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  • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
    Airlines
    Brazil’s Gol plans to launch electric air taxis as cheap as an Uber

    Low-cost airline to buy or lease 250 aircraft from Avolon that are expected to be delivered in 2024 or 2025

  • Monday, 20 September, 2021
    Brexit
    Boris Johnson claims Mark Rutte offered to mediate over NI protocol

    Dutch diplomats dispute suggestion their prime minister is willing to step in to ease Brexit deal tensions

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    Northern Ireland
    Two men charged with murder of Belfast journalist Lyra McKee

    Prosecutors tell court the suspects were with the gunman when fatal shots were fired during 2019 riot

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
    Brexit
    EU Brexit chief rejects UK demands to rewrite N Ireland trade rules

    Maros Sefcovic’s comments come after DUP threatens to pull out of Stormont power-sharing over protocol

  • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
    Northern Ireland
    DUP threatens to pull out of Stormont over Brexit protocol

    Donaldson says party could exit Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive ‘within weeks’ 

  • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
    Ireland
    Ireland unveils record spending to tackle housing crisis

    Government will allocate €4bn annually to build 300,000 homes by end of the decade

  • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
    WhatsApp Inc
    WhatsApp fined €225m for not telling users how it shared data with Facebook

    Ireland levies one of largest penalties for GDPR abuses after pressure from other EU countries

  • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
    News in-depthUK politics & policy
    UK human rights law review risks Northern Ireland peace accord, politicians warn

    Legislation has been criticised by successive Conservative governments

  • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
    Ireland
    Ireland’s housing crisis just got personal

    For a newly arrived FT correspondent, Dublin’s acute shortage of homes is more than just a news story

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  • 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

  • Sunday, 1 August, 2021
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    The Mexico-based fintech that decided to buy a bank

    Credijusto’s co-founders wanted to avoid building a lender from scratch — their investors thought they were ‘mad’

  • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
    News in-depthMexico
    Mexicans fear cartels are tightening their grip on politics

    A governor’s criticism of the ruling party highlights concerns about drug traffickers’ power

  • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
    Mexico
    Amlo’s media naming and shaming shows a flexible approach to facts

    The Mexican president’s attacks on journalists reveal his dislike of criticism

  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    Petroleos Mexicanos
    Mexico hands control of private oil find to state-owned Pemex

    Decision hits Talos Energy, Premier Oil and Wintershall and risks international litigation

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    News in-depthMexico
    ‘Amlo will keep on being Amlo’: Mexico’s president undeterred by bruising midterms

    López Obrador presses ahead with contentious reforms despite losing supermajority

  • Saturday, 26 June, 2021
    InterviewMexico
    Mexico City mayor: ‘There’s no need to change direction’

    López Obrador protégée Claudia Sheinbaum resolute despite setbacks including election losses and metro collapse

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    ObituaryEnrique Bolaños
    Enrique Bolaños, president and businessman, 1928-2021

    Nicaraguan leader who battled corruption but failed to curb the country’s inequality

  • Thursday, 24 June, 2021
    Energy Source
    Why Mexico’s latest energy rule is likely to see a court challenge Premium content

    Plus, legacy producers and the energy transition, the Dallas Fed’s oil patch survey, and a heatwave coming to the US west

  • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
    Mexico
    ‘Structural faults’ caused Mexico City metro collapse, says report

    Inquiry into accident that killed 26 finds flaws in construction by Carlos Slim company

  • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
    News in-depthMexico
    Biden helps Mexico enjoy break from economic gloom

    US stimulus and remittances spill across the border, but no one expects the good times to last

  • Saturday, 12 June, 2021
    News in-depthNicaragua
    Daniel Ortega tightens his grip as Nicaragua prepares for election

    Veteran Latin American strongman has arrested opponents as he ensures a fourth presidential term

  • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Dope by Benjamin T Smith — Mexico’s descent into disorganised crime

    A magisterial history of the country’s drug trade shows the disastrous consequences of a century of prohibition

  • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
    Mexican politics
    López Obrador names new finance and central bank chiefs

    Mexican president announces changes in top posts following mixed result in midterm elections

  • 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

  • Monday, 7 June, 2021
    Mexico
    Mexico’s president loses congressional supermajority in elections

    López Obrador puts a brave face on mixed midterm results in poll seen as referendum on his rule

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