☀ Domingo Brief — Booming degrees, Brazil-Mexico growth upgrades, & Argentine digital money

Each Sunday, take two minutes to catch key stories and opportunities shaping Latin America.

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Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! This week, we’re taking a look at a new Pew Research Center report on higher education for Latinos in the US, as well as Bolivia’s tourist boom, Argentina’s new currency bill, and more.

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Trivia of the Week

Precisely half of you were right last week: Peru does not form part of the Lithium Triangle like its southern neighbors do, though the Andean country does have its own reserves of the precious mineral.

Each week, tune back in for the answer to the previous week’s trivia question. No cheating!

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🇦🇷 Argentina is moving forward on a digital currency bill that Minister of Economy (and presidential candidate) Sergio Massa is sending to the country’s congress for approval. Citing success in Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden, as well as to some degree in neighboring Brazil, Massa and the incumbent government is hoping that a digital currency will allay some of his country’s deep-rooted money problems and provide a political boost ahead of this month’s presidential election.

Latinometrics: The election in two weeks promises to be a bitterly-fought, polarizing one. Currently, both Massa and opposition candidate Patricia Bullrich trail the frontrunner, libertarian ultraconservative outsider Javier Milei.

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🇧🇴 Bolivia has received 700K tourists as of July of this year, generating an estimated economic boom of $430M. It’s expected that the country will reach 900K tourists this year, for a total generation of roughly $700M. This number reflects an estimated 24% growth year-over-year from 2022’s figures.