Stories for 2026

Saturday, August 15th 2026 - 05:01 UTC
Rejection of Flávio Bolsonaro exceeds Lula's despite his gains in voting intention

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro registers a 54% rejection rate among Brazilian voters, two points above the 52% recorded by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to the Quaest poll released on Friday, two days before campaigning officially opens for the October 4 elections.
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Saturday, August 15th 2026 - 02:44 UTC
Cash Still Rules, But the Economy Also Depends on Digital Transactions. Why Is That?

Walk into any major city in the world today, and you will find two parallel realities operating side by side. In one, people hand over physical currency (coins and notes) to pay for coffee, market produce, or a bus fare.
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Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:34 UTC
Peru rehearses its response to a magnitude 8.8 quake off Lima and Callao

Peru held the year's second national multi-hazard drill on Friday, an exercise testing evacuation protocols and the response capacity of the public and the authorities to a possible magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered off the central coast of Lima and Callao.
Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:20 UTC
Peña says the Milei-Lula crisis has not affected how Mercosur functions

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday that the differences between his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had no consequences for Mercosur, despite the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
Friday, August 14th 2026 - 21:43 UTC
The Falklands Legislative Assembly marks 434 years since the first recorded sighting

The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly marked Falklands Day on Friday, the anniversary of the first recorded sighting of the archipelago, on August 14, 1592. The day was marked by raising the Falkland Islands flag and the Union flag side by side on Victory Green, in Stanley.
Friday, August 14th 2026 - 10:43 UTC
A year from the presidential vote, Argentina's parties begin to define alliances

With little more than a year to go before Argentina's presidential elections of October 2027, the governing party and the main opposition force began this week to realign their positions. La Libertad Avanza, the party of President Javier Milei, resumed talks with former president Mauricio Macri's PRO, while the various currents of Peronism agreed a truce aimed at blocking the electoral reform the government is promoting.
Friday, August 14th 2026 - 08:40 UTC
Argentina restricts access to an Andean plain after damage caused by a pickup truck

Authorities in the Argentine province of San Juan will keep access to Pampa del Leoncito restricted until the end of the month, after a vehicle drove across the white clay plain, located at 1,500 meters above sea level at the foot of the Andes, despite a ban on traffic, leaving ruts up to 25 centimeters deep.
Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 22:46 UTC
Argentina's largest investment project aims to export Vaca Muerta gas

Argentina's majority state-owned oil company YPF confirmed on Thursday that it has filed an application for the Argentina LNG project to join the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI). The venture, developed alongside Italy's Eni and the Emirati company XRG, contemplates an estimated outlay of 51 billion dollars over its full life, the largest figure submitted so far under the scheme.
Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 22:34 UTC
Brazil: Two days before the deadline, Bolsonaro's party cannot register Flávio as candidate

Brazil's Liberal Party was unable on Thursday to file Senator Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy with the Superior Electoral Court, after the electoral system recorded him as a member of a different party. The deadline for submitting candidacies expires on Saturday at 7pm.
Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 22:31 UTC
Colombia faces reconstruction with 96% of the year's debt quota already used

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella declared an economic emergency on Wednesday to address the consequences of Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake in the west of the country, against a backdrop of fiscal constraints that will shape how reconstruction is financed.