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The article discusses Peru's rapidly expanding online gambling market, projected to grow by 104% over the next three years, and concerns about new tax proposals targeting the industry including market growth potential, proposed taxes, and legal challenges to excessive taxation.

The article provides an overview of gambling-related developments in Latin America. It discusses the debate in the Brazilian Senate over a casino and bingo bill, highlighting the potential economic impact of a full casino law in Brazil. The article also mentions the GAT Showcase Bogotá 2024 as a networking platform for the gaming industry in South America and the upcoming G2E 2024 event in Las Vegas. In Argentina, the Instituto Provincial de Lotería y Casinos announces the sale of seven Buenos Aires casinos, emphasizing the need for stable casino labor sources. In Puerto Rico, new regulations for route slot machines have been approved, while in Colombia, regulations for the game Keno have been issued. The Federation of Lottery Retail Vendors in the Dominican Republic has called on the government to finalize the National Plan for the Regularization of lottery retail vendors and criticized the proposed online interconnection plan. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the growth of the gaming industry in Latin America, emphasizing Brazil's upcoming vote on a casino and bingo bill, which President Lula supports to enhance economic development. Topics include Brazil generating over the 554 million U.S. dollars from online betting licenses, the country's efforts to establish a regulated gambling market, and Colombia's online gambling sector contributing significantly to Gross Domestic Product growth and tax revenue.

The article focuses on recent legislative and regulatory developments in Brazil and Peru's gaming sectors, including progress towards legalizing casinos in Brazil with the advancement of bill PL 2234/22 and Yuri Guerra's appointment as head of Peru's gaming authority. It also discusses Brazil's initiatives in sports betting and online gambling, alongside Caixa Loterias' social contributions.

The article focuses on the Sports Betting Community (SBC) Summit Rio, highlighting the booming Brazilian sports betting and online gaming industry. Topics include the event's overwhelming success and the need for increased capacity in future editions, updates on gaming regulations in Colombia, Peru's online regulation process, and highlights from Sagse LatAm.

The article focuses on recent developments in the gaming industry across various countries, including Peru's appointment of Yuri Guerra as the new Director General of Juegos de Casino y Maquinas Tragamonedas, Brazil's regulatory progress highlighted by José Francisco Manssur, and testing authorizations granted by Peru's Mincetur to laboratories such as Asensi Technologies, eCOGRA, and GLI for new iGaming and betting products.

The article offers news briefs related to significant developments in South America. Brazil enacts sports betting regulations, including online gambling. Brazil has 134 operators ready for sports betting and online casino licenses. Mexico introduces a presidential decree limiting casino operating permits to 15 years, impacting both new and existing operators.

The article focuses on recent developments in South American gambling legislation, highlighting the approval of a bill to regulate sports betting by the Brazilian Senate's Economic Affairs Committee. Topics discussed include the authorization of casino operating permits in Chile and Mexico's executive decree limiting casino operation permits to 15 years.

The article discusses the approval of sports betting legislation in Brazil, along with legislative efforts in Chile and Ecuador to regulate the sector and online gambling. It highlights developments in the Latin American gaming industry, including new hotel-casino proposals in Uruguay and the opening of Bingo Imperatriz in El Salvador, as well as the upcoming gaming events in Las Vegas and Florida.

The article discusses the impact of technology on society, with generational differences in perception, acknowledging both the benefits and risks. It highlights concerns about potential technological vulnerabilities in casino card shuffling machines and the use of social media to organize criminal behavior, especially in the context of casinos as potential targets, emphasizing the need for innovative security strategies in the gaming industry.

The article the focuses on the issue of regulatory postponements for sports betting in Brazil. It informs that sports betting regulations require revision by a mixed parliamentary commission. It further informs that the presidents of both legislative chambers do not agree that a mixed commission should do the revision job.

The article provides information on the successful SAGSE LatAm event held in Buenos Aires, featuring the latest offerings in the regional gaming industry. It also mentions the negative impact of the Squid Case on the Dominican Republic's gaming industry and the legal disputes surrounding casino licenses in Chile. Additionally, it mentions upcoming events such as the GCS in the Bahamas, AINSWORTH's private event in Mexico City, and the Ibero-American Gaming Summit in Panama.

The article discusses Enjoy S.A.'s efforts to keep its Puerto Varas Casino operating in Chile despite facing legal challenges and severe financial difficulties, including an extension request for bankruptcy protection.

The article discusses Coljuegos' recent actions to shut down multiple websites involved in illegal gambling in Colombia, emphasizing their commitment to monitoring and enforcing laws to protect players and support the healthcare system.

The article offers news briefs related to the gambling industry in Latin America as of February 2023. The legalization of online sports betting is a priority for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's President after the rejection of the Sports betting Regulations Decree by former Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro. A hotel casino project has been approved by Paysandú Province Mayor Nicolás Olivera in Uruguay. The betting market of Mexico is expected to grow to two billion dollars.

The article offers news brief from the casino industry of South America. The Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Roberto Sánchez, announced a regulations draft for law number 31557, covering exploitation of online gambling and sports betting. Approval of Casino Bill, PL 442/91, by the Chamber of Representatives in February 2022. Puerto Rico Gaming Commission authorized seven new licenses in the category of sports betting operators, as recommended by the Sports Betting Bureau.

The article presents several South American news briefs on topics including: progress in the gambling and betting industry in Casinos in Latin America; Brazil's House of Representatives has approved a bill authorizing the Federal Government to create health and tourism lotteries; and Paraguay's National Gambling Commission has called on private companies to exploit sports betting, amid a criminal investigation for apparent punishable acts in the management of gambling.

The article presents an interview with Andre Gelfi, Managing Partner Brazil of Betsson Group, discussing the Instituto Brasileiro de Jogo Responsável (IBJR). Topics discussed include the origins and industry support of IBJR, its focus on responsible gaming advocacy and education, and its efforts in shaping Brazil's emerging betting and gambling regulations.

The article presents the various news brief related to the casino industry in South America which includes casino legislation approved online gambling and regulated sports betting process; offers information about the Colombia GAT Showcase, the Latin American elite gaming, on September 2022 at the Sheraton Hotel in Bogotá, and investments in the health of Colombians from the gambling industry.

An introduction is presented where the editor discusses the articles on the topics including sport betting and internet gambling in Peru, Chile and Brazil, approval of a sport betting bill by Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro and reports from Panama the where the Gaming Control Board has launched the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Pathological Gambling Program in order to help gamblers.

The article offers news briefs related to online gaming and casino industry in Latin America on topics including the beginning of online gambling tender for the Cordoba province Lottery in Argentina; the revocation of the contract awarded to Icrop S.A. for the operation of slot machines in Paraguay; and the extension in the period of analysis for the merger between Enjoy S.A. and Dreams S.A., the major casino industry operators in Chile by the Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE).

The article highlights the Central Bank of Uruguay's new regulation prohibiting payment service providers from facilitating transactions related to illegal online gambling and betting.

The article details the expected Senate vote on Bill PL 2.234/2024 to legalize casinos in Brazil, which could significantly boost the economy and job market, with Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco prioritizing it for the second half of the year.

The article covers Brazil's forthcoming Senate vote on a casino bill and the associated tax implications, while also detailing a Mexican judge's ruling against recent gaming regulation reforms. It highlights the iGaming Central America event in San Juan, Costa Rica on August 6 and 7, and upcoming GAT events in Bogotá and Santo Domingo in September.

The article offers information on developments associated happenings in the South America. The Loteria de Cordoba Board approved a resolution for a tender process to grant up to 10 licences for the exploitation and operation of online gambling in the Argentine province, which has a population of nearly 3 million. Coljuegos president and representatives of the Operador Nacional de Juegos, signed the contract for the Baloto lottery game for a period of five years.

The article offers information on the GAT Expo in Colombia held in mid-March 2022. Topics include the issue of Baloto, the Colombian lottery with biweekly draws, where for about a dollar fifty anyone can win enough cash, need for Colombian State to reduce the tax for the Baloto operation, and tax paid by the Colombian subsidiary of International Gaming Technology.

The article offers review on e GAT Expo 2022 held in Cartagena, Colombia which will be celebrated from March 15-18; and will remain in the region, as the SAGSE Latam expo event will take place at the end of March in elegant Buenos Aires.

The article reports on the Latin American region continues with much promise of prompt recovery in the Gaming industry, beginning with the inauguration of the new Casino in the East of Mendoza province, close to 2022 New Year.

The article offers information related to happenings in North America. Some of them includes development of the gaming sector despite Covid-19 pandemic with great advances of legislative projects in Uruguay and Brazil; publishing of the House of Representatives Working Group for the Regulatory Gambling Framework in Brazil on September 24, 2022; absence of bidders in the Baloto lottery tender announced by Coljuegos.

The article presents the Latino America news briefs. Topics include Global Gaming Expo (G2E) presented by the American Gaming Association (AGA) returning to Las Vegas for the first in-person trade show after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic; and opinion of the Commission for the fight against Drug Trafficking being at the base of the new slots bill decision.

The article offers information on the casinos and slots operations which continue to open slow, the sports betting and online gambling segments which continue gaining a foothold in Latin America with regulations, without regulations due to Covid-19 pandemic. It discusses that local experts estimate that sports betting is being exploited virtually in the country by foreign companies, with revenues of about 500 million dollars per year that end up being sent out of Brazil.

The article focuses on the views of the author on what is happening in South America. Topics discussed include the first thing that came into our head to get us out of the rut as we stoically endure lockdown measures was to let you know a firm date for the Colombian event, GAMING & TECHNOLOGY EXPO, has been set for August 2021; and assuring us that it will be a resounding success in the Caribbean City of Cartagena.

The article discusses that the exceeded the limits of developing cultures of the third or fourth world and punish all the very best countries on the planet. It mentions that some of these have had to put up with pitiful decisions by their rulers, from the apocryphal ivory tower of the American president, who is on his way out, to countries like Brazil where a caricature of Trump brings misgovernment and misery to this beautiful and much-loved country.

The article presents updates on the casino industry in South America as of September 2020. Topics include findings on the report "Gambling--Global Market Trajectory & Analytics," published by Research and Markets.com" about the global gaming market, the presidential decree in Brazil which formalized the classification in the Programa de Parcerias de Investimentos (PPI), and the sale of stake of Sun International in casino operator Sun Dreams to Chile's Nueva Inversiones Pacifico Sur Limitada.

The article informs that Latin America do not show respite as the COVID-19 pandemic advances relentlessly in every country and brings increasing misery on political, economic and social grounds. It mentions that many one-sided visionaries are in charge in countries from Brazil to Bolivia where they obsequiously seek to follow on the U.S. President Donald Trump's egotist, anti-scientific regurgitations, as well as resides on the lack of knowledge about COVID-19 and measures to slow its spread.

The article offers several news briefs. Topics discussed include the regulatory agency Casinos del Estado, will submit a programme to reopen casino doors in the so-called "new normal," owing to the coronavirus pandemic, and the owners of the largest casinos in Buenos Aires have filed a suit against Loteria de Buenos Aires including gaming regulators for Argentina's capital province which is in the process of tendering online gaming licenses begun by the previous administration in 2019.

The article discusses the global society is threatened by the coronavirus pandemic in in South America, including National authorities in most countries made decisions during March announcing the closure of casinos, bingos, slots, etc.

The article reports that tiny political groups with elected Congress representatives were seeking to form pacts to take over the presidency of the Peruvian Congress and form legislative commissions for online gambling thereafter.