The Latin American Pulse · Saturday, June 13, 2026 · The 60-second read
The bottom line
A World Cup weekend, and the tape still glows from Thursday’s relief rally. A pause in the Iran–Israel fighting and cooler US inflation had lifted the whole region — Argentina to a record, Mexico and Chile snapping back — and those Thursday closes still set the board into the weekend.
Friday’s data leaned the right way for the new right. Argentine inflation cooled again, easing the pressure on Milei, and Mexican industry posted its biggest monthly jump in five years — though Brazilian inflation broke back above target, clouding the case for rate cuts.
Two slow-burn stories ran on. Peru’s knife-edge runoff stayed unresolved, with Sánchez and Fujimori split by about a tenth of a point, while Wall Street began circling a Venezuelan debt restructuring as Western oil majors poured back in.
