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

I’ve reported longform audio as well as longform written stories, and my photography has been published by NPR and The World and can be seen on this website. So can clips of work that appeared in outlets including Newsweek, The Architectural Review, The New Humanitarian, The Islamic Monthly, and ESPN. I’m also part of the writing team for a global foreign policy newsletter for over 60,000 daily readers at the Council on Foreign Relations.

I’m the translator of the 2021 book The Bolsonaro Paradox by political scientists Esther Solano and Camila Rocha and sociologist Jonas Medeiros, and I was a researcher for journalist Juliana Barbassa's 2015 book Dancing with the Devil in the City of God. 

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