Khalea Robertson

Oct 3, 2024 | as-coa.org | Luisa Leme |Khalea Robertson

By Luisa Leme and Khalea Robertson Nicolás Saldías of the Economist Intelligence Unit profiles the frontrunners and discusses the stakes of a pension question on the October 27 ballot. With the election less than a month away, it’s anyone’s call as to who will be Uruguay’s next president. A clear lead for the leftist opposition candidate in the first round of voting on October 27 disappears in a likely second round scenario, according to voter intention polls.

Jan 22, 2024 | americasquarterly.org | Khalea Robertson |Brian Ellsworth

Reading Time: 4 minutesPORT OF SPAIN — When Trinidadian tech support specialist Nikcolai Salandy lost his job with a Miami brokerage firm last July, he shelved his dreams of a career in finance to focus on a different type of investment: a greenhouse to cultivate mushrooms, dragon fruit and microgreens.

Oct 30, 2023 | americasquarterly.org | Khalea Robertson |Brian Ellsworth

Reading Time: 4 minutesPORT OF SPAIN — The Peterkin family was asleep in their home in the Trinidad and Tobago village of Heights of Guanapo on September 21 when gunmen unloaded weapons—including an assault rifle—on the family of nine. The brazen crime, now known as the Guanapo murders, killed four of the Peterkins’ children, including a ten-year-old girl, and wounded the other five, shocking a nation already indignant about soaring gun violence.