Issue Aug 01-11 2026: Transnational criminal economies have expanded far beyond drug trafficking, increasingly infiltrating legitimate businesses and weakening governments’ control over their own markets. In Latin America, illicit trade is generating billions of dollars in lost tax revenue while providing criminal organizations with the resources to expand into other sectors.

Issue Aug 01-11 2026: Ilan Goldfajn, President of the Inter-American Development Bank, expressed his solidarity with the Colombian people.

Issue Aug 01-11 2026: Waste valorization represents a concrete opportunity to move toward more efficient, circular production models. The challenge is not technological.

Issue Aug 01-11 2026: In response to a public consultation, the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (MEF) received more than fifty messages containing diverse comments and ideas.