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Key Points —Finance Minister Sariha Moya confirmed Ecuador is evaluating a new sovereign bond issuance, monitoring market windows week by week. —Ecuador’s $4 billion bond sale in January — its first in seven years — attracted $18 billion in demand but carried rates of 8.75-9.25%, well above the 6.9% on the retired debt. —Ecuador’s 2026 […]
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Key Points —The Democratic Unitary Platform, Venezuela’s main opposition coalition, formally unified behind María Corina Machado as its presidential candidate. —The coalition released a transition road map requiring a negotiated process leading to free and competitive elections. —The announcement comes as interim President Delcy Rodríguez retains power with U.S. backing, and ...
Key Points —3,679 families in Bogotá and Cundinamarca abandoned home purchases in Q1 2026 — up 11.5% from the same period last year. —Pre-sale cancellations surged 33.4%. The trailing 12-month total reached 15,851 units, with 78% concentrated in affordable housing. —The freeze of Colombia’s national housing subsidy program Mi Casa Ya is the primary driver, […]
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Key Points —The Finance Ministry’s 2026 divestment plan lists 38 Ecopetrol subsidiaries worth over 50 trillion pesos (~$12 billion) as potential sale candidates. —Assets include Reficar ($5.7B), Ecopetrol Global Energy ($4.2B), Ecopetrol USA ($3.5B), and the Permian basin operations ($2.6B). —Petro explicitly wants the Permian sold to fund clean energy investment. The oil wor...
Key Points —President Noboa accused Petro on April 29 of orchestrating a guerrilla incursion from Colombia into Ecuador’s northern border zone. —Petro dismissed the claim and challenged Noboa to meet him at the frontier to build peace together. —Mutual tariffs will hit 100% on May 1, making this the worst bilateral crisis since Ecuador’s 2008 […]
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