LatinNews Daily - 28 July 2026

On 27 July Haiti’s provisional electoral council (CEP) announced the official publication of the electoral calendar for 2026-2027, setting 13 December for the first round of general elections and 21 February for run-offs.... Read More

On 27 July Juliana Guerrero, an ally of President Gustavo Petro and his delegate at the superior university council of the Universidad Popular del Cesar (UPC), resigned following allegations that she took bribes in return for influencing public contracts.... Read More

*Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has said that the signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada on 24 July was “a great victory for Ecuador” that will “open the doors of one of the main consumer markets of our exports”.... Read More

On 27 July Brazil’s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, met with the Brazilian ambassador to Argentina, Julio Bitelli, who has been recalled from Buenos Aires due to diplomatic tensions over a recent visit to Brazil by Argentina’s President Javier Milei to support the presidential bid of the main right-wing opposition contender, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.... Read More

*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hosted his South Korean counterpart Lee Jae-Myung in Brasília, where they announced plans to create a working group with the aim of advancing the negotiations for a trade agreement between South Korea and the Mercosur regional trade bloc.... Read More

*Nicaragua’s authoritarian government led by co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has authorised two new mining concessions to Chinese mining company, Norther Mining Company SA, one spanning 9,118 hectares (ha) in Nueva Guinea municipality in the South Atlantic autonomous region (Raas), and the other spanning 48,238ha in the municipalities of Laguna de Perlas, El Rama, and Kukra Hill, also in the Raas.... Read More

On 27 July Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that the US government’s decision to restart livestock imports from Mexico was the result of “good coordination and good collaboration between both governments”.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released trade figures for June 2026, revealing a trade surplus of US$4.09bn.... Read More

On 27 July Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), expressed confidence that thanks to the economic reforms adopted by President Javier Milei, Argentina will be able to meet its sizeable debt obligations due next year.... Read More

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released its latest figures for international tourism, showing that 612,800 international tourists visited Argentina in June, up 13.0% year-on-year, but down from the 675,100 who visited in May.... Read More