Venezuela & Chile agreed to restore consular relations, 731 days after Chile severed ties over Venezuela’s disputed 2024 election — a reversal now carried out by conservative Kast
Brazil’s surprise inflation slowdown hands Lula friendlier tailwinds ahead of October’s tight election as Peru’s Fujimori bets new AI surveillance & prison reform can finally make a military security model work
Keiko Fujimori pledged the military will lead security during states of emergency — but it’s the same model Peru’s last three governments already tried, without reducing crime. Will now be different?
Brazil’s inflation unexpectedly slowed to 4.52% in early July, beating every forecast and setting up a likely fourth consecutive rate cut — welcome news for Lula as he ramps up spending ahead of October’s election
Bolivian prosecutors ordered Evo Morales’s arrest on terrorism charges tied to deadly roadblocks — his second active arrest order this month. Morales calls it political persecution
Bolivia embracing U.S. anti-crime cooperation after 20 years apart, a record cocaine bust turning into an unresolved US-Bolivia-Chile dispute, and Brazil drawing a firm line against any U.S. military action on its soil
São Paulo’s security chief Guilherme Derrite rejects speculation that Washington’s new terrorist designation of PCC & Comando Vermelho could pave the way for U.S. military operations in Brazil, insisting international treaties bar it
Colombia’s incoming president rewrites foreign policy before taking office, Peru completes a historic transfer of power in Lima & Venezuela yet to offer an election date
Seven months after Maduro’s capture, Delcy Rodríguez still won’t commit to an election date — and analysts increasingly describe her strategy as “normalization without transition”
Keiko Fujimori sworn in as Peru’s first popularly elected female president. Her return of fujimorismo to power, backed by attendance from Milei, Kast, Noboa & King Felipe VI, comes with a pledge of hardline security reform & political stability
