Washington's advocacy operating system has changed. In Latin America it changed first, and harder — the public-affairs playbook for 2026.
Twenty-five days into the EU-Mercosur iTA, the question for U.S. multinationals isn't whether the deal holds. It's where their SKUs sit in the 15-year preference gap.
The November 2023 ruling that shut Cobre Panamá isn't the outlier. It's the template, and the trap. Operators across the Andean copper belt are quietly repricing community license against it, project by project.
The Venezuela window everyone called 12 months is now 4. What claimants, operators, and GA leads should do between May and September 2026.
The consensus says the Petro era ends August 7 and the file goes back to 2022. Half right. The reforms that survived have built operational interests the next administration inherits — and will not staff out.
Greer's two-protocol architecture has replaced the July 1 USMCA deadline with a 2026-2027 negotiation. Here is how GA teams should replan.
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