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    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Bolivia
      Bolivians queue for dollars as crisis of confidence spreads

      Plummeting reserves lead to rating downgrade and fears over devaluation and debt default

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Argentine economy
      Argentina’s new finance minister pledges to bring ‘order and balance’

      Silvina Batakis tries to reassure investors and IMF as she takes on a precarious economy amid political divisions

    • 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
      Argentina
      Argentina bondholders snub ‘disproportionate’ debt offer

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

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