I'm a Brazil-based journalist and the author of Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief, a weekly newsletter covering Latin American politics, economics, culture, and environmental issues.

I’ve also reported for outlets such as NPR, PRX’s The World, and Foreign Affairs. Some of my recent feature reporting looks at green industrial policy in Colombia, how climate goals intersect with fiscal constraints in Ecuador, and the diplomacy of migration policy up and down the Western hemisphere.

I’ve contributed interviews and analysis to the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program as a nonresident fellow and for five years was the lead writer of a global foreign policy digest at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Further clips of my radio, print, and photography work can be seen on this site. 

Originally from Texas, I speak Spanish and Portuguese and have a degree in Latin American Studies from Yale. I am on X/Twitter at @cculbertosborn.