Updated periodically, this an archive of news and features I have written.
2025
‘We’ll keep fighting’: search persists for priest thought to be murdered on Pinochet torture ship (The Guardian)
Chile targets fast fashion waste with landmark desert cleanup plan (The Guardian)
Chile's Indigenous fishermen say the salmon industry threatens their way of life (NPR)
Chile’s perfect skies for stargazing under threat from giant chemical plant (The Guardian)
Rafter Is Briefly ‘Swallowed’ by Whale in Chile, as His Father Films (The New York Times)
How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium (NPR)
Did Maduro Order a Murder in Chile? (The New York Times)
How one U.S. conservationist's work is helping to preserve Chile's wilderness (NPR)
2024
A story written in blood': hopes for justice fade for victims of Chile's police brutality (The Guardian)
In Chile a language on the verge of extinction, stirs into life (NPR)
Energy storage is a challenge and an opportunity for Chile (Dialogue Earth)
Tragedy, Resilience and a Miracle at Chile’s Burned Botanical Garden (The New York Times)
'We're Broken': Wildfires on Chile's Coast Kill 112 and Leave Hundreds Missing (The New York Times)
Copper, pragmatism, and going green: A history of Chile-China relations (China Global South Project)
Former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera dies in helicopter crash (The Guardian)
Extradition of singer's alleged killer raises hopes of justice for Pinochet era (The Guardian)
2023
Chile votes to reject new conservative constitution which threatened rights of women (The Guardian)
‘Dangerous for women’: warning as Chileans vote on new draft constitution (The Guardian)
‘Justice being served’: ex-soldier’s extradition signals hope for reckoning of Pinochet-era crimes (The Guardian)
Latin America remembers Kissinger’s ‘profound moral wretchedness’ (The Guardian)
‘Sometimes you feel you’re in Palestine’: culture and cause burn brightly in Chile (The Guardian)
‘It became an obsession’: the long search for the remains of Pinochet’s victims (The Guardian)
Chile announces much-anticipated plan to search for Pinochet’s victims (The Guardian)
US state department declassifies more documents about Pinochet’s 1973 coup (The Guardian)
36 Hours In Santiago (The New York Times)
‘Gigantic step backwards’: far-right gains in Chile threaten abortion rights (The Guardian)
Files reveal Nixon role in plot to block Allende from Chilean presidency (The Guardian)
How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile (The Guardian)
The church at the end of the world (The Guardian)
Antarctic tourism is booming – but can the continent cope? (The Guardian)
‘The impact we have is vast’: scientists look to clean up Antarctica (The Guardian)
Antarctica: wild continent of snow, ice and, increasingly, women (The Guardian)
Island at the end of the world: Antarctic outpost faces uncertain times (The Guardian)
Chile's government pledged to put feminism into practice - has it delivered? (The Guardian)
‘Coffee with legs’: inside Chile’s risque and antiquated cafe culture (The Guardian)
2022
Engaging or Enabling an Autocrat? Colombian Leader Visits Venezuela. (The New York Times)
Chile's bet on green hydrogen (IMF)
Students surge back to Chile's streets as schools remain hotbed of protest (The Guardian)
How a desert bloomed in the driest place on Earth (The Guardian)
Teenage Rapper, Rooted in Mapuche Identity, Roars for Indigenous Rights (The New York Times)
Chile votes overwhelmingly to reject new, progressive constitution (The Guardian)
Misinformation abounds as Chile prepares to vote on new constitution (The Guardian)
‘It’s a miracle’: Gran Abuelo in Chile could be world’s oldest living tree (The Guardian)
Jubilation and hope as convention puts final stamp on Chile’s new draft constitution (The Guardian)
As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short Honeymoon (The New York Times)
Fast fashion goes to die in the world's largest fog desert. The scale is breathtaking. (National Geographic)
Chile government apologizes to woman for forced sterilization (The Guardian)
‘Consequences will be dire’: Chile’s water crisis is reaching breaking point (The Guardian)
Dark week for journalism as four reporters killed around the world (The Guardian)
Gabriel Boric, 36, sworn in as president to herald new era for Chile (The Guardian)
‘We need politicians and experts’: how Chile is putting the climate crisis first (The Guardian)
Why Indian startup founders are flocking to Chile (Rest of World)
Chile's president-elect names progressive, majority-women cabinet (The Guardian)
Mining of Lithium, Key to the Climate Fight, Faces New Scrutiny in Chile (The New York Times)
2021
Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric urges citizens to back constitution rewrite (The Guardian)
Gabriel Boric: From Shaggy-Haired Activist to Chilean President (The New York Times)
Gabriel Boric vows to 'fight privileges of the few' as Chile's president (The Guardian)
Leftwinger to become Chile's youngest president after beating far-right rival (The Guardian)
Boric defeats Kast in Chile presidential election (The Washington Post)
Chilean election offers stark choice: a leftist or an admirer of Pinochet (The Guardian)
Lucía Hiriart, Powerful Wife of Chile’s Dictator, Dies at 98 (The New York Times)
Chile Writes a New Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On (The New York Times)
Chile: candidates battle for moderate votes as presidential race nears end (The Guardian)
Chile's right rejoices after pro-Pinochet candidate wins presidential first round (The Guardian)
‘A fairer Chile’: protest generation aims to reshape country in divisive election (The Guardian)
Shaken by protests, battered by the coronavirus, a divided Chile picks a new president (The Washington Post)
‘I will never get my eyes back’: the Chilean woman blinded by police who is running for senate (The Guardian)
Rightwing Chilean newspaper accused of ‘apology for Nazism’ over Göring article (The Guardian)
Chile far-right candidate rides anti-migrant wave in presidential poll (The Guardian)
Chile president Piñera faces impeachment after Pandora papers leak (The Guardian)
Chile makes life harder for immigrants (The Economist)
Why Haitians are fleeing for the US border (The Washington Post)
Gabriel Boric wins Chile presidential primary as protest generation takes centre stage (The Guardian)
The Three-Term Mayor Who Defied Chile’s Anti-Incumbent Wave (Americas Quarterly)
‘A new Chile’: political elite rejected in vote for constitutional assembly (The Guardian)
Meet the Candidates Who Might Write Chile’s New Constitution (Foreign Policy)
Chile leads the Western Hemisphere in vaccinations. The coronavirus is still surging. (The Washington Post)
Chile imposes lockdowns to fight new Covid wave despite vaccination success (The Guardian)
Chile streaks ahead of Latin America with one of fastest vaccination rates in the world (The Telegraph)
Chile emerges as global leader in Covid inoculations with 'pragmatic strategy' (The Guardian)
The Easter Island pianist playing for her home's future (BBC News)
Sounds of Santiago: Javiera Mena (Kinfolk Magazine)
2020
A Year After Protests Began, Chile’s Constitutional Referendum Goes Ahead (Foreign Policy)
Chile’s Largest Indigenous Group Sees Opportunity in a New Constitution (The New York Times)
Calls grow for radical reform of Chile's national police force (The Guardian)
Chile’s indigenous communities face new challenges amid pandemic (The Guardian)
Chile celebrated success against the coronavirus — and began to open up. Infections have soared. (The Washington Post)
Chile's health minister quits over government response to Covid-19 (The Guardian)
Chile: pandemic highlights health crisis as lockdown halts inequality protests (The Guardian)
The 34-Year-Old Doctor Shaping Chile’s Pandemic Response (Americas Quarterly)
Outcry as Chile seeks to include Pinochet human rights abusers in jail release (The Guardian)
In Her Words: She resists in Chile (The New York Times)
'The salt they pump back in kills everything': is the cost of Chile's fresh water too high? (The Guardian)
2019
'Mentally, we're in crisis mode': protests leave Chileans living on their nerves (The Guardian)
Chile security forces' crackdown leaves toll of death and broken bodies (The Guardian)
'The constitution of the dictatorship has died': Chile agrees deal on reform vote (The Guardian)