Trade Winds Blow East

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! A US credit giant is paying $750M to buy its way back into a market it walked away from a generation ago, and the prize is 80 million credit files it would suddenly control. The company left the same scar last time it made headlines: 143 million breached records. One year after a 50% tariff meant to punish it, a giant of the Global South just posted its weakest-ever US export share, and total exports climbed anyway. A regime that says twin quakes killed 3,811 of its people is now courting the very foreign firms it spent two decades chasing out. Plus: a fintech founder cleared the last hurdle to run a country's newest bank, a single Asian buyer just froze the top export of the world's largest shrimp supplier, and one small island just out-drew every country in Latin America but one.

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.