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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, 28 May, 2025
    Brazil
    Brazil in last-ditch lobbying push to avert US sanctions on top judge

    Trump administration sympathetic to conservative arguments that free speech is under threat in South American country

    Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro rally in São Paulo
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US government will not renew Chevron’s Venezuela oil licence

    Trump administration hardens stance on President Nicolás Maduro despite lobbying from the company

    A sculpture of a hand holding an oil drilling rig outside the state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    InterviewOrganization of American States
    Latin America trade halt with China would be disaster, says regional leader

    Luis Almagro laments failure of political leadership

    Luis Almagro
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Photography
    Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81

    His black-and-white images of migrants and the marginalised showed remarkable compassion

    Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado stands for a photo at a press preview of his exhibit at the California Science Center on October 19, 2022
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Global InsightLatin America
    Beijing or Broadway? Brazil plays both stages in superpower tussle

    The country is hedging its bets astutely between the US and China and is needed by both

  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Haiti
    US explores Latin American troop deployment to Haiti to fight gangs

    Washington has discussed a mission led by the Organization of American States to stabilise Caribbean country

    A man throws a tyre into a fire as protesters make their way to the Villa d’Accueil to demand increased security from the government, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    Americas economy
    Latin America wary of US trade backlash as it builds relations with China

    Colombian plan to join Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative triggers threat from Washington

    Coffee harvesting in Colombia: the country’s businesses worry that the US could turn to their competitors for commodity imports
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Business InsightAmericas economy
    China will not be a big winner from Trump’s policies in Latin America

    Region has little appetite and little chance of boosting links with Beijing further

    Xi Jinping stands at a podium with an earpiece in front of Brazilian and Chinese flags during a news conference
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Latin America
    Trump’s Latin American fan club hopes for loans and access

    Presidents of Argentina, El Salvador and Ecuador bet on close relationship with Maga White House

    The two men are surrounded by other guests and dignitaries
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    India
    India’s Modi hails ‘new energy’ in push for Latin American minerals

    New Delhi’s charm offensive aims to secure lithium and copper supplies for energy transition

    India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    InterviewBanco BTG Pactual SA
    ‘Goldman of the Tropics’ wants to help Brazil feed the world

    BTG Pactual aims to be one of main commodities players as it boosts its presence in Asia

    André Esteves, group chair of BTG Pactual
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Jair Bolsonaro
    Jair Bolsonaro’s medical condition deteriorates in hospital

    Former president of Brazil remains in intensive care 11 days after surgery as trial looms over alleged coup plot

    Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro arrives by ambulance at the Rio Grande Hospital in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil on April 11
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
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    El Salvador’s ‘jailer for hire’

    What’s the appeal for Trump of Bukele’s mass incarceration model?

  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Colombia
    Colombia’s president is a drug addict, claims ex-minister

    Former foreign minister says leftwing leader Petro disappeared for two days on official trip to France

    Gustavo Petro speaking at a conference in Mexico City, Mexico in September 2024
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Global InsightPope Francis
    Was Francis the first Peronist pope?

    The late pontiff was a surprisingly divisive figure in his native Argentina

    Girls play next to a mural of the late Pope Francis in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Brazil
    China and Brics will ‘defend’ global order as Trump withdraws, Brazil says

    Developing nations are ‘main defenders’ of global diplomacy, argues president’s top foreign policy adviser

    Flags of the BRICS countries
  • 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
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