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Tuesday November 21 2023

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Stephen Gibbs

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Stephen Gibbs covers Latin America and the Caribbean for The Times and The Sunday Times. He has been based in the region since 2002, living in Cuba, Mexico and Brazil. His present home is in Caracas, Venezuela. He has interviewed several significant figures from all sides of Latin America's turbulent politics, including Hugo Chávez and Jair Bolsonaro. A former BBC correspondent, Stephen is also the author of six children’s books. He enjoys adventure travel.

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Argentina’s new leader pledges to rip up the rulebook

Argentina’s radical libertarian president-elect promised mass privatisations in his first policy statement after his landslide victory on Sunday

Monday November 20 2023, 9.00pm, The Times

Taylor Swift postponed a show in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday because of the extreme heat

Taylor Swift honours fan who died before Rio show

Taylor Swift paid tribute to a fan who died before a concert in Rio de Janeiro as she returned to the stage in Brazil on Sunday night.

Monday November 20 2023, 2.15pm, The Times

Javier Milei is regarded as a genuine eccentric, but comparisons with other anti-establishment leaders abound nonetheless

‘El Loco’: Who is Javier Milei, the chainsaw-wielding president-elect?

When he was a schoolboy in the early 1980s, his classmates called the dark haired, blue-eyed boy who had a troubled relationship with his parents...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.00pm, The Times

‘We have to win,’ Argentina’s Javier Milei declares ahead of election

As thousands of Argentinians rallied before Sunday’s forthcoming presidential election, the maverick libertarian candidate Javier Milei told his...

Friday November 17 2023, 1.05pm, The Times

Javier Milel said that Margaret Thatcher had a “significant role” in the fall of the Berlin Wall

Thatcher was a great leader, Argentine presidential hopeful declares

Margaret Thatcher was one of the great leaders of humanity, a candidate to become Argentinian president has said.

The libertarian free-marketeer...

Tuesday November 14 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Luis Díaz’s father is safe, but why is kidnapping so rife in Colombia?

As the helicopter swooped down to the hilltop clearing where he had been brought by his kidnappers, Luis Manuel Díaz knew his ordeal was finally...

Sunday November 12 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Kidnappers free Liverpool player’s father after 12 days

Manuel Díaz, father of the Liverpool midfielder Luis Díaz, has been released 12 days after he was kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas close to the...

Thursday November 09 2023, 6.30pm, The Times

The suspect has been named locally as a retired lawyer and university professor, with a previous conviction for illegal possession of firearms

Driver shoots dead eco protesters blocking road in Panama

Two environmentalists blocking a road in Panama during a protest about mining rights have been killed after an elderly driver attempting to get...

Wednesday November 08 2023, 5.15pm, The Times

The San José was sunk by the British navy in 1708, taking treasures including silver, emeralds and gold coins to the depths

‘£16bn shipwreck’ will be raised from the deep

The Colombian government has said that a Spanish galleon lying off its Caribbean coast with treasure on board that could be worth as much as £16...

Monday November 06 2023, 12.01am, The Times

‘People’s princess’ of Venezuela aims to seize Maduro’s throne

She once accused the all-powerful president, Hugo Chávez, of being a thief, to his face, on live television. Then in 2018, she said that she...

Sunday November 05 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Brazilian paramilitary gangs set fire to 35 buses in co-ordinated revenge attack

Brazilian paramilitary gangs set fire to at least 35 public buses, a train carriage and two lorries in Rio de Janeiro on Monday in a co-ordinated...

Tuesday October 24 2023, 6.00am, The Times

Election surprise dents stocks in Argentina

Argentina’s stock market and bonds slumped after the economy minister emerged as a surprise frontrunner in the presidential election next month.

Monday October 23 2023, 8.20pm, The Times

Leftwinger takes unexpected lead in Argentine election

Argentina is set for a bitter run-off presidential election pitting the country’s left-wing economy minister against a right-wing libertarian who...

Monday October 23 2023, 7.00am, The Times

Javier Milei, who entered politics two years ago, casts his vote in Buenos Aires

Chainsaw radical ‘ready to lead’ as Argentina votes

Argentinians voted on Sunday in an election which could hand the presidency to a maverick right-wing libertarian who has pledged to reboot the...

Sunday October 22 2023, 8.15pm, The Times

President Maduro went on state television to announce the new relations with America

US lifts sanctions on Venezuela in return for political reforms

The US government has lifted almost all of its existing trade sanctions on the regime of Venezuela’s President Maduro in a sharp reversal of...

Thursday October 19 2023, 3.30pm, The Times

Javier Milei is closing in on the presidency with a pledge to hack away at the political establishment

Argentina’s radical frontrunner cuts through to millions of voters

Wielding a chainsaw above his head as his supporters chanted a chorus of “freedom, goddammit”, Javier Milei was greeted by a crowd of thousands...

Wednesday October 18 2023, 1.50pm, The Times

Meet Lavinia Valbonesi, Ecuador’s Gen Z first lady

She was brought up in the marine paradise of the Galapagos Islands. On Instagram she shares nutritional and fitness tips with her 390,000...

Wednesday October 18 2023, 10.45am, The Times

President Maduro may organise fair elections next year

Biden takes first step towards Venezuela coming in from the cold

Washington and Venezuela are expected to announce a breakthrough agreement in the coming days in which some longstanding sanctions on its oil...

Monday October 16 2023, 7.40pm, The Times

Ecuador says ‘yes’ to fruit exporter, 35, as its next president

A conservative 35-year-old businessman, the heir to a fruit-exporting conglomerate, has been elected president of Ecuador after a polarised...

Monday October 16 2023, 4.40am, The Times

Most young people in Havana are eager to flee the troubled island

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Cuba is relaxing some of its Soviet-era laws

As the waitress brought a round of cocktails to our table in a Havana bar, the man on my left complimented her flawless, American-accented...

Monday October 09 2023, 12.01am, The Times