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Michael Stott

Latin America editor

Michael Stott is the Latin America editor based in Brazil and a member of the FT’s editorial board. He covers business, politics and social issues in the region and writes regular columns on Latin America and regional geopolitics.

During more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor, he has lived in Russia, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil and reported from more than 60 countries, first for Reuters and then for the FT. Previous FT roles include UK news editor, investigations editor and a secondment to Nikkei as managing editor of the Nikkei Asian Review.

He is a regular moderator and speaker at FT Live conferences and at events organised by the Inter-American Development Bank, the Latin American development bank CAF and regional business organisations such as the Council of the Americas.

Email Michael Stott @mj_stott  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Markets InsightArgentina
    Milei has learned to love the peso. Will Argentina follow him?

    The success of the IMF’s latest bailout depends on weaning the country off its addiction to the dollar

    Argentina’s President Javier Milei announces the new agreement with the IMF in Buenos Aires
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    UN trade chief asks US to rethink tariffs on poorest nations

    Levies will harm least developed countries without meeting Donald Trump’s objectives, says Rebeca Grynspan

    Rebeca Grynspan
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    The Big Read
    The risky trial of Jair Bolsonaro

    Brazilian authorities want justice over an alleged coup plot, but the case against the former president risks boosting his popularity — and dividing the country

    Montage of images of Jair Bolsonaro, Alexandre de Moraes and a protester’s sign reading ‘Sem Anistia’ (no amnesty) on a green background with yellow stars
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil in ‘privileged’ position to withstand trade war, says finance minister

    Fernando Haddad maintains commodity exporter’s links to China, US and EU will shield it from protectionism

    Fernando Haddad
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    InterviewJair Bolsonaro
    Brazil’s Bolsonaro calls for foreign help in overture to Trump

    Hard-right former president faces charges of plotting coup against Lula and could spend rest of life in jail

    Jair Bolsonaro
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    Copper
    Vale’s relations with Brazil government improve after tensions last year, says boss

    Group’s head Pimenta highlights easing strains that should help settle investor nerves

    Three workers in hard hats and reflective safety clothing stand in front of a wall in a tunnel
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    Brazil
    Son of Brazil’s indicted ex-president Bolsonaro lobbies Trump camp

    Eduardo Bolsonaro seeks support in Washington as his father faces charges of leading a coup plot

    Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, gestures while giving a speech during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina in December 2024
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Cristina Junqueira: the Brazil fintech leader shaking up banking

    The co-founder of Nubank on disruption, digital banking and careers

    A confident woman with shoulder-length dark hair wearing a textured purple dress stands hand on her hip
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Venezuela
    Trump’s oil sanctions to hurt Venezuela’s ‘elite repression forces’, says opposition

    Removal of Chevron licence cuts off key funding for president’s security forces, says Maria Corina Machado

    Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures during an interview in Caracas
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    Global InsightAmericas politics & policy
    Latin America recognises the familiar ‘caudillo’ in Trump

    Strongman leaders have been a hardy perennial in the region for two centuries

    Argentina’s President Javier Milei, left, and US President Donald Trump
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    The Big Read
    What an idle copper mine in Panama says about the green transition

    Just as the country is battling Donald Trump’s threats over the Panama Canal, a bitter environmental feud has reopened over the future of the country’s biggest mining project

    Aerial view of Cobre Panama mine in Donoso, province of Colon
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Brazil
    Brazil charges ex-president Bolsonaro over alleged coup plot

    Attorney-general accuses hard-right politician in connection with plan to assassinate rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

    Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a meeting with parliamentarians at the Senate in Brasilia on Tuesday
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Mexico
    Why Mexico’s industrial heartland is not afraid of Trump’s tariff threats

    Business leaders believe US president needs Mexican manufacturers to win battle with China

    A worker at a steel company in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    Mexico
    Mexico tries to tame ‘monster’ cartels to please Trump

    President Claudia Sheinbaum faces hurdles in fighting drug violence to placate US

    An army soldier walks past burning drugs at the VII Military Zone in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon State, Mexico
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Panama
    Panama says US claims of free canal transit for warships are ‘lies’

    President escalates dispute with Trump administration over strategic waterway

    A tourist looks at a cargo ship sailing through the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    News in-depthTrump tariffs
    ‘When you’re the pot of gold, tariffs are very good’: Trump unleashes 72 hours of trade chaos

    US president’s brinkmanship with Canada and Mexico shows he is willing to take risks to get his way on the economy

    Montage of Claudia Sheinbaum, Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump pulls US back from brink of trade war with Mexico and Canada

    US president set to talk to China’s Xi Jinping in coming days as threatened tariffs on Beijing loom

    US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Panama
    US demands Panama reduce Chinese influence over canal or face action

    US secretary of state Marco Rubio says Central American nation is violating canal treaty’s neutrality clause

    A man holds a banner during a protest in Panama City
  • Sunday, 2 February, 2025
    News in-depthLATAM Airlines Group SA
    Latin America’s biggest airline targets lift from region’s growth

    Latam Airlines aims to raise passenger numbers and margins in post-pandemic rebound

    A Latam Airlines aircraft is parked on the tarmac at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Venezuela releases US prisoners and agrees to take deportees

    Agreement struck in meeting between Trump’s envoy and country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro

    A photo released by Venezuela’s presidential press office shows Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, right, shaking hands with Richard Grenell, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela on Friday, January 31 2025
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    News in-depthPanama
    Trump’s China claims roil Panama as Rubio visits

    Central American nation in ‘panic’ as US president issues threats over canal

    A person walks by a mural that says ‘ ‘No to invasion’ on a wall in Panama
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    News in-depthLatin America
    Latin America scrambles to respond to Trump’s aggression

    Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro finds little support for confrontational stance against US

    Montage of Gustavo Petro with a shadow of Donald Trump behind him
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US pauses tariffs on Colombia after deal on deportations

    Bogotá had turned back American planes carrying deported migrants

    US Customs and Border Protection agents guide undocumented immigrants onboard a C-17 Globemaster III at the Tucson International Airport, Arizona, on  Thursday, January 23
  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    Airlines
    Brazilian airline merger would boost aviation sector, says Azul boss

    John Rodgerson defends potential tie-up with rival Gol despite concerns about competition and ticket pricing

    Azul branded aircraft
  • Saturday, 25 January, 2025
    Climate change
    Trump’s exit from Paris climate accord has ‘huge impact’, says COP30 chief

    US withdrawal will make it ‘much harder’ to curb global warming, says André Corrêa do Lago

    André Corrêa do Lago
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