The US midterm elections will be held on November 3. Citizens will vote to renew all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the 100 Senate seats.

Tensions are running high among members of Congress, who are analyzing hypothetical scenarios to determine the best course of action. President Donald Trump doesn’t seem overly concerned, though he remains vigilant.

The general elections on November 3rd are crucial in determining the course of the country’s democracy. Voters hold the power to elect members of Congress more aligned with the president’s agenda, or the opposite.

Simply put, “if Congress gains seats from the same party as the president, it benefits the president. The opposite is also true: if the president’s party loses seats in Congress, it hinders the implementation of their political program. When Congress and the president belong to the same party, the president can usually pass laws more easily than when faced with obstacles from an opposition party.”

In any case, it is important to remember that the president governs in conjunction with the other two branches of government. Therefore, the November 3rd vote will decide who will make up the legislative branch and represent the interests of the state, rather than the entire country.

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Measles continues to spread in the United States. In the last week, New York declared a public health emergency due to this outbreak, which began in April, and Pennsylvania had thousands of confirmed cases.

Among the measures taken by the authorities are intensified vaccination campaigns, as well as alerting all personnel involved in prevention and care, such as doctors, emergency room staff, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, and midwives.

Nursing staff have also been authorized to request measles tests in cases of suspected infection.

Vaccination is being extended to travelers, particularly infants 6 months and older traveling abroad.

Nationwide, more than four thousand cases of measles have been reported. It is important to remember that the vaccine is the primary prevention tool for the entire population.

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During the first half of 2026, Spanish companies invested €13.232 billion abroad, expanding their focus to the United States and the United Kingdom as their main destinations.

In their aim to attract foreign capital, Spanish companies are concentrating on areas such as financial services, food, and telecommunications, which, according to recent estimates, account for 33 %, 19 %, and 15 % of their investments, respectively.

“In the first half of 2026, gross Spanish investment abroad reached €13.232 billion, 13.2 % more than in the same period of 2025,” according to the latest data from the Foreign Investment Registry of the State Secretariat for Trade.

The United States leads the way in foreign investment, followed by the United Kingdom and Australia. The position of the first two is not circumstantial. “In terms of accumulated stock, the Ministry projected that in 2024 the United States would be the main destination for Spanish investment, with 16 % of the total, and the United Kingdom with another 14 %. Latin America accounted for another 30 %, which paints a picture of a foreign investment portfolio with a strong Anglo-Saxon and Latin American component.”

Behind Spanish investment abroad are large business groups and companies with the capacity to operate internationally, “especially in financial, industrial, and energy activities,” which includes the insurance and manufacturing sectors.

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In a recent announcement, the White House revealed three major energy projects financed with South Korean capital totaling up to $200 billion: a gas-fired power plant in Texas, eight nuclear reactors, and, more conditionally, a gas pipeline in Alaska.

Regarding this agreement, US President Donald Trump, along with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, announced the news on September 30 from the Oval Office, stating: “We are thrilled to announce one of the largest energy infrastructure investments in US history.”

The package is part of the broader $350 billion commitment that Seoul made by 2025 under the bilateral trade agreement that reduced US tariffs on Korean goods from 25 % to 15 %. It also includes $150 billion for shipbuilding and $100 billion in liquefied natural gas purchases.

New plants of liquefied gas and nuclear reactors

Project Star is the most advanced initiative, focused on a 6,472-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Encinal, Texas, thanks to a $22.3 billion investment. NextEra Energy is leading the project, in conjunction with Lewis Energy Group for site development, gas supply, and water. It was specifically designed to power data centers and other electricity-intensive facilities, such as semiconductor plants, located adjacent to the plant itself.

They expect the first phase to begin operations in 2029, with full operation in 2032. South Korea will supply the equipment, engineering, and construction, and could extend the use of its turbines to other similar projects in the US.

The second part of the investment corresponds to Project Power, which comprises eight nuclear reactors and the return of nuclear power, through a $120 billion investment. The eight nuclear reactors will be located in states such as Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Kentucky.

“Six would be AP1000 reactors from the American company Westinghouse, and two would use the South Korean APR1400 design, in an agreement signed jointly by both governments, Westinghouse Electric, Korea Electric Power Corp., and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.”

The third project, called Project North, involves the development of the Alaskan liquefied natural gas pipeline, valued between $50 billion and $54 billion, designed to transport gas from the North Slope to the state’s southern coast and export it liquefied to Asian markets. Unlike the other two projects, this one has not yet been finalized, pending confirmation of its commercial viability.

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New movements by the cybercriminal group “FamousSparrow,” an APT (prolonged and stealthy cyberattack) where an intruder gains access to a network and remains hidden for a period of time to steal data or spy, have been revealed, reported ESET, a leading company in proactive threat detection. This time, ESET discovered that the group has deployed a new backdoor — hidden code in a program or system that allows unauthorized access and bypasses security — targeting several Latin American countries, at least since August 2025.

“We believe this geographic focus is not accidental and likely reflects China’s response to various recent US initiatives in the region. In fact, Donald Trump’s second presidential term has seen an aggressive reassertion of US interests in Latin America, which puts several strategic investments that China has developed on the continent over the last decade in sectors such as energy, mining, and telecommunications at risk. We suspect that FamousSparrow’s activities aim to help China better monitor and anticipate the reactions of local governments to current US pressure,” commented the ESET research team.

FamousSparrow is a Chinese-linked cyberespionage group believed to have been active since at least 2019. Initially known for targeting hotels worldwide, it has also targeted governments, international organizations, trade associations, engineering firms, and law firms.

Currently, the group appears to be focusing on high-profile targets in Latin America. This trend reportedly began in July 2025 and has continued with the arrival of a new backdoor dubbed SparroWocky by ESET. In fact, between mid-2025 and 2026, 90% of the group’s targets recorded in ESET telemetry were located in the region.

Prolonged and stealthy cyberattack

ESET observed the deployment of the new backdoor against government entities in Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. This is an unusual case among the Chinese-linked APT groups that the research team had been monitoring, as their operations were typically spread across different regions of the world over extended periods.

While ESET states that it is still unclear whether the group’s apparent focus on Latin America is due to a formal geographic mandate or a temporary priority driven by current geopolitical circumstances, some cases seem to support the latter hypothesis. For example, one of the Panamanian entities identified by ESET as a target is directly involved in the trade dispute surrounding two major ports in the canal area, which until recently were operated by a Chinese-based company.

Given that the concession granted to that company was legally questioned by the Panamanian government at the beginning of 2025, ESET comments that it could be likely that the FamousSparrowgroup operation sought to obtain advance and privileged information about the intentions of local authorities regarding this matter.

Regarding the novelty of this discovery by ESET is the identification of SparroWocky, a new custom backdoor developed in C++, which incorporates more sophisticated evasion techniques to go unnoticed. This backdoor with extensive capabilities manipulates low-level structures in memory and modifies code at runtime to evade detection.

Additionally, it has the ability to load and run Beacon Object Files (BOF), a special type of executable file supported by numerous network teaming and penetration testing tools. The backdoor allows FamousSparrow to have the development capabilities necessary to integrate code from open source projects directly into its own custom backdoor.

ESET invites you to learn more about computer security and this finding by visiting: https://www.welivesecurity.com/es/investigaciones/famoussparrow-america-latina-sparrowocky/.

To obtain other useful preventive data, it is also available in Venezuela: https://www.eset.com/ve/, and its social networks @eset_ve. Also Instagram (@esetla) and Facebook (ESET).

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The US Federal Reserve decided to raise interest rates to the 3.75 %-4 % range in a scenario characterized by high inflation.

This is the Fed’s first rate hike since July 2013 and one of the most controversial decisions by the new chairman of the agency, Kevin Warsh.

The rate increase could “intensify the differences with President Donald Trump, who has publicly pushed for lower rates.”

BREAKING: The Federal Reserve unanimously raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point and penciled in an additional hike later this year.

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Projections point to a further increase before the end of 2026, although indicators such as inflation, employment, consumption, and financial conditions in the coming months will be crucial.

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On September 2, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued General Licenses 51D, 54C, and 55A, which ease sanctions applied to the coal and minerals industry in Venezuela, including gold.

The licenses pave the way for “international commercial operations, service provision, and investments with state-owned companies such as Carbones del Zulia S.A. (Carbozulia) and CVG Compañía General de Minería de Venezuela C.A. (Minerven) with U.S. entities.”

Specifically, License 51D “authorizes the export, re-export, purchase, sale, transportation, and refining of Venezuelan coal and minerals and stipulates that all monetary payments to blocked individuals or state entities must be deposited in Foreign Government Deposit Funds, preventing the direct transfer of foreign currency without oversight,” and establishes the obligation that any litigation or arbitration be resolved in courts in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, or Singapore.

On the other hand, License 54C allows the provision of “goods, services, technology, software, and preventive maintenance or repair of equipment necessary for mineral exploration and processing in the country.” However, it stipulates that “companies providing these services must submit reports every 90 days to the Department of State and the Department of the Interior detailing the parties involved, volumes, amounts, and taxes paid.”

Finally, LG 55A allows the negotiation and signing of “letters of intent, memoranda of understanding, and bid offers for future investments or the creation of joint ventures,” with the essential condition that “the execution of any new project will depend on additional specific authorization or a license from OFAC.”

Among the applicable restrictions are prohibitions aimed at containing the influence of countries it considers non-aligned and untraceable payment schemes. The new licenses prohibit any transaction, joint venture, or refining involving individuals, companies, or governments from Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and China. It also restricts any payments in cryptocurrencies or Venezuelan government tokens (including the Petro), as well as debt swaps or in-kind payments.

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With 370 votes in favor and 48 against, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday, September 1st, to extend the federal budget, effective from September 30th to December 11th.

This extension, which had already been approved by the Senate in August, prevented a government shutdown before the November 3rd midterm elections and its consequences for the country, such as the suspension of salaries for thousands of federal workers and the closure of numerous agencies nationwide, among others.

As you may recall, in 2025 the longest government shutdown in U.S. history occurred, lasting 43 days, due to the lack of agreement between Republicans and Democrats to extend subsidies for health plans under the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.

Members of Congress appear to be taking more cautious measures given the approaching midterm elections, which will determine the Republican majority in Congress, a majority that supports the Trump administration’s agenda.

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The Chinese company Huawei and the US company HP signed a multi-year global cross-licensing agreement for WiFi technology standards.

According to the statement released last Wednesday, “the agreement will allow HP, a computer company based in Palo Alto, California, to use certain Huawei patents related to WiFi in its computers and peripherals, while the Chinese technology company will in turn obtain rights to patents from the US company,” according to a statement from the Chinese company.

The two companies have joined forces in a patent licensing agreement covering essential standards for Wi-Fi technology, used throughout the industry and particularly by companies whose products connect to these types of networks.

 “Huawei is among the largest international patent applicants, standing out as the top applicant in 2025, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), along with South Korean companies Samsung and LG. These three companies filed the most applications last year with the European Patent Office (EPO).”

Furthermore, it maintains bilateral agreements and participates in patent pools to license mobile communications, Wi-Fi, and audio and video encoding technologies. In this regard, it currently holds 165,000 active patents granted worldwide, according to internal sources.

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The BankChain Alliance, formed by 39 banking associations in the United States, is scheduled to launch in 2027. They aim to give the industry its own blockchain network to establish smart payments, tokenized deposits, and stablecoin transactions.

The BankChain Alliance is “an industry-owned, industry-designed, and industry-governed network,” operating within the regulated sphere of national banking. Kathy Kraninger, CEO of the Florida Bankers Association, was selected to lead the project.

The official described it as “a secure and regulated network for banks of all sizes, including those in rural communities.”

Currently, there is no technology partner, so the changes have not yet been described. In any case, it is expected that BankChain Alliance will be able to operate with other blockchain systems.

“If the project moves forward, the competition will not only be between crypto companies and banks, but also between banking rails for tokenized money and public networks.Until there is a technology partner, a pilot program, or a concrete implementation, BankChain remains a project under development, although the announcement shows that traditional banking is looking to take a more active role in blockchain-based financial infrastructure.”

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