Brazil’s dollar rate fell below 5 reais, Lima’s mayor race is open and Colombia’s visa deadline is 25 days away. Your Tuesday ...

Vale ADR rose 2.83% to US$14.15 after a court allowed a partial restart of its Fábrica mine. Rio Tinto gained 1.53%. See the ...

WTI crude fell about 2% to about US$89 and Brent fell about 2% to about US$100 after the G7 announced a release of strategic ...

Loreto election violence: electoral material was reportedly burned in two Peruvian Amazon districts, and the ombudsman urged ...

For US investors, the runoff has no kingmaker. Holders of Brazilian ADRs such as Petrobras, Vale and Itaú Unibanco, and of the real, face three more weeks of a two-way race in which a 1.87-point gap ...

Ethiopia's new parliament opened on 5 October and Abiy Ahmed took the oath for a second term. What is known on the cabinet, Tigray and Eritrea.

López Aliaga leads by about 44,900 votes, but 1,924 disputed sheets sit with election juries. How they decide, and when.

Egypt's prime minister says Red Sea turmoil cut Suez Canal revenue by over US$6 billion a year. Ships are returning, but income is under half its peak.

Kraken on 17 October, World Salsa Festival from 23 October, Bunbury on 31 October. Tickets from US$28, plus free events.

All 15 Peruvian regions headed for a governor runoff on 29 November 2026, with both tickets, party and percentage in each, from ONPE counts.

The Montevideo Book Fair runs free to 18 October, Detour film festival opens 9 October and the Teatro Solís season fills the ...

Two Fraijanes escapees from the Barrio 18 gang, a US-designated terrorist group, were caught near Cancún on 5 October. Nine ...