Whitney Eulich

Boston, Mexico City, New York

Latin America Editor and Correspondent at The Christian Science Monitor

Latin America editor & correspondent @csmonitor. @ColumbiaSIPA alumna & sometimes radio producer/reporter/trainer. post ≠ endorsement [email protected]

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Articles

Pope Leo’s challenge: How to build unity in a fragmenting world

6 days ago | csmonitor.com | Sara Miller Llana |Whitney Eulich |Peter Ford |Sophie Hills

The selection of Robert Francis Prevost as the first American pope stunned Vatican watchers around the world. Many had long believed that an American would never be chosen to lead an institution with 1.4 billion followers because the United States already wields so much global power. Taking the name Pope Leo XIV, he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as tens of thousands gathered below him.
Trump threatened to take back the Panama Canal. But it’s running out of water.

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Andrea Salcedo

Water was never something Genaro Acevedo Jiménez had to worry about in this verdant slice of rural Panama. But now, water has become his biggest problem. His village sits near the Panama Canal, on the site of a proposed dam and reservoir that authorities say are necessary to keep one of the world’s most critical trade routes passable. Why We Wrote ThisThe Panama Canal was an engineering marvel when it was completed in 1914.
Pope Francis focused on ‘this world.’ He angered some, and inspired many others.

2 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Dominique Soguel |Erika Page |Natalie Alcoba

Beatriz Sanabria was on her way to a Buenos Aires soup kitchen when she saw the words painted under a highway overpass in a new light. Her neighborhood, Barrio 31, a low-income community on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, is one where the late Pope Francis once tended to parishioners before becoming Latin America’s first pontiff in 2013. “Caring for the neighborhood and ourselves is our commitment,” read one message.
Pope Francis focused on ‘this world.’ He angered some, and inspired many others.

2 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Natalie Alcoba |Erika Page |Dominique Soguel

Beatriz Sanabria was on her way to a Buenos Aires soup kitchen when she saw the words painted under a highway overpass in a new light. Her neighborhood, Barrio 31, a low-income community on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, is one where the late Pope Francis once tended to parishioners before becoming Latin America’s first pontiff in 2013. “Caring for the neighborhood and ourselves is our commitment,” read one message.
Panama accepted asylum-seekers the US didn’t want. Then its troubles began.

3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Andrea Salcedo

Mellona Takie can barely make it through a game of Uno these days, though on a recent afternoon she tries. Anything to keep her mind from going to a place so dark that she tried to take her own life in February, after the United States deported her, an East African, to Panama.
‘As Panamanian as you can get.’ How dim sum became a national treasure.

3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich

When artist Ashely García first started making earrings and key chains in the shapes of classic Panamanian gastronomy, she knew exactly what she needed to include in her repertoire: a bowl of the traditional stew sancocho; a bright yellow patacón, or smashed, fried plantain; and, “of course, siu mai, the favorite Chinese dish of Panamanians,” she says. Over the past few months, Panama’s relationship with China has taken center stage in the rhetoric of the United States government.
Trump threat to take Panama Canal prompts debate over local ownership

1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Andrea Salcedo

Decades after the United States invaded Panama in 1989, Samuel Castañeda says the sounds and smells of that night – armored tanks rumbling, houses burning, and bullets flying around his neighborhood – still loom large in his memory. Today, a new kind of offensive is on Panamanian minds, as U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly threatens to wrest control of the Panama Canal back into American hands.
Mexico faces US gunmakers in Supreme Court, saying they fuel cartel crime

2 months ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich

President Donald Trump has long accused Mexico of sending migrants and drugs to the United States. But in an unusual case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, Mexico is arguing that the underlying cause of its crime and migration problems is actually American gun manufacturers. The Mexican government alleges that U.S. firearms manufacturers know their products are trafficked to Mexico and that they deliberately design and market weapons to appeal to this illegal – and profitable – market.
Trump calls Mexican cartels ‘terrorists.’ Could he send in the US Army?

2 months ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich

The U.S. State Department is drawing up a list of Latin American gangs and cartels to be labeled terrorist organizations this month, following President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order calling for their “total elimination.” The order already named the Venezuela-born Tren de Aragua group and El Salvador’s MS-13 gang. A terrorist designation for organized crime in Mexico could lay the groundwork for direct U.S. strikes against these illegal groups.
This Venezuelan mother hoped for asylum in the US. Now she is turning southward.

Feb 5, 2025 | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich

If President Donald Trump’s plan is to make the United States a wholly unwelcoming place for refuge, it may be working.