Arévalo promised massive change in Guatemala, his indigenous supporters want it now

Market Roundup: Brazil’s lucrative meal voucher battleground

Brazil halts poultry exports to China amid Newcastle disease emergency

Contactless PIX: a death sentence for debit cards in Brazil?

🐔 Clucking chaos

Why Brazilian poultry exports are rattled. A new round of budget cuts pleases markets (a bit). And the impacts of the CrowdStrike outage seem to be limited in Brazil so far.

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Senate delays Central Bank autonomy bill amid political disputes

Crimes against women continue to grow in Brazil

🌀 Hurricanes can affect the Amazon

Hurricanes in the Atlantic raise further alarms about this year’s Amazon drought. Lula’s party hopes to block major sanitation privatization. Minas Gerais state wants more time to repay its debts

🤯 Bukele fights inflation; Colombia fights Chile

The governments of Chile and Colombia trade barbs. Bukele declares war on prices. And Mercosur implements more liberal trade rules.

Explaining Brazil #301: Can Lula fix his relationship with Congress?

30 years on, Brazil couldn’t be further from its 1994 World Cup glory