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Roughly 11,000 Americans live in Peru. Roughly 512,000 Peruvians live in the United States, 46x as many. www.latinometrics.com/articles/9-...
9 in 10 of Peru's migrants are Venezuelan
Peru is home to nearly 1.9M immigrants, most of them Venezuelan, even as Peruvians themselves emigrate to the US, Spain, and Chile.
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Chile's fixed broadband averages 364.3 Mbps. The United States averages 306.9 Mbps. That is a 57.4 Mbps gap, in Chile's favor. www.latinometrics.com/articles/ch...
Chile has the world's 4th-fastest Internet
Which countries have the fastest internet in 2026? Chile ranks #4 globally for broadband, the only Latin American nation in the top 5.
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NICARAGUA | Foreign donations to the Ortega regime collapsed 94.1% in two years as international isolation deepened. (Nicaragua Investiga)
VENEZUELA | Crude exports plunged 25% to 856K barrels a day, a five-month low, after India halved its purchases. (Perfil)
ARGENTINA | A pilots' strike left 150 ships stuck outside the country's ports, paralyzing grain and fuel exports for a second day. (Clarín)
COLOMBIA | Illegal armed groups doubled under Petro to 28.8K fighters, up over 13K since December 2022. (Infobae)
BRAZIL | Washington cited forced labor to justify a 12.5% tariff, then exempted sectors among Brazil's worst for slave-labor cases. (Folha de S.Paulo)
BRAZIL | LATAM expands to 67 destinations—its largest network in the country—as it begins incorporating 14 Embraer E195-E2 jets. (Exame)
Latin America has been through 37 presidential elections since 2017. Ecuador alone accounts for 4 of them, more than any other country in the region. www.latinometrics.com/articles/la...
Latin America punishes whoever holds power
Why has Latin America's political opposition won 76% of elections since 2017, no matter who's in power?
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The 1994 World Cup in the United States averaged 68,991 fans per match. The next edition, in France, averaged 43,517. That 36% fall is the steepest between any two World Cups. www.latinometrics.com/articles/th...
The US still holds the World Cup crowd record
Average World Cup attendance per match by host since 1930: the US set the all-time record in 1994 at nearly 69,000, and 2026 has not beaten it yet.
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🇧🇷🛢️🇨🇳 O próximo boom do petróleo brasileiro pode depender menos de Washington do que de Pequim, com a entrada em operação de novos campos e refinarias ↓
US trade with China peaked at $760.9 billion in 2022. By 2025 it was $496.1 billion, a 34% drop. Mexico taking the top spot is only half the story. www.latinometrics.com/articles/th...
The US now trades 2x more with Mexico than China
Mexico did $976 billion in two-way trade with the US in 2025, nearly double China's $496 billion. See the full year-by-year breakdown since 1999.
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Which Latin American country sends the biggest share of its pro soccer players to Europe? Brazil is the obvious guess. The answer is the Dominican Republic: 122 of its 162 players abroad, or 75%. www.latinometrics.com/articles/br...
Brazil goes to Europe. Colombia stays home.
Why do Brazilian stars flock to Real Madrid while Colombians and Mexicans stay in the Americas? The transfer data has an answer.
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CHILE | Cooperatives representing 76% of the sector present a $461M investment plan for 2026–2027 to spur growth and create 6.3K jobs. (La Tercera)
BRAZIL | Business confidence drops 1.4 points in July to 91.3, erasing June's 1.2-point gain in the sharpest decline since August 2025. (Valor Econômico)
🇧🇷🛢️🇨🇳 Brazil’s next oil boom may depend less on Washington than Beijing, as new fields and refineries come online ↓
COSTA RICA | FDI outside the Greater Metropolitan Area surged to $265.5M in 2025, reversing a $38.1M deficit recorded in 2023. (El Financiero)
FedEx moved 76,300 tonnes of Mexico's air cargo. UPS moved 33,100. Aeroméxico moved 162,900 in the bellies of passenger jets, 1.4x the two of them combined. www.latinometrics.com/articles/pa...
Passenger planes haul 3 in 10 tonnes of Mexico's air cargo
As nearshoring fills Mexico's factories, its exports are flying out in the empty belly space beneath passenger seats — at a record clip.
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Santander Brasil has 71.6M customers. Mercado Pago, which was not among Brazil's ranked banks in 2020, has 71.3M. The gap is down to 300,000. www.latinometrics.com/articles/nu...
Nubank passed every private bank in Brazil
How a frustrated foreigner's account-opening problem became the fintech that overtook Bradesco, Itaú, Santander, and Banco do Brasil.
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COLOMBIA | De la Espriella to close 14 embassies and nearly 15 consulates, and break diplomatic ties with Cuba and Nicaragua. (La Silla Vacía)
COLOMBIA | Central bank launches $4B reserve accumulation program as the peso revalues 32% YTD. (La República)
BRAZIL | CSN Mineração leads Ibovespa gains in July with a 36.8% surge, driven by expanded share buybacks, not operational results. (Exame)
BRAZIL | The Workers' Party officially nominates 80-year-old Lula da Silva for his seventh and final presidential campaign. (Vant Bèf Info)
CHILE | Unemployment hits a five-year high of 9.4% as the economy sheds 32.8K formal jobs for the fourth consecutive month. (La Tercera)
ECUADOR | Chevron files in US court to enforce a $216M arbitration award against the state, giving Ecuador 60 days to avoid default. (Primicias)
MEXICO | CFE, the state power utility, sees net profit plunge 31.7% in H1 as revenue shrinks and financial debt grows. (Reforma)
MEXICO | GDP grows 1.5% in Q2, the most dynamic performance in 13 quarters, rebounding from a 0.6% contraction in Q1. (El Economista)
PERU | ProInversión, the state investment agency, targets a $40B infrastructure portfolio across 86 projects to be executed through 2028. (Gestión)
BRAZIL | Santander launches a share-swap tender offer to acquire the remaining stake in its local subsidiary for up to $2.19B. (Valor Econômico)
MEXICO | Federal Labor Conciliation Center chief Domínguez Marrufo exits; agency resolved 483K disputes and recovered $6.98B for workers. (El Economista)