The Andes Mountains: A Geography Primer for Curious Travelers
Seven countries, one spine: how the world's longest continental range shapes weather, cities and life at 4,000 metres.
Andes
Colombia, Chile, Peru and Ecuador — lithium, coffee, cities and culture.
The Andes Plane Crash Story: What Really Happened in 1972
A measured retelling of the survival story that still fascinates the world, set against the mountains that made it.
Andean Textiles: Reading the Patterns of a Living Tradition
In a civilization without writing, cloth carried the record — and it still does, from Peru's southern coast to the Bolivian altiplano.
Why does Ecuador use the US dollar? A monetary experiment at 25
Ecuador abandoned its currency in 2000 after a banking collapse. A quarter-century on, dollarization is the country's most popular policy and its least flexible constraint.
What is the Pacific Alliance, and does it still matter?
Four countries, 230 million people and a third of Latin America's GDP in a trade bloc built on integration-by-doing. Its status, its wins and its drift, explained.
Medellín's second act: from homicide capital to innovation district
In 1991 the city recorded one of the highest murder rates ever documented. Its rebuilding — transit, libraries, a tech district — became urbanism's most cited case study. What the numbers say now.