Key Points —The Venezuela BP gas deal covers the Cocuina-Manakin cross-border field with Trinidad and the offshore Loran gas field on the Deltana Platform. —BP will open a permanent office in Caracas. Shell has also expressed interest in the Loran project. —BP joins Eni and Repsol in signing exploration agreements with the Rodríguez government since […]

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Key Points —President Santiago Peña will visit Taiwan in May in his second trip as president, reinforcing Paraguay Taiwan diplomatic ties. —Paraguay is one of only 12 countries worldwide — and the only one in South America — that maintains formal diplomatic relations with Taipei. —The visit comes amid sustained Chinese pressure on Taiwan’s remaining […]

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Key Points —The US Department of Justice indicted Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other officials for conspiring with the Sinaloa Cartel to import narcotics. —The indictment alleges “Los Chapitos” backed Rocha’s gubernatorial campaign and he allowed them to operate with impunity. —All ten defendants face 40 years to life in prison. All are […]

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Key Points —Haiti and the Dominican Republic agreed on April 17 to reopen shared airspace starting May 1, 2026, ending a suspension that began in March 2024. —Flights will connect Cap-Haitien in northern Haiti with three Dominican airports, but Port-au-Prince remains excluded due to ongoing gang control. —The United Nations welcomed the agreement as a […]

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Key Points — Colombia recorded 48 massacres by the end of April 2026 according to Indepaz tracking data — already exceeding more than half the 54-massacre total Indepaz documented for all of 2025. The Colombia massacres 2026 trajectory marks the worst decade-start since systematic tracking began. Average pace: one massacre every three days. Total victims […]

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Key Points — Chihuahua Governor María Eugenia “Maru” Campos appears before Mexico’s Senate Tuesday April 28 at 10am to explain her state’s collaboration with US intelligence agents on a April 17-19 antinarco operation that killed four people, including two confirmed CIA officers. The Mexico CIA Chihuahua crisis has escalated into a direct confrontation between President […]

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Key Points — Mexico’s total goods exports rose 27.65 percent year-on-year in March 2026, INEGI confirmed Monday, sharply accelerating from January’s 8.1 percent and February’s 15.8 percent. The surge in Mexico exports March 2026 was driven entirely by non-petroleum manufacturing, which expanded 29.59 percent, while petroleum exports fell 20.41 percent — the twelfth consecutive monthly […]

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Key Points — Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, told the Associated Press that the island will not accept any Trump administration ultimatum to release political prisoners as a condition for further talks. The two-week deadline that Washington reportedly imposed during the April 10 meeting in Havana expired Friday, April 24, without […]

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Key Points —Punta del Este is being positioned as Latin America’s dominant luxury wealth hub, anchored by the US$500 million Cipriani Ocean Resort Club Residences & Casino opening its first phase in 2026. —Luxury beachfront homes trade at US$7 million to US$20 million; prime condo prices reach US$7,000–US$10,000 per square metre. Real estate sales in […]

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Key Points —Mercado Libre raised US$300 million on April 21 via a Fondo Común de Inversión Cerrado de Créditos — the largest closed FCI in Argentine capital markets history. —The fund was issued at 411.17 billion pesos, at the Tamar reference rate (currently 24.96% TEA) plus a 4.25% spread, with a 15-month term and an […]

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Key Points —Colombia’s labour ministry issued Decree 0415 on April 20 ordering private pension funds to transfer approximately 25 trillion Colombian pesos (about US$6 billion) to the state pension fund Colpensiones in 30 days. —The money belongs to roughly 119,000 savers who chose to switch from private to public pension management under a 2024 reform; […]

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Key Points —Luisa María Alcalde accepted President Claudia Sheinbaum’s offer on Wednesday, April 22 to lead the Consejería Jurídica del Ejecutivo Federal, leaving her post as national president of the Morena party after 18 months. —The move fills the vacancy created by Esthela Damián Peralta, who resigned the Consejería Jurídica to seek the Morena gubernatorial […]

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