# latamref - Latin American Government Reference Data (All Countries)

> latamref - Latin American Government Reference Data (All Countries) is a paid API for AI agents from latamref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns authoritative government reference values (central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, minimum wages, public holidays) for 12 Latin American countries in a single JSON response, each with official source citations and staleness flags.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://latamref.dev/v1/all
- Price: $0.02/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-all-countries-f162f53e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uixJ4rAGQDBCCrIa-682L

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-all-countries-f162f53e
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest official government reference data for all Latin American countries — including central bank policy rates, VAT rates, minimum wages, and public holidays — with citations to the primary source for each value?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a single call to retrieve multiple government reference data series across all 12 supported Latin American countries with official source citations. It is ideal for compliance, payroll, financial modeling, or macro research workflows where data provenance and staleness tracking are required. Prefer this over manually scraping government websites or using general-purpose search when you need structured, citable, machine-readable reference values. Use the per-country or per-series sibling endpoints if you need only one country or one data type.

## Known failure modes

- HTTP 402 Payment Required if x402 payment is not properly included
- Stale data flag set to true if a value has not been reconfirmed recently — agent should re-verify before legal use
- Policy rate returned as null when a country's central bank has discontinued a formal rate (e.g. Argentina's BCRA post-July 2025)
- Network timeout or 5xx error if upstream service is temporarily unavailable
- Partial country coverage — not all data series may be populated for every country

## 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 array of country objects, each containing one or more data series (policy-rate, VAT rate, minimum wage, public holidays). Each data point includes the value (or null if officially discontinued), the unit, the series name, country code, effective_from date, last_confirmed date, a staleness boolean, a disclaimer, and a source object with the official URL and name. Notes fields provide context when values are complex or discontinued.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": [
  {
   "series": [
    {
     "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"
    }
   ],
   "country": "AR"
  }
 ]
}
```

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