Ana Lankes

the story of Ecuador's slide into the grip of drug gangs is absolutely mental. by the excellent @AnaLankes economist.com/the-americas/2…

The future holds much for my fabulous continent and its people: from the energy transition to growing demand for food, the world needs LatAm as never before. I feel lucky as hell and thankful for the kindness of others that made it all possible. Adiós Argentina, olá Brasil!

…reviewed Bolivia’s creaking economy, despaired at deforestation in the Amazon and marvelled at the star-speckled sky over the Atacama desert. Oh, I also watched part of the World Cup from Diego Maradona’s house.

Yesterday was my last day in Argentina before beginning a new adventure as The Economist’s Brazil correspondent

@SukhmaniSethi @LBC Done! Sorry I don’t use twitter very often

Two years ago, I was one of the first English-language journalists to publish a profile of Javier Milei. Yesterday he was elected Argentina's next president. Read my early coverage here---there will be many updates to come...economist.com/the-americas/2…

@Henry_George63 Thank you very much :) glad you’re enjoying it

@AnaLankes Your coverage has been great. Actually balanced. And not this absurd “see the world thru US/European lens” journalism a lot of your peers do

In the Amazon, even the basic question of who possesses what is maddeningly unclear. If Brazil’s president is to save the rainforest, he must work out who owns it econ.st/47CI0CC 👇

En la puna salteña Milei había sacado 66% en las PASO y UxP 21%. Ahora salió 43% a 42%. Una posible clave, esto que retrataba @ale_rebossio en la víspera de la elección: la ofensa al Papa. eldiarioar.com/economia/puebl…

And here is my analysis of his policy proposals, published a few weeks ago: economist.com/the-americas/2…

Sex guru, cosplayer, economist: Will Javier Milei be Argentina's next president? If he wins the election, he will have a claim to being one of the world's oddest leaders. I sat down with him last month for three hours. This is what I came away with: economist.com/1843/2023/10/1…

How to think about the global backlash against climate policies. A report by me, @arynbraun , @mattsteinglass , @AnaLankes @schipperlena , @kcsalmon and @maxrodenbeck economist.com/international/…

.@gnribeiro and @amandafaudi tell the story of how Justice @LRobertoBarroso led a covert effort to unclog semiconductor supplies to electronic voting machines, without which the 2022 election would have been in jeopardy. brazilian.report/power/2023/06/…

Thank you @hourly_radio @OliverStuenkel @dbelemlopes, Larissa Wachholz and many others

I wrote about Lula's ambitious foreign policy. In his first two terms Lula put Brazil on the map. But the world has changed. Brazil can be an environmental steward and regional leader--global peacemaker may be a stretch: econ.st/3MvqaJO

#Urgente 🔴| El gobierno de Chile, de @GabrielBoric, pondrá a disposición de los apátridas nicas “la nacionalidad chilena según las normas constitucionales y legales que la regulan”

BREAKING: 222 political prisoners in Nicaragua were freed and put on a plane to DC. The gov banned them from ever holding public office and suspended their citizenship rights. But it's still a big win for the prisoners and their families--Viva Nicaragua Libre!!!🥲

Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, is experiencing a revival among young Chileans--and Pablo Neruda, her former student, is increasingly being cancelled. I wrote about it for the @nytimes: nytimes.com/2023/01/28/boo…

Celebrations in Buenos Aires have been constant since Argentina won its third World Cup title on Sunday. Here are scenes from what may be the biggest open-air party in the capital's history. nyti.ms/3HPXM2G