Simeon Tegel

Ecuador is becoming a narco-state

11 August 2023 10:13 pm

Few political assassinations will have been as predictable as Fernando Villavicencio’s, the Ecuadorian presidential candidate and anti-corruption firebrand gunned down…

Peru’s staggeringly incompetent far-left coup

10 December 2022 7:00 pm

Lima, Peru For the last 17 months, Peruvians have been wondering what it would take to see the back of…

The madness of El Salvador’s Bitcoin city

14 May 2022 5:30 pm

A golden city on the coast of the tropical Pacific. A metal walkway suspended above a verdant volcano. And a…

How long can Peru's new socialist leader last?

29 July 2021 6:40 pm

The symbolism could hardly have been clearer when Pedro Castillo was sworn in yesterday as Peru’s new President on the country’s 200th anniversary…