Latin America — updates

Bolivia ran out of dollars, floated its currency, and cut fuel subsidies three times in six weeks

2026-09-09T20:00:00+02:00

Bolivia ended a 15-year dollar peg on 26 June 2026 and has raised fuel prices three times since — the price of a rescue loan the IMF hasn't approved yet.

Two CIA officers died in a raid Mexico says it never approved. Trump still hasn't ordered the land strikes he promised.

2026-09-04T17:00:00+02:00

Trump vowed to start 'hitting land' against cartels. Two undercover CIA officers already died in a raid Mexico says it never approved.

The US captured a sitting president, tried him in Manhattan, and is now collecting his oil money

2026-09-02T17:00:00+02:00

US forces captured Maduro in a January raid and flew him to New York for trial. Oil licenses are expanding, and the UN calls it a dangerous precedent.

A gas carrier paid $4.6m to skip the Panama queue — and the canal has not even started rationing yet

2026-08-24T12:00:00+02:00

Hormuz is a war zone and Suez runs 41% below normal. Now Panama is rationing daily slots — and a gas carrier has paid $4.6m for one.

Gangs run 90% of Haiti's capital — the US just lost the legal reason to keep 350,000 Haitians out of it

2026-08-19T14:00:00+02:00

Courts ended legal protection for 350,000 Haitians in the US the same month gangs tightened their grip on Port-au-Prince and famine spread.

The CIA ran a separate, undisclosed boat-strike program off Ecuador — the Washington Post says

2026-08-14T20:00:00+02:00

A boat vanished off the Galápagos in January; two more were hit in March. A covert CIA program was behind it, apart from the Pentagon's own campaign.

The tariff was political. Brazil's answer was legal.

2026-08-02T20:25:13+02:00

The US tied Brazil's tariffs to Bolsonaro's prosecution. Brazil didn't fold or retaliate — it filed at the WTO and kept trading with China instead.