A Drone Hit a Saudi Pipeline, Oil Prices Passed US$108, and Brazilian Banks Paid for It
Brent passed US$108 after Saudi Arabia shut a pipeline built to avoid the Gulf. In São Paulo, Petrobras rose while...
September 14, 2026Section
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Brazil Supreme Court Meets Tuesday to Decide Whether One of Its Own Can Be Investigated
A collapsed bank is alleged to have paid millions to a judge's wife. On Tuesday his ten colleagues must decide...
September 14, 2026
Two Brazil Runoff Polls Put Different Men in Front. The Difference Is a Telephone.
One survey knocks on doors, the other telephones. That single choice explains almost everything separating two results that looked like...
September 14, 2026
Falkland Islands Jet Claim Collapses: Four Typhoons Out, Four In, in Late 2027
Four fronts were reported on Monday as one escalation over the South Atlantic. Each turns out to be older, smaller...
September 14, 2026
The Dark Horse Forensic Report Clears the Bolsonaro Film’s Money Without Tracing Its Source
A film about Jair Bolsonaro opened in America last week. In Brazil, police are asking who paid for it, and...
September 14, 2026
Sixteen Former Supreme Court Justices Are Left Alive in Brazil. Thirteen Signed. Three Did Not.
Almost everyone alive who ever sat on Brazil's highest court signed a public demand for an investigation. The abstentions are...
September 14, 2026
The Kast Cadem Grade Is 3.4 Out of 7, and in Chile That Is a Failing Mark
Six months ago he won the largest vote in Chilean history. A single decision on fuel prices in March explains...
September 14, 2026
The Right of Reply Belongs to Colombia’s Opposition Parties, Not to Gustavo Petro Himself
Colombia wrote the rule in 2018 to shield opposition parties from presidential television. It gives the airtime to parties, and...
September 14, 2026
Peru Homicides Reached 248 in Seven Weeks. The Real Figure Is Probably Nearly Double.
The number comes from a death registry rather than the police, and registries run weeks behind. Nearly three in four...
September 14, 2026
The Economist Milei Editorial Asks Argentina for More Liberalisation, Not Less
The magazine credits inflation falling from 161% to 34%, then presses for two specific moves. Argentine coverage kept the insult...
September 14, 2026
Argentina Mining Exports Jumped 74% While the Country Dug Up Less Metal Than the Year Before
Export value nearly doubled to US$4.74bn. Physical output grew 8.4%, and the country produced less gold last year than the...
September 14, 2026
The Caixa Strike Is Not About Pay. Brazil’s Bank Workers Already Won That Last Week.
Two state banks were struck at once. One settled in a day, and the other is still out over a...
September 14, 2026
Vale do Ribeira Floods: the Army Is in Paraná and the Deaths Are in São Paulo
Nearly 12,000 homes lost power and a governor called in army engineers. The eight confirmed deaths happened 200 kilometres away,...
September 14, 2026
Cezinha de Madureira Said His Phone Was Stolen. Three Days Later the Police Searched His Home.
A Brazilian congressman is accused of arranging a secret meeting between a supreme court judge and a banker now in...
September 14, 2026
Colombia’s Universities Protocol Would Send Police Onto Campus, Breaking a Century-Old Line
Latin American campuses have been off limits to police for a century, by custom rather than statute. Colombia is about...
September 14, 2026
Colombia’s US$326 Million Road Package for Chocó Would Be Paid For by Companies, Not the State
Half would be tax that companies build with instead of paying. The other half is hoped-for private investment. Neither half...
September 14, 2026
The IMF Third Review of Argentina Will Test a Target That Was Already Lowered Once
Argentina is expected to meet its budget goal for the year. The goal was cut from 2.2% of output to...
September 14, 2026
YPF LNG Contracts Are Close to Signature, and a US$51 Billion Project Depends on Them
Argentina wants to build the largest export project in its history. First it has to find people willing to buy...
September 14, 2026
The Fitch Oi Rating Falls to the Bottom and Is Withdrawn After a Decade of Selling Itself Off
Two judicial recoveries, a mobile network sold to rivals and a fibre network sold to a partner. The last accounts...
September 14, 2026
The A5X Funding Round Raises US$70 Million to Break B3’s Grip on Brazilian Derivatives
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the trading firms that would be its customers put up the money. The opening date...
September 14, 2026