The Director of Argentina’s House in Paris Resigns
Santiago Muzio has resigned from the Casa Argentina in Paris after accusations over a removed memorial plaque, expulsions and opaque...
September 13, 2026Section
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Argentina’s 2027 Budget Arrives Without Published Assumptions
Argentina must send its 2027 budget to Congress by 15 September. The government has published no inflation or exchange-rate projections...
September 13, 2026
A Copper Case for Cajamarca, Made by a Company That Owns Copper
Regulus Resources says Cajamarca’s gold mines are nearing exhaustion and copper is next. The company holds the copper project it...
September 13, 2026
Mexico’s AI Cloning Law May Not Cover the Case Testing It
Luisito Comunica says AI was used to clone his likeness for government messaging. Mexico’s 2026 reform protects performers, not the...
September 13, 2026
A Hundred-Year Concession Over 17 Venezuelan Oil Fields
The US-Venezuela oil deal covers 17 fields under hundred-year concessions, through a company 35% owned by the Pentagon. No contract...
September 13, 2026
Venezuela Does Not Produce Millions of Barrels a Day for the US
Venezuela produces about 1.2 million barrels a day in total and the US imported 630,000 a day in June 2026....
September 13, 2026
Falchani’s Lithium Capex Rises to US$834 Million
Macusani Yellowcake has raised Falchani’s first-stage capex to US$834 million and targets construction in late 2028. The project is not...
September 13, 2026
Colombia Starts Clearing 553 Stalled Infrastructure Permits
Colombia’s infrastructure agency begins clearing 553 stalled road and rail permits on Monday, prioritising water, sewerage, gas and electricity
September 13, 2026
A Paramilitary Leader Describes His Dealings With the Petro Government
Alias Pinocho told Semana he was freed from a Spanish prison on Petro’s orders as a peace envoy and got...
September 13, 2026
A Tolima Coffee Fair Sets a US$75 Record for a Geisha Microlot
A washed Geisha microlot from Ortega sold for US$75 a pound at Tolima’s coffee fair in Chaparral. It is a...
September 13, 2026
Colombia’s 2027 Budget Points to Its Largest Deficit on Record
Colombia filed a COP$634.9 trillion 2027 budget after Congress returned a version that omitted debt service. The fiscal committee sees...
September 13, 2026
Colombia Wants Military Technology, Not Solar Panels, for Its Gripen Offsets
Colombia is reviewing the offsets on its 17-aircraft Gripen contract, seeking military technology transfer instead of the civilian projects agreed...
September 13, 2026
Why Most of De la Espriella’s Legal Agenda Would Not Survive the Court
Constitutional lawyers say eliminating the JEP, reversing abortion decriminalisation and adding life imprisonment all run into rulings already made.
September 13, 2026
What Argentina’s Export Numbers Actually Show
Argentine exports rose 22.9% to over US$58 billion in seven months, driven by oil, gold and lithium. But these are...
September 13, 2026
Pluspetrol Takes 20% of Two Vaca Muerta Blocks
Pluspetrol has taken 20% of La Escalonada and Rincón La Ceniza in Vaca Muerta, transferred from a partner, with US$13.92...
September 13, 2026
Four Argentine Surveys Point the Same Way on the Economy
Argentine polling shows 70% dissatisfied with the country’s direction and negative economic expectations across four houses, with approval in the
September 13, 2026
Chile’s 25.7% Trust Figure Is an OECD Survey, Not a New Poll
The 25.7% trust figure circulating this week comes from the OECD survey published in June, with fieldwork in late 2025,...
September 13, 2026
Argentina’s Senate Takes Up the Central Bank Charter on 17 September
The Senate is expected to vote on a rewrite of the central bank charter and on Inocencia Fiscal II, both...
September 13, 2026
Argentina Is Still Waiting on US$4.4 Billion of Placed Debt
The central bank says US$4.4 billion of debt placed abroad by companies and provinces has yet to be liquidated locally,...
September 13, 2026
Banco do Brasil Is Buying in Argentina, Not Selling
Banco Patagonia is buying Banco Industrial’s Argentine retail operations for about US$60 million. Citi reads it as a growth signal,...
September 13, 2026