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Americas Quarterly
English. The best single starting point for the whole region: a nonprofit magazine from Americas Society/Council of the Americas that treats politics, business and culture as one story, so an election piece usually explains what it means for investors and trade. Founded in 2007 and edited from New York, it pairs long reads with a free newsletter and a podcast for catching up on the move. Its publisher's Council of the Americas side describes itself as a business organization committed to open markets, so read it alongside NACLA for a different angle.
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Latin America Risk Report
English. James Bosworth's newsletter is the quickest way to know which country's politics will matter to your business next month. It has run since 2018, grew out of tracking Mexico's election that year, and now covers security, economics and politics across the region, written by the founder of a political risk consultancy who is also a Good Judgment Superforecaster. The Tuesday and Friday issues are free; paying adds extra issues, including one on US policy toward the region, which is worth it if tariffs and sanctions touch your trade.
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LatinNews
English. The professional's briefing service: LatinNews has offered independent analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean since 1967, and its Latin American Weekly Report is a dense, country-by-country digest built for people who need the detail. It is a paid subscription sold through an inquiry rather than a checkout button, so it suits a company budget more than casual reading, but it is the place to go for steady coverage of smaller economies that rarely make the general press.
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Bloomberg Línea
Spanish and Portuguese, with some English. For markets, currencies and company news, this is the regional business desk to bookmark. A partnership between Bloomberg Media and Panama-based Falic Media, it launched on August 10, 2021 with sites for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, so you can switch from the peso to the real without changing publications. Its reporting leans toward business readers, which makes it stronger on trade and investment than on social movements.
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The Brazilian Report
English. If Brazil is your biggest market, this is the subscription that pays for itself. Reporting since 2017, it explains Brasília's politics, the real's moves and the farm economy for readers who do not read Portuguese, and its newsletters split the country into usable beats: Brazil Daily for the morning, plus separate editions on business, climate and agribusiness. A seven-day free trial with no card lets you test whether the business edition covers your sector before paying.
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Mexico News Daily
English. The daily habit for anyone doing business with Mexico. It calls itself Mexico's English-language newspaper and covers news, business, culture and daily life, so the economy and politics sit next to the regional and everyday stories that general foreign desks skip. It began in 2014 in a spare bedroom in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, and has grown into the largest English-language news platform on the country. A free account gets you started; full access to the reporting is paid.
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Buenos Aires Times
English. Argentina's economy swings hard enough that you need someone on the ground translating it, and this is that someone. Published by Editorial Perfil, one of Buenos Aires' big media groups, it gives the economy its own section alongside Argentine politics, then widens out to a Latin America desk for the neighbors. It is the easiest way to follow Argentina from the source in English, and a natural partner to MercoPress for the rest of the Southern Cone.
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MercoPress
English, with a Spanish edition. The trade-bloc specialist: this Montevideo-based agency calls itself the South Atlantic News Agency and files steadily on Mercosur, which means Uruguay, Paraguay and the bloc's trade talks get attention that bigger outlets save for Brazil and Argentina. The pages are plain and the writing is wire-style, so read it for facts and dates rather than analysis. Its long-running Falklands coverage is a quirk of its South Atlantic focus; skip it if that is not your beat.
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Caracas Chronicles
English, with Spanish versions. The sharpest English-language read on Venezuela. It has survived on reader support for more than two decades in one of the region's hardest media climates, and it gives the economy and everyday life their own sections next to politics, which is what you need to understand how the country actually works. Its Friday newsletter, The Weekly Arepa, is the low-effort way to keep up.
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The Tico Times
English. Costa Rica's leading English-language newspaper, publishing since 1956, and the most practical window on Central America for an English reader. Alongside breaking news it gives real space to travel and real estate, the things foreigners in Costa Rica actually deal with, and its Latin America section keeps tabs on the neighbors. It is lighter on deep analysis than the specialists here, so use it for the daily picture.
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El Faro (digital newspaper)
Spanish, with an English edition. Central America's benchmark for investigative reporting. Founded in San Salvador in 1998 and describing itself as the first digital-native news outlet in Latin America, it registered as a nonprofit in San José, Costa Rica, in 2023, and since 2025 its journalists have kept covering El Salvador from exile. Its beat is accountability: corruption, inequality, impunity and human rights, so read it to understand how power works in the isthmus, not for market news. El Faro English translates key stories.
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La Silla Vacía
Spanish. The site to read if you want to know who actually holds power in Colombia. Founded in 2009 by journalist Juanita León and owned since 2024 by a nonprofit foundation, it builds its coverage around the stories that show how power is exercised, and it has regional sections from Antioquia to the Caribbean coast, so Bogotá does not crowd out the rest of the country. Detector de Mentiras is its fact-checking section. The Spanish is dense with political shorthand, so it rewards readers with some practice.
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Ciper
Spanish. Chile's investigative center, and the place to go when you want to know how the country's markets and institutions really work. Founded in 2007 by journalist Mónica González, CIPER treats private power as seriously as the state: its investigations have taken on private security firms and northern Chile's water markets as well as politics, which matters in an economy built on mining and exports. It publishes fewer pieces than a daily, so check in weekly rather than every morning.
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OjoPúblico
Spanish. Peru changes presidents often enough that you need a source that explains the system rather than the latest crisis, and OjoPúblico is it. Founded in 2014 by a group of reporters including Nelly Luna, it specializes in data and investigative journalism on politics, the environment and human rights, so its stories tend to come with the documents and numbers behind them. It suits readers who want depth on Peru rather than a daily headline feed.
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14ymedio
Spanish, with English translations. The most useful window on daily life inside Cuba. Yoani Sánchez launched it in May 2014 as Cuba's first independent news platform, in a country where all registered media is state-owned, and its team of reporters inside and outside the island covers the economy and everyday hardships that official media skip, even though readers in Cuba get an error message when they try to open it. A selection appears in English on the Translating Cuba site.
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The Gleaner
English. The anchor for following the English-speaking Caribbean, and a reminder that the region's news is not all in Spanish and Portuguese. Jamaica's Gleaner traces its history to a four-page weekly founded by brothers Jacob and Joshua deCordova in 1834 and is now a daily broadsheet, so it pairs deep institutional memory with the day's news from Kingston. Start here, then branch out to papers on the other islands for their own markets.
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Trinidad Express Newspapers
English. The daily to follow for Trinidad and Tobago, one of the Caribbean's big energy producers. First published on June 6, 1967, the Express bills itself as the national newspaper of Trinidad and Tobago and gives business its own local, regional and world pages, so the islands' gas and trade stories sit beside news from the wider Caribbean. Its opinion pages carry a full roster of local columnists, and an e-paper subscription reproduces the print edition for readers who like a front page.
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Le Nouvelliste (Haiti)
French, with English translations. The way to follow Haiti from the inside rather than through crisis headlines from abroad. Published in Port-au-Prince since 1898, Le Nouvelliste covers national politics, society and an economy section of its own, and its English section translates selected articles, so a reader without French can still keep up. The picture shows its first issue under the Le Nouvelliste name, from August 1, 1899.
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Diario Libre
Spanish. The practical pick for the Dominican Republic. Launched on May 10, 2001 as the country's first free newspaper and owned by Grupo Puntacana since July 2023, Diario Libre gives the economy a section of its own, split into finance, tourism, agriculture, energy and macroeconomics, which is exactly the breakdown an exporter or investor needs. Its plain Spanish is easy going for readers still building the language.
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North American Congress on Latin America
English, with sections in Spanish and Portuguese. The counterweight to the business-minded sources here. NACLA, the North American Congress on Latin America, is a nonprofit founded in 1966 whose stated aim is a region free from oppression and injustice and from economic and political subordination to the United States, and its reporting and analysis come from that perspective. Podcasts such as Brazil on Fire bring the same outlook to audio. Read it when you want to know how a reform or trade deal looks to the people living with it.
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El País
América edition
Spanish, with an English edition. The Madrid daily's América edition has sizable local newsrooms in Mexico and Colombia and added a Chile edition in 2023, so it reads as a regional paper in its own right rather than a foreign desk looking in. Its English edition translates a selection of that coverage, which makes it an easy bridge into Spanish-language reporting for readers still building their Spanish.
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Infobae
Spanish. The fastest-moving Spanish-language news site on the list and the closest thing the region has to one homepage. Born in Argentina, it now runs separate editions for Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Central America and Cuba alongside its regional América front, so you can check what Lima and Bogotá are reading without hunting for a dozen local papers. The pace means plenty of quick hits and viral items; use it to see what is breaking, then go to the specialists for depth.
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BBC Mundo
Spanish. The BBC's Spanish-language service is the calm, explanatory option: clear, neutral Spanish and the habit of stepping back to explain why a story matters, which makes it ideal practice reading as well as a dependable briefing. Because it writes for the whole Spanish-speaking world rather than one country, it rarely assumes local knowledge, and its explainers are the thing to reach for when an election or currency crisis has moved too fast to follow.
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Folha de S.Paulo
Portuguese. When you are ready to read Brazil the way Brazilians do, start with Folha. The São Paulo daily is usually counted among Brazil's most influential papers, with a deep bench of columnists who argue with each other in public and an economy section, Mercado, that tracks business and markets closely. Browser translation handles its plain news style well, so it is usable even before your Portuguese is. It was the first Brazilian paper to put up a metered paywall, so expect to subscribe for regular reading.
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