# latamref - Latin American Government Reference Data

> latamref - Latin American Government Reference Data is a paid API for AI agents from latamref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns authoritative government reference values (policy rates, VAT, minimum wages, public holidays) for a specific Latin American country and data series, with official source citations and staleness flags.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://latamref.dev/v1/%7Bcountry%7D/%7Bseries%7D
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/latamref-latin-american-government-reference-data-a0e578a8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_gXDJw0eAoURONKwkpUIo5

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability latamref-latin-american-government-reference-data-a0e578a8
```

Example prompt: What is the current central bank policy rate for Brazil — give me the official figure with its source citation and effective date.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, citation-backed Latin American government reference data (policy rates, VAT, minimum wages, public holidays) with explicit primary-source URLs, effective dates, and staleness indicators — especially for compliance, financial modeling, or any use case where traceability to official government sources matters. Prefer it over general web search or financial data aggregators when you need structured JSON with per-field provenance for one of the 12 supported LATAM countries.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country code returns an error or empty response
- Unsupported series type for a given country returns an error
- Value returned as null when the official rate has been discontinued (with explanation in notes field)
- Stale flag set to true if the value has not been recently confirmed against official sources
- Network or service unavailability returns HTTP error

## How this service works

Authoritative Latin American government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Argentina (ar), Brazil (br), Chile (cl), Colombia (co), Costa Rica (cr), Dominican Republic (do), Ecuador (ec), Guatemala (gt), Mexico (mx), Peru (pe), Paraguay (py), Uruguay (uy). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing: the data series value (or null with explanation if discontinued), its unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, a staleness boolean, structured source attribution (name + URL to official government or central bank document), country code, series name, contextual notes, and a disclaimer about independent status.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "unit": "percent (TNA)",
  "notes": "Served as null on purpose. On 2025-07-10 the BCRA discontinued the Letras Fiscales de Liquidez (LeFi) and, with them, ended the tasa de política monetaria that had functioned as its reference rate. Under the current monetary-aggregates regime the BCRA controls the quantity of money and lets interest rates be determined endogenously by market supply and demand — it no longer sets or publishes a single policy rate, so no honest primary-source figure exists for this field. The nearest published benchmark the BCRA and market now watch is the TAMAR (Tasa Mayorista de Argentina, based on 30–35 day wholesale time deposits of ARS 1bn+): 22.63% TNA for 30-day deposits per BCRA data as of 2026-07-14 (https://www.lamacro.ar/variables), but this is a market-calculated rate, NOT a BCRA-set policy rate, so it is reported here only as context. Because inflation and money-market rates move fast, re-verify on a short cycle. History below shows the last explicit policy rates before abolition.",
  "stale": false,
  "value": null,
  "series": "policy-rate",
  "source": {
   "url": "https://www.bcra.gob.ar/en/latest-monetary-policy-statements/",
   "name": "BCRA — Comunicado de Política Monetaria: profundización del esquema de agregados monetarios (fase de re-monetización 2026); Últimos Comunicados de Política Monetaria"
  },
  "country": "AR",
  "disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
  "effective_from": "2025-07-10",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-07-15"
 }
}
```

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