The Short Version
In short: Your LatAm expat and nomad daily guide for Monday, August 10. Colombia’s new government has moved from speeches to signed decrees, the Colombian peso has just finished a violent round trip that left it roughly where it started, and three inflation prints land between Tuesday and Thursday.
Colombia gets a government on paper. Six decrees went out on 7 August, numbers 1133 to 1138. Decree 1136 named all eighteen ministers, and the spending freeze has now reached the ministries: Interior has suspended new contracting and limited hiring until 20 August.
The peso’s round trip. The official TRM was 3,132.42 on 31 July, spiked to 3,230.44 on 4 August and sits at 3,157.43 today. Anyone who converted at the wrong moment last week paid for the handover.
Inflation week. Brazil’s IPCA lands Tuesday, US CPI Wednesday and Argentina’s INDEC print Thursday. If you earn in dollars and spend in reais or pesos, this is the week that matters.
