by Paul Brown | Jul 10, 2026 | Hispano-Luso Report
The Hispano-Luso Report — Friday 10 July 2026 Five days from now, on 15 July, President Trump decides whether to hit Brazilian goods with new tariffs of up to 37.5%. This week, in a Washington hearing room, the two countries argued their cases across 81 speeches and...
by Paul Brown | Jul 8, 2026 | Hispano-Luso Report
The Hispano-Luso Report — Wednesday 8 July 2026 The largest infrastructure project in Canadian history — a 1,000-kilometre high-speed railway from Toronto to Quebec City, with trains running at 300 km/h — has just brought in its expert advisers. Among them, working...
by Paul Brown | Jul 6, 2026 | Hispano-Luso Report
The Hispano-Luso Report — Monday 6 July 2026 For the first time since the Falklands War, Britain and Argentina could end up inside the same trade pact — the CPTPP — and it is Argentina asking to come in. In early June, Argentina’s foreign minister, Pablo Quirno,...
by Paul Brown | Jul 3, 2026 | Hispano-Luso Report
The Hispano-Luso Report — Friday 3 July 2026 On Wednesday, on a quiet video call between three trade ministers, the largest trade agreement on Earth began a ten-year countdown towards its own expiry. The occasion was the first formal joint review of the USMCA — the...
by Paul Brown | Jul 1, 2026 | Hispano-Luso Report
This week, Petrobras overtook Mercado Libre to become the most valuable publicly traded company in Latin America, with its market capitalisation jumping from roughly US$75 billion to more than US$101 billion. Itaú Unibanco also leapfrogged Mercado Libre in the...
by Paul Brown | Jun 29, 2026 | Hispano-Luso Report
Hispano-Luso Report — from the Spanish- and Portuguese-language press, before it reaches the English-language news On Friday, Argentina signed up to Pax Silica, a US-led alliance of 35 countries built to secure the raw materials, energy and semiconductors that...
