When she asks young women in the many small towns she's visited why they have long hair, they respond with simple reasons akin to, "Because I like it." But, Werning adds, "The true reason is invisible and passes from generation to generation. It's the culture of Latin America, where our ancestors believed that cutting hair was cutting life, that hair is the physical manifestation of our thoughts and our souls and our connection to the land."
Paraguay holds the fourth place in global hashrate with 4.3%, while Brazil has increased its hashrate share by 133% year-over-year, creating new opportunities for miners.
The Borderless Benchmark Q1 2026 report indicates that the Brazilian real recorded a 0 bps quoted execution cost from multiple providers across two consecutive months, showcasing the stability of the LATAM corridor.
Bruno Rodriguez stated that the United States is trying to strangle the economy of the communist island, which earns billions from its foreign medical missions, after several countries stopped deploying Cuban doctors.
Jose Antonio Kast, a 60-year-old ultra Catholic whose father was a member of the Nazi party, has consistently blocked progressive bids for women's rights and equality across his three-decade career in politics. As a congressman, Kast voted against divorce when Chile became one of the last countries of the world to legalise it in 2004 and vehemently opposed the legalisation of abortion under limited exceptions when it was passed in 2017.
Over the past three years, several Latin American countries have witnessed the arrival of the Orb, a futuristic-looking spherical device used to read irises and capture biometric data. This striking technology, developed by World Foundation and created by Sam Altman, a leading figure in artificial intelligence and CEO of OpenAI, along with its operational partner, Tools for Humanity, has been installed in shopping malls, gas stations, and other locations in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil.
W hen Hitler swallowed Czechoslovakia in 1938 and then divided Poland with Stalin in 1939, my parents' generation decided, coming home from the war, to place the sovereignty of nation states at the heart of the United Nations Charter. With the operation in Venezuela, our generation has to ask, and not for the first time, whether anything now survives of a legal doctrine designed to protect the weak from the strong.
For over 175 years - ever since the United States conquered half of Mexico - nearly every president has messed with Latin America while telling the rest of the world to stay the hell out. We have helped depose democratically elected leaders and propped up murderous strongmen. Trained death squads and offered bailouts to favored allies. Ran economic blockades and encouraged American companies to treat the region's riches, and its workers, like a cookie jar.
Freeride Fiesta has marked its return for 2026, and with a little more than three weeks until showtime, the biggest freeride event in Latin America is set to come back in all-time fashion. With a newly renovated course, an all-new lineup of riders, and the same culture-forward format we know and love, this year's event is shaping up to be a good one.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When I listen to a song, I listen for the lyrics. The words put images in my head, if they're good, like a Springsteen line. (Singing) The screen door slams. Mary's dress waves. Or they convey an emotion, AJR describing a guy who's sorry for himself, hearing the world's smallest violin. Song lyrics even influence how I try to write for you, writing for your ear.
Of the ten richest men in the world on Forbes' December 2025 list, only two didn't build their fortunes by running or founding a fully tech-driven company. They are the people who now shape how we think, how we have fun, how we vote, how the economy works, and ultimately whether the world moves forward or backward: Elon Musk (X), Larry Page (Alphabet), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sergey Brin (Alphabet), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), and Michael Dell (Dell).
Andrew Day, Jude Russo, and Rebecca Draeger discuss a new print issue that covers Ukraine's disconnect from the West, the looming catastrophe in Latin America, strategic ambiguity re China and Taiwan, and more.
Latin America's digital creator economy is expanding fast, yet many creators in the region still feel invisible in the global content market. While the influencer industry is projected to reach $21.1 billion by 2025, much of that momentum continues to benefit creators in North America and Europe, leaving equally talented voices across Latin America competing for limited opportunities. For thousands of Latin American women who have built loyal, engaged communities, the gap between effort and reward has become especially discouraging.
Deepfakes, threats, doxing (disclosure of personal information), hate speech spread through troll farms and bots, the use of viral hashtags, gender-biased fake news, and the non-consensual sharing of intimate content. The landscape of digital violence against women is increasingly broad and sinister. And although it is on the rise, most Latin American countries lack legal frameworks to protect them from this type of violence, which tends to be minimized despite its serious physical and psychological consequences.
The call, announced Monday by the office of Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, occurred after The Washington Post reported Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill the entire crew of a vessel thought to be ferrying narcotics in the Caribbean Sea, the first of more than 20 such strikes directed by the Trump administration since early September.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva insisted this week that there are no remaining obstacles to signing the EU-Mercosur trade agreement next month after more than two decades of negotiations. Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa, Lula said the deal would represent "possibly the largest agreement" in global trade, citing both blocs' nearly 722 million population and $22 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP).
Brazil was the testing ground for the new digital weapons of the Latin American far-right. And the success was so resounding that a provocative and virtually unknown congressman named Jair Messias Bolsonaro became president in January 2019. Four years later, the spotlight fell on Javier Milei: a vociferous Argentine economist with curly hair.
The United States on Friday accused Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz Neiger. According to senior U.S. officials who spoke to several national media outlets, Iran's Revolutionary Guard allegedly began planning the attack late last year, but the plot was contained and does not pose a current threat. The operation that foiled the assassination attempt, described anonymously by those officials, took place before the summer.
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Aureo, formerly known as Swapido, has raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding from Early Riders to develop a specialized Bitcoin platform targeting high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), family offices, and companies in Mexico and Latin America. The funding, announced on October 20, 2025, will support the creation of a white-glove service focused on secure Bitcoin transactions, custody, and advisory for institutional and long-term holders.
