Correspondent in Colombia | Previously Mexico + Bolivia | @guardian, @ObserverUK, @TheEconomist, @FT
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The Independent is looking for a budding journalist with a gift for story-telling to win its 2026 Rupert Cornwell Prize, honoring the memory of one of the paper's most distinguished foreign correspondents. Applications are due Nov. 1. More details here: independent.co.uk/news/media…
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Alejandro Leyva, killed today in Oaxaca state, is the fifth Mexican journalist killed in just over six weeks. This is one of the worst waves of violence against the press in recent memory -- even as the gvt. of president @Claudiashein presents a drop in the overall homicide rate.
#Mexico CPJ strongly condemns the killing of journalist Alejandro Leyva Aguilar, earlier today in the state of Oaxaca. Leyva, an opinion writer and former director of broadcaster CORTV, was shot dead in a restaurant in the city of San Pablo Etla.
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Come be a nerd with me and read this week's newsletter:
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“Here in Sinaloa we’ve always lived with drug trafficking – you know if you honk your horn at the wrong truck someone with an AK-47 might get out. Still, like good Mexicans, we laugh at the situation we live in.”
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Just set up a Substack newsletter so that you (and I) can stay up-to-date on the best Latin American reporting from outside the news cycle. Follow along for biweekly updates.
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Venezuela’s earthquakes test strength of new relationship with Trump’s America
@Thomas__Graham reports that thousands are feared dead and missing as regime is criticised for leaving the country unprepared for disaster
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Digging for Mexico’s disappeared: ‘If my son is dead, he might be here’
As the country basks in the limelight of the World Cup, @Thomas__Graham joins the families of thousands of missing people, feared killed or recruited by the powerful drug cartels
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This is an incredibly disturbing case of journalist Roxana Guzman being kidnapped by armed men in Veracruz, Mexico. Praying for her release alive.
🚨Hombres armados ingresaron por la fuerza al domicilio de la periodista Roxana Berenice Guzmán Ramírez, directora del portal Pulso Informativo del Sureste, en Veracruz.
Hasta el momento, se desconoce su paradero.
La Fiscalía General del Estado informó que ya abrió una carpeta de investigación a través de la Fiscalía Regional de Coatzacoalcos.
📹@lulu_reportera
Thomas Graham retweeted
Bloomberg News is hiring a bureau chief based in Bogotá to lead coverage of Colombia and Venezuela. It is, as you might imagine, a great job!
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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 @ivannalauraor
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.@thewirechina is hiring! We're looking for someone to write deeply reported cover stories on Chinese business and technology full time. Join a newsroom with the best editors and colleagues I could ask for.
DMs open to any and all questions!
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My main bottleneck is finding excellent guests.
So, I’m hiring a couple scouts to help me find the next David Reich/Sarah Paine/Adam Brown.
$100/hour, remote, I expect it’ll be 5-10 hours a week.
Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of the fields I wanna find guests in.
I'm looking to hire ~one scout for each of the following fields: bio, history, econ, math/physics, AI.
The application form is linked in the essay below, and it’s extremely simple - just pitch me on a guest and tell me a bit about yourself. Deadline Fri, Jan 23.
The essay includes my thoughts about what makes for an excellent guest. And I also listed a bunch of questions I'm curious about right now (to help brainstorm guests).
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VENEZUELA AND OIL. A thread:
Ahead of Trump-Big Oil meeting today, my view: There’s too much blanket pessimism about the Venezuelan oil industry. Instead, I belive there are some low-hanging barrels in the map.
FREE-TO-READ (next 7 days) link: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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The most illuminating 90 seconds we’ve heard about the Trump’s plans going forward on Venezuela
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Trinidad and Tobago stakes its future on a Trump triumph in the Caribbean bit.ly/4p6SRMM
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NEW:
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
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The drone wars have arrived in Mexico.
A soldier with a drone jamming weapon at the Feria Ganadera in Culiacán, Sinaloa, where cartel factions have embraced the technology in their war.
Photo by @Verdugo_Foto
