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🇲🇽 Sheinbaum starts, rate hikes end

🇲🇽 Sheinbaum starts, rate hikes end

Mexico inaugurates its first-ever female president. Regional central bankers follow the Fed’s cue. And fears about minority protections in Argentina

Ignacio Portes & David Feliba

Oct 2, 2024

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13 min read

Keep Reading

May 12, 2026

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7 min read

🇨🇷 Meet the new boss

Costa Rica’s outgoing president Rodrigo Chaves will still be in charge of the new administration. Peru finally confirms the candidates to contest its presidential runoff.

Jorge C. Carrasco

May 12, 2026

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7 min read

🔀 Changing of the guard

Justice Nunes Marques to be sworn in as head of the electoral court. A tax credits probe slaps a billion-real fine on retailer Fast Shop. China goes visa-free until the end of the year.

Gustavo Ribeiro

May 11, 2026

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5 min read

🚜 Rage against the (foreign) machine

Brazilian farmers are buying fewer homegrown machines as shrinking margins and a wave of cheaper imports from India and China reshape the market

Letícia Arcoverde

May 11, 2026

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7 min read

🤳 Different feeds, different countries

How Brazilians of varying political views consume information. Why a cleaning products scare became a political battleground. Police violence at Brazil’s most prestigious university.

Gustavo Ribeiro