The coming scenarios depend on how much the political system can absorb the discontent stemming from the outcome of this presidential election.
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Today we feature Natalia Lafourcade from Mexico with a video of the song “Maria la Curandera” released in 2024.
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If arrested, she will force Trump to side with democracy. And if she is not detained, she will once again place herself at center stage.
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Key Points — Cushman & Wakefield’s 2025 Industrial Labor Report finds Mexico industrial construction has entered a six-quarter rebalancing phase, with supply outpacing absorption and developers extending delivery timelines in border markets. — Mexico City now commands the country’s highest industrial wages at US$4.91 per hour for production and US$4.75 for warehouse roles — 35% […]
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Key Points — President Javier Milei and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the “Isaac Accords” in Jerusalem on Sunday, April 19, a strategic framework explicitly modeled on the 2020 Abraham Accords and extended to Latin American and Western Hemisphere countries sharing judeocristian tradition. — The accords package includes a nine-article counter-terrorism intelligence cooperation memorandum, an […]
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Key Points — NOAA’s April 2026 outlook gives a 61% probability of El Niño emergence in the May-July window rising to 62% for June-August, with a 1-in-3 chance the event classifies as “strong” during October-December 2026. — A moderate-to-strong event would cut Andean GDP by 0.6-1.7 percentage points, threaten 50% of LATAM’s hydro-dependent electricity supply, […]
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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 — The CB Global Data regional approval ranking for April 2026 placed Argentine President Javier Milei in 14th place out of 18 Latin American leaders, with a positive image of 36.2% and a negative reading of 59.7%. — Milei’s positive image fell 6.1 percentage points in a single month, from 42.3% in March, […]
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Key Points — Colombian foreign direct investment totaled US$2.13 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a 9.1% decline from US$2.34 billion in Q1 2025 and the lowest first-quarter reading since 2021, according to the Banco de la República balanza cambiaria released Monday. — The oil and mining sector provided US$600 million of the US$831 […]
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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 — The joint Paraguay-Brazil Nueva Alianza 54 operation destroyed approximately 291 tonnes of cannabis and 95 hectares of cultivation in the Canindéyú department over 10 days, inflicting an estimated US$43.5 million loss on cross-border criminal structures. — Operations unfolded in the Reserva Natural Morombi, Pindó and 7 Montes zones; forces dismantled seven narco […]
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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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