The Rupert Cornwell Prize for young foreign correspondents is open for applications. A few years back it allowed me to spend a summer reporting from Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish North African enclaves. Feel free to get in touch with any questions. www.the-independent.com/news/media/r...

Bolivia divided in election run-up as ruling party implodes—Bolivia’s next president will have to take immediate measures to address the economic crisis. The government’s foreign exchange reserves all but ran out in March 2023 www.ft.com/content/90ea... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

In all likelihood, Bolivia's long-ruling MAS party will cease to exist as a political force after Sunday's presidential election. It's a pretty disorienting development, but not unexpected after the disarray of the past few years. Great backgrounder here by @thomas-graham.bsky.social.

The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.

Out tomorrow: the first episodes of our six-part podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Listen wherever you get your podcasts www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

Ruth López, a senior figure at Cristosal, the most important human rights organisation in El Salvador, was arrested by the government last night.

More big news from Bolivia. Luis Arce, the current president who's been polling awfully, has withdrawn his candidacy for August's election That leaves the MAS candidacy open. Note that Andrónico Rodríguez is still a member of the MAS and is yet to say who he will run for larazon.bo/nacional/202...

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Big news in Bolivia, where Andrónico Rodríguez, president of the senate and VP of the six tropics coca growers federation, says he will be a candidate in August's election. That means three will be going for the MAS vote: Arce, Morales and now Rodríguez. larazon.bo/nacional/202...

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Evo Morales's deal with Frente Para la Victoria to run in Bolivia's forthcoming elections seems to have broken down. Morales already left the MAS, having lost control of it. There are not many siglas left that he could make a deal to run for. la-razon.com/nacional/202...

This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico. This was news to the local government... www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico. This was news to the local government... www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Dispatch from Chiapas and thoughts on not fetishizing the Mexican state. www.thetroubledregion.com/stopping-tra...

For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote the first installment in a series about the controversial energy development plan called Plan Sonora: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/what-is-pl...

The remains of Mexican journalist Jesús Alberto Camacho Rodríguez were just identified after lying in a morgue for three years. It's estimated that more than 70,000 other unidentified bodies currently sit in Mexico's morgues. elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

"A British journalist has been missing in Brazil for 11 days, a foreign correspondents’ association in the country said on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up their search efforts," writes @tiagorogero.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands. For @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

🧪 Report of @thomas-graham.bsky.social about our 2024 field work just published in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-... @demodrivers.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands. For @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

By me: Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Reflections of a pre-first world war Spanish correspondent on the English character. So many good lines @swajones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What a week. Some hardcore geomorphology just published in QSR www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Following our archaeological paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... In this QSR, we reconstructed the timing of 3 neotectonic events in the Bolivian Amazon. Enjoy and share 🧪

How many people lived in the Amazon before 1492? It’s one of the great questions of pre-Columbian archaeology. And it turns out some pretty intensive maize farming was happening in the Amazon basin I cover the latest from @umbamoxos.bsky.social for @economist.com www.economist.com/science-and-...

This is the first time I've seen the US government return citizens of a country outside the Americas into #Mexico. That didn't even happen during Title 42. President Sheinbaum appears to have agreed to a lot.

How many people lived in the Amazon before 1492? It’s one of the great questions of pre-Columbian archaeology. And it turns out some pretty intensive maize farming was happening in the Amazon basin I cover the latest from @umbamoxos.bsky.social for @economist.com www.economist.com/science-and-...

Mexican film-makers have put out Johanne Sacreblu, a parody of "trans gangster musical" Emilia Pérez, which is poised to win a hatful of Oscars despite going down... pretty badly in Mexico itself www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

The Mexican govt has not published national data on drug use since 2016/17. It finally did a survey in 2024, but now says it was botched and needs to be redone. By the time it finally appears, data on drug use in Mexico might be 10 years out of date. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...

US asylum seekers in despair after Trump cancels CBP One app: ‘start from zero again’ The story from across Mexico, with border reporting from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

From CBP One web site. It is over. Future outstanding appointments about 30,000 are being cancelled. People are receiving those email now. This afternoon presentations had been rescheduled to Feb 9 last Friday. Now to be crushed. At least this morning people were allows to present.

Last week I was in Ciudad Juárez to see what’s being done to prepare for potential mass deportations. The short answer: not much, yet.

The price of gold rose 27% last year, hitting a record high. Banks and refiners consulted by the FT expect it to rise 7% over this year, to about $2,800 per ounce. Bad news for the environment and security panorama in South America. www.ft.com/content/9fa9...

There are few popular-science outlets that would be very interested in articles about gene regulation, and yet it's at the centre of how life works. What does get said about it is often out of date (the lac operon is not representative of eukaryotes, for example). More on this in the pipeline.

Referring to the accusations of statutory rape against Evo Morales, Luis Arce, who was his finance minister for many years, says "we all knew" and "it was an open secret". www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...

Referring to the accusations of statutory rape against Evo Morales, Luis Arce, who was his finance minister for many years, says "we all knew" and "it was an open secret". www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...

Almost 100 police arrested on suspicion of collaborating with organised crime in the municipality of Comitán, in Chiapas. elpais.com/mexico/2024-...

NEW: I spent months digging into a pattern of Indigenous Mexicans being murdered, dissapeared & abducted by narcos when opposing mines owned by NYSE-listed mining @Ternium The reason, one narco told cops: "They were fucking with the mines" /1 www.occrp.org/en/feature/b...

Three months of war in the Sinaloa Cartel have left 1000+ dead or disappeared, and a city in a kind of humanitarian crisis. Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime. 📸 by Jesús Verdugo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Three months of war in the Sinaloa Cartel have left 1000+ dead or disappeared, and a city in a kind of humanitarian crisis. Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime. 📸 by Jesús Verdugo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Maximiliano Dávila -- Bolivia's former top anti-narcotics official who has been charged with drug trafficking -- has been extradited to the US. Dávila served under both Evo Morales and Luis Arce. la-razon.com/nacional/202...

A Syrian held by the Assad regime believes Austin Tice was a fellow prisoner in 2022. Tice, a contributor to The Post and other outlets, was abducted in Syria in 2012. The former Marine's family and Biden believe he’s alive; the U.S. has asked rebels to help find him shorturl.at/OW4K2

30 candidates were killed before Mexico's June elections; more than half a dozen elected officials have been killed since. According to Data Cívica, 2024 has seen the most political violence of any year since they began documenting, in 2018. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Signs that Bolivia's deepening economic crisis is affecting the reliability of its state airline, which is by far the most important carrier in the country. www.la-razon.com/economia/202...

“[Mexicans] don’t consume synthetic drugs,” asserted Sheinbaum in her letter to Trump. In fact many do — only it is not fentanyl, but the ultra-cheap cristal that is Mexico’s synthetic drug of choice. Latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

“[Mexicans] don’t consume synthetic drugs,” asserted Sheinbaum in her letter to Trump. In fact many do — only it is not fentanyl, but the ultra-cheap cristal that is Mexico’s synthetic drug of choice. Latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Just remembering how The Banker chose Bolivia's Marcelo Montenegro as Latin America's finance minister of the year in Jan 2023. www.la-razon.com/economia/202...

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There is already a kind of humanitarian crisis in Tapachula, where organised crime is thriving on migrants. If Trump's threats lead Mexico to do even more as the US's migration enforcer, expect more desperation and predation in Mexico’s south. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

There is already a kind of humanitarian crisis in Tapachula, where organised crime is thriving on migrants. If Trump's threats lead Mexico to do even more as the US's migration enforcer, expect more desperation and predation in Mexico’s south. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"We might be fine. Viruses don’t always manage to adapt to new species, despite all the opportunities. But if there is a bird flu pandemic soon, it will be among the most foreseeable catastrophes in history." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...