Bloomberg Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva plans to boost growth with a campaign against hunger and a program of government-led investments if elected president, all of that without jeopardising fiscal accounts, according to one of his closest aides. Alexandre Padilha, one of Lula’s many representatives in talks with financial markets ahead of the October vote, says that investors need ...

Bloomberg Colombian voters will reject the socialist “Venezuelan model” when they go to the polls in just more than two weeks to decide between the two candidates who’ve qualified for the nation’s runoff election, the outgoing president predicted. “In this election, people are going to go to the polls and definitely say ‘no’ to the Venezuelan model that some want ...

Bloomberg Argentina’s government is expecting record export levels this year as the nation benefits from the surge of commodity prices. South America’s second-largest economy is forecast to export $90 billion of goods this year, according to a senior government official who asked not to be named to discuss unpublished projections. That would be at least a 15% jump from last ...