7.4-magnitude earthquake — Colombia’s strongest in a decade — struck Monday, killing at least 80 & causing widespread damage from Chocó to Cali, just three days into President de la Espriella’s term
On inauguration day, Colombia’s de la Espriella transferred 117 inmates to maximum-security prisons as Washington announced $1B in security aid — the largest since Plan Colombia. This week’s Inside Latin America breaks down the guerrilla landscape he inherits
Two elections, two tests of Miami’s political influence: Colombia’s de la Espriella takes office backed early by Miami’s Colombian community, while Florida’s GOP frontrunner Byron Donalds dominates even as the Hispanic vote splits
Florida’s first open governor’s race in eight years features a commanding, Trump-endorsed lead for Byron Donalds — but polling shows a nearly even Hispanic vote split
Mexico deploys 1,557 troops to Michoacán’s avocado region after the U.S. suspended inspections over an unspecified security threat, freezing a $3.7B trade that supplies nearly 90% of America’s avocados
Colombia’s new president inherits fiscal crisis as markets bet on reform, Mexico’s AI export boom overtakes cars, and Puerto Rico’s deferred infrastructure collapses into mandatory water rationing
Puerto Rico’s water crisis runs deeper than the burst pipe that triggered it — 59% of treated water never reaches residents, and the response has now escalated to mandatory rationing
When de la Espriella takes office August 7, he inherits a 6.4% fiscal deficit, record public debt at 60.5% of GDP, and falling investment, as analysts bet on his business-friendly agenda
El Mencho’s brother pleads guilty in Washington, Fujimori begins expelling Venezuelan gang members in Peru, and national police dismantle a CJNG meth lab in Spain
Spanish & French police dismantle CJNG cell in Catalonia, seizing 2.5 tons of methamphetamine smuggled from Mexico dissolved in liquid vanilla flavoring — one of Europe’s largest busts of its kind
Less than a week into office, Peru’s Fujimori begins expelling Venezuelan migrants with criminal records, deporting three alleged Tren de Aragua members to Caracas — echoing Chile’s Kast on removals
