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My name is Jonathan Bonfiglio, and - among other things - I am a foreign correspondent.
For many years now I have covered Latin America, as a correspondent for the likes of The Times in
London, Euronews, and a variety of other outlets. I cover the entire region, from the US/Mexico border,
to the Amazon, to the tiny islands off of Panama which are only of interest to tourists and traffickers,
to the slices of Antarctica which are claimed by the likes of Chile and Argentina.
Choosing what to cover is difficult. No continent - or in the case of Latin America, conceptual area is uniform, regular, predictable, facets which when it comes to this most amazing and
misunderstood of vast areas, are necessarily multiplied by a few.
Because Latin America is an area of the world where things tend to be heightened, where things
have the capacity to go from zero to a hundred in seconds. It’s a geographical area where I have
met the most amazing people, learnt that history is never in the past, and to which I try to do justice
in depth and detail, without succumbing to cheap and often editorially-preferred base overviews
which diminish us all.
As far as possible I try to spread coverage across the area, telling stories and bringing to life the
people, places and contexts which make this one of the most incredible places on earth.
Sometimes, however, I get stuck in a story.
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