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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    McCarthy avoids US government shutdown

    Brazil walks a tightrope between conservation and oil and gas exploration

  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Argentina
    Argentina risks hyperinflation after election giveaways and dollar pledge

    Surging inflation may worsen after October vote, say economists

    A supporter of Javier Milei holds a large fake US dollar bill with Milei’s face on it at a rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil minister says oil and green ambitions are not contradictory

    Alexandre Silveira touts clean energy credentials and aim to become top oil producer

  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Mercosur
    South American leaders issue ultimatum on EU trade pact

    Paraguay’s president says Mercosur will end talks with Brussels if deal is not finalised by December 6

    Paraguay’s president Santiago Peña at the UN General Assembly in New York this week
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    News in-depthArgentina
    The billionaire who backs Argentina’s Milei — but not dollarisation

    Airport magnate Eduardo Eurnekian has longstanding links with the libertarian presidential candidate

    Eduardo Eurnekian,
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Special ReportThe Future of Banking
    Brazil counts success with Pix payments tool

    State-backed instant transfer service is credited with helping to widen financial inclusion

    A man at a stall in São Paolo, Brazil, pays with a credit card
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Marcelo Claure
    Marcelo Claure’s Latin America fund makes first investment

    Former SoftBank executive’s Bicycle Capital places $25mn bet on Brazilian motorbike rental start-up

    Marcelo Claure
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    (Mis)remembering Chile’s military coup Premium content

    There is no economic justification for abandoning democracy

    Soldiers positioned on a rooftop fire at Chile’s presidential palace on September 11 1973 during the military coup
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    News in-depthEcuador
    Ecuador extraction bans to cost it billions in lost export revenue

    Next president faces tough choices after votes to halt oil drilling and preserve region rich in gold, silver and copper

    Gas flares from a refinery are seen in the Waorani Community of Bameno, Ecuador
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    InterviewInternational Monetary Fund
    Organised crime groups are hurting Latin America’s economy, says IMF

    Fund’s regional chief warns growing presence of gangs is deterring investment

    Rodrigo Valdés
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil’s second-quarter growth beats estimates in boost for Lula

    Higher output welcomed by leftwing leader, who criticises high interest rates as a drag on economy

    People walking in Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Markets InsightEduardo Levy Yeyati
    Argentina should beware the dollarisation fairy

    Impracticable and costly, such a currency shift would not be much more than a convenient sleight of hand

    Libertarian hopeful Javier Milei is ranked first in the country’s primary elections
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Jonathan Derbyshire
    Libertarianism is having a moment with Argentina’s Milei

    The rightwing presidential hopeful is among a new generation of politicians reviving the movement

    FT montage of Javier Milei superimposed over the flag of Argentina and a $100 note
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    Inside BusinessMichael Stott
    Latin America’s foreign investment boom defies political turmoil

    Redrawing of global supply chain map helps boost the region

    A Petrobras floating, production, storage and offloading vessel anchored in Angra dos Reis, Brazil
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s congress approves looser spending rules in boost for Lula

    New fiscal framework under leftwing administration means budgets must rise by more than rate of inflation

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    News in-depthBraskem SA
    Fight for Brazil chemicals group Braskem draws in foreign bidders — and Lula government

    Latin America’s largest petrochemicals producer has attracted bids from Apollo and Abu Dhabi state-run oil company

    A driver sits in a truck parked in front of the Braskem petrochemical plant in Duque de Caxias, Brazil
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Argentina
    Argentina struggles to avoid economic collapse after shock primary win

    Country under pressure to devalue currency again after radical rightwinger’s presidential primary victory knocks markets

    A bank of Banco Patagonia in Buenos Aires
  • Monday, 14 August, 2023
    Argentina
    Argentina’s markets recoil after shock primary election results

    Central bank devalues peso by 18% against the dollar to reassure anxious investors

    A woman walks past a money exchange store in Buenos Aires with a sign in Spanish that reads ‘We are not operating due to the system problems, sorry for the inconvenience’
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil unveils $76bn public spending spree

    Leftwing leader Lula wants state to play a greater role in economic development

    resident Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visits the construction site of the new building of the Brazilian Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
    Central banks
    Latin America’s central banks declare victory in war on inflation

    Hard-fought battles with price pressures in the 1980s and 1990s meant rate-setters acted fast when costs soared

    Members of the Unified Workers’ Central trade union protest against rising interest rates outside the headquarters of the central bank in Brasília in June
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    News in-depth
    South America braced for economic hit from return of El Niño

    Extreme weather phenomenon could spark inflationary surge due to food and energy shortages

    People try to salvage belongings in flooded part of Ecuador
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Climate change
    Brazil to launch ‘most ambitious’ green transition package

    Investors welcome bold environmentalist programme from leftwing president

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with indigenous women on a stage
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Global InsightBryan Harris
    Lula brings retro playbook to a modern Brazil

    Subsidies for manufacturers and a non-aligned foreign policy are rooted in the former trade union leader’s formative years

  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    Argentine economy
    Argentina to weaken peso with trade taxes in bid for IMF funds

    Import levies and preferential agriculture export rate aim to lower currency’s value without hitting inflation

    Protesters gather near the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in June as inflation in the country soared to more than hit 114%
  • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
    Argentina
    Argentina hits milestone on path to gas export bonanza

    Politicians hope long-awaited pipeline to Buenos Aires heralds future of lucrative international energy sales

    People work on the construction of the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline
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