Blue Tide

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! A taste of what's inside this week: A brand-new president collected $1B from Washington on his first day in office, then began unpicking his predecessor's foreign policy one decision at a time. His swearing-in made his country the ninth in the region to hand power to the same political side in three years. A sitting president stripped the two most contested chapters out of his own flagship bill to get the rest past the Senate at dawn. Two governments that stopped speaking two years ago agreed to reopen their consulates, and they were not the only pair doing it that week. One country's exporters shipped a record $54B abroad in six months, and India suddenly buys more of it than the United States. A country that had almost no industrial mining seven years ago just watched it become the third-biggest export, right as the world runs short of what it digs up. 1,557 soldiers were sent to guard a single fruit. Plus: the $5B a development bank just committed to a country of 3.5 million people, a startup that grew revenue 22x in four years, and much more, all in a two-minute read.

Each Sunday issue of the Domingo Brief curates the most important stories shaping Latin America — economics, politics, business, and markets — with original Latinometrics data analysis on every story, plus venture-capital and startup funding updates, a trivia question, and curated reading picks sourced from the best local and international outlets.