📊 Amazon Land, Big Loans, and the Reconquista

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Today's charts:

1. The distribution of Foreign Direct Investment in LatAm 💵 💶

2. Can you guess which 3 US states are now predominantly Latino? 🌎

3. A historical look at the Amazon rainforest 🌳

Make sure you check out the comment of the week at the bottom!

Investment 💵 💶

For those of you who read our weekly Domingo Brief, it can seem like investment headlines dominate regional news each week. For those of you who don’t…well, what are you waiting for?

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is when an investor based in one country purchases – and manages – an asset in another country. It can include mergers and acquisitions and so-called “greenfield” investments, wherein new facilities such as subsidiaries are created.