"Socialist Trash"

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! A visiting president took a stage in his host's biggest city and called that country's leader a thief and "socialist trash." The ambassador flew home before the day was out, 203 years into a friendship that had never produced a scene like it. Two governments are now working out what one sentence costs. That was the week's fastest reversal, not its biggest: a state company threw out its country's largest-ever port tender after a foreign envoy warned who might win it, and a tariff meant to keep Chinese cars out made the country that wrote it their biggest buyer anywhere. Plus: two mining giants are spending $9.7B to restart a metal export that stopped in 2018, one currency outran every emerging market on earth last month, and founders who left a collapsed economy raised $100M to push credit back into it.

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.