Latin America
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Brazil Puts Four Highway Concessions on the Block in Five Weeks, and Every One Carries a 20-Year Maintenance Fleet
Brazil's federal highway programme closes 2026 with four concession auctions between 12 November and 18 December, from the R$10.4 billion re-bid of BR-163 to the R$15.7 billion Rota 2 de Julho in Bahia. Whoever wins takes on the construction programme and two decades of operation — the phase in which tow trucks, water tankers, sweepers and flatbeds are actually bought.
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Peru Puts a Scrappage-Style Truck Fleet Renewal Pilot on the Table as Its Diesel Subsidy Expires on 15 November
Peru's Ministry of Transport and Communications sat down with the country's truck owners on 16 October 2026 and put a pilot fleet-renewal programme on the table — public incentives, purchase bonuses and scrapping mechanisms — just as the S/4-per-gallon diesel subsidy created under Emergency Decree 007-2026 enters its final claim window, which closes on 15 November. With diesel up more than half in real terms in a year and no extension announced, the government is steering hauliers toward gas.
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Dominican Republic Hands Municipalities 50 More Compactor Trucks, Taking the National Programme to 100 Units
Fifty more refuse compactor trucks have been handed to municipalities and municipal districts across the Dominican Republic in a second distribution that lifts the presidential programme's total to 100 units. Handed over on 13 October 2026 on the instructions of President Luis Abinader, the batch extends a scheme that began in 14 provinces to municipalities and municipal districts in 18 more — from Dajabón on the Haitian border to tourist-coast provinces such as Puerto Plata, Samaná and La Altagracia — and came with an unusually blunt warning from the presiding minister: the trucks will only last as long as the maintenance discipline behind them.
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Peru's Works-for-Taxes Pipeline Hits a Record S/9.4 Billion in 2026, With Roads Taking the Largest Share
Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversión reports that the 'Obras por Impuestos' mechanism adjudicated 691 public-works projects worth S/9,409 million between January and September 2026 — more than triple the same period of 2025 and the highest nine-month total in the mechanism's 18-year history. Transport, at S/3,242 million, took the largest share, and regional governments captured half of the money while municipalities led by project count.
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Mexico Advances Southeastern Highway Widening to 64% Under a 3,161 km Priority-Roads Programme
Mexico's Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) says modernisation works scheduled for 2026 on the Macuspana-Escarcega highway in the country's southeast are 64% complete, with 65 work fronts expanding 54 kilometres to four lanes across Tabasco, Campeche and Chiapas. The 249-kilometre project carries an investment of 25.022 billion pesos (US$1.463 billion) and forms part of a federal programme that allocates 154.616 billion pesos (US$9.042 billion) to 3,161 kilometres of priority roads.
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Bogotá North Access Concession Closes US$381m Debt Facility
Concesión Ruta Bogotá Norte has reached financial close on a COP 1,220 billion (US$381 million) debt facility to fund construction on Bogotá’s northern access corridor. Colombia’s national development bank, Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional, holds 50% of the syndicated facility, with J.P. Morgan and MUFG at 25% each.
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