Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • UK
      Sections
      • UK Home
      • UK Economy
      • UK Politics
      • UK Companies
      • Personal Finance
      Most Read
      • Companies
        Sections
        • Companies Home
        • Energy
        • Financials
        • Health
        • Industrials
        • Media
        • Professional Services
        • Retail & Consumer
        • Tech Sector
        • Telecoms
        • Transport
        Most Read
        • Tech
          Sections
          • Tech Home
          • Artificial intelligence
          • Semiconductors
          • Cyber Security
          • Social Media
          Most Read
          • Russian court approves scandal-hit Wildberries merger
          • AI-powered devices dominate Consumer Electronics Show
          • The uncomfortable truth about social media networks
          • Silicon Valley’s largest start-ups to shun IPOs in 2025
          • Musk calls on California and Delaware to force auction of OpenAI stake
        • Markets
          Sections
          • Markets Home
          • Alphaville
          • Markets Data
          • Crypto
          • Capital Markets
          • Commodities
          • Currencies
          • Equities
          • Wealth Management
          • Moral Money
          • ETF Hub
          • Fund Management
          • Trading
          Most Read
          • Climate
          • Opinion
            Sections
            • Opinion Home
            • Columnists
            • The FT View
            • The Big Read
            • Lex
            • Obituaries
            • Letters
            Most Read
            • Lex
            • Work & Careers
              Sections
              • Work & Careers Home
              • Business School Rankings
              • Business Education
              • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
              • Entrepreneurship
              • Recruitment
              • Business Books
              • Business Travel
              • Working It
              Most Read
              • American Airlines’ use of ‘ESG activist’ BlackRock failed workers, US judge says
              • Do you want the good feedback, or the bad feedback? 
              • The underwear brand that’s neither Victoria’s Secret nor ‘Bridget Jones granny pants’
              • Narcissist CEOs like risky insider trading and are bad at it: study
            • Life & Arts
              Sections
              • Life & Arts Home
              • Arts
              • Books
              • Food & Drink
              • FT Magazine
              • House & Home
              • Style
              • Travel
              • FT Globetrotter
              Most Read
              • HTSI
              MenuSearch
              • Home
              • World
              • UK
              • Companies
              • Tech
              • Markets
              • Climate
              • Opinion
              • Lex
              • Work & Careers
              • Life & Arts
              • HTSI
              Financial Times
              SubscribeSign In

              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.

              Email Michael Stott @mj_stott  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Venezuela
                Venezuelan officials hit with fresh sanctions as Maduro begins third term

                US, EU and UK co-ordinate measures to punish president’s administration over his ‘illegitimate’ reinauguration

                Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores wave to supporters in Caracas on Friday, the day of his inauguration
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                Venezuela
                Venezuela opposition leader released after brief arrest

                María Corina Machado had been detained after leading protests in Caracas against President Maduro’s inauguration

                María Corina Machado rallies supporters in Caracas on Thursday
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                InterviewVenezuela
                Venezuela’s military could desert Maduro after Syrian ally’s fall, opposition leader says

                María Corina Machado argues military chiefs fear meeting same fate as Assad’s generals

                Maria Corina Machado during an interview with the FT
              • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
                The Big Read
                Argentina: has Javier Milei proved his critics wrong?

                In his first year, the libertarian president has stabilised a turbulent economy, while retaining the support of half the population. But big challenges loom

                Montage image of Javier Milei, a chart line and a 1,000 peso note
              • Monday, 9 December, 2024
                Cryptocurrencies
                El Salvador to scale back bitcoin dreams to seal $1.3bn IMF deal

                Central American nation to make acceptance of cryptocurrency voluntary to unlock international lending

                A vendor holds a sign reading ‘Bitcoin accepted’ at a store in San Salvador
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                Brazil
                Brazil judge who battled Musk says social media poses risk to democracy

                Alexandre de Moraes tells FT summit that platforms must be regulated after winning rare victory over X

                Alexandre de Moraes talks to the FT
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                Global trade
                ‘Finish line in sight’ for EU-Mercosur trade deal, says Ursula von der Leyen

                European Commission president attends South American bloc’s summit as final details of pact are worked out

                A drone view shows the word ‘Mercosur’ made with city signs on a road near Angouleme, France
              • Monday, 2 December, 2024
                Markets InsightMexican economy
                The risk of Mexico being shut out of North America is rising

                Investors should not assume that Trump’s tariff threat is a bluff

                Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gestures during a press conference
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                Mexico
                Mexico hits back as Trump’s tariff threat shakes markets

                President Claudia Sheinbaum hints at retaliation and says US southern neighbour is tackling migrant and drug problem

                Claudia Sheinbaum
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                News in-depthMexico
                Mexico caught cold by threat of Trump trade war

                President Claudia Sheinbaum talks tough in response to tariff threat but slide in peso highlights country’s vulnerability

                An aerial view of trucks in a queue waiting to cross the US next to the border at the Otay commercial crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on November 26 2024
              • Monday, 25 November, 2024
                FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
                Wall Street’s ‘sigh of relief’ over Trump’s Treasury pick

                Nomination of investor Scott Bessent follows tumultuous fight for the top economic job

              • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
                Global InsightUS-China relations
                Joe Biden loses to Xi Jinping in battle for Latin America

                US leader’s farewell trip to Brazil and Peru epitomises Washington’s waning influence

                Peru’s President Dina Boluarte  welcomes China’s President Xi Jinping
              • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
                Argentina
                Milei eyes Trump friendship to win IMF loan for Argentina

                Libertarian leader seeks IMF loan while positioning himself as US president-elect’s ally in culture war against the ‘woke’ left

                Argentina’s President Javier Milei with Tesla chief Elon Musk in Austin, Texas, in April
              • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
                The Big Read
                Brazil’s global balancing act is trickier than ever

                President Lula has sought to maintain ties with the US, China and Russia. But even before the re-election of Donald Trump, that diplomatic space was shrinking

                Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and the US Capitol
              • Monday, 11 November, 2024
                Special ReportManaging Climate Change
                Latin America’s hydro power bet suffers effects of climate change

                Drought and floods have played havoc with production across region where almost half of electricity comes from water sources

                An aerial view of a large hydroelectric dam nestled in a lush, mountainous region. The dam structure spans a river, with a series of spillways and control gates that regulate water flow
              • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
                Mexican politics
                Trump’s radical second-term agenda set to test Mexico’s fragility

                President Claudia Sheinbaum has limited leverage despite the country being the largest trading partner of the US

                Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, viewed from the Mexican side
              • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
                News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
                ‘Brave new world’: Trump’s victory signals end of US-led postwar order

                Election result throws multinational policymaking into disarray

                Montage of Donald Trump and a digital map of the world
              • Monday, 4 November, 2024
                US-China relations
                Chinese warships could use Peru’s big new port, US general warns

                Head of US Southern Command sounds alert over Beijing ‘playbook’ for large overseas infrastructure projects

                US Army General Laura Richardson
              • Monday, 4 November, 2024
                Argentina
                The minister taking a chainsaw to Argentina’s statute book

                Deregulation tsar Federico Sturzenegger targets country’s entire body of law in bid to create world’s freest economy

                Federico Sturzenegger
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                Falkland Islands
                Argentina ready to boost flights to Falklands, says foreign minister

                Diana Mondino says airlines will have to decide ‘frequency’ in sign of warmer relations with the UK over the islands

                Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley, Falkland Islands
              • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
                InterviewArgentina
                Argentines still love the big state despite Milei, says top Peronist

                Axel Kicillof says voters prefer ‘a bigger and better state’ despite electing libertarian

                Axel Kicillof
              • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
                Special ReportInvesting in Argentina
                Argentina’s economy minister strikes defiant note on default risk

                Despite $14bn due next year, Luis Caputo insists the government will be able to foot the bill, with fiscal surplus forecast

                Silhouettes of people talking outside the grand entrance of the Banco Central de la República Argentina, which is adorned with imposing columns and a classical architectural style
              • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
                Americas politics & policy
                Milei’s pivot from radical outsider to pragmatist

                Since taking office the Argentine leader has become a bit more polished and presidential

                Argentina’s President Javier Milei waves during the commemoration of the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution, at Plaza San Martin in Cordoba
              • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
                Special ReportInvesting in Argentina
                Patagonian tourism numbers sparks concerns over sustainability

                A clutch of luxury operators are trying to demonstrate that visiting the region can be managed responsibly

                A couple sits in a transparent, pod-shaped capsule suspended on the side of a steep mountain cliff, with snowy landscapes and rugged terrain in the background
              • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
                Special ReportInvesting in Argentina
                Salta: the new high-altitude wine frontier

                Winemakers say the extreme elevation gives more ‘intense aromas and concentrated flavours’

                A vineyard with mountains in the background
              Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

              Useful links

              Support

              View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

              Legal & Privacy

              Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

              Services

              Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

              Tools

              PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

              Community & Events

              FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

              More from the FT Group

              Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
              The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
              Edition:UK
              International
              Subscribe for full access

              Top sections

              • Home
              • World
                • Middle East war
                • Global Economy
                • UK
                • US
                • China
                • Africa
                • Asia Pacific
                • Emerging Markets
                • Europe
                • War in Ukraine
                • Americas
                • Middle East & North Africa
              • UK
                • UK Economy
                • UK Politics
                • UK Companies
                • Personal Finance
              • Companies
                • Energy
                • Financials
                • Health
                • Industrials
                • Media
                • Professional Services
                • Retail & Consumer
                • Tech Sector
                • Telecoms
                • Transport
              • Tech
                • Artificial intelligence
                • Semiconductors
                • Cyber Security
                • Social Media
              • Markets
                • Alphaville
                • Markets Data
                • Crypto
                • Capital Markets
                • Commodities
                • Currencies
                • Equities
                • Wealth Management
                • Moral Money
                • ETF Hub
                • Fund Management
                • Trading
              • Climate
              • Opinion
                • Columnists
                • The FT View
                • The Big Read
                • Lex
                • Obituaries
                • Letters
              • Lex
              • Work & Careers
                • Business School Rankings
                • Business Education
                • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
                • Entrepreneurship
                • Recruitment
                • Business Books
                • Business Travel
                • Working It
              • Life & Arts
                • Arts
                • Books
                • Food & Drink
                • FT Magazine
                • House & Home
                • Style
                • Travel
                • FT Globetrotter
              • Personal Finance
                • Property & Mortgages
                • Investments
                • Pensions
                • Tax
                • Banking & Savings
                • Advice & Comment
                • Next Act
              • HTSI
              • Special Reports

              FT recommends

              • Alphaville
              • FT Edit
              • Lunch with the FT
              • FT Globetrotter
              • #techAsia
              • Moral Money
              • Visual and data journalism
              • Newsletters
              • Video
              • Podcasts
              • News feed
              • FT Schools
              • FT Live Events
              • FT Forums
              • Board Director Programme
              • myFT
              • Portfolio
              • FT Digital Edition
              • Crossword
              • Our Apps
              • Help Centre
              • Subscribe
              • Sign In