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    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      Argentina
      Argentina faces €1.3bn bill after losing case over GDP-linked debt

      Ruling comes days after Buenos Aires lost New York court case over oil company expropriation

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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

      People wait to buy US dollars outside Bolivia’s central bank in La Paz
    • 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

      A currency exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • 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

      A woman holds a poster denouncing former president Juan Orlando Hernández during a protest
    • 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

      A woman passes a ‘For Sale’ sign outside a property in Buenos Aires
    • 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

      Alejandro Díaz de León, current governor of the Banco de Mexico
    • 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

      An animation showing Nayib Bukele at the closing party of Bitcoin Week
    • 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

      The Belize Barrier Reef
    • 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

      Bitcoin banners outside a restaurant in Chiltiupan, El Salvador
    • 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

      Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s 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

      Argentina’s central bank in Buenos Aires. Economy minister Martín Guzmán insists there is only ‘scarce’ room to modify its proposal to reach a deal with bondholders
    • Sunday, 31 May, 2020
      Argentina
      Argentina narrows gap with creditors in debt talks

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

      A protester wears a mask with a slogan reading ‘It is not the virus, it’s the system’ during a rally in Buenos Aires last week
    • 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

      Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, pictured, wants to keep the gold ‘out of the clutches’ of the government of Nicolás Maduro
    • 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

      Bondholders say Argentina’s economy minister Martín Guzmán is too dogmatic
    • 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

      Members of Polo Obrero social organization protest at Plaza de Mayo square holding banners during a May Day demosntration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 1, 2020. - Argentina went to lockdown imposed by the government against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19 since March 20. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP) (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)
    • 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

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