Domingo Brief — Mexicana’s resurrection, Colombian solar farms, & Argentina at the Golden Globes

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

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🇦🇷 Argentina, 1985 was awarded the 2022 Golden Globe award for Best Picture in Non-English Language. The courtroom drama follows the events of the 1985 Trial of the Juntas, under which Argentina’s civilian government prosecuted key figures of the military dictatorship that ruled over the country between 1976 and 1983.

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🇧🇷 Brazilian two-way trade with the United States reached $88.7B in 2022, a new record that tops the previous year’s amount by over $18.2B. Brazilian exports to the US grew by 20.2%, while imports from the US grew by 30.3%.

Latinometrics: As the two biggest countries in the Americas, Brazil and the US have an important role to play in trade and development within the hemisphere. The US is today Brazil’s 2nd-largest trade partner, ahead of Argentina and behind only China.

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🇨🇴 Colombian energy firm Ecopetrol has partnered with Total Eren to build a solar farm in Puerto Gaitán, in the Meta department. Once operational, the farm will include 180K solar panels and generate sufficient clean energy to meet the needs of 150K people daily.