Domingo Brief — The Hernández Tapes

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! **Feliz Día de la Madre** to **Latin America's mothers**, with **bouquets and remittances** crossing borders together. A former president's leaked tapes name a still-sitting head of state and an alleged $350K plot. A three-day-old administration kept the outgoing leader on as finance minister. One country's lawmakers handed a new committee veto power over foreign mineral acquisitions, hours before its leader met Trump. Plus: a regulator ran the region's first 48-hour AI testbed, a startup tripled its valuation in eight months and claimed a regional first, a sovereign bond drew seven times its offer, and the year's biggest remittance month was paid for in flowers.

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.