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Journalist covering Chile for The Guardian, New York Times and others. Latin Americanist | Ig: @jwbartlett92 | @MiradasPod | My opinions

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I am a British freelance journalist based between London and South America, specialising in Latin American politics and economics.

I have written for the Guardian and BBC, and am also a contributor for the Economist Intelligence Unit and Latin News, writing about political and macroeconomic developments in Central America and Mexico.

I hold an MSc from the University of Oxford in Latin American Studies, speak both Spanish and Portuguese, and have lived in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and …

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Green Gold: A Global Demand for Avocados Leaves People Without Water in Chile

Green Gold: A Global Demand for Avocados Leaves People Without Water in Chile

Tucked between the steep folds of the Cordillera, South America's jagged Andean backbone, lies the quiet town…

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Chile: four police officers arrested over fatal shooting of indigenous man

Chile: four police officers arrested over fatal shooting of indigenous man

Public fury over the death of Camilo Catrillanca, the grandson of a prominent Mapuche leader, has led to mass…

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'Stolen friend': Rapa Nui seek return of moai statue

'Stolen friend': Rapa Nui seek return of moai statue

Prominent among the eclectic hoard of treasures in London's British Museum is the imposing figure of Hoa Haka…

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'Moai are family': Easter Island people to head to London to request statue back

'Moai are family': Easter Island people to head to London to request statue back

A delegation from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), backed by Chilean government, will ask for return of statue Briti…

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Chile's #MeToo moment: students protest against sexual harassment

Chile's #MeToo moment: students protest against sexual harassment

Seven years after student protests paralyzed schools and universities, a new generation of activists pick up …

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Former Pinochet agents convicted over 1976 Washington DC carbomb murder

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Fifty years after Gen Augusto Pinochet's secret police detonated a car bomb in the heart of Washington DC, killing Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean minister and ambassador to the US, and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a Santiago court has convicted three former agents of Moffitt's murder. Judge Paola Plaza, a special minister for human rights in Chile, sentenced Pedro Espinoza, José Zara, and Raúl Iturriaga to 15 years in prison for their roles in the killing of Moffitt, 25.
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Chilean lawmakers propose 'museum of truth' for pre-Pinochet years

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Chilean lawmakers propose ‘museum of truth’ for pre-Pinochet years

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Far-right lawmakers in Chile have proposed the creation of a "museum of truth" to tell its own version of the years preceding Gen Augusto Pinochet's bloody dictatorship – and emphasise the plight of what it calls the victims of Salvador Allende's socialist government. According to the seven congresspeople from the far-right National Libertarian party who presented the bill, the museum would highlight the "outrage, hunger and humiliation" of Allende's Popular Unity government.
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