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’m also a nonresident fellow at the Wilson Center’s Latin America program, where I contribute interviews and analysis.

I’ve reported for outlets such as NPR, PRX’s The World, and Foreign Affairs on topics ranging from geopolitics to the arts in the region. 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.

Further clips of my radio, print, and photography work can be seen on this site. I’m also part of the writing team for a global foreign policy newsletter for over 70,000 daily readers at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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.