Harriet Barber
15 October 2025
President Milei, live in concert
In true Milei fashion, the launch of his book, The Construction of the Miracle, was turned into a rock concert to a crowd of 15,000 diehard supporters
Read the full article01 October 2025
Trump and the politics of cocaine
Global politics is colliding with the daily lives of Colombians who have already paid a high price
Read the full article24 September 2025
Venezuela, the land of permanent Christmas
President Nicolás Maduro has a festive plan to bring joy to Venezuelans - and to distract them from the ongoing row with the US
Read the full article10 September 2025
A biodiverse bridge between two worlds
Panama, undeserving of its media silence, is still humming with creatures great and small
Read the full article13 August 2025
Javier Milei’s broken chainsaw
Argentinians like what their president has done on inflation. The problem is that plenty of them hate everything else about him
Read the full article16 July 2025
Cartagena, the jewel in Colombia’s culinary crown
The country’s food scene is generally underwhelming – but a city on the Caribbean coast is a vibrant hub of innovation and local pride
Read the full article11 June 2025
Shooting up in Bogotá
Colombia was an early pioneer of drug decriminalisation, but president Gustavo Petro’s pro-reform government has gone further
Read the full article21 May 2025
How Javier Milei brought hatred to Argentina
Milei's press clampdowns are attracting international coverage. But that isn't stopping him, if anything the president is doubling down
Read the full article30 April 2025
Argentina’s lithium wars
President Milei is selling out his own country and its indigenous people along with it
Read the full article02 April 2025
Argentina returns to dictatorship
Using teargas, rubber bullets and water cannons against a demonstration of pensioners is reminiscent of the country’s past
Read the full article19 March 2025
The women against Milei
Argentina is one of the most politically forward-thinking countries in Latin America but its president is pushing a narrative that opposes feminism
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