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ReviewDance
Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is vividly played by the Royal Ballet — review
...A tart, a pimp, a ponce and a sugar daddy....
January 22, 2024
News in-depthSociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA
China’s Tianqi Lithium’s $4bn bet on Chile at risk of backfiring
...Lagos said it was unlikely that Julio Ponce, SQM’s largest shareholder and former son-in-law of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, would ever sell his stake in SQM....
April 10, 2024
FT Live
Commodities Global Summit 2025
The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers
Monday, 24 March 2025Lausanne, Switzerland
Chile
Chile’s president moves to bring lithium under state control
...Originally state-owned, it was privatised during the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1980s, with the military ruler’s then son-in-law Julio Ponce Lerou buying control....
April 21, 2023
News in-depthLithium
Chile’s move to control lithium alarms industry
...Its largest shareholder is Julio Ponce, former son-in-law of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. SQM agreed a $30mn settlement in 2017 with US authorities for anti-bribery violations....
May 3, 2023
Natural disasters
Hurricane Fiona leaves more than 1mn without electricity in Puerto Rico
...Puerto Rico’s second-largest city, Ponce, received more than 30in of rainfall over a two-day period, according to a gauge operated by the US Geological Survey....
September 20, 2022
Interiors
‘The most stunning room in London’: inside the Leighton House restoration
...It is now in the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico and currently on loan to the Met in New York....
October 14, 2022
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
FirstFT
FirstFT: Hurricane leaves more than 1mn without power in Puerto Rico
...Puerto Rico’s second-largest city, Ponce, received more than 30 inches of rainfall over a two-day period, according to a gauge operated by the US Geological Survey....
September 20, 2022
Travel
Resilience and exuberance in Puerto Rico
...I wave my tiny Ponce flag, and mutter to Melina: “This wasn’t the tour I was expecting.” The men suddenly grin and my demon guide laughs....
May 12, 2021
Commodities
Lithium poised for recovery, says Tianqi president
...Ms Wu said that Tianqi wanted to help SQM, which is controlled by Julio Ponce Lerou, the former son-in-law of Augusto Pinochet, to become an international company and “better understand the Chinese market...
May 13, 2019
Americas politics & policy
Poor Venezuelans protest as shortages stoke anger at Maduro
...“In May that figure’s likely to be even higher,” said Marco Antonio Ponce, the observatory’s director. The UN said this month that many people in Venezuela were “teetering on the brink of survival”....
May 27, 2020
Batteries
Sinochem chases $4bn stake in Chilean lithium miner SQM
...Ponce owns a majority of SQM through an agreement with shareholder Kowa Group of Japan....
October 23, 2017
News in-depthNikkei Asia
The ‘silver tsunami’: Ten nonagenarians who shaped Asia in 2018 Premium content
...Juan Ponce Enrile, 94 Juan Ponce Enrile has played a long and storied role in Philippine politics....
January 8, 2019
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver — born naughty
...Freud recalling his life at 17, dandying round Soho, already an habitué of London’s Café Royal and a smart-bohemian set, and Coffee An’, whose clientele were “old women tramps, all-night drivers, some ponces...
September 19, 2019
ReviewTelevision
Hatton Garden, ITV — old lags back in business
...“Yer a ponce!”...
May 17, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
Electric cars: China powers the battery supply chain
...Mr Ponce Lerou filed a lawsuit to block the deal, but it was dismissed in October by Chile’s antitrust court....
May 22, 2019
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
Batteries
Chilean billionaire Ponce Lerou rejoins lithium producer SQM
...Mr Ponce, who stepped down as chairman of SQM three years ago, has been hired “for his technical and operational knowledge,” according to a spokesperson....
June 5, 2018
ReviewTelevision
ITV’s Torvill & Dean focuses on the pair’s fascinating but unfathomable bond
...He has a reputation as a “stuck up blond ponce”, “pretending to be Rudolf Nureyev” and already favouring billowing blouses....
December 21, 2018
Batteries
Tianqi Lithium shares hit year low as Chile freezes $4.1bn SQM deal
...Chile’s constitutional court suspended the purchase on Thursday following a lawsuit filed by Julio Ponce Lerou, the former son-in-law of Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who owns 30 per cent of...
October 12, 2018
Batteries
China’s largest lithium producer set for HK IPO to fund SQM purchase
...Tianqi still needs regulatory approval for its purchase of Nutrien’s 24 per cent stake in SQM, which will make it the second-largest shareholder in the company after Julio Ponce Lerou, a billionaire Chilean...
August 20, 2018
Odebrecht SA
Colombian deaths form latest twist in Odebrecht drama
...Last Sunday, the story took another macabre twist when Mr Pizano’s son, Alejandro Pizano Ponce de León, flew to Colombia from Spain for his father’s funeral only to die within hours of arrival....
November 16, 2018
Batteries
China warns Chile against blocking $5bn SQM lithium deal
...But in January, Mr Ponce was forced to give that up as part of a deal to allow SQM to expand its production of lithium....
April 26, 2018
Due Diligence
Drama intensifies as future of CBS-Viacom hangs in the balance Premium content
...Ponce Lerou built SQM from a bankrupt fertiliser maker into one of Chile's most successful companies....
May 18, 2018
Batteries
Lithium miner SQM gets green light to expand production
...But Mr Ponce will still keep his stake in the company and has no intention of walking completely away, according to analysts....
January 18, 2018
Batteries
Tianqi Lithium buys $4.1bn stake in Chile’s SQM
...Julio Ponce Lerou, previously married to Pinochet’s daughter, owns a 30 per cent stake in the company....
May 17, 2018
News in-depthBatteries
Sale of $5bn lithium stake to test electric car hype
...Controlled by Julio Ponce, the well-connected son-in-law of Chile’s former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, SQM was known as a fertiliser company....
February 17, 2018

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