Business

Peru’s Congress Votes on a Record ‘Supplementary Credit’ Budget Top-Up

Peru's Congress moves to a final vote on a record 9.6-billion-sol supplementary credit, over warnings from its own independent fiscal...

July 13, 2026

Peru Defends Its Toll Roads as a Court Weighs Scrapping the Charges

Peru toll roads defended by finance ministry, transport ministry, Ositrán and ProInversión as Constitutional Court weighs canceling a southern highway...

July 13, 2026

Colombia Wants Power Firms, Not Households, to Pay Sector’s Debts

Colombia's energy minister wants a tax on power-market firms in the July 20 tax reform, to cover sector debts without...

July 13, 2026

US Food Giant Rich’s Buys Viafoods, a Peruvian Ingredients Maker

US food multinational Rich's has bought Peruvian ingredients maker Viafoods, deepening its bet on a Peru economy drawing record private...

July 13, 2026

Peru’s Food Giant Grupo Gloria Confirms Paying Spain’s Ex-PM Zapatero €200,000

Grupo Gloria confirmed paying ex-Spanish PM Zapatero 200,000 euros to recover Bolivia's $296M unpaid expropriation debt. Spanish police allege influence-peddling.

July 13, 2026

Colombia’s Petro Will File a Fracking Ban Days Before Handing Over Power

Colombia's outgoing Petro government will file a bill to ban fracking on 20 July, days before a pro-oil successor who...

July 13, 2026

Dominican Republic Is First in Caribbean to Mine Visa Data for Tourism

The Dominican Republic has become the first Caribbean country to sign a Visa deal using card-spending data to sharpen how...

July 13, 2026

Colombia Sets Up a Mining Fund to Back, or Retrain, Its Small Miners

Colombia's Petro government has created a fund for small-scale miners and a programme to help those who quit mining retrain,...

July 13, 2026

Brazil’s Digital Invoice Enters Live Testing, Eyeing Cheaper SME Credit

Brazil's new digital invoice entered live testing, with most banks surveyed expecting wider corporate credit and cheaper working capital for...

July 13, 2026