Jose Orozco

Grupo Coppel SA, Mexico’s largest private retailer, will spend 80 billion pesos ($4.2 billion) over five years on investments including a new e-commerce platform to double the portion of digital transactions to 20% of total sales.

Colombia said it granted political asylum to former Panama President Ricardo Martinelli, who was convicted of corruption charges and had found refuge in the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City.

Mexico delayed applying a tax on cruise ship passengers at its ports for six months while exempting wheat and a fertilizer from tariffs for all of 2025.

A Mexican federal judges association voted to end a nearly two-month strike, resuming activities on Oct. 16, as it continues to protest against former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s judicial reform.

Disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori seeks to run for president as the candidate of the Popular Force political party, his daughter Keiko Fujimori, who leads the party, said in a video posted on her X account Sunday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro issued a decree setting a 9% tax on private companies for the creation of a state-run pension fund.

Mexico’s state-controlled oil company said a fire at one of its Akal-B oil platforms in the Campeche Bank left nine people injured Saturday afternoon.

Petroleos Mexicanos would be near default without the Mexican government’s support, Moody’s Investors Service said, downgrading the state oil company’s debt further into junk territory.

Ecuador’s national police and the military secured the release of the remaining prison guards and staff that had been held hostage amid a wave of violence across the country, the nation’s prison authority said.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said cocaine has always been a top export for his country after a report estimated the narcotic would overtake oil to become the nation’s top exporting product.