ECONOMY
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Cuba Rides a Tunnel Bus Through Its Deepening Energy Squeeze
Havana's Ciclobús has become a lifeline as fuel rationing empties streets of cars and pushes workers onto bicycles and electric…
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Venezuela Rewrites Mining Rules While Its Old Shadows Still Profit
Venezuela's new mining law promises order, investor confidence, and future prosperity. Still, it lands in a sector scarred by seizures,…
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Ecuador Raises Tariffs and Turns Border Anxiety Into Regional Rupture
Ecuador's move to raise tariffs on Colombian goods to one hundred percent is more than a trade fight. It shows…
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Mexico Chases Safer Fracking While Energy Sovereignty Gets More Complicated
Mexico's president is testing whether unconventional gas can be sold as sovereignty instead of surrender, even as war abroad, rising…
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Brazil Oil Dreams Are Clearing Forest Faster Than Prosperity Arrives
Oiapoque is swelling on the promise of Petrobras drilling, drawing migrants into the Amazon mud while exposing Brazil's oldest development…
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Venezuelan Oil Returns to U.S. While American Pump Promises Keep Running Dry
Venezuelan crude is flowing back into the United States, but cheaper gasoline remains out of reach. The gap between tanker…
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Brazil’s Free Cooking Gas Dream Faces a Harsh Election-Year Squeeze
Rising liquefied petroleum gas prices are putting Brazil's flagship free cooking gas program under real strain, exposing how war-driven energy…
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Brazil Turns Bankers Into Forest Guards as Amazon Politics Harden
Brazil's new anti-deforestation credit rule extends beyond traditional banking, demonstrating to Latin America that environmental enforcement can operate through finance,…
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Brazil Turns Sugarcane Into a Geopolitical Shield Against Oil Panic
Brazil's sugarcane ethanol model is mitigating the impact of oil shocks resulting from the conflict in Iran, demonstrating to Latin…
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Venezuelan Hope Meets Empty Pipes and a Harder Post-Maduro Economy
In Sucre, residents queue for gas, water, and fuel amid promises of new oil revenues following Maduro's fall. The BBC's…
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