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The ‘cult’ of Bukele: El Salvador’s bitcoin-loving strongman heads for second term

...Bitcoin is legal tender; roughly one in 45 adults is in jail; and the former nightclub manager turned president stormed congress with the military less than a year after taking office....

February 2, 2024

El Salvador

El Salvador’s gang inmates will face life in prison, vows president’s deputy

...Critics say the country is becoming a police state where people can be arrested for simply having tattoos and families line up outside government offices desperate for information on loved ones....

January 31, 2024

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Nayib Bukele: the TikTok authoritarian feted across Latin America

...President Nayib Bukele walked up a red carpet and into El Salvador’s congress where armed soldiers lined the chamber....

February 9, 2024

Climate change

El Niño heralds turbulent start to 2024

...The powerful Atlantic weather system could give way on the weekend to a colder, drier and more settled period as a high pressure system moved into place, the Met Office said on Friday....

January 5, 2024

Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian

The risks of tax cuts in Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement

...Hunt, who took office shortly before Truss’s exit, has maintained a cautious tone....

November 21, 2023

Climate change

El Niño expected to cause floods and heatwaves into early 2024, warn scientists

...In Somalia, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs blamed El Niño for exacerbating the worst flooding the country has experienced in a century and said it was providing assistance to...

November 19, 2023

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Letter

Letter: Let’s end the laissez-faire hiring of IT professionals

...Recent events at the Post Office in Britain have surely shown that this laissez-faire approach is no longer acceptable. Sir Kenneth OlisaRestoration Partners, London W1, UK...

February 2, 2024

Travel

Shortcuts: Explora launches new expeditions and the ‘power-hour’ lunch comes to London

...Explora itself expanded with similarly slick retreats in seven South American locations, including Easter Island, Chile’s Atacama Desert and El Chaltén in Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park....

March 30, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...— Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically (El Diario) — Sam Bankman-Fried and the people who gave up their money for nothing (New York Times) — Freezing out short sellers will not...

November 9, 2023

Stephen Bush

This article contains (arguments about) spoilers

...(I found myself having to self-censor about the ending of The Sopranos in the office the other day.)...

March 8, 2024

News in-depthEl Salvador

Gang crackdown bolsters El Salvador leader’s re-election bid

...Bukele’s office did not respond to a request for comment. Surveys show voters’ principal concern is now El Salvador’s economy....

August 3, 2023

Guatemala

Guatemala’s new president to take office against the odds

...Anti-corruption advocate Bernardo Arévalo faced a series of attempts by prosecutors to block him from taking office....

January 14, 2024

Drug trafficking

Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown

...Noboa, the 36-year-old son of a billionaire banana magnate, took office in November promising to confront gangs and boost the Andean nation’s faltering economy....

February 8, 2024

Mexico

Mexican president proposes radical constitutional overhaul

...The president, who cannot run for re-election, is due to leave office in October....

February 6, 2024

Michael Stott

Peru’s problems run deeper than Rolexes

...Dina Boluarte, a provincial lawyer from a modest background before taking high office, has been unable to explain to prosecutors where the lavish accoutrements came from....

April 4, 2024

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News in-depthDrug trafficking

How Mexico stymied America’s war on drugs

...Soon after Mexico’s president took office in 2018, agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration knew their job was about to become a lot more difficult....

April 5, 2024

Letter

Letter: Houthis, global trade and Israel’s Hamas war

...But without a strong international effort to support a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, there is an increasing risk to global trade both across the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and the Strait of Hormuz....

December 27, 2023

UK

UK rail and air passengers suffer travel disruption in wake of Storm Isha

...Elsewhere a Ryanair flight from Shannon to Edinburgh ended up in Cologne, while a Tui flight from Sharm El Sheikh to Glasgow landed in Manchester....

January 22, 2024

Ecuador

Ecuador condemned over late-night raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito

...After Correa left office, the new Ecuadorean government accused Assange of violating his asylum conditions, revoked his status and allowed UK police to enter the embassy and arrest him....

April 7, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Latin America must resist the siren call of the strongman

...One of the main reasons is the rise of populist leaders with an authoritarian bent, such as El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele....

August 27, 2023

News in-depthArgentina

Violence in Argentina’s drug capital tests Milei’s small-state vision

...Javier Milei, Argentina’s libertarian president who took office in December, has blamed previous left-leaning governors of Santa Fe province for “surrendering the city to criminals”....

April 1, 2024

Climate change

Climate records tumbled ‘like dominoes’ during world’s hottest year

...Nick Dunstone, a climate scientist at the UK Met Office, said 2024 would be “another record-breaking year”, as a result of the continued strength of the naturally occurring El Niño effect, which heats the...

January 9, 2024

Terrorism

Germany and Netherlands detain four over alleged Hamas plot

...Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said the four were suspected of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation....

December 14, 2023

Sudan

Scale of crisis created by Sudan’s ‘hidden’ war alarms refugee chief

...A leaked UN report estimated that the number of deaths in the Darfur city of El Geneina alone at 10,000-15,000....

February 20, 2024

US politics & policy

Biden defends his mental acuity after damaging DoJ report

...Biden again stumbled at Thursday’s press conference, referring to Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the leader of Mexico in response to a reporter’s question about the war between Israel and Hamas...

February 9, 2024

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