March
How billionaire elites answered Trump’s call on Panama
Li Ka-shing, Larry Fink and Adebayo Ogunlesi picked up the phone and struck a $36 billion deal to take over 43 ports within weeks.
BlackRock buys Hutchison’s Panama ports in victory for Trump
The president had argued without evidence that China had taken over the critical waterway and that the US was paying too much for the passage of ships.
February
Rubio tells Panama that Trump wants the Chinese out
The US secretary of state told the Panamanian president that it must reduce China’s control over the canal or face retaliation from the White House.
January
In Pictures: Trump inauguration 2025
Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president in a room packed with former presidents, business leaders and celebrities.
January 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 2021
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.
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.
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.
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.
August 2021
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.