Peru’s New Government Is Six Weeks Old and Its Interior Minister Has Already Been Summoned
Deputies voted 66 to 51 to interpellate Cesar Astudillo. He must answer 27 questions on 17 September after a kidnapping...
September 12, 2026Section
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Paraguay Hands Down the Maximum Sentence for the Femicide That Changed Its Law
Six people were convicted over the killing of a pregnant 17-year-old. The main offender was a minor at the time...
September 12, 2026
Paraguay Is Betting Its Cheap Hydropower on AI Computing
The first phase is costed above US$300 million for 10 megawatts. The pitch is clean energy, young workers and a...
September 12, 2026
Uruguay’s President Gave the Montevideo Port 72 Hours Before He Considers Stripping the Right to Strike
A labour dispute at the container terminal has run for weeks. The government can declare the service essential, which would...
September 12, 2026
Uruguay Is Planning for 25,000 People to Be Driven From Their Homes by El Nino
The president convened all nineteen governors at once. The projection is a minimum of 25,000 internally displaced and 5,000 needing...
September 12, 2026
Argentina’s Government Wants to Scrap the PASO Primaries Before the Next Election
Karina Milei met PRO leaders at the Casa Rosada. The government wants Congress to suspend the compulsory primaries in September...
September 12, 2026
Argentine Inflation Fell to 1.7% in August, the Lowest Monthly Reading in Over a Year
Prices rose 1.7% in August, the slowest since June 2025. Twelve-month inflation is 33.5%, down from levels that were once...
September 12, 2026
Chile’s Central Bank Just Halved Its Growth Forecast for This Year
The range fell from 1.0-1.75% to 0.25-0.75%. The bank says the economy weakened through the year, first on supply and...
September 12, 2026
For the First Time Since 1990, Chile’s Government Held No Ceremony for the Coup Anniversary
Fifty-three years after the overthrow of Salvador Allende, the state stayed away. The commemorations went ahead anyway, organised by everyone...
September 12, 2026
A Gang Built a Fake Police Station in a Basement in Chile and Used It to Kidnap People
Seven detained, including a former prosecutor and serving detectives. The victims were Chinese nationals threatened with invented US investigations.
September 12, 2026
Chilean Judges Sacked by Their Own Supreme Court for Going Abroad on Sick Leave
The full bench voted over two days. Eleven judges are out for travelling abroad while signed off sick, and twenty-six...
September 12, 2026
A Small-Town Judge Just Grounded Colombia’s Return to Aerial Spraying of Coca
A circuit court in Puerto Asis suspended the pilot programme. Colombia has been trying to restart aerial eradication since a...
September 12, 2026
Flavio Bolsonaro Is Under Investigation in Brazil Over Dark Horse, a Film About His Father
Police say the senator personally chased the money for a biopic of his father, financed by the banker at the...
September 12, 2026
Maduro’s Wife Wants Out of a Brooklyn Jail. Reports That Cilia Flores Was Refused Are Wrong.
Maduro's wife asked a New York judge to let her await trial at home on medical grounds. No prosecutor has...
September 12, 2026
Does Mexico Want US Intervention Against the Cartels? The Leaked Poll Nobody Can Check
A leaked State Department fact sheet is said to cite polling showing Mexicans back American action against cartels. Nobody has...
September 12, 2026
Latin America Defense Monitor — September 5–11, 2026
Latin America Defense Monitor: Rubio's Andean harvest, Peru joins the Shield, the boat war splits in two, and Milei opens...
September 12, 2026
Colombia Closes Its Last Peace Table and Strips Armed Groups of Political Status
Colombia's president closed the last peace table and stripped armed groups of political status. The law he is using expires...
September 12, 2026
Brazil’s Court Crisis Has Not Moved the Election: New Poll Holds the Runoff at 46-44
The new Datafolha poll was taken while Brazil's Supreme Court was tearing itself apart. The runoff number did not move...
September 12, 2026
Brazil’s Banco Master Inquiry: Borrowed Logins, a Church Account and Six Bank Directors
Brazilian outlets spent Friday reading the unsealed Vorcaro files. Three findings stand out: borrowed logins, a church account and six...
September 12, 2026
Never in 136 Years: Brazil’s Supreme Court Turns on Itself Over Banco Master
No sitting justice has ever been criminally investigated in the court's history. Two now accuse each other in writing, and...
September 12, 2026