Tech Roundup: A bank on WhatsApp is just the first step for Magie

🔥 Desperate times

The Supreme Court calls for extraordinary measures to fight Brazilian wildfires. The surge for VPN demand in Brazil. And Brazil’s reduction in fossil fuel subsidies.

AMLO’s judicial reform could sour Sheinbaum’s honeymoon in Mexico, unnerving global investors

Market Roundup: Peruvian cotton exports to Brazil on the rise

Getting away with murder?

Nubank ends its crypto token. What happened?

🛤️ Railway facelift

The government tries to get a major railway project over the hump. A ruling that epitomizes the craziness of Brazil’s tax rules. And a SWOT analysis of the Brazilian economy.

Order, Progress, and Flames

As González exiles in Spain, Maduro all but buries ‘spirit of change’ in Venezuela

Still soft on Venezuela, Brazil raises tone on Nicaragua

🚢 Sailing into controversy

A controversial loan for a shipbuilder. Gambling enters the election scene. And the Amazon shifts from carbon sink to emitter.

🔥 Fires in Bolivia, Blinken in Haiti, and music everywhere

Bolivia on alert over devastating wildfires. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Haiti. Brazilian music gaining ground in Spanish-speaking Latin America.