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Chavismo pushes oil-law reform to open Venezuela’s upstream to private firms
Venezuela’s National Assembly has approved, in a first reading, a reform to the country’s Hydrocarbons Law that would expand private participation in crude production and marketing—an important shift from the long-running “mixed-company” model in ...
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YPF and Pluspetrol swap upstream stakes to deepen Vaca Muerta push and feed Argentina LNG plan
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EU and Ecuador wrap up talks on sustainable investment deal, EU’s first SIFA with Latin America
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Politics
- Falklands, Minister Doughty reaffirms support for the Islands and the Great British family
- Trump is buying eleven icebreakers from Finland for Arctic Ocean patrolling
- Why Trump is obsessed with Greenland and why Canada's staying out of it
- European Parliament puts EU-Mercosur trade deal on hold, seeks top court legal opinion
Economy
- IMF keeps Argentina’s growth outlook at 4% for 2026 and 2027 amid fragile global balance
- With Milei present and Lula absent, Mercosur and EU sign landmark deal in Asunción
- Mercosur and EU sign historic trade agreement in Asunción after 26 years of negotiations
- Lula and von der Leyen say Mercosur-EU deal advances multilateralism
Energy & Oil
- Trump signals possible role for Machado as U.S. tightens Venezuela oil crackdown
- BYD ship reaches Argentina with record delivery of nearly 5,800 electric and hybrid vehicles
- EU-Mercosur trade deal could turn South America into a critical minerals powerhouse
- Falklands, Legislative Assembly portfolio assignments
Environment
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- Uruguay to send 40 firefighters to Chile as Biobío and Ñuble wildfires leave at least 20 dead
- A fairy penguin in Falklands, a long way from home in New Zealand
- Chile wildfires kill at least 18; Boric orders curfew and declares state of catastrophe
