The United States launched the Andes-Atlantic Corridor on 23 September 2026, its first such corridor in the Western Hemisphere. The State Department says deals will be advanced excluding non-market actors. Argentina's foreign minister said there is no conditionality.
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Peru's Hass avocado shipments will finish the season about 2 per cent below 2025 against a forecast of 6 per cent growth, with US shipments down about 36 per cent. ProHass named El Nino, through variable dry matter at harvest. The Dominican Republic ships into the same American months.
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GCCI President Kathy Smith asked the government on 24 September 2026 to monitor foreign oil contractors more closely and tell Guyanese firms more. Section 11(5) of the Local Content Act has required the state to publish an extract of every approved local content plan since 2021.
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President Ali met the US Export-Import Bank's chairman in New York on 21 September 2026 and named six Guyanese projects. The next day the same bank signed Argentina a framework worth up to US$7 billion through 2027.
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The World Meteorological Organization puts the probability of El Nino's effects reaching February 2027 at close to 100 per cent, with a 95 per cent chance of a peak between October and December 2026. The last comparable event cut Guyana's rice crop by 37 per cent.
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A Guyana Times report quotes the Attorney General as wanting a new AML/CFT forfeiture bill in Parliament by year end. CFATF already rates Guyana's confiscation law Compliant but its results Moderate, and among CARICOM members only Jamaica is rated higher on results.
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Dario Amodei called on 12 September for AI to be slowed and checked before release. China has reviewed public AI services before release since 2023. The plan never names the Caribbean, where CARICOM agreed an AI commission in July and Dominica signed China's AI organisation agreement.
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Finance Secretary Edgar Amador Zamora delivered Mexico's 2027 Economic Package on 8 September, projecting growth of 1.5 to 2.5 per cent and funding 1.025 trillion pesos of social spending. It creates no new taxes. The bet is fuel-duty fraud Hacienda valued near US$16 billion.
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Avianca cancelled Gustavo Petro's tickets because he is on the OFAC SDN List, where he was placed on 24 October 2025 while sitting president of Colombia, a founding member of the United Nations. The US embassy never closed, Americans were never barred, and trade never stopped.
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Alibaba's Qwen passed three billion downloads in six months against 418 million for Google and 227 million for Meta. In Uganda, a farming advisory system runs on a Chinese model that handled the country's languages better.
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Ley 7200 of 1990 caps parallel generation at 15 per cent of Costa Rica's system and each plant at 20 MW. A bill repealing it passed first debate 27-24 on 26 May 2026, then was withdrawn.
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PM Mark Phillips said on 15 August the Wales gas plant starts by year end but bills will not halve until full capacity, expected mid-2027. The two-year delay is costed at about US$884 million.
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