Key Facts —Effective date: the European Commission removed Brazil from its list of countries authorized to export animal products to the EU on May 12, 2026, with the ban taking effect September 3. —Scope: the veto covers cattle, horses, poultry, eggs, aquaculture, honey, casings and other animal-origin products from Brazil — both live animals and […]

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Key Facts —Spain ended its Golden Visa program entirely on April 3, 2025 under Ley Orgánica 1/2025, eliminating all five investment paths including real estate, public debt, equities, funds and entrepreneurial projects. —Portugal stripped real estate from its Golden Visa in 2023 and tightened naturalization to 10 years of effective residency from five; processing times […]

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Key Facts —Market-cap crossing: Grupo Nutresa now trades at roughly COP 135 to 137 trillion in market value, ahead of Ecopetrol’s roughly COP 107.5 trillion at the same close. —The 1,034% climb: the Nutresa share has gone from COP 26,780 at the first Gilinski tender offer in November 2021 to COP 304,000 on May 11, […]

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Key Facts —Colombia ranks sixth globally and third in Latin America for corporate complexity in the 2026 TMF Group Global Business Complexity Index, falling one position from its 2022-2025 fifth-place perch. —Six LATAM countries in global top 10: Mexico (2nd), Brazil (3rd), Colombia (6th), Bolivia (8th), Argentina (9th) and Peru (10th), with Greece holding the […]

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Tuesday was the day Washington’s calendar overtook North America’s news flow. The April CPI print landed at 08:30 ET with headline inflation at 3.8% year-on-year — the highest annual reading since May 2023 and one tenth above the 3.7% consensus.S&P 500 futures fell 0.4%, Nasdaq 100 futures dropped nearly 1%, and crude oil jumped 3% […]

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Key Facts —Total envelope: 740 billion Mexican pesos, roughly US$42 billion, the full 2025-2030 Plan de Fortalecimiento y Expansión del Sistema Eléctrico Nacional unveiled by the Secretaría de Energía on May 11, 2026. —Capacity target: 32 gigawatts of additional generation by 2030 against the 90 GW currently installed, an expansion of roughly 35%. —Three new […]

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Key Facts —First round: Colombia’s presidential election is set for May 31, 2026, with a runoff scheduled for June 21 if no candidate clears 50%. —Three-way state of play: Iván Cepeda of the Pacto Histórico leads at 38% per Guarumo; Abelardo de la Espriella sits at 23.9%; Paloma Valencia at 22.8%. —AtlasIntel for Semana: Cepeda […]

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Tuesday was the day Europe’s calendar overtook the bloc’s news flow. Pressure on the three biggest national leaders — Friedrich Merz in Berlin, Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Keir Starmer in London — converged on a single political fact: all three hold approval ratings around 20% or below as the Iran war energy shock drags Q2 growth and […]

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Key Facts —Total envelope: R$11.1 billion (US$2.26 billion), signed by President Lula at Palácio do Planalto at 10:00 BRT on May 12, 2026, via one presidential decree and four ministerial ordinances. —Structure: R$968.2 million in direct federal action plus R$10 billion in BNDES loans to states and municipalities via the Fundo de Investimento em Infraestrutura […]

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Key Facts —April print: IPCA rose 0.67% in April 2026, IBGE released May 12, decelerating from 0.88% in March and landing one basis point below the market median of 0.68%. —12-month accumulation: 4.39%, up from 4.14% in March, just 11 basis points below the 4.5% upper bound of Brazil’s official inflation target. —Main drivers: Food […]

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Key Points —Brazilian aerospace company Embraer announced on Monday May 11, 2026 a strategic partnership with India’s Bharat Forge Limited (BFL) for the supply of raw forged materials used in commercial and military landing-gear systems, the first such contract with an Indian supplier. —Embraer reported record Q1 2026 revenue of US$1.4 billion (R$6.9 billion), up […]

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Key Points —Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez rejected on Monday May 11 US president Donald Trump’s “serious consideration” of annexing Venezuela as the 51st US state, declaring from The Hague that the prospect “is not foreseen and would never be foreseen.” —Trump valued Venezuelan oil reserves at US$40 trillion in a Fox News call, citing […]

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