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    Michael Stott

    Latin America editor

    Michael Stott is the Latin America editor of the Financial Times based in London. He was previously in Tokyo as managing editor of the Nikkei Asian Review, a sister publication covering Asian business and politics. Prior to that he was the FT's UK news editor.

    Michael reported from Latin America between 1990-1998, living in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Formerly Moscow bureau chief and Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Reuters, he joined the FT in 2014.

    Michael graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Modern Languages and speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Russian.

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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Argentina’s Milei backs away from dollarisation as central bank pick rejects role

      Libertarian president-elect signals approach in keeping with ‘market situation’

      A 100-dollar bill cut-out with Javier Milei’s face printed on it
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      News in-depthColombia
      Colombia’s leader promised ‘total peace’. Then violence surged

      Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro’s strategy criticised as security vacuum allows kidnappings and extortion to soar

      Children walk past a field of crosses bearing the names of victims of Colombia’s illegal gang violence
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Americas economy
      Milei’s victory in Argentina cheered by investors

      President-elect faces huge economic challenges without congressional majority

      Javier Milei addresses supporters
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      News in-depthArgentine politics
      Milei prepares shock therapy to cure Argentina’s sickly economy

      Insurgent libertarian has big plans but must work around his lack of congressional majority to deliver radical policies

      Montage featuring Javier Milei, US dollars and an Argentine peso note
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Instant InsightArgentina
      Argentina’s Milei faces enormous hurdles to govern

      Lack of congressional majority and dire economic problems pose huge challenge for insurgent president-elect

      Javier Milei waves to supporters
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Global InsightOil & Gas industry
      Oil still looks like an easier bet for Latin America than renewables

      Political risk stymies region’s wind and solar potential while fossil fuels deliver reliable returns

      The Staatsolie refinery in Suriname
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Argentina’s presidential candidates clash ahead of pivotal poll

      Libertarian Javier Milei repeats promise to abolish central bank in attack on Peronist minister Sergio Massa

      Argentine presidential candidates Sergio Massa and Javier Milei during a debate on Sunday night in Buenos Aires
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Israel’s allies shift away from unconditional support

      US, Europe and Latin America express rising concerns about humanitarian situation in Gaza

      Palestinian supporters demonstrate outside New York Supreme Court
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Venezuela
      Biden’s big Venezuela bet is already in trouble

      Banned candidate’s triumph in opposition primary adds to hurdles after sanctions eased

      María Corina Machado smiles as she leaves the room after speaking to the press in Caracas, Venezuela
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Meet the first climate refugees from the Americas to flee rising seas

      The Guna people have lived on the San Blás for hundreds of years. Soon their homes will disappear

      Rising sea levels threaten the very existence of these small islands, forcing communities to confront the perilous consequences
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Argentina economy minister Massa seeks broad coalition after election win

      Peronist presidential candidate offers unity government to woo centre and marginalise libertarian rival Milei

      Composite images of Sergio Massa and Javier Milei
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Instant InsightArgentine politics
      Surprise win shows Peronism’s remarkable resilience

      If Sergio Massa can avoid crashing the economy after defeating insurgent Javier Milei in first-round voting, he may yet pull Argentina out of crisis

      Sergio Massa gestures while speaking and standing in front of a blue banner with the name of his Union Por La Patria party
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Venezuela
      Machado claims win in Venezuela presidential primary despite ban

      Opposition economic liberal banned from running for public office by Maduro government she hopes to unseat in election next year

      María Corina Machado
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Argentine politics faces shake-up in pivotal election

      Country’s two main political forces may be permanently changed by challenge of radical outsider Javier Milei

      A supporter at a rally in Buenos Aires holds a drawing of presidential candidate Javier Milei
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      Can Argentina dollarise?

      The US, Britain and Germany called on their citizens to leave Lebanon

    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Peru
      Deep divide persists between ‘two Perus’

      The gulf between Lima and the poorer south remains a hurdle to national economic revival

      An Andean woman walks next to Alpacas
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Peru
      Peru’s prime minister on fatal protests, renewal and reform

      Alberto Otárola talks to the FT about the drive to establish stability for investors

      Prime Minister Alberto Otárola is interviewed by the FT in the government palace in Lima
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Peru
      Peru pulls back from the brink but path to growth is rocky

      Political turmoil is easing as the government attempts to get the economy back on track

      A mural of Inca ruins in Cusco. Peru is split between urban and rural, and north and south
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      The Big Read
      The radical outsider promising to cure Argentina’s economic ills

      The eccentric libertarian Javier Milei could be the country’s next president. What might he do, and how?

      Liberian economist Javier Milei
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      InterviewArgentine politics
      Argentina must rethink China relationship, says presidential candidate Bullrich

      Centre-right contender blasts frontrunner Javier Milei’s dollarisation plan and proposes dual currency system

      Patricia Bullrich speaking during the final debate ahead of the presidential elections at Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      News in-depthArgentine politics
      Javier Milei’s novice team takes crash course on how to run Argentina

      Libertarian surprise frontrunner faces ‘precarious’ situation if elected

      Javier Milei
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      News in-depthMetro Bank
      ‘Everything is possible’: the Colombian billionaire taking on Metro Bank

      Jaime Gilinski won control of UK challenger bank after a deal to shore up its balance sheet

      Montage of Jaime Gilinski and Metro Bank logo
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      InterviewMetro Bank
      Metro Bank’s new billionaire owner: branch network is ‘a model that works’

      Jaime Gilinski Bacal tells the FT he has a record of buying assets in the sector cheaply and turning them around

      A Metro Bank branch
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Americas economy
      Triple opportunity could transform Latin America’s fortunes, bank head says

      Exports of green energy, food and critical minerals could bring prosperity after years of weak growth

      Ilan Goldfajn raises his right hand as he makes a point while speaking
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Peru
      US raises concern with Peru over Chinese control of infrastructure

      Beijing stands to control power supply to Lima and megaport serving Pacific

      Aerial view of the construction work where Cosco Shipping is building a port in Chanca, north of Peru
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