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  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    InterviewHonduras
    New Honduran government takes steps to plug deep fiscal hole

    Vice-president pledges to fight corruption and raise foreign investment

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    IMF’s Argentina deal needs tougher conditions

    Broader steps are required to tackle long-running structural problems

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Mexican economy
    Mexico’s central bank raises interest rates as country battles inflation

    Bank of Mexico confronts economic challenges as it prepares for leadership transition

  • Sunday, 21 November, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    El Salvador plans ‘bitcoin city’ powered by volcano

    President of central American nation says project will be financed by $1bn of bonds

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    ESG investing
    Belize leans on coral reefs to drive bargain with bondholders

    Caribbean nation on track to strike first debt restructuring with green tinge

  • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
    News in-depthCryptocurrencies
    IMF warns against using crypto as national currency ahead of El Salvador launch

    Lender reiterates concerns as Latin American nation prepares for September switch-on

  • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
    Bitcoin
    El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender

    Analysts sceptical of move hailed by crypto entrepreneurs and country’s authoritarian president

  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    News in-depthSpecial Report
    Colombia after Covid-19

    Our correspondents on how one of Latin America’s oldest democracies is facing down its bloody past and meeting the challenges of the pandemic, upgrading its infrastructure and modernising its economy

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    Argentina
    Coronavirus risks critical blow to Argentina’s ailing economy

    Latin American country was ill-placed to deal with pandemic after years of stagnation

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    News in-depthArgentina
    How Argentina and its creditors thrashed out a $65bn deal

    Recovery value of about 55 cents on the dollar was a ‘creative compromise’

  • Tuesday, 4 August, 2020
    Argentina
    Argentina strikes debt agreement after restructuring breakthrough

    Buenos Aires will accelerate some debt payments to sweeten deal with foreign creditors

  • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
    Ecuador
    Ecuador debt restructuring faces setback after some creditors balk

    Large bondholders back proposed government deal, but counterproposal emerges

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    Argentina
    Autonomy hedge fund bemoans Argentina’s ‘bad faith’ debt tactics

    Restructuring after country’s ninth default is snarled in dispute over process

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Inter-American Development Bank
    US nominates senior Trump official to head development bank

    Hawkish candidate would be first American to lead lender that supports growth in Latin America

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    Argentina
    IMF officials say Argentina can improve debt restructuring offer

    Country has extended deadline yet again as it continues to negotiate with creditors

  • Sunday, 31 May, 2020
    Argentina
    Argentina narrows gap with creditors in debt talks

    Pressure mounts on both sides to agree a $65bn restructuring deal

  • Sunday, 31 May, 2020
    Venezuela
    UK would ‘finance torture’ by giving gold to Venezuela, warns Guaidó

    Cash-strapped Maduro regime tries to seize $1bn in bullion from Bank of England

  • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
    Argentina
    Argentina set for default as it wrangles with bondholders 

    Negotiations to restructure $65bn of foreign debt continue but both sides stand firm

  • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
    Venezuela
    Venezuela sues Bank of England over refusal to release gold

    Lawyer says UK central bank has ‘moral imperative’ to help ease effects of coronavirus

  • Sunday, 10 May, 2020
    News in-depthArgentina
    Argentina on brink of ninth debt default

    The government and creditors are deadlocked ahead of Monday’s deadline

  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Debt relief alone will not save Argentina

    Economic woes go well beyond the coronavirus crisis

  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2020
    InterviewArgentina
    Argentina ready to consider ninth sovereign default, says Guzmán

    Finance minister tells FT that government has rejected counter-offer from BlackRock-led group of creditors

  • Monday, 4 May, 2020
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    Argentina bondholders snub ‘disproportionate’ debt offer

    Biggest creditors attack government’s proposal to restructure $65bn of foreign debt

  • Monday, 20 April, 2020
    Argentina
    Bondholders reject Argentina’s debt offer

    Creditors denounce government restructuring plan as unacceptable

  • Sunday, 12 April, 2020
    Mexico
    Four Mexico states call for new tax deal with López Obrador

    Governors seize on criticisms of president over lack of coronavirus stimulus

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