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Sunday, November 8, 2026 (UTC) · No. 79
The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Banco de la República cuts 2027 growth forecast and Colombia employers submit minimum wage proposals while Don Omar announces concert dates.

Colombia Faces Economic Shifts · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on cf-lucid, 2026-11-08 00:18Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A rainy day in Bogotá, people in raincoats and umbrellas walk past a large Colombian flag, with a group of musicians setting up stage equipment in the background, and a line of people waiting to enter a building with a signless but ornate facade, under grey skies with dark clouds.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A rainy day in Bogotá, people in raincoats and umbrellas walk past a large Colombian flag, with a group of musicians setting up stage equipment in the background, and a line of people waiting to enter a building with a signless but ornate facade, under grey skies with dark clouds. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

4af992c1e82e314a7f1cef0ae4b60e259c91fe494b037e9ffa6e6a3c41cb52f7
Economy & Business

Banco de la República holds policy rate, cuts 2027 growth forecast to 1.7%

Colombia's central bank issued monetary policy decisions the week of 6 November 2026, alongside regional inflation and rate data.

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Banco de la República has held its benchmark monetary policy rate unchanged and lowered its official 2027 national economic growth forecast to 1.7%. The Board of Directors voted by majority to maintain the interest rate at 12.25%.

Grupo Cibest reported Colombian monthly food inflation was 0.38% in October 2026. Annual food inflation for the period stood at 7.57%.

Across the region, Banco Central de Venezuela recorded October 2026 monthly consumer inflation at 6.2%, the lowest rate in 24 months. Banco de México voted 3-2 on 6 November to reduce its benchmark interest rate from 6.50% to 6.25%.

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Banco de la República holds policy rate and cuts 2027 growth forecast while Mexico publishes Digital Payments Law.

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Mexico publishes Digital Payments Law as part of 2027 Economic Package

The law, released on 4 November, lets the finance ministry designate sectors for exclusive electronic payments.

Colombia prepares for elections and responds to earthquake aid issues while Venezuelan nationals face expulsion and a gas pipeline is classified as strategic.

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Colombia classifies idle La Guajira-Venezuela gas pipeline as national strategic project

Ecopetrol will reactivate the long inactive Antonio Ricaurte line to import natural gas from Venezuela.

Mexico activates avian influenza protocols in Yucatán poultry farm

National agriculture authorities implemented international sanitary measures after AH5N1 was confirmed at a commercial operation in Umán.
By Isabela Moreno · 21h

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