Overview
- Peru heads into another national election debate run by the JNE, with Keiko Fujimori and Mesías Guevara set to face off again on education, innovation and technology.
- The ballot features a record 35 candidates, yet polls show right‑leaning Keiko Fujimori and Rafael López Aliaga leading toward a likely runoff.
- Crime dominates voter concerns after 3,675 homicides were recorded in 2025, the highest since 2011, pushing tougher proposals on courts and prisons to the fore.
- Argentina gained breathing room when the U.S. Second Circuit overturned a US$16.1 billion ruling tied to the 2012 YPF takeover, even as the Manuel Adorni controversy drew a surge of negative online reaction that kept the government on the back foot.
- War in the Middle East led Formula 1 to cancel the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races, creating a near five‑week break before Miami, and it also forced Iraq’s national team into a complex, FIFA‑assisted journey to Monterrey for a playoff that was not postponed.