HEALTH: Forget Zika - I’m More Worried About Dengue Fever
February 2016 wasn’t the ideal time to be off to South America for seven months. The papers were full of scare stories about the dreaded Zika virus, and friends seemed…
April 2016
ANALYSIS: The Latin American Leadership Question
A fundamental question of the role of Latin American leadership is more pivotal than ever. Highly popular ex-union leader Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva stopped being Brazilian president in 2010. And yet Lula…
PARAGUAY: Making chipa
I had been promised an unforgettable experience and was eagerly looking forward to helping make chipa, a Paraguayan cheese-flavoured bread roll unlike anything I had ever tasted. While chipa is…