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Print freelance correspondent covering Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Peru using research skills and experience in Latin America to work on developing real-life stories for TV drama shows and feature films.
Visual media experience includes writing, producing, directing short documentary films for Associated Press TV's Horizon strand.
Script writing: I am also adapting a couple of nineteenth century classics to be set in contemporary London.
British (London-born of Iraqi, Swedish heritage) with fluent Spanish from Madrid upbringing, later developed in Latin America.
COLÓN, Argentina - Darío Larrosa was 15 when he learned to drive a motorboat. Decades later, he still loves taking tourists fishing along the Uruguay River's sandy shores aboard Abuela Elisa, the boat he named after his grandmother. He does ask the lucky anglers who catch something to release the fish, to help maintain the [...]
Insights from a UCL roundtable traces the country's path from dictatorship-era silence to today's contested narratives under a new political climate.
To confront the atrocities of its military dictatorship, Argentina introduced a range of lauded 'memory and justice' policies. Now the Javier Milei government is stoking denial of the past and undermining families' fights for justice. Ali Qassim reports.
For 15 years, spiritual Mapuche leader Millaray Huichalaf, representing more than 150 Indigenous communities, has defended their sacred Pilmaiken River against Norwegian state-owned company Statkfraft's hydroelectric ambitions.
Voting is mandatory in the November elections, where some on the far right are threatening military intervention against a communist hopeful. Ali Qassim reports.
Environmental defender Alejandra Parra continues to oppose a waste-to-energy incinerator in the south of Chile, despite rising danger for activists.
Don Quixote had endless months to roam the dusty plains of central Spain in search of the beautiful maiden Dulcinea. But I have less than a day.
In a high-rise flat in one of the poorer parts of Buenos Aires, a granddaughter calls on her grandmother. They greet each other: friendly, relaxed, affectionate. The grandmother, Buscarita Roa, is short and compact; her animated chatter makes her appear younger than her 67 years.
Of all the land disputes between indigenous communities and large landowners that have mushroomed in Argentina during the last decade, none acquired the public notoriety of the battle waged in the northern Patagonian province of Chubut in 2004. The David-and-Goliath elements of the confrontation ensured unprecedented media attention to an issue long neglected by mainstream Argentina.
East London's Manor Garden Allotments have survived over a century but now face extinction. Located in the heart of the future Olympic Park, developers want to flatten this productive oasis to create a pathway for the London 2012 Games. But determined plot holders are campaigning hard to stay.