LatinNews Daily - 29 July 2026

On 28 July Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s new president.... Read More

*Bolivia’s former hydrocarbons minister, Mauricio Medinaceli (2025-2026), has been arrested in relation to a fuel contamination scandal which sparked long-running protests by transport workers earlier this year.... Read More

On 28 July Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Partido Liberal, PL) skipped a deposition with the federal police (PF) related to an investigation over whether he had committed slander against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, instead sending a written response to the PF denying the accusations.... Read More

*Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras has released its oil and gas production figures for the second quarter of this year, showing a total of 3.34m barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd).... Read More

On 28 July Costa Rica’s attorney general, Carlo Díaz, questioned doubts raised by the conservative government led by President Laura Fernández regarding authorities’ handling of a case involving recently detained alleged drug trafficker Alejandro ‘Diablo’ Arias Monge.... Read More

*Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals (FQM), the owner of Panama’s largest mine, Cobre Panamá, which was shuttered in late 2023 following major unrest over a new contract, has said it is “encouraged by… the release of the final audit report and the formation of the inter-institutional ministerial committee to review its findings.” An FQM report on its second quarter 2026 results says: “The final audit reported that the mine is broadly compliant, achieving an overall rating of 87.7%”.... Read More

On 28 July federal authorities in Mexico announced the arrest in Mazatlán municipality, Sinaloa state, of Adrián ‘N’, alias ‘El 20’, the alleged regional head of the Cártel de Sinaloa.... Read More

*Mexico’s government led by President Claudia Sheinbaum has said it is reviewing legal options after a World Bank (WB) arbitration tribunal issued a ruling on 27 July largely in its favour in a long-running dispute with US construction firm Vulcan Materials Company.... Read More

On 28 July the head of the Chilean branch of global human rights group Amnesty International (AI) defended a national plan launched by the previous government of Gabriel Boric (2022-2026) to search for those disappeared during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).... Read More

*Argentina has regained access to the European Union (EU) market for fresh poultry meat, after a European Commission ruling.... Read More