Recently, I’ve been writing about…
The way that tourism in the pandemic transformed the party town of Tulum, for Bloomberg
The complicated choices of Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate expert running for president in oil-rich Mexico, for Bloomberg Green
The warehouses being built in northern Mexico as part of a major investment boom of companies seeking be closer to US consumers, for Bloomberg
Bull-riding, town fairs, and the billions of dollars sent home by immigrants, for Bloomberg
The legacy of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for Bloomberg
Efforts to interpret the hundreds of languages spoken by asylum-seekers and translate evidence, for Bloomberg
How rising food and fuel prices have impacted election outcomes in Latin America, for Bloomberg
The forensics efforts to identify people in unmarked graves in local cemeteries, for Los Angeles Times
Central banks’ in the region’s biggest economies limited effects on rising prices, for Bloomberg
Winning the governorship in Mexico’s most populous state, for Bloomberg
How Latin America’s schools were closed for longer than others around the world due to Covid-19, for Bloomberg
Record number of African migrants traveling in Mexico because of the effects of climate change, for Bloomberg
BMWs, Chevrolet Suburbans, and luxury Lincolns driving to Mexico because gas was cheaper, for Bloomberg
The financial debt of families of migrants who disappear or are deported from the US, Revista de la Universidad de Mexico
The eccentric family of a criminal kingpin looks to make a fresh profit off the medical cannabis industry, for Gatopardo
Rainwater capture at the level of a individual houses to prepare for Mexico City’s dry season, for Bloomberg
The fate of women from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala who ended up in Mexico City, for El Intercambio
The decisions of asylum-seekers waiting to cross into the US with helicopters overhead, for The New York Times
The legal battle and the activist movement for drug legalization in Mexico, for The Nation
The rollout of a policy that required migrants wait in Mexico for their US court cases, for The New York Times, The Washington Post and PRI
Women’s massive strike in Mexico City to protest the violence and murders they regularly face, for The Guardian
The migrants caravans, plus one mother’s journey to flee killers in Honduras, for The Washington Post
How WhatsApp was used in emergency response after an earthquake to get a diamond-blade saw, for WIRED
On finding your long-lost family on Facebook, after war separated you as a child, for MEDIUM
Deportees who found themselves indebted in Guatemala after paying to get to the US, for World Politics Review
On all the Central American migrants who have disappeared and waiting for the phone to ring, for Guernica
On John Washington’s The Dispossessed, and the aftermath of striking another man with your elbow, for The Believer