I first started learning Spanish at school and always wanted to learn it well enough to travel around Spain and Latin America. In 2006 I spent six months living and working in Madrid during my year abroad and wrote my final year dissertation on the methodology of translating plays by Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca for the stage.

I gained considerable knowledge of the Latin American legal and business markets during my three years working as deputy editor at a legal publishing house here in London. I try my best to keep up my Spanish and am also learning Portuguese.

Here is a selection of my work on Latin America, Spain and Portugal:

• The Guardian
  • The spoils of Peru’s mines
  • When dying for your art is all part of the spectacle
• The Huffington Post
  • Chile and Wales lead renewed drive for opt-out organ donation
  • Mining conflicts: the challenge facing Humala’s government
• New Statesman
  • Colombian senator banned for “collaborating” with FARC rebels
  • State of emergency in Ecuador
  • The untold story of the Mapuche hunger strike
  • Catalan vote marks the end of an era
  • Translating Lorca
• Prospect
  • On the record
  • Mexico’s drug war is a global crisis
  • Brazil stands up to its guns
• IBA Global Insight
  • Puerto Rico faces ‘Sysphean’ task
  • Rule of law ‘critically important’ to BRICS success
  • US-Cuba: A watershed moment
  • Mexico: student massacre highlights cracks in rule of law
  • Venezuela: No country for compensation
  • Argentina’s debt tango
  • Global trade: Better together?
  • Crises highlight energy dependency concerns
  • Venezuela: Protests heighten concern over rule of law
  • Guatemala: Historic Ríos Montt conviction overturned
  • Chávez inauguration absence causes constitutional uncertainty
  • Chávez re-election unlikely to spell victory for the rule of law
  • Lands of Opportunity: Latin American exploration market