Domingo Brief — Open Skies, Open Mines

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! A commercial flight returns to a capital it had been shut out of for seven years, hours before Western executives ink billions in mining deals at a **presidential palace** whose former occupant now sits in a **Brooklyn jail**. A sitting governor steps aside under US narcotics charges, hackers demand pocket change to halt a 21-day siege of state portals, and a fighter-jet down payment swallows a third of one country's April public investment. Plus: a 27-year trade deal opens its first beef quotas, a Pacific cabinet courts Silicon Valley's biggest names, a small economy commits to a decade of new hospitals, and a stablecoin issuer leads a Series A into a profitable crypto wallet.

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.