Uber is the world's largest provider of ride-hailing services, and it also owns one of the top food delivery platforms. It operates in over 15,000 cities across 75 countries and served 189 million monthly active platform customers (MAPCs) as of the end of the third quarter of 2025. That's more than double its 93 million MAPCs at the end of 2020.

2026 began with heightened geopolitical tension as the US captured Venezuelan leader Maduro, impacting energy, precious metals, and Latin American equity markets. Venezuela's vast but underutilized oil reserves require years of investment and regulatory clarity before materially influencing global oil markets.

Startup investment in Latin America is expected to rebound in 2026, with fintech firms poised to attract the largest share of new capital after several years of subdued funding, according to a report by Bloomberg Línea.

Latin America is poised for a watershed moment in 2026, as new US tariffs and an increase in oil output change the region's economic and energy landscape.

Latin America is finally attracting a larger pool of capital from abroad. The region’s financial system has always been fragmented. Divided by borders, currencies and regulatory silos, it has been hard for capital to flow freely across the region.

Chinese state-backed money is remaking the hemisphere’s ports, reshaping grain routes to Asia and squeezing U.S. farmers as tariffs deepen the split with Washington.

For years, Latin America has been spoken of primarily as a supplier, a hub for perishables, electronics, and auto parts feeding the U.S. and Europe. Fast

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The head of the U.N. commission on Latin America, Jose Manuel Salazar, urged the region's countries to diversify their export and import markets and to integrate their economies in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

Demand patterns from North America and Europe have long driven private aviation. These markets are still core to their business, but another region is now

In Latin America, socialism’s merits have “failed to deliver, and in doing so, has harmed the quality of democracy,” Abdala said. U.S. spending has increased significantly over the past century, and as of late-December, the national debt sits at $38.5 trillion.