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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 X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 5 November, 2025
    EU foreign policy
    EU leaders to skip summit in Colombia after Trump sanctions

    German chancellor, French president and European Commission chief cancel plans to attend regional meeting

    Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks into a microphone at a rally, surrounded by several people on stage at Bolivar Square in Bogotá.
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    OutlookColombia
    Ghosts of political violence stir in Colombia

    The murder of a young senator ended a taboo on assassinations that had held since the 1990s

    Members of the Presidential Guard stand beside the coffin of Miguel Uribe, draped in the Colombian flag, with his portrait nearby.
  • Sunday, 2 November, 2025
    Global Economy
    US pushes for wider global dollar adoption

    Officials in Washington explore how to encourage more countries to adopt greenback as their primary currency

    Exchange prices for US dollar are displayed on a bank screen
  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast19 min listen
    What Trump wants from Venezuela

    US President Donald Trump is considering military strikes in Venezuela. What’s his endgame?

  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Brazil
    Rio residents back Brazil’s bloodiest police raid

    Crime-weary residents show support for lethal operation in which security forces gunned down dozens of suspected drug traffickers

    Members of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police carry the coffin of a police officer killed in the raid.
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
    Argentina
    Milei’s moment? Election triumph hands libertarian shot at reform

    Firebrand economist must build alliances to push through structural change in Argentina, analysts say

    Montage of Argentine President Javier Milei with national flag behind him
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
    Argentina
    Argentina’s Javier Milei hails ‘historic’ win in pivotal elections

    Country’s dollar-denominated bonds surge after president wins endorsement for free-market reforms

    Javier Milei smiles and waves to supporters in front of a La Libertad Avanza party sign after the midterm election results.
  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    News in-depthUS foreign policy
    ‘We’re going to kill them’: doubts grow over legality of US strikes in Caribbean

    Critics accuse Trump administration of carrying out extrajudicial killings of alleged drug traffickers

    Infrared aerial view shows a targeted vessel in crosshairs on the sea, with "‘Unclassified’ displayed at the top.
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    Will the US bail out Argentina?

    Or is this the end for Javier Milei’s experiment in “anarcho-capitalism”?

  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    News in-depthUS foreign policy
    Donald Trump revives gunboat diplomacy in Venezuela stand-off

    Military deployment and push for regime change echoes centuries of armed intervention by the US in Latin America

    President JF Kennedy signs the order of a naval blockade of Cuba. Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara; American army general Zachary Taylor directing troops at the Battle of Buena Vista in Northern Mexico during the Mexican-American war.
  • Saturday, 18 October, 2025
    News in-depthVenezuela
    Trump aims to topple Venezuela’s leader with military build-up

    Objective of US mission has shifted from fighting drug traffickers to regime change

    A montage of Nicolás Maduro and Donald Trump with a ship in the background
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    Venezuela
    Venezuelan bonds surge as Trump administration ‘plays hardball’

    Rally in defaulted debt has gained pace with US military build-up in Caribbean

    Three people talk in front of a mural painted with the Venezuelan flag's colours and stars in Caracas.
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    The Big Read
    How long can Mexico’s president straddle populism and pragmatism?

    In her first year in office, Claudia Sheinbaum has deftly managed tensions with the US and at home. But the pressure is starting to mount

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at a podium
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    Venezuela
    Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady’

    Scion of industrialist has remade herself into grassroots campaigner bent on unseating President Nicolás Maduro

    María Corina Machado stands holding a Venezuelan flag and placing her hand over her chest during a demonstration last year.
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    Argentina
    US Treasury intervenes in Argentina’s currency market

    Scott Bessent announces $20bn ‘currency swap framework’ with the South American country’s central bank

    US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks at a podium during the Community Bank Conference.
  • Saturday, 4 October, 2025
    Drug trafficking
    Epidemic of crack cocaine addiction sweeps Amazon basin

    Traffickers target indigenous people to sell highly addictive drugs

    Silhouetted soldier and mounted gun in foreground as military boats with soldiers patrol the Solimoes river during a joint operation.
  • Wednesday, 1 October, 2025
    Argentina
    Argentine assets hit by new selling amid worries over US bailout

    Peso, stocks and bonds all fall as investors fret over lack of details from Washington on rescue plan

    Javier Milei gestures with both hands while speaking at a podium
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    Argentina
    Can a US bailout save Argentina’s Javier Milei?

    Markets have calmed for now but libertarian leader faces deep political problems, say observers

    A montage of Donald Trump, Javier Milei and Scott Bessent with Argentine peso notes
  • Tuesday, 23 September, 2025
    News in-depthArgentine economy
    How Argentina’s Milei lost the markets and turned to Trump

    Libertarian president’s tight grip on inflation cost him dollars and slowed growth

    A montage showing Javier Milei raising his left fist against a blue and white background and a representation of a falling line chart
  • Wednesday, 17 September, 2025
    Brazilian politics
    ‘Trump of the Tropics’: the runners and riders to succeed Bolsonaro

    São Paulo governor and family members among potential heirs to hard-right populist facing jail term

  • Wednesday, 10 September, 2025
    News in-depthUS foreign policy
    Can Trump use the US military to win the war on drugs?

    Critics warn cartels can be more effectively policed with better intelligence and interception by coastguard

    Montage image of a US warship, the US strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, and coca leaves that can be used to produce cocaine
  • Monday, 8 September, 2025
    Brazil
    The trial that’s split Brazil

    Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro awaits verdict on coup-plotting charges as divisions deepen and a crisis with US looms

    montage of Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro and supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes
  • Thursday, 4 September, 2025
    News in-depthArgentine economy
    Argentina’s markets on edge as Milei’s radical agenda faces electoral test

    Sunday’s election in Buenos Aires province presents the biggest challenge yet to right-wing president’s libertarian project

    Javier Milei and Karina Milei pictured close together, both with serious expressions, during a rally in Buenos Aires province.
  • Tuesday, 2 September, 2025
    Brazilian politics
    Bolsonaro trial nears close as US-Brazil relations plummet

    Supreme court case against ex-president on coup plot charges has drawn Trump’s ire

    Jair Bolsonaro walks among a crowd outside a hospital, surrounded by people taking photos and a woman raising her hand.
  • Sunday, 31 August, 2025
    News in-depthVenezuela
    Is Trump’s mission in Venezuela to fight drugs or to topple its leader?

    US administration keeps Nicolás Maduro on edge with naval deployment but few see Marines coming ashore

    People wave Venezuelan flags and hold signs during a pro-Maduro demonstration in Caracas.
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