he will scrap the wealth tax and close loopholes rather than raise rates. The bill goes...
August 18, 2026
Colombia Names Araujo as New Ambassador to Washington
Colombia has named Maria Consuelo Araujo its ambassador to Washington after the United States gave its approval. She is a...
August 18, 2026
Colombia Draft Decree Proposes to End Israel Coal Export Ban
Colombia's trade ministry has published a draft decree that would end the ban on selling thermal coal to Israel. Nothing...
August 18, 2026
Colombia Turns to Imported LNG as El Nino Dries Up Hydropower
Imported gas now covers close to a third of Colombia's supply, and a dry El Nino year is making the...
August 18, 2026
Three Colombian Police Officers Seized on a Road in Catatumbo
Three Colombian police officers were kidnapped on the Cucuta-Ocana road. The defense ministry blames the ELN, but no group claimed...
August 18, 2026
Colombia Puts the Earthquake Bill at Roughly US$9.6 Billion
Colombia earthquake damage is now put near COP 30 trillion, about US$9.6 billion at the official rate. The president promises...
August 18, 2026
Shakira Pledges US$1 Million to Rebuild Colombia’s Quake-Hit Schools
Shakira went to Quibdo with Howard Buffett and pledged US$1 million to rebuild ten schools destroyed by Colombia's August earthquake.
August 18, 2026
Eneva Reports Gas Indications in Amazonas; Vivo, Daycoval Payouts
Eneva told Brazil's oil regulator of possible hydrocarbon indications in Amazonas, while Vivo and Daycoval set payouts and two deals...
August 18, 2026
Brazil Court-Police Friction Simmers as New US Official Takes Office
Brazil's chief justice met the Federal Police director over an evidence-sharing dispute, as Washington's new Latin America official took office.
August 18, 2026
STF Suspends Indigenous Land Judgment; Audit Chief Suspended
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court suspended its marco temporal judgment on indigenous land, and Dino suspended a state audit court president.
August 18, 2026
Ineligible Marçal Files Presidential Bid in Brazil
Marçal registra candidatura à Presidência mesmo inelegível até 2032. Pablo Marçal filed a presidential registration on the final day, though...
August 18, 2026
Brazil’s Big Banks Push Into US: Itaú, XP, Santander
Itaú cleared a first US regulatory step, XP weighs a licence or a purchase, and Santander moves to buy in...
August 18, 2026
Brazil’s Credit Strain Tests Galípolo, Banks and Investors
Brazil cut the Selic rate to 14 percent while banks raised loan-loss provisions, and a housing-bond tax debate waits on...
August 18, 2026
Foreign Investors Pull US$3 Billion From Brazil’s B3 in August
Foreign investors withdrew R$15.63 billion from B3 in August, the largest month in a series that only begins in January...
August 18, 2026