Friday’s Latin American Pulse opens with Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz turning his cabinet promise into action — swearing in a new labour minister, opening a humanitarian corridor and vowing to serve “five years” as Washington backs him against an alleged coup — the Colombia–Bolivia rupture hardening as Gustavo Petro says La Paz is “passing into extremism,” a fresh Invamer poll reshaping Colombia’s race nine days out, a Vale–BNDES critical-minerals fund opening in Brazil, Havana branding the Raúl Castro indictment “fraudulent,” and Meta’s job cuts reaching Brazil. Today’s intelligence brief tracks six institutional decisions inside the same 24 hours.
01 · Bolivia — Paz Swaps Labour Minister and Opens a Humanitarian Corridor Volatile
The Latin American Pulse leads in Bolivia, where President Rodrigo Paz turned Wednesday’s cabinet promise into action, swearing in aymara constitutional lawyer Williams Bascopé as labour minister after Edgar Morales — long attacked by the unions — resigned “to pacify the country.” Police cleared a central La Paz route without incident as the government opened a humanitarian corridor for medical oxygen, food and fuel; a child died when an ambulance was diverted around blockades, the fourth death of the conflict. Industry losses topped $600m. Paz vowed to stay “five years to reorder the country,” with US backing from Marco Rubio against the alleged coup.
