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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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  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    News in-depthMexico
    Mexico’s elite struggles to comprehend left’s landslide election win

    Wealthy are out of touch with the majority of ordinary people, critics say

    Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City and presidential candidate for the Morena party, shakes the hand of a supporter during the closing campaign rally at Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Mexico
    Mexico’s finance minister tries to reassure jittery investors

    Hasty conference call fails to calm markets after election landslide

    Mexico’s finance minister Rogelio Ramírez de la O
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Mexico
    Five challenges facing Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum

    Big budget deficit and record number of murders top the president-elect’s worries

    A montage of Claudia Sheinbaum, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a graph
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Mexico
    Mexico election winner Sheinbaum vows continuity as investors fret

    Peso tumbles as leftwing ruling party and allies eye constitutional changes

    Claudia Sheinbaum making a heart sign with her hands
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Instant InsightMexican politics
    Claudia Sheinbaum’s mandate is huge but so are her challenges

    Mexico’s president-elect will have less money to spend and a very hard political act to follow

    Claudia Sheinbaum smiles and waves as she address supporters after winning
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Person in the News
    Claudia Sheinbaum, the woman hoping to be Mexico’s first female president

    She was formed by the campus protests of the 1980s, but supporters insist she is not an ideologue

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Claudia Sheinbaum
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Inside BusinessMexico
    Reality checks await investors enjoying Mexico’s party

    Bankers and companies are optimistic but there are some critical areas of concern

    Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    Mexico’s drug cartels are thriving

    The outgoing president said he would tackle gangs with ‘hugs not bullets’. Five years on, violence is worse than ever

    Amlo, plus view of the land where the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office conducted an investigation in search of evidence of five missing young men in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco State, Mexico, on August 30, 2023; a relatives of missing persons holds a sign with photos of her loved ones during a march against the government’s ban on searches for the disappeared
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Ebrahim Raisi
    Condolences pour in as Iran mourns Raisi

    Reaction in west more muted as capitals consider impact of president’s death on Tehran’s leadership and geopolitical tensions

    Iran’s first vice-president Mohammad Mokhber sits beside a portrait of the late president Ebrahim Raisi and the deceased leader’s empty seat
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Mexico
    Mexico eyes tax squeeze on banks to raise revenue

    New government will need to plug hole in public finances

    People outside a BBVA branch
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Mexico
    Mexico’s main opposition candidate vows to confront cartels

    Xóchitl Gálvez says ordinary people have taken too many bullets under Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency

    Xóchitl Gálvez poses for pictures with supporters during a rally in Leon, Guanajuato state, Mexico
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    The governor who is a dark horse for Brazil’s next presidential race

    Minas Gerais businessman-turned-politician Romeu Zema plays down talk of 2026 bid, but analysts are not convinced

    A man standing under an expansive roof of a building. He’s a middle-aged Caucasian wearing glasses and a dark-grey casual shirt
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Colombia
    Colombia’s leftist leader turns radical with bid to rewrite constitution

    Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro demands ‘people’s assemblies’ to implement sweeping reforms

    Gustavo Petro at a May Day rally in Bogotá
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    InterviewMexico
    Mexico’s presidential frontrunner defends sweeping legal reforms

    Claudia Sheinbaum wants to see supreme court and election commissioners chosen by voters

    Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum holds a campaign rally in Mexico City
  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    News in-depthDrug trafficking
    El Chapo’s opium heartland bereft as Mexico cartels embrace fentanyl

    Poppy and marijuana farming money disappear from rural areas as traffickers shift to synthetic drugs

    Photo of gun-wielding man at a mausoleum
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Global trade
    Biden adviser backs bill to counter China in Latin America

    Chris Dodd sees chance Congress could pass legislation this year with bipartisan support

    An employee of the Cuban state Informatics, Communications and Electronics Industrial Enterprise (Gedeme), assembles tablets and laptops with technology of the Chinese company Haier as part of a partnership between the two countries, in Havana
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Venezuela
    US reimposes oil sanctions on Venezuela after broken election promises

    Biden administration says Maduro has ‘fallen short’ on pledge of free and fair presidential race

    Nicolás Maduro
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Global InsightLatin America
    Latin America is beating the world at trading insults

    Vicious spats and name-calling are paralysing co-operation across the region

    Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa walks with security officials
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Borderlands
    The migrant highway that could sway the US election

    The Darién Gap has become a key migration route for people heading towards the US

  • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
    Ecuador
    Ecuador condemned over late-night raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito

    Noboa government’s detention of a former vice-president being sheltered in diplomatic mission arouses global ire

    Ecuadorean security forces transfer former vice-president Jorge Glas from detention in Quito
  • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
    Ecuador
    Ecuador sparks diplomatic crisis after police storm Mexican embassy

    Daniel Noboa orders police to seize a former vice-president who was sheltering in the mission

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Peru
    Peru’s problems run deeper than Rolexes

    Corruption has discredited an entire political class

    Dina Boluarte addresses a political rally in Lima. Peru’s president has been unable to explain to prosecutors where her lavish watch and jewellery came from
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Peru
    China megaport builder hits back as Peru moves to scrap exclusivity deal

    Lima reverses course on right to operate controversial Chancay project

    The construction works at the site where Chinese company Cosco Shipping is building a port in Chancay
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Venezuela
    Venezuela’s Maduro thwarts main opposition candidates ahead of election

    Socialist president clears the way for re-election in July vote

    Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    News in-depthHaiti
    Haiti nears transitional government in stand-off with gangs

    Police claim rare success after shooting key ally of warlord

    A woman carrying a child runs from the area after gunshots were heard in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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