USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Saturday, August 8, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief August 8: Todd Blanche confirmed 50-49, a stopgap clears the Senate, and Washington promises Bogotá...
August 8, 2026In-depth, primary-source analysis of the global stories that move emerging markets – Africa, Asia, Europe and North America – each decoded through a Latin American and Global South lens. The Rio Times reads the original documents and shows the math. This hub gathers our deep analysis of the world beyond Latin America; for our Latin America long-form work, see the In-Depth section.
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief August 8: Todd Blanche confirmed 50-49, a stopgap clears the Senate, and Washington promises Bogotá...
August 8, 2026
Guinea signed a mining convention with state-owned Nimba Mining Company on 6 August, with Glencore as offtaker. A structural headwind...
August 8, 2026
Two federal judges cleared the end of TPS for South Sudan and Myanmar on 7 August. The same ruling now...
August 8, 2026
South Africa is pivoting into the African single market as its Mercosur trade deal hands Latin America a direct tariff...
August 8, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 7: American payrolls fell 23,000 and a summer of job gains was revised...
August 7, 2026
Europe Intelligence Brief for August 7: Germany was the only major European economy to publish data, and its headline production...
August 7, 2026
Asia Intelligence Brief for August 7: Korea's rally died in nine minutes on an Nvidia specification review, China's exports jumped...
August 7, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 7: Nigeria commits to listing its state oil company, Angola nears single-digit inflation, South African...
August 7, 2026
Letshego Holdings sells 5 African units in Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria to Axian for US$62.7 million, shrinking to...
August 7, 2026