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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
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Deforestation
      Brazil to propose financing plan to protect tropical forests at COP28

      Brasília will use climate summit to push for creation of fund to reward preservation of areas such as the Amazon

      A man carries water over a dry river bed in Amazonas state, Brazil, during a drought last month
    • 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
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      A faint chance of success for Javier Milei

      The new Argentine president’s ‘anarcho-capitalism’ undermines the idea of a unified “Global South”

      President of Argentina Alberto Fernández and president-elect Javier Milei pose for a picture
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Argentina
      Argentina’s Javier Milei faces airline privatisation backlash

      Unions oppose Thatcher-loving libertarian’s plans to remove companies from state ownership

      Argentina’s incoming President Javier Milei speaking after polls closed in the presidential runoff on November 19 2023
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      News in-depthArgentine politics
      The unlikely alliance that could shape Argentina’s radical new leadership

      President-elect Javier Milei despises the establishment — apart from the unpopular ex-leader who helped him win power

      Mauricio Macri and Javier Milei
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Argentina cannot afford another failure

      Libertarian Javier Milei offers a high-risk path to radical economic reform

      A man reads an Argentine newspaper whose front page shows the victorious Javier Milei
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      UK insurance industry
      Lloyd’s brokers settle with US DoJ over Ecuadorean bribery scheme

      Tysers and HW Wood paid bribes via Florida bank accounts, say authorities

      US 100 dollar notes
    • 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
      Disrupted Times
      Milei promises shock therapy for Argentina

      Also in this newsletter: uproar at OpenAI, NHS drug deal, Bayer shares dives after trial failure

      Javier Miilei and his partner Fátima Florez
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      LexArgentina
      Argentina/election: dollarising disrupter brings instability Premium content

      Country’s precarious fiscal situation needs more than noisy rhetoric to keep creditors at bay

      Argentina’s newly elected president Javier Milei with his sister during an election rally
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      OutlookMichael Pooler
      Descendants of runaway slave communities still struggle for equality in Brazil

      Despite finally being recognised in the census, quilombolas face poverty, unemployment and discrimination

      Irinéia Rosa Nunes da Silva photographed in her workshop lined with pottery objects
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Argentina elects radical libertarian Milei as president

      Former television commentator vows ‘drastic’ changes to crisis-hit economy as voters swing to the right

      Javier Milei and Karina Milei
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Argentina lurches from one folly to another Premium content

      Javier Milei’s election as president puts the EU-Mercosur deal and the whole direction of South American trade in doubt

      Javier Milei
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Instant InsightMichael Stott
      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
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Argentines vote in tense election as inflation spirals

      Run-off between embattled economy minister and radical libertarian set to produce ‘outlier’ result

      A poster of Sergio Massa, presidential candidate and Argentina’s economy minister, covered with stickers supporting his rival in the election, Javier Milei and running mate Victoria Villarruel
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      News in-depthPetrobras
      Petrobras aims to transform Brazil into global energy power

      South American nation set to join world’s top crude producers by end of decade

      The P-71 floating production unit
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Milei’s party alleges voter fraud ahead of Argentine presidential poll

      Formal accusation from libertarian outsider raises tensions ahead of election

      Javier Milei, centre
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Moral Money
      Investors pile into Brazil’s first sustainable bond Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, private capital struggles to rise to the global climate challenge

      Lula with indigenous people in traditional dress
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Global InsightMichael Stott
      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
      Brazilian economy
      Brazil’s sinking city weighs on Latin America’s largest petrochemicals producer

      Despite earlier payouts Braskem still faces legal action over geological disaster that forced tens of thousands to evacuate

      An abandoned dwelling in Pinheiro
    • 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
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Argentina
      ‘A normal guy’: Argentina’s radical Milei struggles to rebrand for run-off vote

      Libertarian seeks less eccentric image as he competes for moderate voters with economy minister Sergio Massa

      Argentine congressman and presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza Javier Milei, centre
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Colombia
      Colombian rebel group releases father of footballer Luis Díaz

      Thirteen-day abduction piled pressure on President Gustavo Petro’s peace talks with guerrilla organisations

      Luis Manuel Díaz
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