Latin America Correspondent

Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio with a round-up and analysis of news from across the region. 

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Today's special interview is with Dr. Brenda Elsey, and is broadcast in parallel with the World Cup ETC podcast. 

Elsey is Professor of History. She studies the history of gender, popular culture, and politics in twentieth century Latin America and is recognized as an authority on Latin American football, or soccer. She is author of Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth Century Chile (University of Texas, 2011), Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America (University of Texas, 2019, with Joshua Nadel), and Losing to Win: Labor and Politics in Latin American Sport (University of North Carolina, forthcoming). 

Elsey has has published many articles in academic journals and anthologies. She also served as a senior editor for Oxford University Press’ Research Essays in Latin American History: Southern Cone. In 2018, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award in Argentina. Elsey has also written for The Guardian, The New York Times,The New Republic, and Sports Illustrated and co-hosts the sport and feminism podcast, Burn It All Down. 

Elsey is also Development Lead in the Americas for the Fare Network, which works on anti-discrimination in global football, monitors international matches for sexism, racism, and homophobia, and develops grass-roots projects.

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Broadcasting legend Martin Kelner & Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio in conversation. 

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Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio speaks to Henry Bonsu for Times Radio. 

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Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio in conversation with journalist Julia Tilton from The Daily Yonder, the US's only national news organization for rural people and places.  

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Global Witness' March 2026 report on Guatemala examines how criminalisation and online smear campaigns work together to target and silence indigenous leaders and anti-corruption efforts. This special interview with report author Toby Hill looks at the report, the ongoing situation in Guatemala, and the work of Global Witness. 

Toby Hill is an investigative journalist researching how corruption and impunity fuel environmental crimes and human rights abuses. He has worked in South and Central America, particularly Paraguay, Nicaragua and Guatemala, and led investigations for organisations including Earthsight and Global Witness.

The Global Witness report is available here:

https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/land-and-environmental-defenders/weaponising-social-media-how-indigenous-leaders-and-climate-activists-are-smeared-and-criminalised-in-guatemala/

The book referenced on Guatemala by Toby Hill is Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1982) by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer - a classic investigative account of the 1954 CIA-backed overthrow of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz. 

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Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio with a round-up and analysis of news from across the region. 

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Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio talks to Henry Bonsu for Times Radio.

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Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio speaks to Paul Schmidt-Troschke about the current situation in Guadalajara, hours ahead of the first World Cup Intercontinental Playoff at the city's Estadio Akron. 

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Latin America Correspondent Jon Bonfiglio in conversation with journalist Julia Tilton from The Daily Yonder, the US's only national news organization for rural people and places.  

To read the piece on Cuba in The Atlantic referenced by Julia in the podcast, copy and paste the link below:

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/trump-plan-cuba/686497/

Julia Tilton's Daily Yonder radio is available here:

https://www.yonderradio.com/

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