Peru’s Constitutional Court reverses 2022 ruling and strips Congress of spending power — returning budgetary authority to the executive branch following Keiko Fujimori election victory
Argentina’s country risk dropped to an eight-year low of 406 basis points after Fitch and S&P both upgraded the sovereign. Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla ignites international incident with racism scandal involving French striker Kylian Mbappé
Paraguay senator Celeste Amarilla under fire for racist rant against French striker Kylian Mbappé after France eliminates Paraguay 1-0 in the round of 16
Argentina’s country risk drops to 406 basis points — an eight-year low — after Economy Minister Caputo presents debt roadmap that convinces markets of Argentina’s economic forecast
Two teenage gunmen assassinate gang leader in Guayaquil’s airport — prompting Ecuador’s Noboa to issue decree granting immunity to foreign security personnel, while in Brooklyn, El Mayo Zambada accepts life sentence as Sinaloa cartel civil war kills nearly 2,000 people
El Mayo Zambada accepts life imprisonment without parole in a Brooklyn sentencing memorandum — his one request: a medical facility other than El Chapo’s supermax
Two teenage gunmen assassinate rival gang leader of Ecuador’s Los Águilas gang in Guayaquil’s airport — one day after President Noboa declared a 60-day state of emergency — prompting a decree the next day granting immunity to foreign security personnel
De la Espriella rules out U.S. incursion while advocating for American military bases, joint fumigation, and bombing of narco groups alongside U.S. forces. Washington declines renewal of USMCA on July 1, converting the trade deal governing $1.3 trillion into permanent annual renegotiation
U.S. declines to renew USMCA on July 1 — triggering annual reviews that will repeat every year until 2036 — while the agreement itself remains fully in force, U.S.-Mexico negotiations are already in their third round
De la Espriella has ruled out a U.S.-led “incursion” on Colombian soil — while simultaneously advocating for U.S. military bases in Colombia, joint coca fumigation operations, bombing narco-trafficking groups alongside American forces
Brazil’s October 4 election — the last domino in Latin America’s right-wing wave, Venezuela’s Rodríguez blames private enterprise for earthquake-collapsed buildings, and Cuba’s national electric grid is in blackout for the fourth time in 2026, leaving 10 million in the dark
Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed at midday Monday — the fourth total blackout of 2026 — leaving 10 million people without power as the island’s decades-old infrastructure deterioration converges with a U.S. fuel blockade
