Colombia's government filed its Ley de Rescate Fiscal with the Cámara de Representantes on 29 October 2026, a 106-article bill seeking a spending cut of about 45 billones of pesos and six months of powers to merge ministries. The general rate of VAT does not change.
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Brazil's Superior Electoral Court totalled all 499,248 sections on 25 October 2026, giving President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 51.79 per cent against 48.21 per cent for Flávio Bolsonaro. The term begins 5 January 2027. What carries across that date is a tariff schedule, not a declaration.
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AT&T agreed on 13 October 2026 to sell its Mexican wireless unit to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for US$2 billion. In 2021, selling its DirecTV and Sky business across 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries, AT&T said what kept it in the region was that Mexican business.
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Aerolíneas Argentinas will lift its seat supply 13% for the peak of summer 2027 and drop Bogotá, three Argentine outlets report, as rivals add routes.
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Guyana rents 96 megawatts from two floating power plants at 9.5 US cents a kilowatt hour. That is the rental only. The fuel the state buys adds 8.8 to 10.5 cents, taking the true cost close to what a household pays.
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Own-account workers rose to 19.2 per cent of Guyana's employed in the fourth quarter of 2025 from 16.7 per cent, and 43.2 per cent of workers were informal. A World Bank study argues the region's informal self-employed often choose the work.
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Sheinbaum says Mexico is weighing larger purchases of US goods, and fewer from other countries, to narrow a US$102.6 billion surplus ahead of the USMCA review. Since January, Mexico has taxed imports from countries it holds no trade agreement with, across 1,463 tariff lines.
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The Falkland Islands Government extended every offshore oil production licence by five years, with two further years at its discretion and the stated support of the United Kingdom, five days after an Argentine judge ordered the Sea Lion field halted.
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Aeroméxico will fly Mexico City to Montego Bay and Nassau from March 2027. Jamaicans and Bahamians enter Mexico without a visa; Guyanese and Mexicans need visas for each other's countries. What it would take to change that, and what the research says.
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President Abinader said the Dominican Republic will know its rare-earth reserves by end-2026, test a refinery in 2027 and export in 2028. The deposits are in Pedernales bauxite. Guyana, also a bauxite producer, is still mapping and has no critical-minerals law.
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A Venezuelan family of five needed US$755.36 to eat in August, up 12.5 per cent in bolívares and 3.8 per cent in dollars. Georgetown food prices fell 0.5 per cent and were 4.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.
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Chile, Argentina and Brazil are trying to refine lithium at home, and Brazil passed a critical-minerals policy this month. Guyana's airborne survey is looking for lithium and rare earths, and it has no dedicated critical-minerals law on the public record.
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