Nelson Mejia-Chavez

Why Nelson Peltz is reluctantly backing Donald Trump again

...Trump’s 2020 campaign, billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz washed his hands of the former president over the January 6 2021 US Capitol riot....

March 19, 2024

News updates from February 7: Netanyahu rejects Hamas ceasefire demand, Disney unveils $3bn buyback

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...Disney: The US entertainment company will report its latest quarterly results as it faces a growing battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz....

February 7, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

Live news updates from February 8: UK mulls sending jets to Ukraine, Disney stems streaming losses

What to watch in North America today

...Disney: The media group’s latest quarterly earnings take on additional importance as it contends with pressure from activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is trying to force his way on to the board after building...

February 8, 2023

Fox Corporation

Murdoch’s Fox agrees $787.5mn settlement in Dominion defamation case

...“The truth matters,” Nelson told reporters. “Lies have consequences.”...

April 18, 2023

FirstFT

FirstFT: Fox settles defamation case with $787.5mn payment

...“The truth matters,” Nelson told reporters. “Lies have consequences.”...

April 19, 2023

The FT ViewThe editorial board

South Africa is slowly edging towards a post-ANC future

...To the ANC’s left is the Economic Freedom Fighters, led by the firebrand Julius Malema, who cites Hugo Chávez among his role models....

December 5, 2021

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

ReviewAlbums

Charles Webster’s Decision Time — warm, subtly detailed electronic music

...US singer and poet Ingrid Chavez, who worked with Prince, appears on two tracks....

November 21, 2020

News in-depthThe Big Read

Bolsonaro and the generals: will the military defend Brazil’s democracy?

...The commitment of the military today is with the democratic process,” says Nelson Jobim, a former minister of defence under the leftwing governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Ms Rousseff....

August 11, 2020

FT Magazine

A new exhibition explores masculinity, from the tough to the tender

...6 1976; Peter Rodino, US congressman (New Jersey), New York, July 14 1976 Second row: Joseph Califano, attorney, Washington, DC, June 8 1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez...

January 31, 2020

Lunch with the FT

Evo Morales: ‘We are not a country of beggars any more’

...He understood, unlike Hugo Chávez in Venezuela or Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina, that healthy growth would give him valuable autonomy....

October 18, 2019

Global Economy

Venezuela risks a descent into chaos

...His uncle, Luis Mejía, remarked that in a fortnight three members of their family had been shot, including two youths who were shot by police....

April 10, 2016

News in-depthThe Big Read

South Africa: Losing faith in the ANC

...For the first time since it came to power in 1994 led by Nelson Mandela, the party’s share of the vote could drop below 60 per cent....

August 2, 2016

beyondbricsMarkets

Venezuela’s election: how a grassroots movement defeated chavista dirty tricks

...Leading a team of 10 opposition activists from her neighbourhood and perhaps another 40 regular neighbours, she showed up at the Rebeca Mejía polling station at 6 p.m. to make sure it was closed on time....

December 11, 2015

UK politics

Brown makes veiled plea to reject Corbyn

...“Don’t tell me . . . we can do much for the poor of the world if the alliances we favour most are with Hizbollah, Hamas, Hugo Chávez’s successor in Venezuela and Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian Russia,” said...

August 16, 2015

Oil

Venezuela braces for low oil price era

...Nelson Hernández, a Caracas-based energy consultant, said, if successful, it would be a temporary measure to bolster PDVSA’s position in the oil market....

May 28, 2015

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Lunch with the FT

Lunch with the FT: Julius Malema

...What did he know about Nelson Mandela back then? “We hadn’t seen his face....

February 5, 2016

UK politics

Leftwing outsider Jeremy Corbyn moves to Labour’s centre stage

...Mr Corbyn has often been on the right side of history: supporting the jailed Nelson Mandela, defending the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six — groups wrongly convicted of the 1974 pub bombings — and speaking...

July 23, 2015

beyondbricsCentral banks

Venezuela’s Maduro: ideologue or reformer?

...Indeed, the ruling party, the PSUV, has been riven by internal struggle since Chávez died....

July 14, 2014

Sport

Polo players regroup in Venezuela after decline under Chávez

...The Monte Sacro estate, located about 100m from Caracas, once belonged to US magnate Nelson A. Rockefeller. But it was Mr del Vizo who built one of what was then a handful of private polo fields....

June 13, 2014

Americas economy

Venezuela confronts volatile fuel dilemma

...There is no other option,” says Nelson Hernández, a former senior executive with PDVSA, the state-run oil company....

June 24, 2014

World

Venezuela’s poor wait for government to deliver on its promises

...Nelson Aranda’s temper rises with the day’s temperature as he queues outside a state-run grocery store in Petare, a gritty slum in eastern Caracas that, not so long ago, was a bastion of support for Hugo...

March 4, 2014

World

Santos optimistic on peace in Colombia

...The Farc could control 50 per cent of that, Mr Mejía estimates....

November 17, 2013

The FT ViewAmericas politics & policy

Chaos in Caracas

...Nicolás Maduro, Mr Chavez’s uncharismatic successor, has no new solutions to offer....

October 14, 2013

beyondbricsMarkets

Venezuela: happiness is… a ministry?

...As Reuters reported: Finance Minister Nelson Merentes told the National Assembly the proposed $87 billion budget targeted GDP growth of 4 percent and an inflation rate of between 26 percent and 28 percent...

October 29, 2013

beyondbricsUK banks

Venezuela gets new economy head as government veers between pragmatism and radicalism

...That’s the question some will be asking after Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro removed his pragmatic finance minister Nelson Merentes as vice-president responsible for the economy....

October 8, 2013

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