Maduro’s successor cements her power as Venezuelans wait for change Four months after the US removed the authoritarian leader, Delcy Rodríguez oversees a protectorate for foreign investors while repression continues, report Thomas Graham and Ivanna Laura https://bit.ly/3QNzEV1

The Trump admin decapitated Maduro's regime on Saturday and now wants US oil majors to charge in and start drilling in Venezuela. But the companies themselves don't seem too keen on the nation building role Trump has in mind for them. For @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...

The Trump admin decapitated Maduro's regime on Saturday and now wants US oil majors to charge in and start drilling in Venezuela. But the companies themselves don't seem too keen on the nation building role Trump has in mind for them. For @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Trinidad and Tobago stakes its future on a Trump triumph in the Caribbean bit.ly/3YDTVwT

NEW INVESTIGATION: While the Trump Administration threatens military action in Venezuela and Mexico over drug trafficking, the US has left loopholes wide open allowing traffickers to obtain private jets in the US, completely anonymously, for flying cocaine across LatAm www.occrp.org/en/project/n...

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Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s president-elect, will face a dire economic crisis and a fragmented political system, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.

Before they even take office, Bolivia's future VP is already warning Rodrigo Paz not to stray from the people who put them - or rather him - in power. “Many people supported the people's ticket because they believed in Captain Lara, and I will not let those people down." larazon.bo/nacional/202...

Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential election-The election ends a long period in power for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which governed for all but one of the past 20 years, first under the charismatic… www.ft.com/content/8de3... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

China is building a "network of clean energy industries on the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s highest ... to harness the region’s bright sunshine, cold temperatures and sky-touching altitude to provide low-cost, renewable energy." Bolivia should too. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

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...