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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Key Points — President Javier Milei announced Tuesday, April 21 from Tel Aviv — closing his third official trip to Israel — that his government will submit an electoral reform bill to Congress on Wednesday, April 22. The package has three components: elimination of the PASO mandatory primaries, an overhaul of campaign finance rules, and […]

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Key Points — President Gustavo Petro ordered High Commissioner for Peace Otty Patiño on Tuesday, April 21, to evaluate suspending the negotiation with alias Calarcá’s FARC-dissident faction after documented violations of ceasefire commitments — specifically attacks on soldiers and continued Amazonian deforestation for cattle ranching. Calarcá’s Estado Mayor de Bloques was the last FARC-dissident structure […]

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Key Points — The INDEC consumer price index reported beef and derivatives rose 55.1% year-on-year in March 2026, with asado up 68.9%, paleta 66.5%, and cuadril 64.7% — all far above the 32.6% twelve-month average inflation. — Annual per-capita beef consumption in Argentina has fallen to approximately 47.3 kg, the lowest level in 20 years […]

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Key Points — Acolgen president Natalia Gutiérrez, citing data from grid operator XM, said Colombia’s firm-energy-versus-demand balance is now negative at -2.3% for 2026 and projected to widen to -4.4% in 2027, -3.2% in 2028, -5.2% in 2029 and -6.8% in 2030. — Only 0.6% of expected new generation capacity has entered the grid year-to-date […]

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Key Points — Three professional soldiers — Andrés Álvarez Sierra, Darwin Gómez Gutiérrez and Brayan Galindo Amado — were killed Monday in Ipiales, Nariño by drone-dropped explosives during combat with the Comandos de Frontera armed structure. — A separate armed attack in Cartagena del Chairá, Caquetá on Monday night left one police officer dead and […]

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Key Points — President Daniel Noboa on April 20 announced a nationwide night curfew covering nine provinces and four cantons from May 3 through May 18, running daily from 23:00 to 05:00. — The curfew layers on top of the existing state of exception declared April 2 under Decree 353, which suspended constitutional protections on […]

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