January
- Opinion
- US election
The case for Trump – by someone who wants him to lose
You can’t defeat a political opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. Trump got three big things right — or at least more right than wrong.
- Bret Stephens
July 2023
Cocaine growers in Colombia give up as crop price plunges 75pc
The price of coca, the key commodity used to make cocaine, has plunged this year in Colombia thanks to oversupply and the growth of production in other countries.
- Oliver Griffin
January 2022
Citi to exit Mexico retail banking, its biggest branch network
The move comes after the CEO last year announced she would exit 13 markets across Asia and Europe as part of her push to simplify Citigroup.
- Jenny Surane
November 2021
Prince Charles farewells Barbados as it adopts rejected Aussie model
Barbadians’ move to ditch the Queen for a president elected by MPs leaves just 14 countries, other than the UK, with the British monarch as head of state.
- Hans van Leeuwen
El Salvador’s ‘bitcoin bonds’ plan falls flat with fund managers
Emerging markets fund managers expressed little interest in buying the new bonds, which El Salvador plans to issue next year with an annual coupon of 6.5 per cent.
- Tommy Stubbington, Joshua Oliver and Christine Murray
El Salvador plans ‘bitcoin city’ powered by volcano
President Nayib Bukele said the city would have no property, income or capital gains taxes. Its infrastructure and other costs will be funded by a sales tax and money raised by the bond issues.
- Christine Murray
September 2021
- Analysis
- Immigration
Feeling trapped, migrants’ fears grow in Mexican border city
After more than a week at this crossing on the US-Mexico border, Haitian migrants feel like the walls are beginning to close in on them.
- Maria Verza
- Opinion
- Bitcoin
Crypto swoon over tiny El Salvador much ado about nothing
Local opposition to President Nayib Bukele’s bitcoin plan is widespread, suggesting take-up will be low. A damp squib is more likely than the financial dislocation some critics are prophesying.
- The Lex Column
El Salvador’s world-first adoption of bitcoin endures bumpy first day
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele complained that the government-backed bitcoin app was not available on various internet platforms, including Apple and Huawei.
- Nelson Renteria and Anthony Esposito
- Analysis
- Cryptocurrencies
El Salvador becomes a crypto laboratory with bitcoin gamble
Twenty years after it adopted the US dollar as its national currency, the tiny Central American nation is about to officially become the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender.
- Christine Murray
August 2021
- Analysis
- Tragedy
‘I’m the only surgeon’: After Haiti quake, thousands seek scarce care
With just a few dozen doctors available in a region that is home to 1 million people, the quake aftermath was turning increasingly dire.
- Maria Abi-Habib
Quake kills hundreds in Haiti, worsening Caribbean nation’s plight
The earthquake comes just over a month after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, which deepened the country’s political turmoil.
- Andre Paultre and Sarah Marsh
July 2021
Protests demand justice for Haiti’s slain president
Foreign dignitaries are flying to Haiti from around the Americas to pay their respects to Jovenel Moise, who was was gunned down in his home in Port-au-Prince this month.
- Dave Graham and Andre Paultre
US imposes sanctions on Cuban officials after protest crackdown
President Joe Biden faces increasing pressure from Congress, activist groups and Cuban Americans to take decisive action in support of protesters on the island.
- Karen DeYoung
Cuban government rallies backers following week of protests
President Miguel Díaz-Canel made an impassioned speech blaming unrest on the US and its economic embargo.
- Andrea Rodriguez
United in pain: young Cuban activists take fight across generations
The protests reflect what some see as a changing of the guard – the young demonstrators believe they can win the fight started by their parents and grandparents.
- Lori Rozsa
Florida resident detained as latest suspect in Haiti killing
Police have identified the man as Christian Emmanuel Sanon and say Jovenel Moïse’s alleged killers were protecting him as the supposed president of Haiti.
- Danico Coto
Americans among arrests, as Haiti asks for US troops
Haiti’s interim government asked for US troops to be deployed to stop the country descending into chaos after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
- Danica Coto and Joshua Goodman
Ex-Colombian military, Haitian Americans suspected in assassination
Colombia’s Defence Minister said initial findings indicated that the Colombian suspects were retired members of his country’s armed forces.
- Andre Paultre and Robenson Sanon
- Analysis
- Political unrest
Haiti’s future even more uncertain after brazen slaying of president
The assassination of Jovenel Moïse stunned a nation grappling with some of the western hemisphere’s highest poverty, violence and political instability.
- Evens Sanon and Danico Coto
Haiti police battle gunmen who killed president, amid fears of chaos
The police had killed four of the ‘mercenaries’ and captured two more, Police General Director Leon Charles said in televised comments.
- Andre Paultre
Haiti president assassinated at home in ‘barbaric act’, says PM
Jovenel Moise was shot dead and his wife Martine was injured by unknown attackers who stormed his private residence, setting off unrest in the Caribbean nation.
- Andre Paultre
May 2021
At least 20 dead after rail overpass collapses in Mexico City
At least 15 people have been killed and 70 hurt after a Mexico City overpass carrying metro train cars partially collapsed onto a road on Monday night.
- E. Eduardo Castillo
January 2021
Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19, symptoms mild
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been criticised for his handling of Mexico’s pandemic and for not setting an example of prevention in public.
- Christopher Sherman
September 2020
Is China behind Barbados' move to ditch the Queen?
British MPs say Beijing's 'debt diplomacy' puts a 'chokehold' over poorer countries, but the Caribbean island's republican push has had a long gestation.
- Hans van Leeuwen
