Bloomberg Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas ended her 16-month governing coalition after weeks of political squabbling, saying she’ll seek to form a new alliance as the Baltic nation confronts its biggest security threat in decades. “There needs to be a functioning government that has shared values,” Kallas, the 44-year-old leader whose popularity has soared with her hard line on Russian ...

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 ...