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Brazil's presidential runoff on October 25th is a technical tie in the final Futura poll, which has Flavio Bolsonaro at 50.1 percent of valid votes and Lula at 49.9, inside a 2.2-point margin of error
Brazil's new customer-service decree allows AI only if the consumer can speak to a person, and caps phone waits at 20 seconds
Argentina declared five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups terrorist organizations, among them Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
PwC says a third-party vendor hosting its employee training records had a security incident, a day after the Everest extortion group claimed to hold 590 gigabytes of data
Chile's new data protection law takes effect on December 1st, and a law firm said in a July 30th LexLatin piece that the agency meant to enforce it was forming its board more slowly than scheduled
Haiti's central bank said no Haitian financial institution is authorized to negotiate with cybercriminals over ransom
Creditors who say they hold about $272 million of Braskem bonds asked a US bankruptcy court in New York to force the US financing arm of the Brazilian petrochemical maker into Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Passwords for Sao Paulo's 58,000-camera network were exposed for 11 months, UOL reported
Mexico removed more than 1,000 Asian steel suppliers from its supplier register after a team it sent to check plants named on importers' certificates found the plants did not exist
The US Treasury sanctioned eleven Mexican companies and four people tied to the Cartel del Noreste, a drug cartel, most of them through businessman Gamaliel Garza Garcia
A former US sanctions-compliance chief says companies may not see the extortion their Mexican and Colombian subcontractors pay
Mexico suspended Brazilian chicken meat and other poultry imports after an outbreak of Newcastle disease, a poultry illness, on one Brazilian turkey farm
Ecuador's grid operator says the country needs 1,391 megawatts more supply it can count on for the coming dry season, and about 8,900 firms on medium-voltage connections are being cut off up to 72 hours a week
A former Guatemalan prosecutor and lawyer, Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa, was shot dead while playing soccer in Guatemala City, and two people are in custody
Antofagasta Minerals' Centinela copper mine in Chile ended a strike of more than a week after two unions ratified a new contract, Reuters reports
Bolivia is expected to scrap further gasoline subsidies from the start of next year, OilPrice, the energy news site, reports
The Panama Canal Authority is raising the daily slots for its largest locks to 10 starting October 15th, for 33 across the canal
Mexico exempted imported car-assembly kits from its 10% tariff for five years, for automakers with a customs bonded-warehouse permit
Mexico's Senate passed a Customs Law reform, 66 to 37, with fines of 50% to 100% of a shipment's commercial value for fuel-related customs violations
The Mexican border state of Tamaulipas says it has no contracts with any of the eleven companies the US sanctioned over ties to the Cartel del Noreste, the Northeast Cartel
Colombia's government filed a bill that would end its 'Total Peace' policy of negotiating with armed groups and make them submit to ordinary courts
A UN panel says about 70% of the ammunition in one 2026 seizure from Haitian gangs came from diverted Haitian police stocks
Premiums for comprehensive truck-theft cover in Mexico's Sinaloa state have risen as much as 400%, a trucking-industry official says
Prosecutors in Mexico's Morelos state released an alleged criminal-group leader hours after detaining him, once his group seized three of their agents
China has sanctioned Paraguay's information and communication technologies minister Gustavo Villate and Belize's foreign minister Francis Fonseca over their Taiwan ties and what it calls false claims of Chinese cyberattacks
A US Homeland Security Task Force arrested Alvaro Pulido Vargas, a Colombian national charged in two indictments with laundering more than $2 billion tied to Venezuelan bribery schemes
El Tiempo reports Colombia's army can fly fewer than half of its 108 helicopters
At least eighteen foreign companies have rare earth projects in Brazil that add up to more than $3.5 billion in spending and early estimates
Customers of Mexican banks filed fraud claims worth 11.2 billion pesos, about $620 million, in the first half of 2026, equal to 7.5% of the banks' profits
The strike at Antofagasta Minerals' Centinela copper mine in Chile has begun, with more than 700 workers, 22% of staff, out
A new US indictment says Cilia Flores, wife of Nicolás Maduro, offered Venezuelan state oil contracts to allies of Colombia's ELN guerrillas around 2007
The liquidator of failed Brazilian bank Banco Master asks a Florida bankruptcy court to freeze about $168 million of Aspen and Miami properties it says were bought with money drained from the bank
Brazil's government has put about 732 million reais of its securities regulator's 2027 budget into a contingency reserve, saying a Supreme Court order does not require releasing it
Mexico's gas pipeline operator says US maintenance cut about a fifth of the gas entering its pipelines for 10 days
If the EU blocks its $500 million sale to Chinese miner MMG, mining group Anglo American says it would idle its Brazilian nickel business as a path to closure
Codelco, Chile's state copper company, gave prosecutors evidence of a second suspected double-count of its copper output, after a first complaint in March
The US sanctioned the ex-husband of Marina del Pilar, governor of Mexico's Baja California state, over alleged Sinaloa Cartel ties
Drones hit the Aguachica police station in Colombia for a second time in about 10 days; one detainee injured
A payment to one of Brazil's two biggest prison gangs can now be a federal crime, after the US named both as terrorist organizations in May
Mexico's defense ministry flagged a now-sitting senator and a state education director over fuel-theft ties back in 2019
More than 50 Mexican banks adopted anti-money-laundering rules stricter than international standards after the US tied its cartel crackdown to bank compliance
Treasury sanctioned members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua over 1,500 attacks that made US bank ATMs dump cash, costing $40.7 million
Unions at two of Chile's biggest copper mines, BHP's Escondida and Antofagasta's Centinela, voted to authorise strikes
Mexico's judicial overhaul has 28.8% of surveyed employers holding back investment over whether contracts will be enforceable
COSCO, China's state-owned shipping company, runs Peru's new Chancay port and sees the cargo flows of everyone using it
Fifteen Governments Declare Intent to Criminalize Helping 24 Cartels
Two Chokepoints at Once, and a Nigerian Refinery Is the Backstop
The Biggest Oil Deal in History Runs Through a Company Still on the Sanctions List
The Panama Canal Is Cutting Capacity Without Ever Closing
