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149-743: The Terrorism Confinement Center ( Spanish : Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo , abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT ) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca , El Salvador . The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023. CECOT received its first 2,000 prisoners in February 2023, and as of 11 June 2024, it has
298-571: A European Securities and Markets Authority investigation for its response to the scandal. An investigation by the Intercept , the Nation , and DeSmog found that FT is one of the leading media outlets that publishes advertising for the fossil fuel industry. Journalists who cover climate change for FT are concerned that conflicts of interest with the companies and industries that caused climate change and obstructed action will reduce
447-714: A hard Brexit . In respect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine , FT commentator Martin Wolf expressed support for Ukraine. Two years before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia , the FT offered an interview to the Russian President Vladimir Putin . The interview received praise, as it offered an unusual access to the Russian leader's thinking. President Putin used the interview to state his opinions about
596-430: A "New Newsroom" project to integrate the newspaper more closely with FT.com. At the same time it announced plans to cut the editorial staff from 525 to 475. In August 2006 it announced that all the required job cuts had been achieved through voluntary layoffs. A number of former FT journalists have gone on to high-profile jobs in journalism, politics and business. Robert Thomson , previously the paper's US managing editor,
745-699: A 50% shareholding in The Economist , which was sold to the Agnelli family for £469 million. Related publications include the Financial Times , FT.com, FT Search Inc., the publishing imprint FT Press and numerous joint ventures. In November 2013 it agreed to sell Mergermarket , an online intelligence reporting business, to the London private equity investor BC Partners. In addition, the FT Group has
894-616: A Conservative peer), John Kingman (former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild's ), George Graham ( RBS banker), Andrew Balls (head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson (former Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ). The FT publishes a Saturday edition of the newspaper titled the Financial Times Weekend . It consists of international economic and political news, Companies & Markets , Life & Arts , House & Home and FT Magazine . HTSI (originally How to Spend It )
1043-832: A German corporate, focusing on the lead author of the FT series, Dan McCrum . The Public prosecutor's office in Munich subsequently launched an investigation. After the formal complaint of an investor, Wirecard and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the responsible state's attorney announced investigations into several FT journalists. On 22 June 2020 and after 18 months of investigations and an external audit, Wirecard announced that €1.9 billion worth of cash reported in its accounts "may not exist". The company subsequently filed for insolvency . BaFin itself became subject of
1192-614: A Spanish-based creole language called Chavacano developed in the southern Philippines. However, it is not mutually intelligible with Spanish. The number of Chavacano-speakers was estimated at 1.2 million in 1996. The local languages of the Philippines also retain significant Spanish influence, with many words derived from Mexican Spanish , owing to the administration of the islands by Spain through New Spain until 1821, until direct governance from Madrid afterwards to 1898. Financial Times The Financial Times ( FT )
1341-533: A business-related game called "In the Pink" (a phrase meaning "in good health", also a reference to the colour of the newspaper and to the phrase "in the red" meaning to be making a loss). Each player was put in the virtual role of Chief Executive and the goal was to have the highest profit when the game closes. The winner of the game (the player who makes the highest profit) was to receive a real monetary prize of £10,000. The game ran from 1 May to 28 June 2006. In 2019,
1490-556: A capacity of 40,000 prisoners, CECOT's inmate capacity is double that of the total population of the Marmara Penitentiaries Campus in Istanbul , Turkey—which would make CECOT the largest in the world by total capacity. Separate from the main modules, there are corridors of solitary confinement cells. These solitary cells are complete with only a concrete slab for sleeping, a toilet, and a washing basin. There
1639-603: A considerable number of words from Arabic , as well as a minor influence from the Germanic Gothic language through the period of Visigoth rule in Iberia. In addition, many more words were borrowed from Latin through the influence of written language and the liturgical language of the Church. The loanwords were taken from both Classical Latin and Renaissance Latin , the form of Latin in use at that time. According to
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#17327823627151788-522: A dramatic change in the pronunciation of its sibilant consonants , known in Spanish as the reajuste de las sibilantes , which resulted in the distinctive velar [x] pronunciation of the letter ⟨j⟩ and—in a large part of Spain—the characteristic interdental [θ] ("th-sound") for the letter ⟨z⟩ (and for ⟨c⟩ before ⟨e⟩ or ⟨i⟩ ). See History of Spanish (Modern development of
1937-542: A financial information company that provides sales and market intelligence for investment professionals in North America, Europe and Asia. FT Knowledge is an associated company which offers educational products and services. FT Knowledge has offered the "Introducing the City" course (which is a series of Wednesday night lectures and seminars, as well as weekend events) during each autumn and spring since 2000. FT Predict
2086-469: A financial newspaper, it does also contain TV listings, weather and other more informal articles. In 2021 and 2022, the outlet began focusing more on the cryptocurrency industry, launching a Digital Assets Dashboard, publishing multi-asset crypto indexes, starting a Cryptofinance newsletter dedicated to digital assets, and recruiting more journalists to cover the sector. About 110 of its 475 journalists are outside
2235-482: A first language by Spaniards and educated Filipinos ( Ilustrados ). Despite a public education system set up by the colonial government, by the end of Spanish rule in 1898, only about 10% of the population had knowledge of Spanish, mostly those of Spanish descent or elite standing. Spanish continued to be official and used in Philippine literature and press during the early years of American administration after
2384-494: A former defence correspondent and Lex columnist, was chief executive of the publishing company CMP before becoming chief executive of TSL Education, publisher of the Times Educational Supplement . David Jones, at one time the FT ' s Night Editor, then became Head of IT. He was a key figure in the newspaper's transformation from hot metal to electronic composition and then onto full-page pagination in
2533-406: A joint venture with a German publishing firm, Gruner + Jahr . In January 2008 the FT sold its 50% stake to its German partner. FT Deutschland never made a profit and is said to have accumulated losses of €250 million over 12 years. It closed on 7 December 2012. The Financial Times launched a new weekly supplement for the fund management industry on 4 February 2002. FT fund management (FTfm)
2682-505: A limited number of free articles during any one month before asking them to pay. Four years later the FT launched its HTML5 mobile internet app. Smartphones and tablets now drive 12% of subscriptions and 19% of traffic to FT.com. In 2012, the number of digital subscribers surpassed the circulation of the newspaper for the first time and the FT drew almost half of its revenue from subscriptions rather than advertising. The FT has been available on Bloomberg Terminal since 2010 and on
2831-478: A long history in the territory of the current-day United States dating back to the 16th century. In the wake of the 1848 Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty , hundreds of thousands of Spanish speakers became a minoritized community in the United States. The 20th century saw further massive growth of Spanish speakers in areas where they had been hitherto scarce. According to the 2020 census, over 60 million people of
2980-455: A los criminales en la cárcel. ¿Hay espacio? Ahora sí. ¿Podrán dar órdenes desde adentro? No. ¿Podrán escapar? No. Una obra de sentido común. "). His statement was accompanied by a video showcasing the prison's massive size. Since CECOT's opening but also dating back to the start of the government's recent crackdown on gangs, the Salvadoran government has been the subject of widespread human rights violation allegations. Before CECOT's construction
3129-495: A month later as the Financial Times . It was first circulated around metropolitan London by James Sheridan , who, along with his brother and Horatio Bottomley , sought to report on city business opposite the Financial News . The succeeding half-century of competition between the two papers eventually culminated in a 1945 merger , led by Brendan Bracken , which established it as one of the largest business newspapers in
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#17327823627153278-402: A one-page consumer goods feature in the newspaper, which was edited by Sheila Black, the FT 's first female journalist, a former actor. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, FT launched the online version of this publication on 3 October 2009. Some media commentators were taken aback by the online launch of a website supporting conspicuous consumption during the financial austerity of
3427-430: A personal finance magazine and website; "FT Money", a weekly personal finance supplement in "FT Weekend"; FT Wealth , a magazine for the global high-net-worth community and FTfm, a weekly review of the global fund management industry, Money Management and FT Adviser . The institutional segment includes: The Banker , This Is Africa , fDi Intelligence and Professional Wealth Management (PWM). Money-Media,
3576-730: A poll conduced by CIESCA in March 2023, 96.4 percent of respondents supported the construction of CECOT while 3.6 percent opposed it. On 1 June 2023, Bukele announced that he will build a prison similar to CECOT but for white-collar criminals as a part of a " war against corruption ". Bukele stated that the prison would be known as the Corruption Confinement Center (CECOC). Politicians across Latin America—in countries such as Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Peru—have implemented or have called for
3725-582: A population of 14,532 inmates. With capacity for 40,000 inmates, CECOT is the largest prison in Latin America and one of the largest in the world by prisoner capacity. CECOT–as well as the gang crackdown as a whole–have been the subject of international media attention, receiving praise for the Salvadoran government as well as criticism of alleged human rights violations. [REDACTED] On 26 March 2022, El Salvador experienced its deadliest day in history when gang violence killed 62 people. In response to
3874-508: A primarily Hassaniya Arabic -speaking territory, Spanish was officially spoken as the language of the colonial administration during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Today, Spanish is present in the partially-recognized Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as its secondary official language, and in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf ( Algeria ), where the Spanish language is still taught as
4023-730: A prison with the capacity to hold 20,000 inmates based on CECOT. Spanish language Spanish ( español ) or Castilian ( castellano ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe . Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain , and about 600 million when including second language speakers. Spanish
4172-518: A registration process meant to record their personal information and details on their criminal history. Additional security measures include constant video surveillance of the entire compound, a fully-stocked armory complete with firearms and riot gear, and a 15,000-volt capacity fence surrounding the facility. The prison is further surrounded by gravel flooring to make footsteps audible, four 9.8-foot-tall (3.0 m) and 23.6-inch-thick (60 cm) walls topped with barbed wire, and 19 guard towers. Within
4321-461: A reporter for the Financial Times generated a controversy about the editorial independence of the paper from outside political pressure. The controversy followed the withdrawal by the newspaper's editor of an opinion piece by FT 's Brussels correspondent Mehreen Khan that was critical of French President Emmanuel Macron 's policy towards Muslim minorities in France. The piece was withdrawn from
4470-617: A second language features characteristics involving the variability of the vowel system. While far from its heyday during the Spanish protectorate in Morocco , the Spanish language has some presence in northern Morocco , stemming for example from the availability of certain Spanish-language media. According to a 2012 survey by Morocco's Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (IRES), penetration of Spanish in Morocco reaches 4.6% of
4619-531: A second language, largely by Cuban educators. The number of Spanish speakers is unknown. Spanish is also an official language of the African Union . Spanish was an official language of the Philippines from the beginning of Spanish administration in 1565 to a constitutional change in 1973. During Spanish colonization , it was the language of government, trade, and education, and was spoken as
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4768-492: A separate arm of Financial Publishing, delivers a range of digital information services for fund management professionals around the globe, including: Ignites, Ignites Europe, Ignites Asia, FundFire and BoardIQ. Financial Publishing includes publications ( Pensions Expert and Deutsche Pensions & Investmentnachrichten ) and events ( Investment Expert ) for the European pensions industry. The group also publishes MandateWire,
4917-450: A unit called FT Specialist, which is a provider of specialist information on retail, personal and institutional finance segments. It publishes The Banker , Money Management and FT Adviser (a publication targeted to the financial intermediary market), fDi Intelligence and Professional Wealth Management (PWM). In 2013, FT Specialist acquired a majority stake in medical publisher Endpoints News. The Financial Times Group announced
5066-628: A video on Twitter of him, General Director of Penal Centers Osiris Luna Meza , Director of the National Civil Police Mauricio Arriaza Chicas , Minister of Defense René Merino Monroy , and Minister of Public Works Romeo Herrera touring the prison before its opening. On 24 February 2023, Bukele published a video on Twitter of the first 2,000 prisoners being transferred to CECOT. The video shows thousands of prisoners—all with shaved heads wearing only white gym shorts—being rushed from point to point as they enter
5215-546: Is Mexico . Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance language group , in which the language is also known as Castilian ( castellano ). The group evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of
5364-416: Is cognate to the root word of satisfacer ("to satisfy"), and hecho ("made") is similarly cognate to the root word of satisfecho ("satisfied"). Compare the examples in the following table: Some consonant clusters of Latin also produced characteristically different results in these languages, as shown in the examples in the following table: In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish underwent
5513-598: Is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs . Based in London , the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nikkei , with core editorial offices across Britain, the United States and continental Europe. In July 2015, Pearson sold the publication to Nikkei for £ 844 million ( US$ 1.32 billion) after owning it since 1957. In 2019, it reported one million paying subscriptions, three-quarters of which were digital subscriptions. In 2023, it
5662-408: Is a weekly magazine published with FT Weekend . Founded and launched by Julia Carrick with Lucia van der Post as founding editor, its articles concern luxury goods such as yachts , mansions , apartments , horlogerie , haute couture and automobiles , as well as fashion and columns by individuals in the arts, gardening, food, and hotel and travel industries. How to Spend It started in 1967 as
5811-445: Is alleged that some of these arrests were made based solely on the physical appearances or social backgrounds of individuals believed to have gang affiliations. Human Rights Watch claimed that these arrests disproportionately burdened the most socio-economically disadvantaged Salvadorans. The United States Department of State released a report documenting alleged human rights violations in El Salvador from 2022. This report alleges that
5960-413: Is also one of the most taught foreign languages throughout the world. Spanish is well represented in the humanities and social sciences . Spanish is also the third most used language on the internet by number of users after English and Chinese and the second most used language by number of websites after English. Spanish is used as an official language by many international organizations , including
6109-563: Is an editorial service on forecasted economic events hosted by the Financial Times that allows users to buy and sell contracts based on future financial, political and news-driven events by spending fictional Financial Times Dollars (FT$ ). Based on the assumptions displayed in James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds , this contest allows people to use forecasted economic events to observe future occurrences while competing for weekly and monthly prizes. The Financial Times also ran
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6258-454: Is estimated that about 486 million people speak Spanish as a native language , making it the second most spoken language by number of native speakers . An additional 75 million speak Spanish as a second or foreign language , making it the fourth most spoken language in the world overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi with a total number of 538 million speakers. Spanish is also
6407-608: Is headquartered in Bracken House at 1 Friday Street, near the city's financial centre, where it maintains its publishing house, corporate centre, and main editorial office. The FT was launched as the London Financial Guide on 10 January 1888, renaming itself the Financial Times on 13 February the same year. Describing itself as the friend of "The Honest Financier, the Bona Fide Investor,
6556-761: Is heavily influenced by Venezuelan Spanish. In addition to sharing most of its borders with Spanish-speaking countries, the creation of Mercosur in the early 1990s induced a favorable situation for the promotion of Spanish language teaching in Brazil . In 2005, the National Congress of Brazil approved a bill, signed into law by the President , making it mandatory for schools to offer Spanish as an alternative foreign language course in both public and private secondary schools in Brazil. In September 2016 this law
6705-556: Is no natural or artificial light in these individual cells, and guards are able to observe inmates through a small window which guards can open and shut. Prisoners are fed rice, beans, pasta, and hard-boiled eggs and are forced to eat with their hands as the guards consider forks and knives to be potential weapons. Prisoners wear a uniform consisting of a white shirt and white shorts and their heads are shaved every five days. Prisoners are allowed outside of their cells for only 30 minutes per day to exercise while shackled. They can also work in
6854-540: Is published in London. The name of the magazine was changed in 2022 from How to Spend It to HTSI . The FT advocates free markets , and is in favour of globalisation . During the 1980s, it supported Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan 's monetarist policies. It has supported the UK Labour Party in the past, including at the general election in 1992 when Neil Kinnock was Labour leader. The FT 's editorials tend to be pro-European . The FT
7003-844: Is spoken by very small communities in Angola due to Cuban influence from the Cold War and in South Sudan among South Sudanese natives that relocated to Cuba during the Sudanese wars and returned for their country's independence. Spanish is also spoken in the integral territories of Spain in Africa, namely the cities of Ceuta and Melilla and the Canary Islands , located in the Atlantic Ocean some 100 km (62 mi) off
7152-813: Is the de facto national language of the country, Spanish is often used in public services and notices at the federal and state levels. Spanish is also used in administration in the state of New Mexico . The language has a strong influence in major metropolitan areas such as those of Los Angeles , Miami , San Antonio , New York , San Francisco , Dallas , Tucson and Phoenix of the Arizona Sun Corridor , as well as more recently, Chicago , Las Vegas , Boston , Denver , Houston , Indianapolis , Philadelphia , Cleveland , Salt Lake City , Atlanta , Nashville , Orlando , Tampa , Raleigh and Baltimore-Washington, D.C. due to 20th- and 21st-century immigration. Although Spanish has no official recognition in
7301-498: Is the official language of 20 countries , as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations . Spanish is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese ; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English , Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani ( Hindi - Urdu ); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The country with the largest population of native speakers
7450-578: Is usually assumed to be derived from castillo ('castle'). In the Middle Ages , the language spoken in Castile was generically referred to as Romance and later also as Lengua vulgar . Later in the period, it gained geographical specification as Romance castellano ( romanz castellano , romanz de Castiella ), lenguaje de Castiella , and ultimately simply as castellano (noun). Different etymologies have been suggested for
7599-484: The 2024 United States presidential election . On 23 July 2015, Nikkei, Inc. agreed to buy the Financial Times Group, a division of Pearson plc since 1957, for £844m (US$ 1.32 billion) and the acquisition was completed on 30 November 2015. Under the transaction agreement, Pearson retained the publishing rights to FT Press and licensed the trademark from Nikkei. Until August 2015 the FT group had
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#17327823627157748-542: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (later BP ), British-American Tobacco , Lever Brothers (later Unilever ) and Shell . The oil and financial sectors were included decades later. The FTSE All-Share Index , the first of the FTSE series of indices, was created in 1962, comprising the largest 594 UK companies by market capitalisation. The letters F-T-S-E represented that FTSE was a joint venture between
7897-773: The Associated Press –chronicled the prison opening its doors to inmates for the first time. Images of the prison's first prison transfers, described as being "dramatic" and "shocking", were circulated, notably being published in the BBC . Salvadoran news sources have also closely covered the prison's opening. El Mundo , a national publication in El Salvador, published a story detailing the second prisoner transfer and documenting international concerns over human rights abuses. El País ' Juan Diego Quesada has described CECOT as "the Alcatraz of Central America". On 11 September 2023,
8046-504: The FT publishes a variety of financial indices , primarily the FTSE All-Share Index . Since the late 20th century, its typical depth of coverage has linked the paper with a white-collar , educated, and financially literate readership. Because of this tendency, the FT has traditionally been regarded as a centrist to centre-right liberal , neo-liberal , and conservative-liberal newspaper. The Financial Times
8195-611: The FT to reverse course and back Labour from 1992 until 2010 , when the FT returned to the Conservative Party. Euroscepticism further drove a wedge between the FT and the Conservatives in 2019 , when the paper refused to make an endorsement, opposed to Labour's socialist economic policies (for wanting to "reverse, not revise, the Thatcherite revolution of the 1980s") and the Conservatives' commitment to
8344-408: The FT website on the same day as its publication. President Macron subsequently published a letter in the FT directly responding to the arguments of the original opinion piece, even if the original opinion piece was no longer available on the website of the newspaper. The editor of the FT , Roula Khalaf , who took the decision to withdraw the initial article, acknowledged having been contacted by
8493-729: The FTSE 350 Index , the FTSE SmallCap Index , the FTSE AIM UK 50 Index and FTSE AIM 100 Index as well as the FTSE AIM All-Share Index for stocks, and the FTSE UK Gilt Indices for government bonds. In 2021, the Financial Times started publishing three multi-asset indexes with Wilshire Associates covering combinations of the top five cryptocurrencies. In July 2006, the FT announced
8642-815: The Financial News in the 1930s, and moved to the Financial Times when the two merged. Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government—including Nigel Lawson (former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England 's monetary policy committee), Martin Taylor (former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson (chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner (former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud (former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now
8791-649: The Financial News to form a single six-page newspaper. The Financial Times had a higher circulation, while the Financial News provided much of the editorial talent. The Lex column was also introduced from Financial News . Gordon Newton , a Cambridge graduate, took over as editor in 1949, and immediately introduced a policy (then most unusual in Fleet Street ) of direct recruitment of new university graduates, mainly from Oxbridge, as its trainee journalists. Many of them proceeded to have distinguished careers elsewhere in journalism and British public life and became
8940-401: The Financial Times centres on economic liberalism , particularly advocacy of free trade and free markets . Since its founding, it has supported liberal democracy , favouring classically liberal politics and policies from international governments; its newsroom is independent from its editorial board, and it is considered a newspaper of record . Due to its history of economic commentary,
9089-688: The Financial Times ( F-T ) and the London Stock Exchange ( S-E ). On 13 February 1984 the FTSE 100 was introduced, representing about eighty per cent of the London Stock Exchange's value. FTSE Group was made an independent company in 1995. The first of several overseas offices was opened in New York City in 1999; Paris followed in early 2000, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and San Francisco in 2001, Madrid in 2002 and Tokyo in 2003. Other well-known FTSE indices include
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#17327823627159238-422: The Financial Times announced it was investing in Sifted , a digital-only news site and newsletter covering European startups . The Financial Times' initial 25% stake was subsequently diluted to 14% due to later investments from others. This marked the start of a planned 7-year strategic relationship with Sifted. The Financial Times collates and publishes a number of financial market indices , which reflect
9387-452: The Spanish as a First Foreign Language (SAFFL) initiative in March 2005. Spanish has historically had a significant presence on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba , Bonaire and Curaçao ( ABC Islands ) throughout the centuries and in present times. The majority of the populations of each island (especially Aruba) speaking Spanish at varying although often high degrees of fluency. The local language Papiamentu (Papiamento on Aruba)
9536-446: The Spanish–American War but was eventually replaced by English as the primary language of administration and education by the 1920s. Nevertheless, despite a significant decrease in influence and speakers, Spanish remained an official language of the Philippines upon independence in 1946, alongside English and Filipino , a standardized version of Tagalog . Spanish was briefly removed from official status in 1973 but reimplemented under
9685-591: The United Nations , European Union , Organization of American States , Union of South American Nations , Community of Latin American and Caribbean States , African Union , among others. In Spain and some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, Spanish is called not only español but also castellano (Castilian), the language from the Kingdom of Castile , contrasting it with other languages spoken in Spain such as Galician , Basque , Asturian , Catalan/Valencian , Aragonese , Occitan and other minor languages. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 uses
9834-566: The WSJ was second. In 2022, the FT launched FT Edit, a low-price app aimed at attracting a younger audience. The FT is split into two sections. The first section covers domestic and international news, editorial commentary on politics and economics from FT journalists such as Martin Wolf , Gillian Tett and Edward Luce , and opinion pieces from globally renowned leaders, policymakers, academics and commentators. The second section consists of financial data and news about companies and markets. Despite being generally regarded as primarily
9983-425: The Wisers platform since 2013. From 2015, instead of the metered paywall on the website, visitors were given unlimited free access for one month, after which they needed to subscribe. Pearson sold the Financial Times Group to Nikkei, Inc. for £ 844 million ( US$ 1.32 billion) in July 2015. In 2016, the Financial Times acquired a controlling stake in Alpha Grid, a London-based media company specialising in
10132-468: The late-2000s recession . The magazine has been derided in rival publishers' blogs, as "repellent" in the Telegraph and "a latter-day Ab Fab manual" in the Guardian . A 'well-thumbed' copy of the supplement was found when rebel forces broke into Colonel Gaddafi 's Tripoli compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War . In September 2021, an Arabic version of HTSI was launched by Othman Al Omeir , founder of Elaph online newspaper. HTSI Arabic
10281-410: The Élysée Palace regarding the article, and defended her decision on the basis purely of several factual errors in the original piece by Mehreen Khan. In January 2019, the FT began a series of investigative articles detailing fraud suspicions at German payments group Wirecard . When the Wirecard share price plunged, German news media speculated that market manipulation was behind this attack on
10430-476: The 1970s, the FT began international expansion, facilitated by developments in technology and the growing acceptance of English as the international language of business. On 1 January 1979 the first FT (Continental Europe edition) was printed outside the UK, in Frankfurt; printing in the U.S. began in July 1985. Since then, with increased international coverage, the FT has become a global newspaper, printed in 22 locations with five international editions to serve
10579-405: The 1990s. He went on to become Head of Technology for the Trinity Mirror Group. Sir Geoffrey Owen was the editor of the Financial Times from 1981 to 1990. He joined the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics as Director of Business Policy in 1991 and was appointed Senior Fellow, Institute of Management, in 1997. He continues his work there. During his tenure at
10728-404: The 2021–2022 school year alone. The local business process outsourcing industry has also helped boost the language's economic prospects. Today, while the actual number of proficient Spanish speakers is around 400,000, or under 0.5% of the population, a new generation of Spanish speakers in the Philippines has likewise emerged, though speaker estimates vary widely. Aside from standard Spanish,
10877-595: The 20th century, Spanish was introduced to Equatorial Guinea and the Western Sahara , and to areas of the United States that had not been part of the Spanish Empire, such as Spanish Harlem in New York City . For details on borrowed words and other external influences upon Spanish, see Influences on the Spanish language . Spanish is the primary language in 20 countries worldwide. As of 2023, it
11026-654: The Equatoguinean education system and is the primary language used in government and business. Whereas it is not the mother tongue of virtually any of its speakers, the vast majority of the population is proficient in Spanish. The Instituto Cervantes estimates that 87.7% of the population is fluent in Spanish. The proportion of proficient Spanish speakers in Equatorial Guinea exceeds the proportion of proficient speakers in other West and Central African nations of their respective colonial languages. Spanish
11175-643: The Eurosceptic elements in her party. The FT declared 2019 general election a "fateful election" that "offers no good choices". In the 2024 general election , the FT endorsed the Labour Party again, expressing the need for a "fresh start", while cautioning "Labour's interventionist instincts and fervour for regulation". In the 2008 United States presidential election , the Financial Times endorsed Barack Obama . While it raised concerns over hints of protectionism , it praised his ability to "engage
11324-532: The General Directorate of Penal Centers (DGCP) permitted the Colombian news outlet Noticias Caracol to enter the prison, the first foreign news outlet allowed inside the prison. CECOT has since also allowed YouTubers access to the prison to record and upload videos about it to YouTube . In November 2024, CNN described CECOT as an "iconic feature" of Bukele's "new El Salvador". According to
11473-705: The Iberian Peninsula. These languages included Proto-Basque , Iberian , Lusitanian , Celtiberian and Gallaecian . The first documents to show traces of what is today regarded as the precursor of modern Spanish are from the 9th century. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era , the most important influences on the Spanish lexicon came from neighboring Romance languages — Mozarabic ( Andalusi Romance ), Navarro-Aragonese , Leonese , Catalan/Valencian , Portuguese , Galician , Occitan , and later, French and Italian . Spanish also borrowed
11622-540: The Old Spanish sibilants) for details. The Gramática de la lengua castellana , written in Salamanca in 1492 by Elio Antonio de Nebrija , was the first grammar written for a modern European language. According to a popular anecdote, when Nebrija presented it to Queen Isabella I , she asked him what was the use of such a work, and he answered that language is the instrument of empire. In his introduction to
11771-665: The Respectable Broker, the Genuine Director, and the Legitimate Speculator", it was a four-page journal. The readership was the financial community of the City of London , its only rival being the more daring and slightly older (founded in 1884) Financial News . On 2 January 1893 the FT began printing on light pink paper to distinguish it from the similarly named Financial News : at the time, it
11920-589: The Royal Spanish Academy) states that, although the Royal Spanish Academy prefers to use the term español in its publications when referring to the Spanish language, both terms— español and castellano —are regarded as synonymous and equally valid. The term castellano is related to Castile ( Castilla or archaically Castiella ), the kingdom where the language was originally spoken. The name Castile , in turn,
12069-452: The State. ... The other Spanish languages shall also be official in their respective Autonomous Communities... The Royal Spanish Academy ( Real Academia Española ), on the other hand, currently uses the term español in its publications. However, from 1713 to 1923, it called the language castellano . The Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (a language guide published by
12218-562: The Terrorism Confinement Center as "the most criticized prison in the world". On 20 March 2023, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security celebrated the 350th day of Bukele's administration without a homicide. The government site regularly publishes articles aligned with the mission of CECOT and the larger gang crackdown, including a publication on 20 April 2023 titled, "The War Against Gangs Doesn't Stop", detailing
12367-502: The U.S. population were of Hispanic or Hispanic American by origin. In turn, 41.8 million people in the United States aged five or older speak Spanish at home, or about 13% of the population. Spanish predominates in the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico , where it is also an official language along with English. Spanish is by far the most common second language in the country, with over 50 million total speakers if non-native or second-language speakers are included. While English
12516-591: The UK, continental Europe, the U.S., Asia and the Middle East. The European edition is distributed throughout continental Europe and Africa. It is printed Monday to Saturday at five centres across Europe, reporting on matters concerning the European Union, the euro and European corporate affairs. In 1994 FT launched a luxury lifestyle magazine, How To Spend It . In 2009 it launched a standalone website for
12665-491: The United Kingdom. The Lex column is a daily feature on the back page of the first section. It features analyses and opinions covering global economics and finance. The FT calls Lex its agenda-setting column. The column first appeared on Monday, 1 October 1945. The name may originally have stood for Lex Mercatoria , a Latin expression meaning literally "merchant law". It was conceived by Hargreaves Parkinson for
12814-496: The acquisition of Alpha Grid, and conferences and events through Financial Times Live and extends the FT 's traditional commercial offering into a wider set of integrated services. In 2020, reporter Mark Di Stefano resigned from the Financial Times after hacking into Zoom calls at other media organisations including The Independent and the Evening Standard . In 2020, the retraction of an opinion piece by
12963-457: The administration of Ferdinand Marcos two months later. It remained an official language until the ratification of the present constitution in 1987, in which it was re-designated as a voluntary and optional auxiliary language. Additionally, the constitution, in its Article XIV, stipulates that the Government shall provide the people of the Philippines with a Spanish-language translation of
13112-407: The beta launch of newssift, part of FT Search, in March 2009. Newssift.com is a next-generation search tool for business professionals that indexes millions of articles from thousands of global business news sources, not just the FT . The Financial Times Group acquired Money Media (an online news and commentary site for the industry) and Exec-Appointments (an online recruitment specialist site for
13261-599: The capture and impending imprisonment of two members of MS-13. On 1 February 2023, Bukele tweeted the following statement: "El Salvador has managed to go from being the most insecure country in the world to the safest country in the Americas. How did we do it? Putting criminals in jail. Is there space? Now yes. Will they be able to give orders from inside? No. Can they escape? No. A work of common sense." (" El Salvador ha logrado pasar de ser el país más inseguro del mundo, al país más seguro de América. ¿Cómo lo logramos? Metiendo
13410-518: The changing value of their constituent parts. The longest-running of these was the former Financial News Index , started on 1 July 1935 by the Financial News . The FT published a similar index; this was replaced by the Financial News Index — which was then renamed the Financial Times (FT) Index — on 1 January 1947. The index started as an index of industrial shares, and companies with dominant overseas interests were excluded, such as
13559-684: The classic hispanus or hispanicus took the suffix -one from Vulgar Latin , as happened with other words such as bretón (Breton) or sajón (Saxon). Like the other Romance languages , the Spanish language evolved from Vulgar Latin , which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans during the Second Punic War , beginning in 210 BC. Several pre-Roman languages (also called Paleohispanic languages )—some distantly related to Latin as Indo-European languages , and some that are not related at all—were previously spoken in
13708-500: The consonant written b (a bilabial with plosive and fricative allophones). In modern Spanish, there is no difference between the pronunciation of orthographic b and v . Typical of Spanish (as also of neighboring Gascon extending as far north as the Gironde estuary , and found in a small area of Calabria ), attributed by some scholars to a Basque substratum was the mutation of Latin initial f into h- whenever it
13857-410: The country's attention", his calls for a bipartisan politics, and his plans for " comprehensive health-care reform ". The FT favoured Obama again in the 2012 United States presidential election . The FT endorsed Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential election , Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election, and Kamala Harris in
14006-404: The country's constitution. In recent years changing attitudes among non-Spanish speaking Filipinos have helped spur a revival of the language, and starting in 2009 Spanish was reintroduced as part of the basic education curriculum in a number of public high schools, becoming the largest foreign language program offered by the public school system, with over 7,000 students studying the language in
14155-464: The crackdown. Additional measures taken by the Salvadoran government that have led to an influx of prisoners with alleged gang affiliations include the provisional detention period–which allows the government to keep suspected gang members in custody before conviction–being made indefinite. Children as young as 12 years old can also now be tried for their potential gang membership, and it is alleged that around 1,600 children have been arrested since this law
14304-564: The credibility of their reporting on climate change and cause readers to downplay the climate crisis . According to the Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits among most senior financial decision makers in the world's largest financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 36% of the sample population, 11% more than The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), its main rival. The Economist , which
14453-528: The development and production of quality branded content across a range of channels, including broadcast, video, digital, social and events. In 2018, the Financial Times acquired a controlling stake in Longitude , a specialist provider of thought leadership and research services to a multinational corporate and institutional client base. This investment built on the Financial Times ' recent growth in several business areas, including branded content via
14602-475: The eight main cell blocks, the cells are divided into modules. Each module contains two toilets, two washing basins, and 80 bunks (with no mattresses) for more than 100 inmates. While the inmates have constant access to the washing basins, the water is controlled by guards from outside the cell. CCTV cameras monitor every cell. According to Financial Times , on average, each prisoner is given 0.6 square meters (6.5 sq ft) of space in their shared cell. With
14751-652: The executive jobs market). The FT Group once had a 13.85% stake in Business Standard Ltd of India, the publisher of the Business Standard . It sold this stake in April 2008 and has entered into an agreement with Network 18 to launch the Financial Times in India, though it is speculated that they may find it difficult to do so, as the brand 'Financial Times' in India is owned by The Times Group ,
14900-683: The following table: Spanish is marked by palatalization of the Latin double consonants ( geminates ) nn and ll (thus Latin annum > Spanish año , and Latin anellum > Spanish anillo ). The consonant written u or v in Latin and pronounced [w] in Classical Latin had probably " fortified " to a bilabial fricative /β/ in Vulgar Latin. In early Spanish (but not in Catalan or Portuguese) it merged with
15049-466: The former British colony of Belize (known until 1973 as British Honduras ) where English is the sole official language, according to the 2022 census, 54% of the total population are able to speak the language. Due to its proximity to Spanish-speaking countries and small existing native Spanish speaking minority, Trinidad and Tobago has implemented Spanish language teaching into its education system. The Trinidadian and Tobagonian government launched
15198-465: The gang members had prostitutes and PlayStations , televisions, drugs, cellphones, and computers. And the guards and soldiers were sleeping on the floor. It was all backwards". "It's impossible to escape. These psychopaths are going to spend their entire lives behind bars here." Director Belarmino García, El País (2024) Bukele's government has been vocal in its praise for CECOT and their broader crackdown on gang violence. Bukele has described
15347-629: The global 2007–2008 financial crisis , but on balance it backed the Conservatives , while questioning their tendency to Euroscepticism . In the 2015 general election , the FT called for the continuation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that had governed for the previous five years. In the 2017 general election , an FT editorial reluctantly backed Conservative Theresa May over Labour Jeremy Corbyn , while warning about her stance on immigration and
15496-632: The government, stating that the prison does not "address the root causes of violence" and that it only allows the government to continue its "policy of mass incarceration". On 12 September 2023, the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador and Legislative Assembly approved a provision allowing courts in Usulután and Cojutepeque —known as surveillance courts—to monitor the rights of individuals imprisoned in CECOT. On 1 February 2023, Bukele published
15645-401: The government–gang truce of 2012–2014, agreeing to a ceasefire with MS-13 until the truce collapsed. The entire plot of land devoted to the Terrorism Confinement Center covers 410 acres (170 ha), while the physical complex itself covers approximately 57 acres (23 ha). CECOT was purposefully built in an isolated area, away from any public institutions, urban centers, or any contact with
15794-604: The grammar, dated 18 August 1492, Nebrija wrote that "... language was always the companion of empire." From the 16th century onwards, the language was taken to the Spanish-discovered America and the Spanish East Indies via Spanish colonization of America . Miguel de Cervantes , author of Don Quixote , is such a well-known reference in the world that Spanish is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). In
15943-413: The implementation of security policies similar to those implemented by Bukele. Prior to the 2023 Guatemalan presidential election , National Unity of Hope candidate Sandra Torres stated that she would build two mega-prisons to "end the scourge of homicides, murders and extortions in our country", while Valor candidate Zury Ríos promised to build at least three new prisons, stating that she "admire[s]
16092-471: The interest of prioritizing the guards' wellbeing, the facility is complete with resting quarters, lounge areas with ping pong tables, bathrooms, lockers, and a gym for the guards and police personnel. In a recorded tour of the facility posted to YouTube by Bukele himself, he claims such accommodations for guards is meant to correct missteps in previous approaches to incarceration in El Salvador: "Before,
16241-554: The language happened in Toledo , a prominent city of the Kingdom of Castile , in the 13th century. Spanish colonialism in the early modern period spurred the introduction of the language to overseas locations, most notably to the Americas. As a Romance language, Spanish is a descendant of Latin. Around 75% of modern Spanish vocabulary is Latin in origin, including Latin borrowings from Ancient Greek. Alongside English and French , it
16390-549: The language's hegemony in an intensely centralising Spanish state were established from the 18th century onward. Other European territories in which it is also widely spoken include Gibraltar and Andorra . Spanish is also spoken by immigrant communities in other European countries, such as the United Kingdom , France , Italy , and Germany . Spanish is an official language of the European Union . Today,
16539-509: The late 1990s. Between 1997 and 2000, the site underwent several revamps and changes of strategy, as the FT Group and Pearson reacted to the changes online. FT introduced subscription services in 2002. FT.com is one of the few UK news sites successfully funded by individual subscription. In 1997, the FT launched a U.S. edition, printed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Orlando and Washington, D.C., although
16688-402: The magazine. On 13 May 1995 the Financial Times group made its first foray into the online world with the launch of FT.com. This provided a summary of news from around the globe, which was supplemented in February 1996 with stock price coverage. The second-generation site was launched in spring 1996. The site was funded by advertising and contributed to the online advertising market in the UK in
16837-556: The mainstay of the paper's own editorial strengths until the 1990s. The first such 'direct recruit' was future leading British economist Andrew Shonfield; the second was (later Sir) William Rees-Mogg who went on, via The Sunday Times , to edit The Times in 1967 following its acquisition by Roy Thomson. Other FT Oxbridge recruits included the future Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson . The FT ' s distinctive recruitment policy for Fleet Street journalists
16986-694: The majority of the Spanish speakers live in Hispanic America . Nationally, Spanish is the official language—either de facto or de jure —of Argentina , Bolivia (co-official with 36 indigenous languages), Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Cuba , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Mexico (co-official with 63 indigenous languages), Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay (co-official with Guaraní ), Peru (co-official with Quechua , Aymara , and "the other indigenous languages"), Puerto Rico (co-official with English), Uruguay , and Venezuela . Spanish language has
17135-456: The newspaper was first printed outside New York City in 1985. In September 1998 the FT became the first UK-based newspaper to sell more copies internationally than within the UK. In 2000 the Financial Times started publishing a German-language edition, Financial Times Deutschland , with a news and editorial team based in Hamburg. Its initial circulation in 2003 was 90,000. It was originally
17284-734: The northwest of the African mainland. The Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands traces its origins back to the Castilian conquest in the 15th century , and, in addition to a resemblance to Western Andalusian speech patterns, it also features strong influence from the Spanish varieties spoken in the Americas, which in turn have also been influenced historically by Canarian Spanish. The Spanish spoken in North Africa by native bilingual speakers of Arabic or Berber who also speak Spanish as
17433-495: The outside world. The facility has its own water and electricity systems, furthering its divide from the rest of Tecoluca. The eight cell blocks within CECOT cover approximately 50,000 square meters (540,000 sq ft). The contract to build the prison was awarded to two Salvadoran firms, OMNI and DISA, and the Mexican firm Contratista General de América Latina S.A. de C.V. The prison cost US$ 100 million to build. Upon entering
17582-472: The payment for themselves. Additionally, MS-13 has also taken a more militaristic approach, attacking cocaine traffickers for control over key passageways in the drug trade, which has led to increased violence. Like MS-13, Barrio 18 has had a major presence in El Salvador following the Salvadoran Civil War , and has been the source of much violence in the country. Barrio 18 was also involved in
17731-533: The population. Many northern Moroccans have rudimentary knowledge of Spanish, with Spanish being particularly significant in areas adjacent to Ceuta and Melilla. Spanish also has a presence in the education system of the country (through either selected education centers implementing Spain's education system, primarily located in the North, or the availability of Spanish as foreign language subject in secondary education). In Western Sahara , formerly Spanish Sahara ,
17880-414: The prison factory to produce fabric. Each cell has two Bibles for prisoners to read. Prisoners are not allowed to receive visitors or make phone calls. The prison is secured by 1,000 guards, 600 soldiers, and 250 police officers. At maximum capacity, the prison would have 40 inmates per guard. Its nineteen guard towers—seven on the perimeter and twelve on the interior—are staffed by seven soldiers each. In
18029-412: The prison, inmates are subject to a thorough security screening. Those wishing to enter the prison, including non-inmates, must submit to a scan by advanced x-ray technology designed to prevent illicit objects from entering the secure area. Non-inmates are also asked by the guards if they have any tattoos on their bodies. For inmates being transferred to CECOT, this security scan is immediately followed by
18178-515: The prison. Weeks later, on 15 March 2023, Bukele tweeted a similar video showing the second transfer of 2,000 more prisoners into CECOT. On 11 June 2024, Bukele published a third video showing a third transfer of 2,000 prisoners to CECOT. The opening of CECOT garnered massive media attention in the weeks after its opening. Major publications in the United States–including The New York Times , The Washington Post , and
18327-509: The public security policies [Bukele] has done". Citizen Prosperity candidate Carlos Pineda stated that he had the goal of "doing in Guatemala exactly what [Bukele is] doing in El Salvador". In January 2024, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced that he would build two prisons with capacity for 12,000 inmates each and that the prisons were modeled on CECOT. In June 2024, Honduran President Xiomara Castro announced that she would build
18476-402: The publisher of The Times of India and The Economic Times . The group also publishes America's Intelligence Wire , a daily general newswire service. The Financial Times' Financial Publishing division (formerly FT Business) provides print and online content for retail, personal and institutional finance audiences. Examples of publications and services include: Investors Chronicle ,
18625-589: The state of exception curtailing certain constitutional rights. Due to the large number of alleged gang members being arrested by the country's security forces, the government announced in July 2022 that a new prison with a capacity of 40,000 would be built to house those who were arrested, as well as to relieve El Salvador's overcrowded prisons, such as the Zacatecoluca prison. At the time of CECOT's opening in January 2023, over 62,000 people had been arrested during
18774-437: The state of exception in El Salvador has put more pressure on the judicial system than it can handle, and as a result has created conditions not conducive to due process. The Department of State report (published before CECOT's conception) also alleged that prison conditions in the country declined during the state of exception, with the prison system taking on more prisoners than it was built for. Amnesty International criticized
18923-415: The term castellano to define the official language of the whole of Spain, in contrast to las demás lenguas españolas (lit. "the other Spanish languages "). Article III reads as follows: El castellano es la lengua española oficial del Estado. ... Las demás lenguas españolas serán también oficiales en las respectivas Comunidades Autónomas... Castilian is the official Spanish language of
19072-537: The term español (Spanish). According to the Royal Spanish Academy, español derives from the Occitan word espaignol and that, in turn, derives from the Vulgar Latin * hispaniolus ('of Hispania'). Hispania was the Roman name for the entire Iberian Peninsula . There are other hypotheses apart from the one suggested by the Royal Spanish Academy. Spanish philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal suggested that
19221-560: The then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair , and was given a job as an education minister and a seat in the House of Lords after the 2005 election. Ed Balls became chief economic adviser to the Treasury, working closely with Gordon Brown , the chancellor of the exchequer (or finance minister), before being elected a Member of Parliament in 2005, and became Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in July 2007. Bernard Gray ,
19370-444: The theories of Ramón Menéndez Pidal , local sociolects of Vulgar Latin evolved into Spanish, in the north of Iberia, in an area centered in the city of Burgos , and this dialect was later brought to the city of Toledo , where the written standard of Spanish was first developed, in the 13th century. In this formative stage, Spanish developed a strongly differing variant from its close cousin, Leonese , and, according to some authors,
19519-640: The third most used language on the Internet , after English and Chinese. Spanish is the official language of Spain . Upon the emergence of the Castilian Crown as the dominant power in the Iberian Peninsula by the end of the Middle Ages, the Romance vernacular associated with this polity became increasingly used in instances of prestige and influence, and the distinction between "Castilian" and "Spanish" started to become blurred. Hard policies imposing
19668-409: The two account for almost all of the nation's gang violence. Other notable gangs in El Salvador include Mao Mao, Miranda Loca, and La Maquina. MS-13 has been a central focus of the Salvadoran government's current crackdown. In 2012, during the presidency of Mauricio Funes , the Salvadoran government paid MS-13 US$ 25 million as part of the 2012–2014 gang truce . In exchange, MS-13 was expected to quell
19817-470: The value of liberal democracy. The Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Post accused the FT of asking President Putin softball questions, and said the interviewers failed to hold Putin to account. In the 2010 general election , the FT was receptive to the Liberal Democrats ' positions on civil liberties and political reform, and praised the then Labour Party leader Gordon Brown for his response to
19966-482: The violence with their rival gang, Barrio 18, to assist the government in lowering the national homicide rate. The truce between the government and the gang sparked wide debate in El Salvador over its legality, before ultimately falling apart in 2014. Since the truce's end, tensions have risen within MS-13 over the allocation of the government payment, with some gang members alleging that leadership kept exorbitant amounts of
20115-414: The violence, the Salvadoran government began a large-scale crackdown against criminal gangs . President Nayib Bukele called for a state of exception , which allows the state to suspend certain laws and constitutional rights in the name of the public good. In the following seven months, Bukele's government arrested over 55,000 people in a swift roundup of gang members that may not have been possible without
20264-505: The world. Globalisation from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries facilitated editorial expansion for the FT , with the paper adding opinion columns, special reports, political cartoons , readers' letters , book reviews, technology articles and global politics features. The paper is often characterised by its light-pink (salmon) newsprint . It is supplemented by its lifestyle magazine ( FT Magazine ) , weekend edition ( FT Weekend ) and some industry publications. The editorial stance of
20413-464: Was also cheaper to print on unbleached paper (several other more general newspapers, such as The Sporting Times , had the same policy), but nowadays it is more expensive as the paper has to be dyed specially. The Berry brothers, Lord Camrose and Gomer Berry (later Lord Kemsley), purchased the Financial Times in 1919. In 1945, Brendan Bracken purchased the Financial Times from Lord Camrose, and, following 57 years of rivalry, merged it with
20562-509: Was amended as of November 2022. Both Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18) have their origins in California and were started by immigrants from Central America in the 1980s. Both groups gained influence in El Salvador in the 1990s when their respective founders were deported from the United States to El Salvador. MS-13 is more than twice the size of Barrio 18, the second-most prominent gang in El Salvador. Together,
20711-568: Was and still is distributed with the paper every Monday. FTfm is the world's largest-circulation fund management title. Since 2005 the FT has sponsored the annual Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award . On 23 April 2007, the FT unveiled a "refreshed" version of the newspaper and introduced a new slogan, "We Live in Financial Times". In 2007 the FT pioneered a metered paywall , which let visitors to its website read
20860-473: Was announced, Human Rights Watch published a detailed report of alleged human rights abuses perpetrated by the government. Humans Rights Watch accuses the Salvadoran government of "arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment of detainees, and significant due process violations". Notably, the report claims that as part of the recent crackdown on gangs, the government has made tens of thousands of arrests without sufficient evidence. It
21009-634: Was developed in the cities of Toledo , in the 13th to 16th centuries, and Madrid , from the 1570s. The development of the Spanish sound system from that of Vulgar Latin exhibits most of the changes that are typical of Western Romance languages , including lenition of intervocalic consonants (thus Latin vīta > Spanish vida ). The diphthongization of Latin stressed short e and o —which occurred in open syllables in French and Italian, but not at all in Catalan or Portuguese—is found in both open and closed syllables in Spanish, as shown in
21158-622: Was distinguished by a heavy Basque influence (see Iberian Romance languages ). This distinctive dialect spread to southern Spain with the advance of the Reconquista , and meanwhile gathered a sizable lexical influence from the Arabic of Al-Andalus , much of it indirectly, through the Romance Mozarabic dialects (some 4,000 Arabic -derived words, make up around 8% of the language today). The written standard for this new language
21307-494: Was firmly opposed to the Iraq War . Due to its advocacy of free markets and free trade, it is often identified as centrist to centre-right in its political positions. The modern FT is a product of a merger of two smaller newspapers in 1945 ; since that time, the paper had backed the Conservatives fairly consistently, but Labour's tacking to the centre, combined with the Conservatives' embracement of Euroscepticism, led
21456-713: Was followed by a vowel that did not diphthongize. The h- , still preserved in spelling, is now silent in most varieties of the language, although in some Andalusian and Caribbean dialects, it is still aspirated in some words. Because of borrowings from Latin and neighboring Romance languages, there are many f -/ h - doublets in modern Spanish: Fernando and Hernando (both Spanish for "Ferdinand"), ferrero and herrero (both Spanish for "smith"), fierro and hierro (both Spanish for "iron"), and fondo and hondo (both words pertaining to depth in Spanish, though fondo means "bottom", while hondo means "deep"); additionally, hacer ("to make")
21605-556: Was never popular with the National Union of Journalists and ceased in 1966 following the recruitment of Richard Lambert from Oxford, himself a future Editor of the FT . Meanwhile, Pearson had bought the paper in 1957. Over the years, the paper grew in size, readership and breadth of coverage. It established correspondents in cities around the world, reflecting a renewed impetus in the world economy towards globalisation . As cross-border trade and capital flows increased during
21754-502: Was once 50% owned by FT , reaches 32%. FT 's The Banker also proved vital reading, reaching 24%. In addition, in 2010 the FT was regarded as the most credible publication in reporting financial and economic issues among the Worldwide Professional Investment Community audience. The Economist was rated the third-most-credible title by most influential professional investors, while
21903-535: Was reported to have 1.3 million subscribers of which 1.2 million were digital. The newspaper has a prominent focus on financial journalism and economic analysis rather than generalist reporting , drawing both criticism and acclaim. It sponsors an annual book award and publishes a " Person of the Year " feature. The paper was founded in January 1888 as the London Financial Guide before rebranding
22052-462: Was revoked by Michel Temer after the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff . In many border towns and villages along Paraguay and Uruguay, a mixed language known as Portuñol is spoken. Equatorial Guinea is the only Spanish-speaking country located entirely in Africa, with the language introduced during the Spanish colonial period . Enshrined in the constitution as an official language (alongside French and Portuguese), Spanish features prominently in
22201-609: Was the editor of The Times and is now the chief executive of News Corporation . Will Lewis , a former New York correspondent and News Editor for the FT , edited the Daily Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal . Dominic Lawson went on to become editor of the Sunday Telegraph until he was dismissed in 2005. Andrew Adonis , a former education correspondent, became an adviser on education to
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